Drivers for Trends in Supply Chain Management and Logistics – STEEP Level
Friday, 21 June 2013
- Increase in the total population in the EU
- Changes in working hours and leisure time
- Changes within and between social hierarchies
- Increase in ICT use in the society
Technological
- Information technology advancement
- ICT integration and development of logistics decision
- supporting software
- Evolution of data transmitting technologies
- Network infrastructures
- Data interchange standards
- Identification systems
- Telematics
- Standardization of loading units
- Increase of capacities in intercontinental transport
- Drive and vehicle technologies
- Automation of warehouses
- Automation of in-house transport
Economical, industrial and managerial
- Changes in GDP
- Interest rates
- Intra and extra European trade levels
- Concentration of industry/services
- Globalization of industry/services
- Shift from industrial to service sector
- Proliferation of product types
- Organizational restructuring
- Supply chain integration
- Mass customization and customer integration
- Outsourcing of non-core activities
- Increased use of information and communication technology
Environmental
- Increased number of vehicle kilometers
- Increased attention for reusing (raw) materials
Political
- Privatization of tasks and financing
- Growth of an agreement culture
- Harmonization and regulations of laws
- Introduction of circular flow economy acts
- Transport industry deregulation
Source: Adapted from Technical University of Berlin (2002, p. 7).
0 comments:
Post a Comment