Internet of Things has heavy impact on logistics

During the opening of the group’s revamped Innovation Centre in Troisdorf, Appel held out the prospect of internet commerce with a global turnover of $8 trillion over the next 10 years. Logistics service providers will have to adapt their distribution centres to an environment, where consumers will, on the one hand, pick out their products in the city which will then act as a showroom, but, on the other, will be customised to their own tastes.