Inside Nexus Distribution, a United States-based logistics provider. Image shows goods stacked on pallets with forklift. Logistics is the art of managing the supply chain and science of managing and controlling the flow of goods, information and other resources like energy and people between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet customers' requirements. It involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, and packaging. The operating responsibility of logistics is the geographical repositioning of raw materials, work in process and finished inventories where required at the lowest cost possible. Logistics and Supply Chain services are provided by a wide range of 3rd party suppliers.