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Attributes of leadership in logistics management today are reviewed
and likely characteristics of leading logistical organisations of the
future are suggested. Leading firms will continue to rely on
sophisticated solutions and development of unique competences to gain
differential advantage. The essence of these sophisticated solutions
will be information.

What constitutes the best practice in logistics? Two researchers report on a major new study to find out.

A few years ago the faculty of the Graduate School of Business Administration at Michigan State University responded to a developing industry need for young people trained with an understanding of the interfaces between physical distribution, manufacturing and purchasing. In 1980 the Materials Logistics Management Programme (MLM) was established to meet this industry requirement. Students of the MLM programme have been in great demand by industry since the programme's inception. For the past two years MLM graduates have received the highest starting salaries of all MSU business graduates. This article presents an overview of the MLM philosophy that has emerged as the programme matured.

The problem considered in this paper is that of long range planning of physical distribution systems and how this may be improved through simulation