logistics

[Neerod]

What does the word logistics mean?

[gsm1973]

plural noun
the careful organization of a complicated activity so that it happens in a successful and effective way

[Grunty]

As gsm says, but it is usually used to show the collection, transport and storage of goods, including prediction of how many are required and when. For example it may be between a factory producing parts and another factory making the finished product.

[dzug]

Dictionaries (even online ones) tend to lag behind new (uses of) words.

Mine says 1 the branch of military science concerned with troop movement and supplies

2 symbolic logic

neither of which is general current usage as given by Grunty, usually in the phrase 'Integrated Logistics Solutions.'