This research paper observes the sector of humanitarian logistics as this field becomes very important in business science and business practice in the future. For decades poverty, war and natural disasters have increased. The deteriorating humanitarian situation leads to a growth of annual...

The purpose of this research is to provide the humanitarian logistics community with an overall picture about competencies and skills in humanitarian logistics and if there is a lack of professionalization of the logistics function in the humanitarian context from an international perspective....

Logistics qualification is a core area for increased performance, efficiency, flexibility and sustainability in global supply chains – with industry and retail companies as well as with logistics service providers. Albeit the question of how to structure and measure logistics qualification has...

The purpose of this research is to investige the impact of the demographic change on the logistics industry in Germany. In order to explore this with a better understanding of the impacts of demographic change on the overall competence situation in Germany, a simulation based on a competence...

This research contribution delivers an approach for the materials management in humanitarian logistics with the help of ABC- and XYZ-analysis which is widespread in the industrial praxis. Based on the increase of the number of disasters caused by humans and nature and on the high volume of...

In order to provide a sustainable handling of increasing freight traffic, there is a need for the minimization of the central problems of air and noise pollution and especially the emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide. This is especially true for the wholesale sector since it is one...

Due to the complexity of the business as well as humanitarian supply chain structure the interest of collaboration significantly increased. Collaboration in supply chains is fundamental to gain success, to share information as well as risks, to reduce costs and to increase customer satisfaction....

This paper presents results from an expert survey regarding logistics trends in accordance to a trend classification system. A special focus is put on rail traffic as this transport mode is experiencing a “renaissance” in recent trend development and interesting new organisation systems such...

This paper presents the proposed trend development of new technologies and organisational concepts in the logistics services sector. A structure for classifying such trends is proposed in order to provide overall understanding of basic developments in logistics. From this industry specific...