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Digitalizing Logistics – IT and Automation

Author: Nicholas SEIERSEN

Publication date: May 10, 2022

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1. The evolution of information technology in the service of business

Information technology has long supported the logistics operations of companies. The nature of this support has evolved, on the one hand because of new logistical needs and capabilities, due to the increased sophistication of this branch of business management, and on the other hand and above all thanks to the explosion in IT performance.

1.1 Inexorable cost reduction and ever-increasing hardware performance

Like any new technology, computer hardware has been enhanced by multiple innovations. What characterizes the revolution in basic computer technologies is the speed, both of performance improvements, and the speed with which information technologies have been adopted by businesses and consumers alike. And it looks as if this is continuing to accelerate......

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