An Insight into Current Research Fields in Logistics

Today's business environment is changing constantly due to global competition, cost pressure, and increasingly demanding customer requirements. An ever increasing range of product variants accompanied by a shortening of product life cycles changes markets and increases the pressure to innovate products as well as processes. In this context supply chains become increasingly more complex and supply chain management becomes more and more challenging. Today, the total supply chain capability and performance matters, as competition between individual companies becomes competition between entire supply chains.