Research
The
primary objective of GLORI is to enable private enterprises and public
authorities to cope with the challenges of increasing dynamic complexity
in their environments.
GLORI is dedicated to cutting the time between basic research and its commercial exploitation.
The GLORI community combines academic and practical experience in the development and implementation of effective business strategies and systems.
Basic insights of GLORI research are:
- Logistics – broadly defined – has to serve as a corporate risk management system, enabling companies to immediately respond to non-anticipated change. It becomes a central source of operational value to the enterprise.
- Real-time logistics requires a different set of management principles applied across the whole value chain and across all corporate functions such as marketing, production or finance.
- Real-time logistics also requires the innovation of logistics services and capacities, and underlying management systems.
- Finally, logistics needs to take advantage of intelligent technologies which improve information management while cutting response time and processing costs.
In sum, applied R&D has to
take an integrated look at the logistics environment – from the
design of supportive public infrastructures, to innovative transport technologies,
supply chain management systems, and knowledge management tools, as well
as sophisticated principles and methodologies of managerial flexibility,
decision support and value management.