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?
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