A global view of industrial logistics

The term ‘industrial logistics’ is a wide-reaching concept which incorporates various forms of supporting activities. In this paper, an attempt is made to provide a definition of the term which is broad enough to incorporate these various views. In a few words, there are three large categories of logistic support; (i) product support; (ii) production support, and (iii) industrial sector support. Although not new as a concept, there has been a recent surge of interest about industrial logistics, for good reasons. One of them might be that the absence of explicit integrated logistic considerations may explain the widening technological gap between the developed and developing worlds.