العلاقة بين اللوجستيات و الجغرافية

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The research aims to: Clarify the concept of logistics, its development, targets, and relevant terminologies and concepts to find the relation between logistics and geography as well as relevant geographical branches and approaches until reaching a perception of such relation.

It was concluded that: Logistics has significant geographical dimensions of three integral sections in a supply chain; production, distribution and consumption.

Geography considers logistics as a system for the flow of goods, services, information and funds from one logistical node to another within a supply chain whereof planning was contributed by geography.

For Logistics is one of the concerns of Economic Geography, namely Transport Geography, especially since transport represents from one-third to two-thirds of logistic costs.

Therefore, upon the research conclusion, Logistic Geography can be identified as a branch of Economic Geography branches, which focuses on planning and studying supply chains, flow of goods, services, information and funds through such chains.

This was found by studying the development of supply movement and the factors affecting the supply chain, distribution of supply chain nodes, recording problems of movement in supply in order to find solutions for such problems and to predict its future to achieve the spatial and temporal utility of supply process.