Conceptualization of logistics management, structure and evolution within logistics and supply chains. Bias through which knowledge negentropy could be a source of sustainable value co-creation.

Summary Logistics is the backbone of the global economy. It is the physical realization of the commercial contract of purchase of goods. Paradoxically, it seems to suffer from a lack of conceptualization of its structures and determinants. Thus, supply chains are still often mistakenly confused with supply chains, and physical execution activities are often mixed up with management activities. As a result, poor diagnostics cause other problems, which in turn cause inefficiency, and thus a form of entropy. This entropy can be observed through multiple operational and financial symptoms, and it tends to grow with poorly controlled technological progress. What to do with this new data, this information, this knowledge? Do we have the necessary knowledge to make good use of it? This research work attempts to describe the microstructures of this industry sector. It highlights the key role of management, and the disruptive effects of technological progress on the "traditional" composition of its "production factors". He also tries to highlight a greater expected polarization of the labor factor around low and high cognitive human tasks. The legerdemain of knowledge, with the human as a support, would then be assimilated to a high performance of knowledge transfer, and could then become a source of co-creation of value.