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Economies of integration

Logistics is no longer what it used to be and logistics today plays a much more important and strategic role than it did in the past. In his article on the Role of Logistics in Corporate Strategy in the book  Northern Lights in Logistics, Mats Abrahamson from the University of Linköping, Sweden, describes describes logistics as having evolved from transaction-based logistics to value-based logistics  in four stages.

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