Special Issue "New Trends in Sustainable Supply Chain and Logistics Management"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2023.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Lu Zhen
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Guest Editor
School of Management, Shanghai University, 200444 Shanghai, China
Interests: logistics and supply chain optimization; green port and shipping network management
Dr. Junliang He
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Guest Editor
China Institute of FTZ Supply Chain, Shanghai Maritime University, 201306 Shanghai, China
Interests: supply chain and logistics management; operations research and intelligent optimization
Dr. Lufei Huang
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Guest Editor
School of Financial Technology, Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance, 200000 Shanghai, China
Interests: sustainable supply chain management

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

For the last two decades, the topic of sustainable supply chain and logistics management has attracted considerable interest from academics and practitioners. The sustainable supply chain is demonstrated as a complex network system that involves diverse entities and pursues three pillars of sustainability (economic, environmental, and social). Sustainable logistics connects the entities of the supply chain and maintains its sustainability.

Noticeably, technological advances and idea innovations play crucial roles in improving supply chain and logistics sustainability. With an electric motor instead of an internal combustion engine, electric vehicles emit no exhaust from a tailpipe. This technology can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve air quality during the transportation of goods. The closed-loop supply chain combines the forward supply chain with reverse logistics and recovers value from used products while creating as little waste as possible. This idea reshapes the structure of sustainable supply chains. Recently, this trend has been widening. The development of emerging technologies, industry 4.0, Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence is offering new opportunities to develop more sustainability for supply chain and logistics management.

The aims of this Special Issue are (1) to deliver a deeper understanding of state-of-the-art sustainable practices from different sectors—manufacturing, transportation, health care, etc.; (2) to provide up-to-date management insights for sustainable operations through different decision levels—vehicle routing problem, smart warehouse design, industrial ecology optimization, etc.; and (3) to explore the frontier of sustainable innovations by employing different technologies—renewable energy, shore power, blockchain, etc.

This Special Issue is devoted to publishing the latest significant original articles and reviews related to those purposes mentioned above. Potential topics include but are not limited to:

  • New optimization approaches for sustainable supply chain and logistics management; 
  • New technology innovations for sustainable supply chain and logistics management;
  • Data-driven sustainable supply chain and logistics management;
  • Green transportation management and optimization;  
  • Sustainable supply chain finance. 

References

Zhen, L., Wu, Y., Wang, S., & Laporte, G. (2020). Green technology adoption for fleet deployment in a shipping network. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 139, 388–410.

Zhen, L., Xu, Z., Ma, C., & Xiao, L. (2020). Hybrid electric vehicle routing problem with mode selection. International Journal of Production Research, 58(2), 562–576.

Huang, L., Zhen, L., & Yin, L. (2020). Waste material recycling and exchanging decisions for industrial symbiosis network optimization. Journal of Cleaner Production, 276, 124073.

Tan, C., & He, J. (2021). Integrated proactive and reactive strategies for sustainable berth allocation and quay crane assignment under uncertainty. Annals of Operations Research, 1–32.

Barbosa-Póvoa, A. P., da Silva, C., & Carvalho, A. (2018). Opportunities and challenges in sustainable supply chain: An operations research perspective. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(2), 399–431.

Prof. Dr. Lu Zhen
Dr. Junliang He
Dr. Lufei Huang
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Sustainable supply chain
  • Sustainable logistics
  • Green transportation
  • Green port operations
  • Sustainable supply chain finance

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Identifying and Predicting the Credit Risk of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Sustainable Supply Chain Finance: Evidence from China
Sustainability 2021, 13(10), 5714; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13105714 - 19 May 2021
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COVID-19 has created a strong demand for supply chain finance (SCF) for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). However, the rapid development of SCF leads to more complex credit risks. How to effectively discriminate and manage SMEs to reduce credit risk has become one [...] Read more.
COVID-19 has created a strong demand for supply chain finance (SCF) for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). However, the rapid development of SCF leads to more complex credit risks. How to effectively discriminate and manage SMEs to reduce credit risk has become one of the most critical issues in SCF. In addition, sustainable SCF (SSCF) has received increasing attention, and credit risk management is important to achieve SSCF. Therefore, it is significant to identify the key factors influencing the credit risk of SMEs and construct a prediction model to promote SSCF. This study uses the lasso-logistic model to identify factors influencing the credit risk of SMEs and to predict the credit risk of SMEs. The empirical results show that (i) the key factors influencing SMEs’ credit risk include six variables—the matching degree of order data, ratio of contract enforcement, number of contract defaults, degree of business concentration, and number of administrative penalties; and (ii) the lasso-logistic model can identify the key factors influencing credit risk and have a better prediction performance. Moreover, transaction credit and reputation supervision significantly influence the credit risk of SMEs. Full article
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Sustainable Supply Chain Decisions under E-Commerce Platform Marketplace with Competition
Sustainability 2021, 13(8), 4162; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13084162 - 08 Apr 2021
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Motivated by the industrial observation that the e-commerce platform marketplaces (e.g., Amazon) are increasingly launching sustainable strategies, this study aims to build an analytical framework to guide managers on making sustainable decisions. This study builds a stylized game-theoretical model in the sustainable supply [...] Read more.
Motivated by the industrial observation that the e-commerce platform marketplaces (e.g., Amazon) are increasingly launching sustainable strategies, this study aims to build an analytical framework to guide managers on making sustainable decisions. This study builds a stylized game-theoretical model in the sustainable supply chain context, where the competitive traditional product manufacturers sell their products through the platform’s marketplace, while the platform decides whether to introduce the green products and the pricing strategy. We find that, when the evaluation difference for the green product is sufficiently low, the introduction of the green product by the platform benefits the manufacturers (or third-party sellers). Interestingly, a higher platform fee makes a higher likelihood of a win-win situation between the platform and manufacturers. Moreover, when consumers value green products sufficiently higher than traditional products, the traditional products’ manufacturers can also benefit from the green product entry. Full article
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Quantitative Evaluation on Street Vitality: A Case Study of Zhoujiadu Community in Shanghai
Sustainability 2021, 13(6), 3027; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13063027 - 10 Mar 2021
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Streets functioning as important components of urban public space are not only the primary carriers of traffic but also essential spaces for individuals’ daily activities, including recreation and communication. The paper highlights the social characteristics of streets by integrating them into one single [...] Read more.
Streets functioning as important components of urban public space are not only the primary carriers of traffic but also essential spaces for individuals’ daily activities, including recreation and communication. The paper highlights the social characteristics of streets by integrating them into one single index of vitality. The application of open recourse data combined with empirical research forms the foundation of a quantitative exploration on the street vitality of Zhoujiadu Community in Shanghai. Supported by the ideology of street urbanism, this paper defines the concept of “street vitality”, and then constructs a quantitative evaluation index system. Afterwards, a multiple linear regression model is developed to explore the main influential factors of street vitality. This work evidences the relationship between the environment and citizens’ activities and is beneficial to the potential improvement of street space quality and the enhancement of streets with higher vitality. Results from this work proved that the constituent factors of social function density, mixing degree of social functions, distance from the nearest subway station and green view have strong impacts on street vitality, among which the social function density and mixing degree of social functions are paramount. Full article
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