The speed of movement of goods, information and services determines the success and the efficiency of a transport company that wants to meet the needs of the customer. Consumers want better quality services, greater variety of products, more innovation and better service, but at a lower price,...

The airline market is constantly evolving and requires managers to adopt strategies to meet the changing demands and organizational requirements of the sector. As a result of its liberalization, the European market has transformed from a set of national protected sectors to a single sector....

Background: This study presents a comprehensive methodology for enhancing humanitarian logistics planning and management in natural disasters, focusing on earthquakes. Methods: The innovative approach combines a deterministic mathematical model with a simulation model to address the problem from...

The omnipresence of digital platforms (DPs) across industries yields platform-based business concepts that disrupt the road freight market, enabling the digitalization of road freight transport management (RFTM). However, the data-driven service capabilities of DPs in supporting RFTM are...

Background: The logistics network design with cross-docking operations enables shipping service providers to integrate the physical flow of products between vendors and dealers in logistics management. The collective goal is to synchronize the goods in both pickup and delivery operations...

Introduction : learning the law -- Sources of law -- Conventions overview -- The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea-SOLAS -- Survey Requirements -- Seaworthiness and risk management -- Risk management in polar operations -- The International Convention on Standards of...

"This textbook discusses supply chain management and provides comprehensive overview of all the key activities and issues of supply chain and logistics functions as an integrated discipline. Taking a comprehensive approach, it reviews end to end supply chain management from procurement to...

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to present an approach to analyzing the organizational design of shippers' transportation management from a process perspective. Methodology: The proposed analysis approach is based on a comprehensive literature review on transportation management. The...

Companies which wish to operate on the market must constantly discover and shape new potentials and abilities to create benefits that might ensure them long-term increase in efficiency and development. One of the ways to gain economic advantage is to reduce costs in all possible areas of their...

Aufbauend auf einer umfangreichen, strukturierten Literaturanalyse liegt ein Beschreibungsmodell des Personenwirtschaftsverkehrssystems vor, das Bestimmungsfaktoren entlang von drei betrieblichen Entscheidungsebenen systematisiert: der Organisation, des Fahrzeuges sowie des Fahrzeugeinsatzes....

This report looks at the need for Greece to redesign its inter-island transport system to make it more operational and sustainable. It takes into account the challenges of designing networks for island ecosystems and island clusters, which present even greater difficulties. Specifically, it...

Die Dissertation setzt an zentralen praktischen Herausforderungen in der schnelldrehenden Konsumgüterindustrie an: Insbesondere an kundennahen Distributionsstufen muss der Nachfrage nach hohen Lieferfrequenzen, einem breiten Sortiment und hoher Verfügbarkeit mit zuverlässigen kurzen...

Logistiksysteme -- Logistikkonzeption -- Prozessketten in der Logistik -- Konzepte und Methoden zur Verbesserung logistischer Prozesse -- Risikomanagement in der Supply Chain -- Logistik im After Sales Management -- Instandhaltungs- und Ersatzteillogistik -- Reverse Logistics.

This book gathers peer-reviewed research papers based on selected contributions to the 13th Logistics Management Conference (LM 2023), held on 13.-15.09.2023, in Dresden, Germany. They report on cutting-edge methods and strategies for supply chain management, digitalisation, sustainable...

Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), one of the largest logistics and transportation infrastructures to date, has focused on much work in the economics and political sciences. However, little research has been done on how BRI can affect supply chain management on the whole. Since BRI is a large-scale...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the revolutionary invention of human intelligence. Artificial Intelligence is nothing but the duplication of human in which machines are programmed to rationally think and behave like humans developed for very many purposes including business decision making,...