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The End of the Concept of Inventory Changes Everything

Supply chains? They'll start to disappear as we move the physical production of product closer to the consumer with 3D printing, end of runway manufacturing, and tremendous innovations in last mile delivery!

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Publish Date	2019-01-28
Updated Date	2026-09-18
Horizon	now
Confidence	medium

Originally published as 19 Trends for 2019: #19 The End of the Concept of Inventory Changes Everything on January 28, 2019.

This record preserves item #19 in Jim Carroll’s 19 Trends For 2019 series as a structured historical trend in the futurist.info knowledge graph.

Supply chains? They’ll start to disappear as we move the physical production of product closer to the consumer with 3D printing, end of runway manufacturing, and tremendous innovations in last mile delivery!

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