Switchpoints for the Future of Logistics
Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and the University of St. Gallen's Chair of Logistics Management conducted this study in order to identify and assess switchpoints that will shape the future of the logistics industry. Rather than making projections focu
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Ingo Wieck Martin Streichfuss Thorsten Klaas-Wissing Wolfgang Stölzle •
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Switchpoints for the Future of Logistics A Study by Roland Berger Strategy Consultants in Cooperation with University of St. Gallen, Chair of Logistics Management
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Dr. Ingo Wieck Roland Berger Strategy Consultants Transportation Competence Center Karl-Arnold-Platz 1 40474 Düsseldorf Germany [email protected]
Dr. Thorsten Klaas-Wissing Chair of Logistics Management University of St. Gallen Dufourstrasse 40a 9000 St. Gallen Switzerland [email protected]
Dr. Martin Streichfuss Roland Berger Strategy Consultants Transportation Competence Center Karl-Arnold-Platz 1 40474 Düsseldorf Germany [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Stölzle Chair of Logistics Management University of St. Gallen Dufourstrasse 40a 9000 St. Gallen Switzerland [email protected]
ISSN 2191-5482 ISBN 978-3-642-23492-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-23493-4
e-ISSN 2191-5490 e-ISBN 978-3-642-23493-4
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Preface
The financial and economic crisis in the past couple of years has shown how suddenly and unexpectedly apparently stable trends, and with them entire markets, can change and even shift into reverse. In some countries and industries, demand has now recovered as quickly as it slumped at the end of 2008. During both the upturn and the downturn, however, the sheer pace of developments confronted companies with an extremely difficult challenge. Unlike other crises experienced in recent decades, the latest crisis was not a regional or industry-specific phenomenon. Instead, it fanned out across the globe. During both phases, Logistics companies felt the full force of the crisis. Although the upturn was clearly the more agreeable of the two, it also presented companies with significant difficulties, leaving them hard pressed to ramp up capacity with sufficient speed. Although some developments have been decidedly positive s
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