Ignorer la navigation
Logistics Clusters
Book

Logistics Clusters

Delivering Value and Driving Growth

MIT Press, 2012 plus...

résumé audio créé automatiquement
résumé audio créé automatiquement

Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Applicable

Recommendation

Modern logistics have become a high-tech, sophisticated business sector, showcasing state-of-the-art warehouse robots, advanced conveyor systems, astute inventory management, real-time tracking programs, complex scheduling software and other technological developments. Yossi Sheffi – director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics – examines these vital links in the modern global supply chain, and parses their history, usage and likely future with elegance and understanding. getAbstract recommends Sheffi’s conversational, scholarly overview of modern logistics to executives, students of business, anyone doing business internationally and anyone seeking to get involved in the rapidly growing field of logistics.

Take-Aways

  • Some cities draw industry clusters, like Hollywood for films, New York for finance and Paris for fashion.
  • Industry clusters provide collaboration, trust, knowledge sharing and a supply base.
  • Logistics clusters are a particular form of industry cluster that unites related vendors in shipping, freight, warehousing, manufacturing, operations and distribution.

About the Author

Yossi Sheffi is the Elisha Gray II professor of Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He directs the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics.


Comment on this summary or Démarrer une discussion