Picture the sheet of paper somebody puts on the table after everyone has agreed on the plan. On it are the unglamorous questions: how many buses, which room, what time the food is ready, where the boxes are tonight, who carries what. Nothing on that sheet is the idea, and nothing on it is the reason for doing the thing — but the idea does not happen without it. That sheet is logistics. Make it bigger and it becomes a warehouse full of parcels; make it older and it becomes an army trying to get bread and boots over a mountain. The size changes; the questions do not.
From the word’s history
From French logistique, coined or made popular around 1830 by the military writer Jomini, built on logis, a lodging place — the word appears in titles such as marechal des logis, the officer of lodging. The first questions it named were where the people sleep and how the supplies get there, which is still what the sheet of paper asks.
這個字來自法文 logistique，一八三○年前後由軍事作家 Jomini 造出或推廣。字根是 logis，住宿的地方，出現在 marechal des logis（管住宿的軍官）這類職稱裡。所以它最早要回答的問題就是「人今天睡哪裡、東西怎麼送到」。這正好就是那張紙上寫的東西。也就是說，軍事用法是這條線的起點，商業和日常用法是後來長出來的。
Wiktionary entry for logistics, etymology 1 (packet source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1114878154:28911): From French logistique, coined or popularized 1830 by Antoine-Henri Jomini from logis (lodging place).
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原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
logisticsnoun詞源 1/ləˈd͡ʒɪstɪks/
- 1
The process of planning, implementing, and controlling the efficient, effective flow and storage of goods, services and related information from their point of origin to point of consumption for the purpose of satisfying customer requirements.
- logistics company
- logistics management
- 2
governmentmilitarypoliticsThe procurement, supply, maintenance, and transportation of equipment, facilities, and personnel.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。