As early as in the 1960s, keywords like extended workbench or external storage areas came into mind when capacities were at a limit and huge investments into real estate or machines were needed.
With products growing in complexity, make or buy decisions gave supplying industries a boost, supported by new IT technologies.
Bringing in parts just in time became the new trend, especially in the automotive industry. A thouroughly organised supply chain management is supposed to guide all production and logistics processes.
Globalisation of markets as well as increasing costs for logistics pose new challenges. To develop models, a lot of know-how about production and logistics is needed. PROLOGIS COOPERATION has a lot of know-how on offer.
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