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Glossary of Key Supply Management Terms Term of the Day:
LEAD LOGISTICS PROVIDER
An enterprise that provides comprehensive logistics management to a client organization. Typically, the enterprise is charged with managing logistics, not executing logistics, and develops contracts with third-party logistics providers to perform logistics operations on behalf of its client.