Business Concept
Logistics

Logistics is the art and science of managing and controlling the flow of goods, energy, information, and other resources like products, services and people from the source of production to the marketplace. It is all about having the right quantity at the right time for the right place.

Read London Underground to discover how the drawings of electrical circuits inspired the design of what has become one of the most famous maps in the world.

War and logistics are closely interwoven. Troops must arrive at the bridgehead in time, reinforcements and stocks must follow, and the line of defence must be taken into consideration as well. In On War – Culminating Point of the Attack, Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz describes the fragile equilibrium point when a goal is overshot and victory turns into defeat.