TY - JOUR AB - Ponders the factors which make senior management support of logistical initiatives so important and explores means of ensuring that such initiatives are included in the boardroom agenda. Presents an understanding of logistical activity which emphasizes its all‐embracing organizational influence, and its function as the deliverer of the marketers’ “promises”. Offers a further reason for boardroom attentiveness to logistical strategy ‐ the issue of profitability. recommends a number of practical strategies for individuals to rehearse in day‐to‐day dealings with senior management in their endeavours to retain board‐level support for logistical processes. VL - 9 IS - 6 SN - 0957-6053 DO - 10.1108/09576059610148441 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/09576059610148441 AU - Day Abby PY - 1996 Y1 - 1996/01/01 TI - Getting logistics into the boardroom T2 - Logistics Information Management PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 11 EP - 14 Y2 - 2024/04/25 ER -