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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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Supply Chain Management – does it really exist?

The other day I came across a very interesting PhD dissertation by Erik Sandberg from Linköping University in Sweden, declaring that Supply Chain Management perhaps is more of a myth than a reality in today’s business world. That is a very bold claim, but after reading the dissertation I must give the guy some credit. I think he could be right.

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