What is the difference between Logistics and Supply Chain Management?

23 Sep What is the difference between Logistics and Supply Chain Management?

This infographic is from Argentus Supply Chain Recruiting, a boutique recruitment firm specializing in Supply Chain Management and Procurement and was first seen on Fronetics.

Logistics and the wider Supply Chain each play important roles in how companies are run, but are very often confused. Argentus Supply Chain Recruiting have put together an infographic outlining the key difference of each and how some points overlap between the two.

In summary, logistics is a part of Supply Chain Management, primarily dealing with the physical movement of goods while Supply Chain Management includes a wider strategic consideration of everything that is involved in bringing a product to market.