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Tasks and Aspects of Modern Logistics

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Consumers and companies need products, material and other physical objects at a time when and a place where they are generally not produced. This leads to the task of operative logistics or the four rights of logistics (4R):

• Logistics has to provide the r ight quantities of goods most efficiently at the r ight place in the r ight order within the r ight time.

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  1. Strandweg 54, D-22587, Hamburg, Germany

    Dr. rer. nat. Dr.-Ing. habil. Timm Gudehus

  2. University of Bremen, Wilhelm-Herz-Strasse 12, D-28359, Bremen, Germany

    Prof. Dr. Herbert Kotzab (Chair of Business Studies and Logistics Management, International Professor Caledonian Business School, Visiting Professor Copenhagen Business School)

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Gudehus, T., Kotzab, H. (2012). Tasks and Aspects of Modern Logistics. In: Comprehensive Logistics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24367-7_1

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