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Logistics is the science of planning, controlling and monitoring the flows of materials, people, energy and information in systems. Logistics should optimise these processes. The task of logistics is to:

 

Provide the right things (= goods, services, information and people) in the right quantity at the right location at the right time in the right quality at the right (= lowest possible) cost (= the '6 Rs of logistics'). Based on the respective subject area, a distinction is made between procurement logistics, warehouse logistics, transport logistics, distribution logistics, disposal logistics and information logistics.

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