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Log. scale
10000
1000
100
1950
Volume indices, 1950 = 100
Mining products
Manufactures
Agricultural products
55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 95
Fig. 53. World international trade by groups of products, 1950-2003
Source: own study.
Supply Driven
Demand Driven 10,6
39,5
70,5
service”, expectations focus on reliability, lead-time (feeding the success of express
parcel industry), flexibility, etc. These elements can be linked together: the
choice for express is not always a matter of speed but of safety (reliability), particularly
for “sensitive” products. The response of transport system is adequate
to this production model, with a thinner segmentation of supply, according to
differentiated qualitative demands.
49,9
19,3
10,2
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Inventory
Transport System
Information System
Fig. 54. Logistics cost split: demand driven or supply driven
Source: Highway Administration, Office of Freight Management. http://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight.
2003
265