How is Direct Digital Manufacturing likely to affect the nature and level of demand for logistics services?
Thomas Bauer
Nov 2012 · GRIN Verlag
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Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Supply, Production, Logistics, grade: 2,6, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh (School of Management and Languages ), language: English, abstract: Direct Digital Manufacturing Who would have guessed forty years ago that the internet would be as important as it is today. Direct digital manufacturing could be able to run through the same story of success. The purpose of this essay is to identify in which way direct digital manufacturing (DDM) changes the demand of logistics services and in what extent new markets for logisticians will develop. The paper will start by briefly explaining direct digital manufacturing. Implications and prospects for logistics companies will be discussed on the followings. With the help of these facts it can be shown how logistics companies have to change their attitude to be successful in the future.
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