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Consumers and companies need products, material and other physical objects at a time when and a place where they are generally not produced. This leads to the 4R-task of operative logistics:
• Logistics has to provide the required quantities of goods most efficiently at the right place in the right order at the right time.
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Gudehus, T., Kotzab, H. (2009). Tasks and Aspects of Modern Logistics. In: Comprehensive Logistics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68652-1_1
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