Logistics and operations have long been seen as awkward counterparts. While one cannot exist without the other, there is a long-standing cliché that the two must be at odds. Alexander the Great, the Macedonian king, is said to have claimed that his logisticians were "a humourless lot... They know that if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay." Two millennia later, and while the threat of slaughter has dissipated, the two professions still face a tricky balancing act.

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