4.2. Transportation and logistics perspective of the merchants.
The transportation and logistics functions of the wholesaling and retailing industry focus on a different aspect of supply chain management, that is, one of location and logistics issues more often than transformation.
Its origin can be traced to an report for better management of the transportation and logistics functions primarily addresses the purchasing and supply perspective of supply chain management,
he concludes that supply chain management is a theory grounded in the field of logistics.
Interestingly, Eloranta and Hameri (1991) note that research in logistics tend to be separated into inbound and outbound logistics, with a primary focus on inbound logistics.