Talk:Logistics

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Can you explain the difference between supply chain management and logistics management?

Supply chain management is usually restricted to the management of the raw materials and supplies that a firm needs (ie.: inputs). Logistics looks at the whole physical distribution system, both supplies (inputs) and product distribution (ie.: outputs). It gets confusing because some software manufacturers/marketers do not follow this textbook definition very closely in their documentation and advertising. mydogategodshat 08:42, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Military Logistics has some useful info about the origin of the word 'logistics' which should probably be incorporated here: The word "logistics" is derived from the Greek adjective logistikos meaning "skilled in calculating." The first administrative use of the word was in Roman and Byzantine times when there was a military administrative official with the title Logista. At that time. the word apparently implied a skill in the science of mathematical computations. Eleusis 20:21, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Addition of external links

The "External links" section of this article is not a place to list of companies which provided logistics-related services. See # 7 in the list of what Wikipedia is not — in particular, it is NOT a "guide r resource for conducting business ... Wikipedia is not the yellow pages." Also see Wikipedia:External links for guidelines. —ERcheck (talk) @ 18:37, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Drum and Bass Band

Isn't there a DnB artist or band named Logistics? I don't know enough about them to write an article, but if someone would, that'd be cool. See [1]. MisterPhyrePhox 20:06, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Affirmative; under the label of Hospital Record at [2] or [3].

I would like to write the article for this, but being new to wikipedia editing I'm not sure what to do. If anyone can give some help on my user page, it would be much appreciated. :) Sicanjal 09:29, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] External links

The external links section is a bit out of control. I've cleaned up a few times but was wholesale reverted by an IP today, so thought I should open a conversation here to find out what people think of these links. Several of them (the blog/networking/forum sites and advertising ones) fail our guidelines straight of the bat, making them highly unlikely to be good encyclopedic links. I'd also like to get rid of the trade rags as they rarely have much depth, if people think they really add something, could we at least just choose the best one so the links aren't so cluttered and we're actually providing readers with some focus?

I'd trimmed down before to two links because it seemed there was a lot of duplication and low quality stuff. Here's a blow by blow:

• The Logistics Institute Keep - professional institutions are generally good starting places for people with more than a casual interest.
• LQ Magazine (Logistics Quaterly) Industry and Academic Editorial Content Delete - This is the magazine for the institute above. It's linked from that website, and it's mainly a subscription magazine (though there are a few shot articles available on the site. I don't think it adds much over having just the link to the institute.
• Inbound Logistics Magazine - web, digital, print educational magazine and web site Delete - not the most encyclopedic content. really a trade rag, which can be good, but this one isn't particularly inspiring.
• Supply Chain Digest - on-line magazine and web site delete - as above.
• Logistics, Supply Chain and operations management alerts, best practice library and glossary Delete - not even a trade rag. This site is more of a forum site.
• Logistics and Logistics News Delete - it's just a news aggregator.
• University of Nevada Center for Logistics Management Keep - good encyclopedic info. could go with the
• SupplyChainer: News, articles and trends in the area of supply chain management Delete - yet another online rag.
• Logistics and freight exchange forum Delete - a forum
• eLogistics TrendwatcH: a free Internet Weblog Service which leads you to interesting news in Logistics and Supply Chain Management Delete - it's a blog. And a dull one at that
• Logistics, transport in Europe Delete - advertising.

I also deleted a couple of foreign language sites - since they're not at all appropriate, and we can't even discuss them properly if we can't tell what the content is. thanks. -- Siobhan Hansa 22:42, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Any comments on this? If no one objects I'll go ahead with the changes outlined above tomorrow. -- Siobhan Hansa 12:21, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

I removed a couple more that had been added since, leaving one new one and the original two from above. In general, I think this article could do without an External links section. The problem with the current links is that we're allowing every logistics-related institute and educational program to be listed, which violates WP:NOT. The ones listed aren't even top-ranked ones, from what I've researched. --Ronz 18:07, 8 March 2007 (UTC)