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Sustainable Management and Application of E-Logistics

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2022) | Viewed by 23385

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Dr. Dimitris K. Folinas

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Department of Supply Chain Management, International Hellenic University, Thermi, Greece
Interests: logistics and supply chain management; logistics and supply chain management technologies and systems
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Dear Colleagues,

According to OptinMonster, 93.5% of global internet users have purchased products online. Nasdaq’s, annual report estimates that by the year 2040, 95% of all purchases will be through e-commerce. However, in the United States, e-commerce accounts for 16.1% of retail sales. Rising e-commerce sales have led to an increase in logistical costs, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19.9% through 2020. Currently, e-commerce logistical costs account for about 9.9% of the total logistical costs in the United States.

It is well known that logistics is the key success factor of e-commerce. Most of the reports during the last decade identified logistics and supply chain management problems as the biggest problems and challenges of e-commerce. During the last year, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced e-commerce to broaden its horizons to include new companies, new products, such as fresh groceries, and new consumer segments (even our parents and grandparents are shopping online). As a result, the last-mile delivery, online-to-offline (O2O), and fresh food delivery capabilities for retailers, e-commerce platforms, and third-party logistics (3PL) providers have seen rapid development and growth. (E-commerce is the fastest-growing 3PL market segment.) 

Furthermore, the adoption of the Internet technologies and practices as the main platform for trading and cooperation between companies allows:

  • The creation of new business models that extends beyond the management of business resources between customers, suppliers, and other partners (intermediaries or even competitors) in the world market. It relies on both external networks which expand the boundaries of the business beyond the organization and provides communication capabilities between supply chain members.
  • The collaborative implementation of business processes with the partners at all levels (production planning, procurement, warehouse selection, inventory management, coordination of distribution activities, product promotion, and customer service).
  • The creation of dynamic business networks that focus on the development of key skills and collaborate through advanced networks, even in a virtual environment, for the joint and immediate design of products, their joint production, and their dissemination to the market.

Based on the above, the Special Issue “Sustainable Management and Application of e-Logistics” aims to present the new business models and the e-commerce approaches in the management of logistics processes that will improve supply chain networks.

Authors are cordially invited to submit original research papers, review articles, and empirical studies. Manuscripts or papers on the following topics are welcomed:

Authors are cordially invited to submit original research papers, review articles, and empirical studies. Manuscripts or papers can be submitted on the following topics:

  • E-Logistics and e-Supply chain management
  • New emerging business models
  • e-Commerce logistics providers
  • e-Procurement, blockchain and smart contracts
  • e-logistics during crisis
  • Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) fulfillment
  • Mobile logistics
  • Internet of Things and Internet of Everything
  • Big data and artificial intelligence
  • SaaS and cloud computing in aupply chain networks
  • Autonomous vehicles, robots, drones for product deliveries
  • Simulation and modeling (digital twins)

Dr. Dimitris K. Folinas
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • logistics and supply chain management
  • e-logistics / e-business
  • supply chain integration
  • supply chain information systems
  • logistics information systems and technologies
  • enterprise information systems
  • virtual enterprises

