Which function focuses on moving goods from producers to customers and includes warehousing, transportation, and order fulfillment?

• A. Procurement
• B. Sourcing
• C. Logistics
• D. Manufacturing

Answer: (C)

Moving goods from producers to customers, and handling warehousing, transportation, and order fulfillment, is managed by logistics. It coordinates the physical flow of products and information through the supply chain, ensuring storage, handling, shipping, and timely delivery of the right items. Procurement and sourcing focus on obtaining inputs from suppliers, while manufacturing is about producing the goods. So the function described matches logistics.