Learning on the Job

摘要

Today's supply chain is vastly different than 10 years ago-and positively futuristic compared to 1981, when this magazine first espoused a novel approach to managing transportation and logistics. The pace of change has been swift and sweeping. Technology innovation and proliferation have broken down functional silos and torn asunder geographic boundaries and constraints. Shrinking computers and expanding clouds have given way to "big data" marshaled by supply chain control towers. What do we make of it all?