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 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...

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...

This paper deals with the question of general developments in logistics services. These trends influence the question of human resource management in the logistics service industry as well as the general demographic trend of a declining population in Germany and Europe. Thus the authors show...