The International Journal of Logistics Management: Volume 33 Issue 5

Logistics service providers' energy efficiency initiatives for environmental sustainability

Jessica Wehner, Naghmeh Taghavi Nejad Deilami, Ceren Altuntas Vural, Árni Halldórsson

This paper discusses logistics service providers' (LSPs’) energy efficiency initiatives for sustainable development, both from an evolutionary perspective and based on a framework…

Exploring supply chain issues affecting food access and security among urban poor in South Africa

Virva Tuomala, David B. Grant

Access to food through retail supply chain distribution can vary significantly among the urban poor and leads to household food insecurity. The paper explores this sustainable…

Construction logistics in urban development projects – learning from, or repeating, past mistakes of city logistics?

Mats Janné, Anna Fredriksson

The construction industry is reluctant to utilize construction logistics centres (CLC). To understand why, the purpose of the study is to increase the understanding of drivers and…

Learning-based dynamic capabilities in closed-loop supply chains: an expert study

Ilkka Ritola, Harold Krikke, Marjolein C.J. Caniëls

Product returns information gives firms an opportunity for continuous strategic adaptation by allowing them to understand the reasons for product returns, learning from them and…

Transport in supply networks

Victor Eriksson, Anna Dubois, Kajsa Hulthén

The purpose of the paper is to analyse how transport activities are embedded in supply chains and networks.

The transformation from manual to smart warehousing: an exploratory study with Swedish retailers

Joakim Kembro, Andreas Norrman

To meet customers' expectations on shorter lead times, high product availability, flexibility, and variation in delivery and return options, retailers have turned their attention…

Identification and analysis of adoption barriers of disruptive technologies in the logistics industry

Bhawana Rathore, Rohit Gupta, Baidyanath Biswas, Abhishek Srivastava, Shubhi Gupta

Recently, disruptive technologies (DTs) have proposed several innovative applications in managing logistics and promise to transform the entire logistics sector drastically…

Theorizing the impact of network characteristics on multitier sustainable supply chain governance: a power perspective

Tim Gruchmann

While the literature on multitier supply chain management traditionally assumes that first-tier suppliers belong to the visible proportion of the supply base, intermediaries might…

Logistics 4.0 in warehousing: a conceptual framework of influencing factors, benefits and barriers

Sara Perotti, Roman Felipe Bastidas Santacruz, Peik Bremer, Jakob Emanuel Beer

In the last decade, the Industry 4.0 paradigm had started to rapidly expand to the logistics domain. However, Logistics 4.0 is still in an early adoption stage: some areas such as…

Lean and agile supply chain strategies: the role of mature and emerging information technologies

Diessica de Oliveira-Dias, Juan Manuel Maqueira Marín, José Moyano-Fuentes

The significant changes that supply chains (SCs) are undergoing and the emergence of disruptive technologies have led to a growing effort to integrate novel and mature…

Sustainability practices disclosure of top logistics firms in Australia

Akshay Jadhav, Shams Rahman, Kamrul Ahsan

This study explores the scope, materiality and extent of environmental and social sustainability disclosure – as benchmarked against the Global Reporting Initiatives (GRI-G4) – of…

Blockchain technology implementation challenges in supply chains – evidence from the case studies of multi-stakeholders

Aswini Yadlapalli, Shams Rahman, Pinapala Gopal

The aim of the research is to identify and prioritise the implementation challenges of blockchain technology and suggests ways for its implementation in supply chains.