Strategic Environmental Changes in the Context of Logistics Management Practices

Organizations are very often subject to reforms due to changes taking place in the markets or more broadly societal changes. These changes can either have direct or indirect effects on the organizations. In the wake of constant changes, whether to be direct or indirect companies who have developed structural adaptability to those changes have competitive advantage to its competitors. They can maintain their profits during difficult times. This paper aims to review strategic managerial applications of logistics firms for enhancing adaptation to change. Within this review decision making strategies, such as strategic planning, analytical process analysis (Analytical Hierarchy Process, AHP, and Analytical Network Process, ANP), agility approach and several methods such as SWOT, benchmarking are examined and discussed in terms of logistics.