1.2 Evolution of modern business logistics
The supply of raw material to manufacturing enterprises pre-dates the 'industrial revolution'. Bakers in the Middle Ages had to have flour delivered to their ovens from the mills. Dressmakers had to receive cloth, and shoemakers required leather. But until the latter decades of the 20 th Century, little thought was given to coordinating or integrating these pre-production activities with post production activities such as delivering the ever-growing variety of manufactured goods to their intermediate or ultimate customers.
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