Supply of construction material

Purchasing, materials handling, logistics, transportation, inventory control, and supply chain management have continued to evolve, causing many of these functional areas to intersect with one another. This intersection has resulted in blurred definitions for some of these terms such as logistics and supply chain management.

While these two terms do have some similarities they are, in fact, different concepts with different meanings. Supply chain management is an overarching concept that links together multiple processes to achieve competitive advantage, while logistics refers to the movement, storage, and flow of goods, services and information within the overall supply chain.