- Industry in view of the supply chain revolution.
- The nature of changes taking place in logistics, and the art of adaptation. Is this the end of the just-in-time era? What should be there instead?
- The warehouse as an organisation’s bottleneck.
- Advanced information management: end-to-end planning; supplier relations; and control over the movement of goods, materials, and components, as well as semi-finished and finished products.
- The increased role of e-commerce as a challenge for the distribution sector. Ways to stabilise the logistics area: risk management; security and its costs; and reliability and resilience.