Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chains: Innovations and Integral Approaches (Contributions to Management Science)

This book addresses the main challenges affecting modern logistics and supply chains, and is organized according to five main themes: supply chain strategy and management, information and communication technology (ICT) for logistics and related business models, vertical and horizontal collaboration, intelligent hubs (e.g. ports and cities), and policy for sustainable logistics. The key findings presented are based on both extensive research and on business cases. The book examines logistics from a comprehensive viewpoint embracing the entire supply chain. The overarching advanced logistics and supply chain concept at the heart of this book endeavors to contribute to a sustainable intelligent transport system by making it more efficient, cost-effective, safe, reliable and competitive. Specifically, the book focuses on the need for a variety of supply chain, logistics and transport options, on the potential offered by technological developments, infrastructural and organizational aspects, information flows, the financial and legal domain, harmonization and the complexity of implementation. In closing, the book presents new approaches to the coordination of sound business and governance models Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Logistics Trends, Challenges, and Needs for Further Research and Innovation....Pages 1-13 Business Models for Advanced ICT in Logistics....Pages 15-51 Future-Proofing Supply Chains....Pages 53-73 Gain Sharing in Horizontal Logistic Co-operation: A Case Study in the Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Sector....Pages 75-89 Scheduling Serial Locks: A Green Wave for Waterbound Logistics....Pages 91-109 Supply Chain Network Design: Tackling Regulations, Lead Time and Cost-Efficiency....Pages 111-129 Urban Logistics: Multi-modal Transportation Network Design Accounting for Stochastic Passenger Demand and Freight Logistics....Pages 131-148 Tango Without the Dancefloor? The Forgotten Role of the Public Sector on Logistics....Pages 149-162 Towards a Harmonized Framework for Calculating Logistics Carbon Footprint....Pages 163-181 Back Matter....Pages 183-185