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Meeting today's customer demands poses several challenges throughout the supply chain. Flexibility, a customer-centric mindset, and a commitment to speed and immediacy, will be the defining factors of modern digital supply chains. The digital supply chain is future-proof and a decisive success factor, it is data-driven, scalable and sustainable.

The issue of sustainability is playing an increasingly important role for companies. Sustainability in the supply chain refers to the management of environmental, social and economic impacts over the entire life cycle of products and services - from raw material procurement and logistics to product return and recycling.

Warehouse automation and robotics are becoming increasingly important in logistics. Complex fulfillment, the integration of all business channels and individual customer wishes set limits to manual execution. Automated processes as storage and transfer of goods or order picking are often more efficient.

For e-commerce, record years have come to an end with 2020/21, in which various developments have accelerated further. What trends can be expected in e-commerce in 2022 and beyond? Arvato has analyzed the current developments and shows the most important trends and topics.