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...

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 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....

[Zielsetzung] Ziel dieses Beitrages ist es zu zeigen, welchen Beitrag die Implementierung der Kontraktlogistik in der humanitären Hilfe leisten kann. Dabei erfolgt eine Abgrenzung der kommerziellen Kontraktlogistik zu der gemeinnützigen Kontraktlogistik. Ferner sollen die folgenden...

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...

This paper describes the main elements of Efficient Consumer Response (ECR), a modern logistics concept. Further, the implementation of a new picking system within the framework of ECR is discussed and exemplified in a practical retail case. As a result, the authors show that already the...

In this paper the general concept of Supply Chain Management (SCM) is described and the scientific cooperation models in the supply chain are discussed. Though there are several models to explain cooperations there is no clear perspective on the needed competencies in companies to shape a...

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...