Customer-Oriented Artificial Intelligence and Analytics in Logistics and Supply Chains

A Special Issue of Logistics (ISSN 2305-6290) belonging to the section "Artificial Intelligence, Logistics Analytics, and Automation".

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Interests: multicriteria decision support; reverse logistics; negotiation and group decision making; circular economy
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Dear Colleagues,

The rapid growth in the availability of operational, transactional, and customer-related data has significantly accelerated the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and advanced analytics in logistics and supply chain management. While existing research has largely focused on efficiency-driven applications—such as cost reduction, routing, and inventory optimization—there is increasing recognition of the strategic role played by customer-oriented metrics, including satisfaction, loyalty, service quality, and perceived value.

This Special Issue aims to explore how AI-based methods, such as machine learning, deep learning, and intelligent decision support systems, can be integrated with customer-centric indicators to enhance planning, forecasting, and decision-making processes in logistics and supply chains. In particular, this issue welcomes contributions that bridge operational and business data with behavioral and relational metrics, such as customer experience measures, Net Promoter Score (NPS), and service-level perceptions.

This Special Issue seeks to bring together both theoretical and applied research, covering topics ranging from demand and sales forecasting to logistics optimization, digital transformation, and intelligent supply chain design. By combining AI-driven analytics with customer-oriented perspectives, this issue aims to complement the existing literature and provide a more holistic understanding of logistics and supply chain performance.

Dr. P. Carmona Marques
Dr. Wesley Douglas Silva
Dr. João Reis
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Keywords

  • demand and sales forecasting using AI and machine learning
  • integration of customer experience and loyalty metrics in logistics analytics
  • intelligent decision support systems for logistics and supply chains
  • AI-driven performance measurement and service quality management
  • customer-oriented digital transformation in supply chains
  • analytics for sustainable and resilient logistics systems

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Generative Artificial Intelligence in Supply Chain: Review, Trends, and Future Directions
by Amlan Baruah and Mohammad Moshref-Javadi
Logistics 2026, 10(8), 190; https://doi.org/10.3390/logistics10080190 - 18 Aug 2026
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Background: Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has attracted significant attention in supply chain management (SCM) due to its potential to improve data-driven decision-making and operational performance. However, existing studies mainly focus on individual GenAI models or specific supply chain applications, lacking a comprehensive [...] Read more.
Background: Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has attracted significant attention in supply chain management (SCM) due to its potential to improve data-driven decision-making and operational performance. However, existing studies mainly focus on individual GenAI models or specific supply chain applications, lacking a comprehensive understanding of how different GenAI architectures support decision-making across the supply chain. Methods: This study conducts a systematic literature review using the PRISMA framework to examine the applications of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Transformers, Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), and flow-based models within a six-level supply chain decision-making framework. A total of 692 peer-reviewed publications were analyzed using bibliometric methods, including keyword co-occurrence, temporal and density analyses, and Supervised Embedding Visualization. Results: Current research is concentrated on Transformer and GAN applications, particularly in data analytics, optimization, forecasting, manufacturing, transportation, logistics, and quality management. The analyses also reveal major research themes, the evolution of GenAI in SCM, and limited attention to sustainability, cybersecurity, resilience, and reverse logistics. Conclusions: This study provides a comprehensive overview of GenAI applications in SCM, identifies key research gaps, and offers a foundation for future research while helping practitioners evaluate opportunities and limitations of GenAI for supply chain decision-making. Full article
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