Digitization can now be found everywhere and is spreading like wildfire. I am therefore now writing a whole series of articles on the subject of digitization. My motivation behind this is that digitization means something different for every industry and type of company and I want to work out these differences. An illustration of the differences in different industries can be found in the following figure. In this section I would now like to go into the actual core of this article and illustrate digitization in the logistics industry. Industry characteristics For a long time, the main task of logistics was the storage, transport and handling of goods. However, due to globalization, this industry has changed increasingly. Their range of services now also includes monitoring and control, i.e. the management of entire supply chains. With this change came demands for more flexible and automated processes, which is why the logistics…

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