Main remaining problems
The current and prospective importance of centralisation, resulting in the enhanced utilization of ICT in logistics, is expected to increase transport performances. It will lead to environmental hazards and a declining level of societal health due to a higher level of air pollutants and noise emissions. A further field of interest, but with progressive importance, is the sensitivity of supply chains and logistics processes with regards to external computerised manipulation. The logistic processes will be significantly endangered because of the growing importance of ICT in almost every Electronic Data Processing-supported system component. The consequence is increasing sensitivity of entire supply chains to external manipulation and interference is the consequence.