Smart and Sustainable Logistics Systems: Sustainable Design and Management

Dear Colleagues,

Industrial logistics is a part of the supply chain and includes infrastructure, equipment, resources and operational strategies to manage the flow of products and related information. Logistics is, therefore, concerned with transportation management, goods storage, inventory management and order organization for on-time delivery in line with business strategies.

The supply chain, on the other hand, includes the entire lifecycle of a product: from the selection and purchase of raw materials, through processing/production to delivery to the end customer and after-sales service.

The effectiveness of process optimization is closely related to the integration of logistics into the entire supply chain.

Although the literature has discussed various ways to increase the effectiveness of a single company that is a part of the network system, it fails to capture a holistic view of the supply chain network. To analyze this topic, systematic literature reviews (SLRs) are needed to obtain comprehensive coverage and analysis of the related literature. As a result, these SLR could be used to identify the most interesting publications, the authors involved and techniques to investigate in the near future. We are interested in understanding whether there is a well-defined resilience framework; whether there are procedures to assess or measure the resilience capabilities of a supply chain; what modeling and simulation techniques are in use; and what should be investigated in the near future.

Suggested themes:

• Supply chain management decision-making and strategies;
• Simulation modeling to manage scenario analysis;
• Reverse logistics operations;
• Operational sustainability;
• Environmental and energy impacts;
• Social impacts;
• Economic effects of network strategies;
• Modeling and Simulation.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Elpidio Romano
Dr. Andrea Falegnami
Guest Editors

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• supply chain management tools
• modeling and simulation
• system dynamics modeling
• supply chain resiliency
• closed-loop supply chain
• reverse logistics
• sustainable and efficient supply chain
• pull management logistics