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Consumer Logistics : Surfing the Digital Wave by Peter James Rimmer, Booi Hon Kam is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Consumer Logistics : Surfing the Digital Wave about?
Digital technology has changed the way we work, socialize, shop, play and learn. This book offers a stimulating exploration of how digitization has begun transforming the prevailing global logistics system into a self-service and sharing economy, and ultimately provides a vision of the monumental changes likely to overflow into the business landscape. Consumer Logistics thoughtfully assesses the challenges posed to businesses as the Internet of Things, 3D printing and other yet-to-come technologies start to connect humans and physical objects in forms that will further transform lifestyles. Through a review of the evolutionary journey of logistics management, this book argues that the fourth wave of global logistics is fast giving way to the fifth wave of consumer logistics, which will see consumers adapt to the seamless offline-online purchasing experience brought by Omnichannel Retailing. By considering how logistics and digital technologies will interact to redefine consumer logistics, Peter J. Rimmer and Booi Hon Kam argue that this outcome is likely to reflect the character of the sixth great logistics wave: personal logistics. Thought-provoking, and contemporary in topic, thi
Who reads Consumer Logistics : Surfing the Digital Wave?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Peter James Rimmer, Booi Hon Kam
- Publisher
- Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781786430373
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Management, Business, Science