Global container throughput recorded a substantial growth over the past 25 years. The ports of Rotterdam, Hamburg and Antwerp have benefited greatly from this development. At the same time rapid increases can be observed for the dimensions of container vessels calling these ports. In 2005 the...

This contribution presents an analysis of the increasing consequences of digitalization with a focus on self-monitoring of personnel in logistics and production processes. This is of interest as digitalization requires large-scale innovative implementation and change management approaches in...

Truck drayage in container ports faces several challenges. Due to the ongoing growth of container ship sizes, there are increasingly high peak situations in landside container handling at logistic nodes in the port, e.g. container terminals, empty depots, freight stations. In combination with...

Evidence is mounting to suggest that there is a global shortage of people with the right skills to meet the evolving needs of the logistics industry. Especially emerging regions are lagging behind, inhibiting economic growth. Thus, governments should systematically assess and address skills...

This contribution presents an analysis of recent trend topics in logistics and supply chain management with a focus on education and training on the job, applying an Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP).Based on a comprehensive literature survey for the identification of trends that have persisted...

Horizontal transport on container terminals represents the interface between quay and yard. Efficient transport operations are essential to improve performance and productivity. Thereby, one main decision problem is dispatching the vehicles. Despite the large amount of literature in this field,...

Waste management is a growing problem all around the world with implications to society, environment, health and economy. In this context, the waste is considered as the last step in the consuming process. However, a smart waste management is possible by the generation of value from the garbage...

Optimized stocks and lean processes are prerequisites in order to keep up with the increasing consumption of goods and limited storage areas in cities due to urbanization. This paper, therefore, develops a maturity model to increase the dissemination rate of Digitized VMI to optimize supply...

Technological evolvement creates new business opportunities such as the optimization of distribution networks by using big data to calculate optimal delivery routes respecting individual time windows. The optimized network enhances firms to improve customer satisfaction, reduce delivery costs,...

Utilizing battery electric vehicles in daily distribution operations of logistics service providers and freight forwarders goes along with major uncertainties for companies. There is no mechanism how to evaluate the technical and economical use of battery electric vehicles in companies use cases...