Logistics management plans, implements, and controls the efficient, effective forward and reverse flow and storage of goods, services and related information between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet customer & legal requirements. Also, logistics management controls processes inside a company (warehouse logistics) and outside a company (transport logistics).
Besides logistics service providers, Inventory is a critical part of any organization (private, public or NGO) that works with products, parts or materials (items). Whatever technique is implemented in an organization to reduce inventory, somewhere in their supply chain inventory will be held – Just in Case!