1st Edition
Sustainable Logistics How to Address and Overcome the Major Issues and Challenges
Logistics refers to the processes that start with resources and their acquisition, storage, and transportation to their destination. The concept is crucial in business -- particularly for the manufacturing sector -- to understand, manage, and control how resources are handled and progress through the whole supply chain. Now, there is a strong trend to focus on sustainability and eco-friendly solutions in logistics. Processes based on both technology and management need innovations and detailed implementation steps to achieve a satisfactory level of sustainability.
This book explores how and where innovations can be implemented to provide a wide approach to sustainability in logistics. It addresses the main challenges affecting modern and sustainable logistics and supply chains and is organized according to six main themes: supply chain management; information intelligent hubs (e.g. warehouse and cities); sustainable transportation; technology for logistics; reverse logistics; and city logistics. The key results presented are based on both extensive types of research and business cases. The overarching advanced logistics and supply chain concepts at the heart of this book contribute to a sustainable intelligent logistics and transport system by making it more efficient, reliable, environmentally friendly, and competitive.
Essentially, this book presents the most current research related to sustainability in logistics activities and addresses the theoretical background of sustainability and its significance for logistics, the challenges in supply chains and transportation, and possible solutions for more sustainable logistics systems.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword by by Wojciech J. Florkowski, PhD
Foreword by Altuğ Murat Koktas, PhD
Preface
Editors
Contributors
SECTION I INNOVATIVE AND SUSTAINABLE LOGISTICS: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
- Innovative and Sustainable Logistics: Main Direction of Development
- Modern Transportation Systems: The Field for Innovations Implementation
- Green Warehousing: A State‐of‐the‐art Literature Review
- Reverse Logistics for Sustainable Waste-Management Processes
- Should We Rethink Supply-Chain Management? Insights from Global-Value-Chain Approach
- Intelligent Solutions in the Supply Chains: Challenges for 3PL Providers
- Sustainability Requirements for Micro and Small Food-Processing Companies
- Sustainable Transport in the Fruit and Vegetables Supply Chain
- The Application of the Concept of Sharing Economy in the Supply Chain
- Smart Logistics: Sustainable Distribution in the Age of the Internet of Things
- Digitalization in Transport: An Example of Transport Documents
- Going Green: The Effects of Decarbonization on Container-Shipping Carriers Competitiveness
Khuram Shahzad, Oskar Juszczyk, Josu Takala
Aleksandra Górecka
Joanna Domagała
Adam Sadowski
SECTION II SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY-CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Michał Pietrzak
Helga Pavlić Skender, Elizabeta Ribarić, Petra Adelajda Zaninović,
Marko Lukavac, Dejan Miljenović
Andrej Udovč, Sandra Bonča
Helga Pavlić Skender, Zoran Ježić, Petra Adelajda Zaninović
SECTION III SUSTAINABLE LOGISTICS: APPLICATIONS AND CHALLENGES
Maria Bajak
Monika Roman, Piotr Pietrzak, Sebastian Stolarczyk
Leonardo Lovričić, Helga Pavlić Skender, Petra Adelajda Zaninović
13. The Organization of Transportation: City Rhythm and Communication in times of Telematic Transformation
Irena Jędrzejczyk
14. Food-Sharing Economy: Analysis of Selected Solutions in the Warsaw Agglomeration
Agata Balińska
Index
Biography
Joanna Domagała, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the Department of Logistics, Institute of Economics and Finance, Warsaw University of Life Sciences (WULS). The main fields of her scientific interest are enterprise efficiency, internationalization, and globalization of the food industry sectors, logistics systems in agribusiness, management, and planning of logistics in enterprises, supply chain management. She is the author or co-author of more than 150 scientific publications. She has participated in foreign internships at the University of Georgia (USA) and Shanghai Ocean University (China). She has been a reviewer and a guest co-editor for many international journals. She is a member of the Polish Logistics Society, European Association of Agricultural Economists, and Association of Agricultural Economists and Agribusiness. She is the head of Postgraduate Studies in Logistics. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9801-4344.
Monika Roman. Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the Department of Logistics, Institute of Economics and Finance, Warsaw University of Life Sciences (WULS). Her research interests include several topics: spatial economies, agricultural economics, quantitative methods, transport, logistics systems in agribusiness, and optimization of logistics processes in enterprises. She is the author or co-author of more than 60 scientific publications. She has participated in foreign internships at University College Cork (Ireland) and the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of (Ukraine). She has been a reviewer and a guest co-editor for several international journals. She is a member of the Polish Logistics Society, Polish Society of Production Management, and Association of Agricultural Economists and Agribusiness https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1799-0445.
Aleksandra Górecka, Ph.D. is an assistant professor working Institute of Economics and Finance, Warsaw University of Life Sciences (WULS). Her main field of research is transport infrastructure, and transport economics, and economic development. She participated in more than 30 mobilities (e.g. Germany, Slovenia, Croatia, Austria, Czech Republic), numerous national and international conferences, hence her scientific relations allowed her to contribute to international joined research. She is the author or co-author of over 40 papers and 3 research books. She was also the reviewer of many Polish and foreign journals; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2679-561X
