Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Logistics Trends, Challenges, and Needs for Further Research and Innovation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Globalisation and Logistics -- 3 Demography and Logistics -- 4 Energy and Logistics -- 5 Information Technology, the Internet and...

Logistics Trends, Challenges and Needs For Future Research and Innovation -- Business Models for Advanced ICT in Logistics -- Future-Proofing Supply Chains -- Gain Sharing in Horizontal Logistic Co-Operation: A Case Study in the Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Sector -- Scheduling Serial Locks: a...

Innovation has been and continues to be recognised as central to promoting and supporting sustainable economic development; as such, South Africa has set the goal of becoming a knowledge economy. This is an economy that succeeds in producing knowledge and transforming itself into a...