Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss and analyze the introduction of a guideline, which aims to help prevent mental strain for logistics workers in an increasingly digitalized work environment. The guideline originates from the findings of computer science experimental rooms (IR) and...

Purpose: Digital Twins attract much attention in science and practice, because of their capability to integrate operational data from a wide variety of sources. Thus, providing a complete overview of an asset throughout its entire life cycle. This article develops and demonstrates a Digital...

Purpose: The aerospace supply chain is characterized by a high degree of small andmedium-sized suppliers. To stay competitive, suppliers are facing high pressures todigitalize their business but have limited resources available. Furthermore, aerospacesuppliers lack a framework to measure their...

Purpose: While e-commerce in general has been growing rapidly for years, food e-commerce is lagging behind in Germany. The common approach of using traditional logistics systems and fulfilment concepts does not lead to long-term success. Con-sidering this problem, success factors are needed as a...

Purpose: Digital platforms provide logistics service providers (LSPs) the opportunity to increase their capacity utilization. Since there are a large number of reasonable alternatives, LSPs should be able to systematically assess different platforms. How-ever, there is little knowledge on...

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 research aims to develop a framework of sustainability performance measurement and to propose sustainability impact criteria that can be used to measure complex sustainability impacts in the manufacturing industry. Methodology: Fuzzy-Analytical Hierarchy Process (Fuzzy-AHP) and the...

Purpose: Global supply chains increasingly demand sustainable setups, from the first to the last mile in transportation. Particularly in urban settings, the use of commercial electric vehicles for transport tasks might be a suitable measure to increase overall sustainability. Methodology: For an...

Purpose: B2C e-commerce is growing worldwide, and a major concern regards its environmental sustainability. Some studies compared the environmental impact of the online and offline purchasing processes, considering the shopping made at one store at a time (e.g. a book bought in a physical store...

Purpose: Public transportation in large cities has significant impacts on the environmental, social, and economical perspectives. However, the proper assignment of re-sources in public transportation creates paradoxical challenges since by increasing service level efficiency, the environmental...