There are some jobs that are around to fix problems. It is good to know a good dentist, banker, insurance agent, or logistician – but would you want to be the one people only call if they have a problem to solve? At some point I wrote about the truck driver image of logistics, perhaps more fitting is one of a jack of all trades (in its original positive meaning*) as described in this blog. And here’s a recipe to the answer on what it actually means to be a logistician: McLogistics (in Swedish, but google translate my help 
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No wonder there is still a confusion as for whether SCM is an umbrella term or to be equalled with logistics. With all these image problems, who wouldn’t want to be a supply chain manager instead?
Gyöngyi
*Funnily enough “jack of all trades” seems to suffer from a similar positive to negative transition in meaning as “Mädchen für alles”…
Actually, I have an English version of McLogistics here: http://drlogistics.se/2011/03/25/mclogistics-how-to-explain-logistics-to-anyone/
Tack, PO, even better!
Dear Gyongyi
regarding to the confusion about the supply chain or logistics as an umbrella , you might look into article ” Defining supply chain management”
BY Mentzer et al. 2001,
or article named “SCM and its relationship to logistics, marketing, … by Mentzer , Stank , and Esper, (2008)