Omni-channel retailing changes the distribution structures of retail companies. Integrating existing facilities, resources and processes may hold advantages regarding customer satisfaction and shopping convenience, as well as logistical efficiency, but are complex in the implementation. Since...

Global supply chains are becoming increasingly complex with many players involved, reducing visibility and control of commodity flows. The majority of worldwide goods flows are distributed by sea, which means that ever greater vessels and ever greater ports play a central role in Supply Chain...

Omni-channel retailing changes the distribution structures of retail companies. Integrating existing facilities, resources and processes may hold advantages regarding customer satisfaction and shopping convenience, as well as logistical efficiency, but are complex in the implementation. Since...

Global supply chains are becoming increasingly complex with many players involved, reducing visibility and control of commodity flows. The majority of worldwide goods flows are distributed by sea, which means that ever greater vessels and ever greater ports play a central role in Supply Chain...

From a supply chain management point of view, the flow of goods in a supply chain can be viewed as a network of goods-exchanging actors (Carter, Ellram, and Tate, 2007; Gomm, and Trumpfheller, 2004). While supply chain management activities include requirements-planning and the ordering of goods in...

Disruptive innovations are currently changing the landscape of many industries and their business models. Because of increasingly digitalized processes and an exponential growth of sensible data, supply chains are also impacted by the fourth industrial revolution. The strategic management...