Logistics & Supply Chain Management, 5th Edition

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The supply chain of the future

• Emerging mega-trends
• Shifting centres of gravity
• Supply chain governance and compliance
• The need for adaptability
• Seeking structural flexibility
• 2020 vision
• Waste in the supply chain
• The New Industrial Revolution
• Seven major business transformations
• The implications for tomorrow’s logistics managers

In the relatively short time that companies have been focusing on managing supply chains, the world has changed dramatically. Over the last three decades or so since the phrase ‘supply chain management’ was first coined¹ we have witnessed a major trend to globalised supply chains, with activities that were once performed in-house now outsourced, accompanied by a dramatic increase in volatility in the business ...