HASHIMOTO MASATAKA
   Department   Professional Graduate School  , Graduate School of Global Business
   Position   Professor
Language Japanese
Publication Date 2022/11
Type Academic Journal
Invitation Invited paper
Title Logistics infrastructure reforms to promote management reforms in the distribution industry
Contribution Type Sole-authored
Journal The Journal of Marketing and Distribution
Journal TypeJapan
Publisher The Distribution Economics Institute of Japan
Volume, Issue, Page 54(4),pp.1-10
Total page number 11
Details Amid high prices, the 2024 problem is looming in logistics. Even in the distribution industry, there is a growing sense of crisis that products will not be delivered. In order to deal with the driver shortage problem, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism have set up several review meetings on related measures. Based on the standardization of logistics materials and the construction of commercial distribution and logistics information infrastructure, the roadmap and actions in the consumer goods sector toward the realization of a physical Internet that aims to share logistics bases and transportation networks through vertical integration and horizontal collaboration in distribution. A plan was created. This paper discusses the efforts of the distribution industry to realize such a vision, and the collaborative efforts of manufacturing, distribution and sales, which are the prerequisites for this