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Digital Logistics

A special issue of Logistics (ISSN 2305-6290).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2017) | Viewed by 86710

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Noel P. Greis

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Poole College of Management, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
Interests: supply chain management; logistics systems design and analysis; digital logistics, logistics technology; data/predictive analytics; decision support systems; Internet-of-Things/Industry 4.0; logistics platforms
Dr. Linning Cai

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Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Interests: intelligent logistics; transportation and logistics system design; logistics technology; logistics platforms; vehicle routing problem; supply chain management
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

It is our great pleasure to invite you to submit an article for a high-profile Special Issue on “Digital Logistics” to be published in Logistics.

Organizations are harnessing new digital technologies and new sources of data—from big data to social media—to rethink how they design, develop and deliver their products and services to their customers. In turn, logistics is being challenged to recognize the growing convergence of logistics practice and digital technology. At its core, digital logistics embodies electronic connectivity of logistics stakeholders, leveraging real-time data to provide visibility across the logistics network, and moving to paperless processes and digital models. Increasingly, it also includes the integration of new technologies from sensors and wireless communications to robots and 3D printing. 

Digital logistics is being enabled by new cyberinfrastructure referred to as the Internet of-Things or Industry 4.0—and also referred to as the third wave of the Internet revolution. The first wave, the desktop Internet revolution in the 1990s, enabled tools like Electronic Data Interchange to provide connectivity between logistics providers and their customers. The introduction of the mobile Web in the 2000s provided virtual access to enterprise logistics applications and enabled tracking of products across global logistics networks and supply chains.  Today’s Internet-of-Things incorporates smart devices, sensors and the cloud to allow unprecedented and direct integration of the physical world into computer-based systems to transform traditional logistics processes. 

The goal of this Special Issue on “Digital Logistics” is to capture the current and future impact of these technologies on logistics performance. Digital logistics offers tremendous potential to improve productivity and customer-responsiveness. Real-time monitoring systems are allowing immediate and dynamic response to logistics events.  New digital tools are reducing energy consumption and transport emissions.  And the integration of new sensor technologies with mobile technologies is stimulating the introduction of new logistics products and services. This Special Issue responds to the critical imperative for better understanding of both the theoretical and practical implications brought about by this new wave of digital innovation on logistics.

SI Best paper award (300 CHF) will be selected from this SI.

Prof. Noel Greis
Prof. Linning Cai
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Logistics is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Digital logistics and supply chain
  • Logistics Innovation
  • Supply chain visibility
  • Sensors, big data and analytics for logistics
  • Internet-of-Things and logistics
  • Automated warehousing
  • Intelligent transport systems
  • Digital logistics ecosystem
  • Logistics information systems
  • Blockchain technology
  • Autonomous vehicles and drones
  • Digital logistics platforms
  • E-Commerce platforms
  • Augmented reality and wearable technologies
  • Sharing economy
  • Digital logistics applications in retail, manufacturing, and other industries

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The Supply Chain Has No Clothes: Technology Adoption of Blockchain for Supply Chain Transparency
by Kristoffer Francisco and David Swanson
Logistics 2018, 2(1), 2; https://doi.org/10.3390/logistics2010002 - 05 Jan 2018
Cited by 407 | Viewed by 56115
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Blockchain technology, popularized by Bitcoin cryptocurrency, is characterized as an open-source, decentralized, distributed database for storing transaction information. Rather than relying on centralized intermediaries (e.g., banks) this technology allows two parties to transact directly using duplicate, linked ledgers called blockchains. This makes transactions [...] Read more.
Blockchain technology, popularized by Bitcoin cryptocurrency, is characterized as an open-source, decentralized, distributed database for storing transaction information. Rather than relying on centralized intermediaries (e.g., banks) this technology allows two parties to transact directly using duplicate, linked ledgers called blockchains. This makes transactions considerably more transparent than those provided by centralized systems. As a result, transactions are executed without relying on explicit trust [of a third party], but on the distributed trust based on the consensus of the network (i.e., other blockchain users). Applying this technology to improve supply chain transparency has many possibilities. Every product has a long and storied history. However, much of this history is presently obscured. Often, when negative practices are exposed, they quickly escalate to scandalous, and financially crippling proportions. There are many recent examples, such as the exposure of child labor upstream in the manufacturing process and the unethical use of rainforest resources. Blockchain may bring supply chain transparency to a new level, but presently academic and managerial adoption of blockchain technologies is limited by our understanding. To address this issue, this research uses the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) and the concept of technology innovation adoption as a foundational framework for supply chain traceability. A conceptual model is developed and the research culminates with supply chain implications of blockchain that are inspired by theory and literature review. Full article
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Third-Party Logistics Providers in the Digital Age: Towards a New Competitive Arena?
by Erik Hofmann and Florin Osterwalder
Logistics 2017, 1(2), 9; https://doi.org/10.3390/logistics1020009 - 04 Nov 2017
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This paper looks at the impact of digitalization on third-party logistics (3PL) business models. An eclectic framework for the analysis of digital disruptions in service industries is elaborated by linking Porter’s five forces to insights from research on digitalization and innovation. Applying this [...] Read more.
This paper looks at the impact of digitalization on third-party logistics (3PL) business models. An eclectic framework for the analysis of digital disruptions in service industries is elaborated by linking Porter’s five forces to insights from research on digitalization and innovation. Applying this framework to the business field of 3PL reveals that logistics service providers face significant digital hardship from new technologies such as autonomous vehicles and 3D printing as well as from platform-based business models and the sharing economy. We see the following changes in the competitive arena: First, 3PLs focusing on standard services may lose significant market share in the near future. Second, management-related 3PL activities seem to be increasingly offered by new external competitors, which may downgrade 3PLs to simple forwarders. Third, digitalization enables the forward or backward integration of 3PL customers and suppliers when they establish their own services. In addition to its threats, the opportunities of digitalization for 3PLs are discussed. These include the customization of standardized logistics services, the provision of cloud logistics services, platform-based asset and logistics infrastructure sharing, the “physical internet” as a future transportation system and the adoption and integration of 3D printing into existing 3PL business models. Full article
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