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...

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...

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...

Internet technology has been adopted for multiple applications like e-government, e-learning, and e-commerce. It founds out that e-commerce provides advantages. For instance, flexibility and efficiency are some which can be achieved by e-commerce. However, this has disadvantages such as frauds...

Courier, express, and parcel (CEP) services represent one of the most challenging and dynamic sectors of the logistics industry. Companies of this sector must solve several challenges to keep up with the rapid changes in the market. In this context, the introduction of autonomous delivery using...

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...

The Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems (RMFS) is a new type of robotized, parts-to-picker material handling system, designed especially for e-commerce warehouses. Robots bring movable shelves, called pods, to workstations where inventory is put on or removed from the pods. This paper simulates...

Purpose: European Logistics is characterized by a matured infrastructure. Nevertheless, industry has to catch up in terms of digitalized and autonomous transport. The awareness-rising of industrial companies in this area is still limited. Therefore, the paper includes a research in order to find...

Cover -- Guest editorial -- Towards a taxonomy of crowdsourced delivery business models -- Crowd-shipping for urban food rescue logistics -- Last-mile logistics in sharing economy: sustainability paradoxes -- Exploring shippers' motivations to adopt collaborative truck-sharing initiatives.

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...

Using the methodology of Hou and Moskowitz (2005), we develop a new measure of the speed of information diffusion along the supply chain. Using this measure, we find evidence that information diffuses more quickly when key market participants are less subject to limited attention constraints....

This research is an effort to present the emergence of ways to enable marketers to attain high sensitivity and visibility in the supply chain network. It also aims to facilitate better multi-criteria decisions throughout the extended supply chain. It is a qualitative study considering 31...

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...