Purpose: To meet rapidly changing requirements and increasing product complexity, a growing number of traditional companies and startups increases their agility by using agile methods. The logistics industry in particular is known to be a comparatively slow adapter to changes in general, but...

Purpose: New technical solutions in logistics change the ways of working within warehouses on different levels, from warehouse layouts and concepts of goods picking to process planning and human resources. Thus, disrupting the previous practice in its core. Methodology: In order to evaluate the...

Purpose: Active product life cycle management contributes to supply chain optimization. However, in nowadays industry the high number of variants and backward loops complicate tracing the entire product lifecycle in an ERP system. Consequently, product lifecycle and corresponding...

Purpose: Exoskeletons are robotic devices worn on the human body which mechanically support the operator's muscle skeleton. This study answers the following research question: Given insights drawn from a comprehensive literature analysis and two case studies which concern success factors for...

Purpose: The purpose is to design a new concept for control of the Supply-Chain for the era of industry 4.0 exploiting the huge amount of actual data of material flow objects which are available thru new identification technologies, localization and communication systems and to use appropriate...

Purpose: Urban critical infrastructures are highly interdependent not only due to their vicinity but also due to the increasing digitalization. In case of a security incident, both the dynamics inside each infrastructure and interdependencies between them need to be considered to estimate the...

Purpose: A picking system is presented ensuring order fulfilment and enabling transformation from manual to automated picking using a continuous learning process. It is based on Machine Learning for object detection and realized by a human-robot collaboration to meet requirements for flexibility...

Purpose: Digitalization and its technologies enables especially logistics startups to enter the market with low barriers. Well-established enterprises potentially suffer from this development by overlooking the ongoing technological leap. Therefore, the paper includes a research to point out...

Purpose: This paper proposes how cyber ranges, which are simulation environments and platforms, can be used for cybersecurity training to reduce the vulnerability surface of the maritime supply chain caused by cyberthreat challenges. An additional benefit to conducting exercises for personnel...

Purpose: Our research shows that considering well suited NoSQL databases is beneficial for logistics tasks. For answering tasks we rely on the widespread methods of Data Mining. We stress that using relational databases as basis for Data Mining tools cannot cope with the growing amount of data...