Sustainable Management of Logistic and Supply Chain
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 13965
Special Issue Editors
Interests: logistics; supply chain; intermodal transport; logistics centers; dry ports; humanitarian logistics; e-commerce logistics; multi-criteria decision-making
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Interests: logistics; transport; supply chain; multi-criteria decision making; sustainable engineering; fuzzy set; rough set
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Interests: logistics; supply chain; intermodal transport; logistics centers; city logistics; dry ports, humanitarian logistics; e-commerce logistics; multi-criteria decision making
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Since the UN promoted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, sustainability has become one of the most important aspects of any business model (Rosati & Faria, 2019). Sustainability has become a key factor for achieving competitive advantage in the market (Bourhis et al., 2013). In addition, society set increasingly strict demands on companies with the aim of developing business practices based on sustainable production, supply and distribution operations (Persdotter Isaksson et al., 2019). Accordingly, the inclusion of sustainable guidelines in the management of logistics and supply chain activities is a topic of growing interest among researchers. Also, sustainable logistics activities, measures, initiatives, concepts, solutions, etc., can greatly contribute towards achieving the goals proposed by the UN. In general, sustainable logistics can be defined as the implementation of all logistics activities in accordance with the principles of ecological, economic and social sustainability.
As a consequence of efforts to make logistics sustainable, the concept of green logistics emerged, which became one of the main development trends of modern logistics. Green logistics is based on the development and application of the concept of circular economy (CE), which implies a closed loop of material flows in the economic system (Seroka-Stolka & Ociepa-Kubicka, 2019). The concept of CE is emerging as a potential solution for achieving supply sustainability through the implementation of closed-loops of material flows based on maintenance, repair, reusing, refurbishing, remanufacturing, and recycling processes (Ellen MacArthur Foundation, 2014). The purpose of CE is to increase the degree of utilization of existing resources while reducing the input of new resources and the loss of resources in the system (Geissdoerfer et al., 2017).
Having previous in mind the focus of this SI is sustainability research in the context of logistics and supply chain management. The main purpose is to better understand the role of sustainability in the development of logistics and supply chain activities in order to create favorable circumstances for their effective management. SI will make a significant contribution to the expansion of the body of literature in the fields of sustainability, logistics and supply chain. SI includes, but is not limited to the following topics:
- Sustainable procurement,
- Sustainable order processing,
- Sustainable packaging,
- Sustainable transportation,
- Intermodal transportation,
- Sustainable distribution,
- Sustainable warehousing,
- Sustainable inventory management,
- Sustainable reverse logistics,
- Sustainable business models,
- Design and control of sustainable supply chain activities,
- Design and control of closed-loop supply chains,
- Circular economy in the context of logistics and supply chain management,
- Green logistics,
- Green city logistics,
- Smart logistics,
- Sustainable mobility.
Dr. Mladen Krstić
Dr. Željko Stević
Dr. Snežana Tadić
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable logistics
- sustainable supply chain
- circular economy
- smart logistics
- closed-loop supply chain
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