Efficient and interconnected logistics networks, like postal services, provide powerful tools for criminal groups to organize cross-border drug trafficking by exploiting legitimate infrastructure. Despite postal services becoming inadvertent facilitators in smuggling, focused research on this...

While digital transformations are taking place, we still have limited understanding as to how ecosystems and supply chains differ from a theoretical standpoint and how they relate practically. We study the evolution of the concept of ecosystems through a systematic review of the literature to...

While digital transformations are taking place, we still have limited understanding as to how ecosystems and supply chains differ from a theoretical standpoint and how they relate practically. We study the evolution of the concept of ecosystems through a systematic review of the literature to...

Purpose: Collaborative networked organisations (CNO) are a means of ensuring longevity and business continuity in the face of a global crisis such as COVID-19. This paper aims to present a multi-criteria decision-making method for sustainable partner selection based on the three sustainability...

Purpose: Demand forecasting models in companies are often a mix of quantitative models and qualitative methods. As there are so many existing forecasting approaches, many forecasters have difficulty in deciding on which model to select as they may perform “best” in a specific error measure,...

Purpose: Delivery punctuality is essential in supply chain management, yet the cost of untimely delivery is usually assumed to be given or based on intuition and not quantified by facts. Design/methodology/approach: The authors used a data set containing detailed transaction data for a...