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Big Data Driven Smart Logistics and Sustainable Supply Chain

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

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 April 2023) | Viewed by 2923

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1. School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
2. School of Economics and Management, Chang’an University, Xi’an 710064, China
Interests: big data decision-making; smart transportation management; hazardous materials; transportation management
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College of Management and Economics, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
Interests: sustainable operations management; supply chain finance; service operations management

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Dear Colleagues,

Big data provides unprecedented opportunities for the development of logistics and sustainable supply chains. Taking full advantage of big data, we can make more informed decision and management choices, e.g., improving energy efficiency, reducing carbon emissions, enhancing supply chain value, and more. Logistics and sustainable supply chains have been at the forefront of utilizing and implementing big data. Machine intelligence and blockchain technologies have already been applied in this area.

A quick Web of Science search on logistics and sustainable supply chain clearly demonstrates a rapid and steady growth in the area, as demonstrated in Figure 1:

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Figure 1. The number of publications related to logistics and sustainable supply chain.

There have been a significant number of publications in the area, however there is a lack of focused material that brings together recent advancements in logistics and sustainable supply chains in the era of big data.

The aim of this Special Issue is to explore state-of-the-art operational research and management science developments, to embrace big data applications to tackle established and emerging challenges in the smart logistics and sustainable supply chain field, and to further promote the efficiency and sustainability of logistics and supply chain systems. In this context, systematic reviews, case studies, mathematical and simulation models that emphasize the management, assessment and optimization of Big Data Driven Smart Logistics and Sustainable Supply Chain are invited for submission.

Prof. Dr. Xiang Li
Prof. Dr. Yanfei Lan
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Keywords

  • big data
  • smart logistics
  • sustainable supply chain management
  • traffic transportation management
  • risk management in sustainable supply chains
  • innovation in sustainable supply chains
  • energy efficiency
  • emission reduction
  • smart business models

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Joint Optimization of Battery Swapping Scheduling for Electric Taxis
by Zilong Zhao, Daxin Tian, Xuting Duan and Randong Xiao
Sustainability 2023, 15(18), 13722; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151813722 - 14 Sep 2023
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Electric taxis are of great benefit to reduce urban polluting gas emissions. Currently, there is a problem of uneven utilization among charging stations in the battery swapping activities of electric taxis, resulting in long battery swapping times for some taxis, which seriously affects [...] Read more.
Electric taxis are of great benefit to reduce urban polluting gas emissions. Currently, there is a problem of uneven utilization among charging stations in the battery swapping activities of electric taxis, resulting in long battery swapping times for some taxis, which seriously affects operational efficiency. This study examines the real-time joint scheduling of electric taxis for battery swapping. The expense due to battery swapping for each electric taxi was measured as the sum of driving duration before battery swapping, queuing and operating duration during battery swapping, and cruising duration after battery swapping; to our knowledge, these have not been combined in the existing literature. A mathematical model was proposed with the objective of minimizing the total expense of all electric taxis, subject to the battery state-of-charge (SoC) constraint. The proposed model was transformed into a mixed-integer linear program and solved to global optimality by CPLEX. Numerical results validated the performance of our methodology. The results indicate that our proposed methodology can save total expenses by up to 7.61%. Full article
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Green R&D Financing Strategy in Platform Supply Chain with Data-Driven Marketing
by Yanfei Xia, Quan Guo, Hao Sun, Ke Li and Zongyu Mu
Sustainability 2022, 14(15), 9172; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14159172 - 26 Jul 2022
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Platform enterprises can improve green R&D efficiency by data-driven marketing (DDM) activities and can also provide financing assistance to manufacturers. In this context, for a platform supply chain consisting of one manufacturer facing a shortage of green R&D funds and a one third-party [...] Read more.
Platform enterprises can improve green R&D efficiency by data-driven marketing (DDM) activities and can also provide financing assistance to manufacturers. In this context, for a platform supply chain consisting of one manufacturer facing a shortage of green R&D funds and a one third-party platform, this paper develops four game models under two financing channels (bank financing channel and platform financing channel) and two selling modes (agency selling mode and reselling mode). The equilibrium results of different models are derived and compared, and then the choices of selling mode and financing channel from the perspectives of both the manufacturer and the platform are analyzed. The conclusions show that the consumers’ sensitivities to green R&D and DDM activities, as well as service commission fee, are major factors influencing green R&D level and both parties’ choice of selling mode and financing channel. In most cases, a platform financing channel can promote the green R&D level better and is more beneficial to the manufacturer and the platform. Only in a few cases, the two parties prefer the reselling mode and bank financing channel. However, agent selling with bank financing will never be their optimal strategy. There exists four situations in which the manufacturer and the platform can agree on a same strategy on selling mode and financing channel. Full article
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