Sustainability trends are to be found in logistics today as green logistics or product - respectively company - carbon footprints. Within this evolving field of logistics several research areas are developing such as CO2 measurement standardization, integrated management concepts and process...

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...

Today industrial enterprises are confronted with an increasing trend to focus on their core capabilities. By outsourcing certain activities to logistics providers or suppliers a company has the possibility to create a lean organization and decrease fixed costs. As a result supply chains gain...

Paper No 4 in the KCL series on logistics research presents the upcoming RFID technology with all the specific methods and attached advantages as well as disadvantages. For most companies sooner or later RFID will be a topic in adjusting logistics processes and equipment - be it due to supplier...

In the field of marketing, pricing is a valuable and long-established steering tool. But in the logistics context of co-operative strategies like supply chain management, this field is mainly neglected. Therefore, the author describes the basic principles and effects of price differentiation and...

The technology of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is one of the major developments in logistics and supply chain management enhancing transparency for all partners in global transport processes. This paper aims at the basic description of core elements and success factors of this...

Human resource development is a challenge in logistics, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises. The development towards Web 2.0 and in touch the development to e-learning 2.0 offers a chance to educate employees on-the-job. The keywords in this context are 'personal learning...

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...

Business Development traditionally has an incorporated focus on marketing and marketing models as well as marketing competencies among business development managers. However, the discussed case studies results and trends in business and market behaviour point to the fact that in the future only...