Sustainability is one of the biggest challenges of this century either for the environment or economical growth. The required cultural shift needs challenging action that will involve deeply software and hardware aspect of manufacturing processes. In this paper, the software part of the matter is addressed by proposing a product centric ontology, in which concepts of product, processes and reso...

aim, method, results) The aim is to study the logistics consequences of the development of E-commerce for physical products. This will be studied with a Supply Chain view from three different but interconnected perspectives. The shipper perspective concerns the development and organisation of logistics platforms, which will be described and analysed in terms of their effectiveness in electronic...

Sustainable urban logistics require support of sustainable center location planning. Nevertheless, public authorities generally experience difficulties in choosing a successful planning scheme, due to the lack rigorous analytical tool designed help understand how affects sustainability throughout supply chain. A poor can keep firm or chain from reaching its economic, environmental, and social g...

Over the last decades, transportation has been evolving from a necessary, though low priority function to an important part of business that can enable companies to attain a competitive edge over their competitors. To cut down transportation costs, shippers often outsource their transportation activities to a logistics service provider of their choice. This paper proposes a new procedure that p...

This paper aims to provide an overview of the key problems and perspectives to-ward a sustainable supply chain of HIV/AIDS related commodities. It is based on an extensive literature study, taking into account recent major reviews, and considering a wide range of different views from eminent experts worldwideMost research has focused on trying to implement and introduce humanitarian logistics a...

Wastes of the Electrical and the Electronic Equipments (WEEE) have been a major danger because of their hazardous composition to the environment and to the human health. Today, their valorization within a reverse supply chain is a reality and it is a good thing. However, stakeholders are often divided on the issue and their positions and decisions about performance enhancement are sometimes amb...

Business administration and information systems research invent new terms and concepts not only to denote new phenomena but also to convey a new perspective on problems that are known in principle. The concept of information logistics links the functions of business logistics and information management. It focuses on vertical coordination within firms and horizontal coordination within and beyo...