This chapter served to bring together the material developed in the preceding 17 chapters. The many strategies and practices employed in logistics and SCM today were detailed and illustrated the wide‐ranging demands on logistics and supply chain managers. We also identified appropriate trends and the emerging, changing and challenging context within which logistics and SCM exist. The point was developed that it is important, when designing supply chains, to endeavour to synchronise the design of supply chains with the design of products. The chapter concluded with a discussion on the skills and knowledge areas required of logistics and supply chain managers in the future. Logistics and SCM are ever‐changing and demanding disciplines, but provide interesting and rewarding opportunities to people who wish to work in these areas.
