Management: Changing Skill Sets and Smart

The Future of Logistics and Supply Chain
Management: Changing
Skill Sets and Smart
Career Choices
Rico Merkert and Kai Hoberg

Management Perspective on What
Does It Take to Succeed in
Tomorrow’s Supply Chain and
Logistics Industry?

“The line between
disorder and order
lies in logistics...”

Sun Tzu

What are the challenges ahead?
battles confronting the logistics and supply chain management
(L&SCM) sector
1. Climate Change,
2. COVID-19 pandemic disrupting the industry in both negative and positive ways,
3. online hackers have breached IT security and paralyzed global companies, and with them, entire supply chains,
4. geopolitical tensions such as the Ukraine war or the rise of China are now driving sureshoring of supply chain elements that are of national interest and deemed essential. --
Mitigating risk, reduce supply chain risk.

What are the challenges ahead?
battles confronting the logistics and supply chain management
(L&SCM) sector
5. Energy & Food -- prices & supply
6. Innovations ; such as artificial intelligence, robotics, the Internet of things (IoT), drones, and blockchain, are redefining our business models and workforce