This paper presents the proposed trend development of new technologies and organisational concepts in the logistics services sector. A structure for classifying such trends is proposed in order to provide overall understanding of basic developments in logistics. From this industry specific...

This paper presents results from an expert survey regarding logistics trends in accordance to a trend classification system. A special focus is put on rail traffic as this transport mode is experiencing a “renaissance” in recent trend development and interesting new organisation systems such...

This research paper addresses quality management in higher education teaching in general and especially regarding the field of logistics study programmes at universities. Therefore the author gives a detailed overview about quality definitions, trends and concepts in higher education in Germany,...

Co-operation is a basic concept for several logistics concepts as the co-operation of different companies in a supply chain defines possibilities and results in operations management. This paper presents a comparative view onto different approaches, namely supply chain management, efficient...

Business Development traditionally has an incorporated focus on marketing and marketing models as well as marketing competencies among business development managers. However, the discussed case studies results and trends in business and market behaviour point to the fact that in the future only...

This paper presents the development and technical concepts of radio frequency identification (RFID) as well as requirements of document logistics. Combining the two topics possibilities of implementing RFID technologies in document logistics (in finance) are discussed. This highlights the future...

Paper No 4 in the KCL series on logistics research presents the upcoming RFID technology with all the specific methods and attached advantages as well as disadvantages. For most companies sooner or later RFID will be a topic in adjusting logistics processes and equipment – be it due to...

This paper deals with the question of general developments in logistics services. These trends influence the question of human resource management in the logistics service industry as well as the general demographic trend of a declining population in Germany and Europe. Thus the authors show...

Economic expectations towards education are rising due to the importance of knowledge production as well as knowledge transfer in the knowledge society. Blueprint for this change is the measurement and accountability approach connected to the output orientation demanded by the European...

Sustainability trends are to be found in logistics today as green logistics or product – respectively company – carbon footprints. Within this evolving field of logistics several research areas are developing such as CO2 measurement standardization, integrated management concepts and process...