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Logistics is comprised of all the operations needed to deliver goods or services, except making the goods or performing the services. In manufacturing, it covers the material flows between plants and between production lines within a plant. It also includes the information flows generated by the processing of transactions associated with the material flows. Information and funds flow can be further broken down into protocol and decision layers, where protocols are preplanned event responses. Setting the boundary between these layers is a key issue in designing a logistics system. Parts spend m