Workforce planning in logistics is a major challenge due to increasing demands and a dynamic environment. The number of delivery positions is a key factor in determining staffing requirements. This is often predicted subjectively based on employee assessments. To improve decision making and...

Background: In relevant research, blockchain technology (BCT) is credited with great potential for supply chain management (SCM). However, even after more than 10 years of the technology's existence, it is barely used for any self-sustaining applications. This raises the question of why BC...

Purpose: Due to the large number of intermediaries in logistics networks there is avariety of possible failures, frictions and waste of time and money among the logisticsprocess chain. With the ability to provide data securely in near real-time, liketrack and tracing data of goods to every...