Logistics is the leadership responsibility to design and manage systems to control movement and positioning of raw materials, work-in-process, and finished inventories at the lowest total cost and highest customer influence. Core logistics systems include order processing, inventory, transportation,warehousing, and material handling and accounted for over $8 trillion in global expenditures in 2010. Although we do not have the space to detail all of logistics’ varied valueadded contributions, a brief review of logistics’ influence on three factors