Lakhasly

Due to the growing complexity of coordinating the supplement of materials and shipment of products in global supply chain networks, logistics as a business concept was evolved in the 1950s (Sutton, 2008).Moreover, global enterprises require higher attention on the environmental effects of their logistics activities. Logistics management is one of the supply chain disciplines that plans, organizes, implements, and controls the flow of resources (goods, services and related information) from the point of origin to the point of consumption in a way that meets customers' requirements efficiently and effectively (Scholz-Reiter and El-Berishy, 2012).Logistics involves an integrated approach with the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, and packaging, and recently added security.However, enterprises are facing new challenges while applying these methods.

Due to the growing complexity of coordinating the
supplement of materials and shipment of products in global
supply chain networks, logistics as a business concept was
evolved in the 1950s (Sutton, 2008). Logistics management is
one of the supply chain disciplines that plans, organizes,
implements, and controls the flow of resources (goods,
services and related information) from the point of origin to
the point of consumption in a way that meets customers’
requirements efficiently and effectively (Scholz-Reiter and
El-Berishy, 2012). Logistics involves an integrated approach
with the integration of information, transportation, inventory,
warehousing, material handling, and packaging, and recently
added security. Within these activities of logistics, transport
considers as the major component of most logistics services
(Islam et al., 2013).
Nowadays, sustainable development as well as greening
aspects appear as key issues facing logistics activities. To
consider wider objectives and issues within supply chains,
researches study both of sustainable supply chain
management and green logistics which lead to new methods
of doing the logistics activities. However, enterprises are
facing new challenges while applying these methods. These
methods require enterprises to respond quickly to the changes
of customers’ needs. Additionally, the entire supply chain has
become more dynamic than ever before due to many
challenges compering with their predecessors. These
challenges include the shorter products life cycles as well as
an increased both of the number of products variants and the
dependence of supply chain functional units. Moreover,
global enterprises require higher attention on the
environmental effects of their logistics activities.