Prof. Dr. Michael ten Hompel

Socially Networked Industry

The Logistics of the Day After Tomorrow

Logistics set things in motion. This raises two questions: Why do we put things in motion? How do we get things moving? While the first question is simple - ensuring that the right product is in the right amount at the right time - it is much more difficult to answer the second question. In the digitalized world of the future, complex networks will transform into more and more, faster and faster, and more and more individualized to move past the limits of previous logistics concepts. We are looking for an algorithm that, simply put, moves things in the Internet of Things. How will logistics work the day after tomorrow, when the virtual and the real world are merged, when human and artificial intelligence work together?

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