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Internet of Things based Decision Support System for Green Logistics
by Sobhi Mejjaouli
Sustainability 2022, 14(22), 14756; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142214756 - 09 Nov 2022
Cited by 7 | Viewed by 1677
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This work proposes an IoT-based Real-Time Decision Support System for Perishable Products. The proposed system collects data during the transportation process and will interfere in the case of failure. Three different simulation models corresponding to different configurations and mitigation plans are built. The [...] Read more.
This work proposes an IoT-based Real-Time Decision Support System for Perishable Products. The proposed system collects data during the transportation process and will interfere in the case of failure. Three different simulation models corresponding to different configurations and mitigation plans are built. The simulation models consider decisions such as stopping transportation and rerouting shipments to minimize losses in case of failure. The three different supply chain simulation models are implemented through a case study that considers transporting a perishable fruit in the intercontinental United States. A financial and environmental analysis is conducted to show the benefits of the proposed system. Full article
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From Public E-Procurement 3.0 to E-Procurement 4.0; A Critical Literature Review
by Aristotelis Mavidis and Dimitris Folinas
Sustainability 2022, 14(18), 11252; https://doi.org/10.3390/su141811252 - 08 Sep 2022
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Public procurement is an important part of public finances; therefore, its management is challenging for the quality of the citizen’s relationship with the public authorities. Existing electronic public procurement optimization tools are systematically attempting to standardize procedures by improving access to information and [...] Read more.
Public procurement is an important part of public finances; therefore, its management is challenging for the quality of the citizen’s relationship with the public authorities. Existing electronic public procurement optimization tools are systematically attempting to standardize procedures by improving access to information and transparency in management. Nevertheless, the next day requires the definition of the transition to modern tools and technologies of the fourth industrial revolution. This study attempts to identify common and additional critical success factors from implementing e-procurement in the 3.0 and 4.0 eras. Identifying the key challenges will be the basis for the roadmap plan suitable for maximizing the achievement of new public management in Industry 4.0. Full article
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Effects of Sustainable Development of the Logistics Industry by Cloud Operational System
by Wen-Hsiang Yu and Chuang-Chun Chiou
Sustainability 2022, 14(16), 10440; https://doi.org/10.3390/su141610440 - 22 Aug 2022
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This study explores the relationship between cloud platforms, logistics operations, and sustainable development across organizational boundaries. In the past research of scholars, there is a blank area in research on the correlation between cloud platform systems, logistics services, and sustainable development. Therefore, we [...] Read more.
This study explores the relationship between cloud platforms, logistics operations, and sustainable development across organizational boundaries. In the past research of scholars, there is a blank area in research on the correlation between cloud platform systems, logistics services, and sustainable development. Therefore, we took international logistics as an example, selected the customers of a cloud logistics platform in the Taiwan business network as the research object, conducted a sample survey on customers in their partner transactions, and used a structured questionnaire to collect primary data through the Internet, sending out 620 questionnaires with a total of 271 valid samples recovered. The recovery rate of good models was 43.7%. This study used SPSS and AMOS tools to analyze and test the research hypotheses. Through the empirical research results, it was found that: (1) the cloud platform was highly correlated with sustainable enterprise development (0.254); (2) the cloud platform was positively associated with logistics operations (0.837); and (3) the cloud platform, logistics operations, and organizational sustainability highly correlated (0.666). According to an empirical analysis, environmental protection proved to be the most important, followed by economic benefits, and social harmony benefits were slightly less correlated but also positively correlated. Our research found that the research and analysis of cloud-platform-related data are conducive to reducing operational risks and increasing opportunities for innovative service models. Using the service model operated by the cloud logistics platform, it is easier for enterprises to establish and maintain stable cooperative relations with external partners. Supply chain information transactions are transparent, and novel ideas and needs can be easily and quickly obtained, improving managers’ decision-making and business performances, significantly improving customer service satisfaction, and gradually achieving sustainable development in the three dimensions of economy, society, and environment, as well as making critical academic contributions to application and integration in environmental and social fields. Full article
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Prioritizing the Solutions to Reverse Logistics Barriers for the E-Commerce Industry in Pakistan Based on a Fuzzy AHP-TOPSIS Approach
by Muhammad Hamza Naseem, Jiaqi Yang and Ziquan Xiang
