{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DefinedTerm","name":"Trade logistics","description":"Ensuring product availability, throughput speed, and cost efficiency – that is the core task of trade logistics. It coordinates all physical and information flows along the supply chain wherever finished goods move from manufacturer through intermediary traders to end customers, covering procurement, warehousing, transportation, and distribution. Unlike production logistics, which governs in-plant manufacturing flows, trade logistics deals exclusively with finished merchandise. Retailers, wholes","inDefinedTermSet":{"@type":"DefinedTermSet","name":"Frachtportal Logistics Glossary","url":"https://www.freight-academy.com/en/glossary"},"url":"https://www.freight-academy.com/en/glossary/trade-logistics","inLanguage":"en","dateModified":"2026-06-22T10:54:16.643605","citation":"https://wirtschaftslexikon.gabler.de/Definition/handelslogistik-43608","markdownMirror":"https://www.freight-academy.com/api/md/glossary/en/trade-logistics","provider":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Frachtportal","url":"https://www.freight-academy.com"},"quickSummary":"Trade logistics · Ensuring product availability, throughput speed, and cost efficiency – that is the core task of trade logistics. · Quelle: https://wirtschaftslexikon.gabler.de/Definition/handelslogistik-43608"}