Logistics and Supply Chain Management Challenges and Opportunities in the COVID-19 World – Smart, Agile and Sustainable Trends, Methods and Practices

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue encourages authors to contribute to the current research on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on logistics and supply chain management. The supply chain disruptions caused by lockdowns highlighted the need for new strategies and solutions; a large, global transformation also occurred in the shift towards selling directly to customers; and the increased demand for E-commerce motivated the search for contactless, last-mile solutions. New smart technologies facilitated business operations and communications when shortages of staff and movement restrictions began to affect businesses. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on logistics and supply chain management is not fully known. Therefore, we encourage authors to contribute to the scientific discussion on the challenges and opportunities associated with the current COVID-19 climate.

The scope of the proposed Special Issue includes sustainable, agile and smart solutions in the logistics and supply chains in both pandemic and post pandemic applications. The Guest Editors (GEs) welcome high-quality research in the form of literature reviews, research papers and case studies that include, but are not restricted to, the following areas:

• COVID-19-related disruptions in supply chains;
• New solutions in logistics dedicated to E-commerce;
• Contactless last-mile delivery;
• Pandemic-related uncertainty and countering strategies in supply chains;
• Post pandemic supply chain resilience;
• New technologies supporting logistics and supply chain management in a post COVID-19 society;
• Challenges in the sustainable logistics and supply chain management of a COVID-19 society;
• Closed loop supply chains (reuse, recycling, remanufacturing) the COVID-19 society;
• Green mobility in a COVID-19 society;
• Reverse logistics in a turbulent environment;
• Sustainability assessment in logistics and SCM in a turbulent environment;
• Digitalization of logistics and supply chains during the pandemic;
• Artificial intelligence, data mining and machine learning;
• IoT applications to support supply chain resilience;
• Multimodal processes modelling and simulation in logistics and supply chains.

Dr. Paulina Golinska-Dawson
Prof. Dr. Kanchana Sethanan
Dr. Karolina Werner-Lewandowska
Guest Editors

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