Logistics is the management of the flow of materials and services between the point of
origin and the point of use in order to meet the requirements of customers or corporations.
Logistics involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing,
material handling, and packaging, and often security. Logistics is a channel of the supply
chain which adds the value of time and place utility. Today the complexity of production
logistics can be modeled, analyzed, visualized and optimized by plant simulation software,
but is constantly changing. This can involve anything from consumer goods such as food, to
IT materials, to aerospace and defense equipment.