Reinventing Logistics:: Is Business Process Re‐engineering the Answer?
In: Logistics information management, Band 7, Heft 2, S. 39-41
ISSN: 1758-7948
Business process re‐engineering (BPR) stresses the importance of taking
a process‐led approach to management compared with the functional
approach used by most companies. The implications of BPR for logistics
are vastly improved order fulfilment and reduced overheads. BPR′s
essence is to consider the process as a whole rather than a sequence of
tasks, which in many instances means using multi‐skilled personnel
rather than specialists in particular tasks. Concludes with the
observation that BPR seems set to give additional operational
responsibilities to logistics management as it develops within
organizations.