Background: With urban logistics facing challenges such as high delivery volumes and driver shortages, autonomous driving emerges as a promising solution. However, the integration of autonomous vans and robots into existing fulfillment processes and platforms remains largely unexplored. Method:...

1. Artificial Intelligence on SCM in the Hospitality Sector 2. Electronic Procurement and Procurement Performance in the Oil and Gas Industry: A Case Study of Total Oil Service Stations in Tamale 3. Blockchain (BC) on Supply Chain Management (SCM) 4. Robots on Supply Chain Management 5....

Port community systems (PCS), as electronic platforms enabling the intelligent and secure exchange of information between public and private stakeholders in ports, are central to port supply chains. PCS drive productivity, efficiencies, and competitiveness whilst improving the port's...

Seaports are regarded as significant actors in global logistics and supply chains since a large part of the cargoes carried over the globe are being processed there. When the cold chain broken down during transport and storage in the ports, the humidity, nutrition, temperature and time...

"This book examines the dimensions, components, and key indicators of logistics and smart supply chains. Our goal in this book is to empower supply chains by identifying the procedures and tools that can help make logistics smarter in today's world. We will also show what capabilities the...

Digital transformation in logistics -- IT infrastructure -- Network, telecommunication -- Logic of coding and database -- Enterprise applications in logistics (data processing) -- Data collection technologies in logistics -- Data integration technologies for logistics -- Data science -- Business...

This study aims to provide valuable insights into the information logistics process and to ensure the effectiveness of its systems in the business environment by discussing the banking sector. In this regard, this study investigates the information logistics system of a bank’s IT service...

Background: The new demands of the current market including for space should be satisfied by designing modern material flow systems. Designing warehouses using effective material handling equipment significantly supports cost reduction and efficient space utilization. Sequencing of items is an...

The world of logistics is changing and entering a new era. The advance of digitalization and technologization enables new business models, increased process efficiencies, novel planning approaches, and much more but, on the downside, there is also the risk of being lost in the maelstrom of...

Das Werk gibt einen Überblick über die Funktion der Logistik im Krankenhaus. Die Logistik und das Krankenhauswesen werden in ein Spannungsfeld zwischen betriebswirtschaftlicher und gesellschaftlicher Funktion eingeordnet. Die Grundlagen der Logistik werden anhand der funktionalen...

The proposed model for optimizing the logistics system of an enterprise using information technology. The motivation to build the model emphasizes the critical role that new information technologies play in significantly increasing the availability of data of a wide variety of types related to...

This paper presents the value proposition of blockchain for Port Community Systems (PCS) by dissecting the business processes in port logistics and unfolding functionalities of blockchain in lowering the transaction cost. This paper contributes to the research by a detailed technical assessment...

Nowadays, professionals in supply chain are overwhelmed by data, encouraging novel ideas about producing, analyzing and organizing data. Hence, this has provided a momentum for organizations to choose ideal data analytic functions such as big data, data science and predictive analytic functions...

Facing fierce competition from rivals, sellers in online marketplaces are eager to improve their sales by delivering items faster and more reliably. Because logistics quality can be known only after a transaction, sellers must identify effective ways to communicate logistics information to...

Through a structured literature review and an exploratory factor analysis, this thesis presents a conceptual framework with 6 key factors composed of 19 indicators, including government, consumer, company, product, operation and partnership, which affecting the development of e-logistics in...

Managers introducing new products with advanced component technologies frequently face the dual task of managing both revenues and profits. This task is made challenging, in part, due to the tendency of new technologies to traverse a sequentially downward path of gradually lowering costs and...

Through a structured literature review and an exploratory factor analysis, this thesis presents a conceptual framework with 6 key factors composed of 19 indicators, including government, consumer, company, product, operation and partnership, which affecting the development of e-logistics in...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify the impact of enterprise systems (ESs), in particular radio frequency identification (RFID) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, on supply chain management (SCM). The results of this conceptual paper demonstrate that ERP and RFID...

Collaboration on resource sharing advocates a joint usage of resources by multiple parties (actors) to attain mutual benefits. Resource sharing becomes vital when resources under consideration are scarce, challenging, and expensive to attain; as well when they are idle or underutilized. In...

This research paper addresses the long-standing question of how to train logistics employees in complex tasks like method-based routing. In former times, an in-depth formal qualification - usually academic - has been applied in order to qualify employees for this field of decision management in...

Logistics commands a huge variety of dynamic developments, driven by technological, organizational as well as market changes. In particular automation and ergonomics is seen as promising trends to tackle potentials for economical, eco-logical and social sustainability. The publication of this...

This paper investigates innovations in multimodal supply chains. It covers innovations in technology and IT, physical hardware and how supply chains are organised. It outlines direct and indirect impacts of these innovations, showing the ramifications for multimodality, the broader logistics...

The exponential growth of Information Technology (IT) with communication technology in Supply Chain Management (SCM) is playing critical role in optimising decisions of the supply chain network flow for achieving organisational competitiveness, improving higher service level, lowering inventory,...