The book International logistics of authors Dr Slobodan A'cimovi'c, PhD, full professor and Dr Veljko M. Mijuskovi'c, PhD, assistant professor Faculty of Economics, Belgrade University, was recently published.
The book International logistics focuses its analysis around the integration of critical components within the supply chain, in the place of production to the place of consumption, to be able to secure timely and efficient distribution of needed goods anywhere in the world, using the needed precondition the mentioned merchandise is transferred over the border of at least one state. Handling the international logistics operations thus represents very complex and demanding coordination of the large number of actors and operations that are involved in this process. The stated coordination refers to a great number of elements that are analyzed. This firstly refers back to the configuration of the international logistics network which assumes the selection of movement routes and forms of transport, accompanied by the organization of logistics activities meaning of ordering goods, warehousing and supply management within the business knots, finally taking into consideration the cost and time components, as permanently present limiting factors. The additional complexity of international logistics operations which is the subject of research in this particular book addresses the surpassing of the barriers set by doing business on the global scale- from the differences within business management, success metrics, the level of business and information infrastructure development towards the currency, lingual, cultural and sociological discrepancies which these operations may bring together with them.
Today, at the outset of the third decade of the XXI century new trends and challenges are emerging threatening to additionally complicate the already complex international logistics business. The stated trends and challenges make reference to the necessity of implementing sustainable, ecological or green solutions running a business, using automation, robotization and artificial intelligence, connecting devices based on the Internet of products concept, revolutionizing business by utilizing blockchain technology, energizing business philosophies for example city logistics or humanitarian logistics, achieving to pertain the undisturbed procedure for global logistics operations in extreme conditions like the global pandemic of COVID 19 virus etc. Some of the previously addressed questions have partly been answered through the matter covered within the book.
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