“We bring together academics from Cardiff Business School and the School of Engineering with operational practitioners from industry to tackle important contemporary problems in logistics and manufacturing management. Together, we hope to shape the medium to long-term future of the logistics industry. Working together over the last four years we have been able to jointly identify future manufacturing and supply chain trends, and build our research in anticipation of this changing environment. We conduct fundamental research (funded either directly by research councils or undertaken through doctoral investigations) and translate its outputs to business insights and commercially viable solutions. We operate on the basis of transferring knowledge generated at Cardiff University to the wider logistics community. We have received several awards for our collaborative work, which has also been showcased numerous times in the media.