Logistics and Supply Chain Management, 6th Edition

The problems with conventional organisations

Amongst experienced observers and commentators of the logistics management process there is general agreement that the major barrier to the implementation of the logistics concept is organisational. In other words, a major impediment to change in this crucial managerial area is the entrenched and rigid organisational structure that many established companies are burdened with.

There is a great danger that those companies that do not recognise the need for organisational change, or lack the will to make it happen, will never achieve the improvements in competitive advantage that integrated logistics management can bring. The argument advanced here is that the demands of the marketplace for enhanced ...