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The research and literature on supply networks and on logistics service networks has largely been separated. In practice, the ‘two networks’ are integrated since the activities carried out in them are always subject to interdependencies and thus in need of coordination. In this paper we focus on the triads consisting of buyers and suppliers of goods and of the logistics service providers (LSPs) that take care of the logistics services between the two. We argue that these particular triads are generic in nature while still seldom considered as of importance. The latter may be an effect from transport services being considered by many firms as a non-strategic purchasing category.