Journal rankings are gaining importance in the field of logistics and supply chain management in Scandinavian countries as the tendency to compare business schools and universities, departments and faculty is increasing. This paper reports a journal quality ranking survey of Scandinavian...

This paper is grounded in the service science approach and attempts to, by presenting an illustrative pharmacy case study, highlight the difficulties of introducing new control systems, whereby often the human dimension involved in the introduction is forgotten. The paper supports other academic...

In order to improve profitability, freight forwarding companies try to organize their operational transportation planning systematically, considering not only their own fleet but also external resources. Such external resources include vehicles from closely related subcontractors in vertical...

The integrated operational transportation planning problem extends the traditional vehicle routing and scheduling problem by the possibility of outsourcing a part of the requests by involving subcontractors. The purpose of this paper is to present the integrated planning problem and to propose...

The bi-objective winner determination problem (2WDP-SC) of a combinatorial procurement auction for transport contracts comes up to a multi-criteria set covering problem. We are given a set B of bundle bids. A bundle bid b in B consists of a bidding carrier c_b, a bid price p_b, and a set tau_b...