Proactive knowledge-based risk management

Abstract

Globally distributed production networks accompanied by the reduction of the vertical range of manufacturing, customer-driven markets, decreasing product life-cycle times and increasing information flows alter the requirements for the management of logistic systems and processes. The reduction of the size of goods that have to be transported and as a consequence thereof an increasing amount of transports are main reasons for a relative shortage of logistic infrastructure and lead also to rising utilization of existing logistic processes and to more complex logistic systems. These developments for example are caused through the evolution of virtual organizations and the increasing maturity of new information and communication technologies (ICT) technologies like RFID and ubiquitous computing. © 2007 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.