Sustainability 2021, 13(22), 12743; https://doi.org/10.3390/su132212743 - 18 Nov 2021
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In the past few years, reverse logistics practices have successfully managed to gain more attention in various industries and among supply chain researchers and experts. This is due to globalization, environmental concerns, and customer requirements, which have asserted industries’ concerns for reverse logistics [...] Read more.
In the past few years, reverse logistics practices have successfully managed to gain more attention in various industries and among supply chain researchers and experts. This is due to globalization, environmental concerns, and customer requirements, which have asserted industries’ concerns for reverse logistics management. In E-commerce, the process of reverse logistics originates with parcel refusal, undelivered goods, and exchanges. In developing countries like Pakistan, the adoption and implications of reverse logistics are still at their early stages. E-commerce companies give more attention to forward logistics and ignore logistics’ upstream flow in the supply chain. This study aims to identify, as well as list, the barriers and obtain the solutions to those identified barriers, and rank the barriers and their solutions so that logisticians and experts can solve them as per their priority. From the extensive literature review and experts’ opinions, we have found 14 barriers in implementing effective reverse logistics. Eight solutions to those barriers were also found from the literature review. This paper proposed the methodology based on fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (fuzzy-AHP), which used to get the weights of each barrier by using pairwise comparison, and fuzzy technique for order performance by similarity to ideal solution (fuzzy-TOPSIS) method, which was adopted for the final ranking of solutions to reverse logistics. The case of the Pakistan E-commerce industry is used in the proposed method. Full article
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An Augmented Reality Symbiosis Software Tool for Sustainable Logistics Activities
by Vasileios Sidiropoulos, Dimitrios Bechtsis and Dimitrios Vlachos
Sustainability 2021, 13(19), 10929; https://doi.org/10.3390/su131910929 - 30 Sep 2021
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Augmented Reality (AR) is an emerging technology in the Industry 4.0 and Logistics 4.0 contexts with an important role in man–machine symbiosis scenarios. Practitioners, although already acquainted with AR technology, are reluctant to adopt AR applications in industrial operations. This stems from the [...] Read more.
Augmented Reality (AR) is an emerging technology in the Industry 4.0 and Logistics 4.0 contexts with an important role in man–machine symbiosis scenarios. Practitioners, although already acquainted with AR technology, are reluctant to adopt AR applications in industrial operations. This stems from the fact that a direct connection that is important for the management of sustainability goals is missing. Moreover, such a connection with economic, social, and environmental sustainability parameters sparsely appears in the AR literature. The proposed research, on one hand, presents an innovative architecture for a stable and scalable AR application that extents state-of-the-art solutions and, on the other hand, attempts to study AR technology within the framework of a sustainable business strategy. The developed system utilizes the Robot Operating System (ROS) alongside an AR mobile application to present an employee navigation scenario in warehouses and production lines. ROS is responsible for mapping the industrial facility, while the AR mobile application identifies the surrounding environment, along with a Real-Time Location System localizes employees in the facility. Finally, ROS identifies the shortest path between the employee and the destination point, while the AR mobile application presents the virtual path for reaching the destination. Full article
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Role of Industry 4.0 in Supply Chains Sustainability: A Systematic Literature Review
by Muhammad Hamza Naseem and Jiaqi Yang
Sustainability 2021, 13(17), 9544; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13179544 - 25 Aug 2021
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Industry 4.0 and supply chain 4.0 are hot topics in the current business and technological era. This paper provides a literature review, past and current insights, and knowledge of supply chain 4.0 and Industry 4.0 in the context of sustainability. Literature shows that [...] Read more.
Industry 4.0 and supply chain 4.0 are hot topics in the current business and technological era. This paper provides a literature review, past and current insights, and knowledge of supply chain 4.0 and Industry 4.0 in the context of sustainability. Literature shows that Industry 4.0 has a significant impact on the sustainability of the supply chain network. This paper also explains the different technologies of Industry 4.0, contributing to the sustainability of the supply chain in business. A total of 55 papers are reviewed in this study. We proposed a framework that identifies the effect of Industry 4.0 technologies on the supply chain. This research study used the systematic literature review methodology in Industry 4.0 and supply chain sustainability. The data was collected from (ScienceDirect, IEEE Xplore, and Google Scholar) databases. The Prisma framework was used to select articles for this study and only journal papers were selected for reviewing the literature. This study’s uniqueness concerns its integration of the two independent subjects (Industry 4.0 and supply chain sustainability) to develop the framework explaining the effects of the technologies of Industry 4.0 on supply chain sustainability. Moreover, this research extends the existing knowledge of current fields. Full article
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