TABLE OF CONTENTS Logistics is the applied science of planning and implementing the acquisition and use of resources.
Logistics is the most important thing in the world. It is what creates and sustains civilization. Without logistics, the world as we know it would cease to exist.
Logistics Support is the application of knowledge and resources to achieve a measurable objective or outcome.
Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) is the disciplined and unified management of all activities necessary to produce a supportable system design and a reasonable support capability to achieve a predetermined set of measurable objectives within an acceptable cost of ownership.
If you asked 100 people to define logistics you would probably get 100 different answers. Why? Because its definition lies in the context of the definer s concept of its application. Depending on what a person does, and what their roles are in life, logistics can be defined in an infinite number of ways. In the retail sales industry, logistics centers on physical storage, movement, and distribution of products from point of wholesale purchase to point of retail sale. The automotive industry considers logistics as the entire process from source of raw materials through the manufacturing process that results in cars for purchase.
Logistics is a straightforward, universally standard set of actions that are proven to achieve the definitions stated above. Figure 1.1 identifies the five parts of this set of actions that provide the methodology to meet the requirements.
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