Logistics and operations management stand in the field of tension of the various stakeholders of the company and its own contradictory objectives. After defining the basic concepts of logistics and operations management (in Section 1.1) as well as the related business objects (in Section 1.2), we will examine this field of tension in Section 1.3. Section 1.3 also presents fundamental principles of effective logistics networks. The principles concern the agility of a company as well as the integral treatment and the trans corporate objectives of the supply chain.