Logistics Future Trends

Elsevier eBooksPublished 1 January 2011

Amir Zakery

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Abstract

Today, transportation is an important part of the logistics system, and efficient supply chains rely on fast, responsive, and dependable transportation. Increasing ranges of economic sectors are turning to globalization as a norm. Therefore, it results to complex harmonization process in coordinating of production and supply worldwide. This complexity is a result of differences in cultures, economic systems, government regulations, and so many international rules and agreements. Technical reports and surveys are good resources for investigating recent changes and possible future trends in different parts of business and industry. As a living and growing subject between practitioners and industrial communities, logistics has been the focus of many technical reports. This chapter presents seven reports about recent and future trends in the logistics industries that were found through Internet searches. Some focus on a specific region or country or on special issues of logistics, and others are more general in nature.

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Business, Management and Accounting

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Examining the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology in commercial applications and whether regulation is needed to balance commercial economic interests versus consumer privacy and libertarian concerns suggests legislation is needed.

International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics ManagementThe role of information connectivity in making flexible logistics programs successful

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The results suggest that flexible logistics programs are strongly related to all performance dimensions, and that information connectivity fully mediates the relationship between flexible Logistics programs and asset productivity and partially mediatesThe relationship between Flexible logistics programs and delivery competence.

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Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation ReviewA hybrid fuzzy-based approach for identifying global logistics strategies

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