The term "industrial logistics" is a wide-reaching concept which incorporates various forms of supporting activities. In this paper, an attempt is made to provide a definition of the term which is broad enough to incorporate these various views. In a few words, there are three large categories of logistic support: (i) product support; (ii) production support, and (iii) industrial sector support. Although not new as a concept, there has been a recent surge of interest about industrial logistics,

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... for good reasons. One of them might be that the absence of explicit integrated logistic considerations may explain the widening technological gap between the developed and developing worlds.