Alex van Breedam Phd.

Since Covid, we entered the VUCA era. Supply chains are suffering many disruptions and shortages, and this will not end. Many companies try to anticipate on this unpredictability by increasing their inventories in a “just in case” way. However, more and more we realize that the current logistic system is unable to formulate adequate answers to the major societal problems that we are facing, including sustainability, societal hinderance, people and capacity shortages. How should we change the current logistic system? Two important logistics concepts are put forward Amazonization and the Physical Internet. But, what will be the endgame?