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Logistics Information System (LIS) is known as a critical factor in achieving logisticscompetitiveness. Most corporations, however, do not seem to have clear strategies in meeting the information systems requirements of this decade. This is partly due to a lack of understanding about the causal relationship between a corporation's characteristics and logistics information system priorities. In this paper, a set of advisable strategies for LIS utilization is derived from a relationship analysis conducted by means of LISREL. From the analysis on 244 sample firms, this study finds that the utilization of LIS most directly affects logistics performance, while the utilization of LIS indirectly may affect performance by using a corporation's characteristics as an intermediate mechanism, and that such indirect utilization ofLIS has greater influence on logistics performance than the direct utilization of LIS.