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The Role of Logistics in Global Trade The 1980s and 1990s have seen the transformation of logistics into the more comprehensive mode of supply-chain management (SCM). This process has been accelerated by the globalization of manufacturing; SCM is based on new information and communications technologies, and also on changing habits of corporate management - such as the elimination of inventories and the integrated management of the chains. So the global expansion of production networks has been built upon logistics. And new forms of production organization by global manufacturers are being determined entirely by provision of logistics services. One such development is "modular production", in which production is driven by contract manufacturing and vertically disintegrated and horizontally integrated management of value-chains. This modular manufacturing network happens against the background of organizational change. It comprises both small and large firms, and small and large geographical scales, and it aims to create many products within few processes, in order to maximize revenue through economies of scale. Logistics has grown to become the key unit within this production system. It has to provide for the agility or flexibility of any module, and the interaction of all modules in the entire network. Flexibility is not only organizational, but also geographical. So a major shift has occurred in how and where commodities and their components are being assembled, manufactured and distributed. 1 2 3 4 5 6

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