Smart Logistics and Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2019) | Viewed by 24874
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Interests: logistics management and supply chain; facility location; operation management
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Interests: sustainability, smart logistics, supply chain management
Interests: air transport management and policy; supply chain management
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the rapid development of big data, cloud computing, Internet of things, and artificial intelligence, more and more new technologies have been introduced into logistics, such as logistics robots, the Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV), Kiva, the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), the unmanned warehouse, and the unmanned distribution centre; accordingly, logistics has become more intelligent and more automated. Additionally, operations and decision-making in logistics needs little or no manpower.
Besides new technologies, smart logistics has new management philosophies, e.g., part to picker, anticipatory logistics or prejudgement delivery, and online learning decision-making; it also has new application scenarios, such as smart warehousing (a preposing warehouse), which produces many new problems and new challenges, such as warehousing optimization; transportation optimization; and distribution optimization, such as the vehicle routing problem of AGV and the optimal deployment of mobile-ranks.
Operations modes in smart logistics change, including packaging, reverse logistics, stocking, order picking, routing, and others. All these are closely related to sustainability. The purpose of this Special Issue (SI) is to publish high-quality analytical papers addressing emerging sustainability issues arising in the smart logistics, producing significant findings that facilitate the decision-making processes of individual consumers and E-business companies. Original and high-quality research fitting the SI’s theme that is neither published nor currently under review by any other journal is welcome. Papers selected for this Special Issue will be subject to a peer-review procedure.
Prof. Dr. Guowei Hua
Prof. Dr. T.C.Edwin Cheng
Mr. Liming He
Prof. Dr. Martin Dresner
Prof. Dr. Mingke He
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- smart logistics
- sustainability
- Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV)
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
- anticipatory logistics
- carbon emission
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