This article aims to identify and classify the logistics aspects of the management of public policies, examining how logistics decisions are essential to improve the state organizations and public services performance. Adopting integrated logistics and supply chain management point of view we seek to identify how these logistics decisions can be considered in decision making processes of public policy management as a tool to promote efficiency and significant impacts on results of public organizations management. Therefore, this article presents a series of essential decisions that concern the central idea of logistics in the public sector. It also discusses some experiences and cases that demonstrate the importance and specificity of these discussions to public policy.
public policy; integrated logistics; supply chain management; public sector logistics