Moderne Supply Chain (SC)-Konzepte sind durch den Versuch gekennzeichnet, Lagerbestände weitestgehend zu minieren und gleichzeitig Flexibilität und Zuverlässigkeit zu erhöhen. Dabei werden die Beschaffungs-, Produktions- und Distributionskonzepte verladender Unternehmen sowie von Zulieferern...

Purpose: A wide range of customer relationships, services and organizational interfaces characterizes inland intermodal terminals, which are hubs of combined transport. The purposes of this paper are twofold. The first is to highlight challenges of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) at the...

This paper investigates innovations in multimodal supply chains. It covers innovations in technology and IT, physical hardware and how supply chains are organised. It outlines direct and indirect impacts of these innovations, showing the ramifications for multimodality, the broader logistics...

This paper describes approaches in intermodal supply chain management that aim to balance efficiency with sustainability requirements set by firms' corporate social responsibility commitments and society more generally. It explores how accreditation systems can help support green logistics...

In 2013 Chinese government unveiled one of the biggest transport plan schemes worldwide: the One Belt One Road (OBOR) strategy, now called the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This scheme includes the development of a group of specific transport and logistics corridors that encompass three...

In transportation via containers, unbalanced movement of loaded containers forces shipping companies to reposition empty containers. This study addresses the problem of empty container repositioning (ECR) in the distribution network of a European logistics company, where some restrictions impose...