The HICL-Conference celebrates its 10th anniversary, indicating major interest in the research fields of supply chain management and logistics. They are dedicated to make recommendations for new approaches and solutions that enable companies to cope with current and future challenges in supply...

This volume contains research contributions by an international group of authors focusing on innovative models to optimize logistics and supply chains at an operational level. They address process efficiency and data-related aspects. Supply chain security insights are also given.

In EU, 50% of total energy consumption is due to activities related to the construction industry. The number of employees in this industry is increasing. In Denmark, for instance, 25% of the employees in the private sector are employed in the construction industry. Due to this strong impact on...

Globalization and new technologies led to the global and lean supply chains that we see today. But cost-efficiency alone does not create customer value. Goods and services have to be available at the time of demand. Shorter product-live-cycles demand volatility and external disruptions force...

In this paper, we introduce an approach to monitoring and control in the international movement of goods that builds on value chain modeling. The approach is taken from the accounting domain and adapted to application in supply chains and logistics chains. This approach is based on identifying...

This paper synthesizes research findings on managing common goods with an application on the agricultural supply chain. Effective management of common goods highly depends on the effort and contributions of each member of the group and the equitable sharing of the added value. However, this...

Disruptive innovations are currently changing the landscape of many industries and their business models. Because of increasingly digitalized processes and an exponential growth of sensible data, supply chains are also impacted by the fourth industrial revolution. The strategic management...

Sustainability is today consolidated as a mandatory business rule. Multinational companies whose operations affect economies, societies and environment worldwide, are key triggers to transform supply chains towards sustainable development. In this context, this paper aims to understand how some...

Sustainability in logistics and efforts to increase economic gains while managing the impact on the environment and on society have been discussed in all spheres of companies' decision-making processes. Especially in the consumer goods industry, customers' pressures are becoming more intense,...

Urban transport in cities is composed of many micro-transport systems. Each one of these has negative effect on the urban mobility. The study and analysis of one of these micro-transport systems is an effective way to understand the problem and consequently to propose new solutions, as well as a...