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  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,877 Views
12 Pages

31 July 2023

With the continuous development in technology and changes in the logistic systems, organizations should review their logistic processes that evolve over time. To attain a good insight into the conformance of these processes with the designed process...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,723 Views
22 Pages

New Perspectives for Logistics Processes in the Energy Sector

  • Ewa Kulińska and
  • Małgorzata Dendera-Gruszka

5 August 2022

The publication analyzes the logistic processes taking place in the energy sector. The impact of the analyzed logistic processes is crucial for the alternative energy sources industry. This article focuses on home photovoltaic installations. The base...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
18,775 Views
16 Pages

21 March 2024

Logistics processes play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth operation of the supply chain, and warehouse management is one of the key logistics activities of invaluable significance. To evaluate the management principles of companies, it is necess...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,645 Views
20 Pages

14 December 2021

The current study presents a detailed assessment of risk zones related to karst collapse in Wuhan by analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and logistic regression (LR) models. The results showed that the LR model was more accurate with an area under the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
10,280 Views
28 Pages

We consider the logistic growth model and analyze its relevant properties, such as the limits, the monotony, the concavity, the inflection point, the maximum specific growth rate, the lag time, and the threshold crossing time problem. We also perform...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,923 Views
27 Pages

14 August 2025

This article presents an analysis of a logistics process using process mining methods. Additionally, it highlights the possibilities of analyzing industrial process data using the process mining tools available in the ProM software 6.12. The paper ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,249 Views
18 Pages

17 October 2022

Grains are often exposed to unprotected environment during post-harvest logistics processes. Since grains are usually accommodated in silos on farms, when importing grains, they are transported to silos or yards at ports by heavy vehicles, and import...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,649 Views
17 Pages

Conditions for Increasing the Level of Automation of Logistics Processes on the Example of Lithuanian Companies

  • Laima Naujokienė,
  • Valentina Peleckienė,
  • Kristina Vaičiūtė and
  • Rasa Pocevičienė

19 July 2025

Globalization has greatly changed the way logistics firms function, improving speed, accuracy, and efficiency in everything from logistic management to warehousing. Robotics and automation technologies driven by artificial intelligence improve wareho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,591 Views
18 Pages

The Determinant of Time in the Logistical Process of Wind Farm Planning

  • Norbert Chamier-Gliszczynski,
  • Joanna Alicja Dyczkowska,
  • Waldemar Woźniak,
  • Marcin Olkiewicz and
  • Roman Stryjski

7 March 2024

Planning logistical processes supports the managerial processes of an enterprise, including investments such as wind farm construction. The aim of the article is to analyze and assess the time determinant in the logistical process of wind farm planni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,256 Views
19 Pages

8 November 2023

Qinglong Gorge Scenic Area (QGSA) boasts stunning natural landscapes, characterized by towering peaks and extensive cliffs. Nevertheless, the intricate geological backdrop and distinctive topographical conditions of this area give rise to various geo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,478 Views
19 Pages

Impact of the Product Master Data Quality on the Logistics Process Performance

  • Diana Božić,
  • Margareta Živičnjak,
  • Ratko Stanković and
  • Andrej Ignjatić

Background: The importance of up-to-date product master data in the digital age should not be underestimated. However, companies still struggle to ensure high-quality product data, especially in the field of logistics. Hence, the focus of our researc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,310 Views
24 Pages

Identifying Promising Application Areas for Cyber-Physical and Complex Event Processing in Logistics Practice

  • Cyril Alias,
  • Frank Eduardo Alarcón Olalla,
  • Hauke Iwersen,
  • Julius Ollesch and
  • Bernd Noche

17 October 2018

In the course of the ongoing era of digitization, cyber-physical systems and complex event processing belong to the most discussed technologies nowadays. The huge challenge that digitization is forming to the transportation and logistics sector is la...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,565 Views
31 Pages

10 January 2023

The reliability of logistics processes is most often considered in the context of the correct flow of materials. The information that accompanies the logistic flow is usually not considered a potential source of errors or disruptions to the correct o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,672 Views
19 Pages

Risk Management Maturity Model for Logistic Processes

  • Agnieszka A. Tubis and
  • Sylwia Werbińska-Wojciechowska

12 January 2021

Recently, the maturity models for risk management are attracting growing attention. The obtained maturity level defines an assessment of an organization’s management competence. Therefore, as a set of various tools and practices, the maturity m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,210 Views
31 Pages

Information Processing for Quality Assurance in Reverse Logistics Supply Chains: An Organizational Information Processing Theory Perspective

  • Madduma Kaluge Chamitha Sanjani Wijewickrama,
  • Nicholas Chileshe,
  • Raufdeen Rameezdeen and
  • Jose Jorge Ochoa

Every year, the construction industry produces a large volume of demolition waste (DW) recovered through reverse logistics supply chains (RLSCs). Information-centric QA plays an important role in the RLSC, providing an excellent solution for inferior...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,488 Views
32 Pages

21 May 2020

The development of the regional economy cannot be separated from the support of regional logistics, as the scientific decisions of regional logistics are helpful to promote the healthy development of the regional economy. The comprehensive evaluation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,548 Views
32 Pages

19 June 2024

This article investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on logistics and supply chain processes through a two-phase analysis. First, a literature review maps the existing studies, published from 2021 to 2023 (101 papers), offering a view of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
8,936 Views
29 Pages

A Reference Model of Reverse Logistics Process for Improving Sustainability in the Supply Chain

  • Faustino Alarcón,
  • Pascual Cortés-Pellicer,
  • David Pérez-Perales and
  • Ana Mengual-Recuerda

17 September 2021

The reverse logistics process (RLP) has become a key process for the supply chain (SC) given its importance for treating the increasing quantity of returned or recovered products and its impact on sustainability. However, the RLP is complex and invol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,228 Views
22 Pages

5 October 2025

Background: Despite significant technological advances, many logistics organizations in emerging markets struggle to realize the transformative potential of artificial intelligence, with reported success rates below 65% and limited theoretical unders...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,116 Views
12 Pages

7 February 2020

In this paper, we focus on a class of robust optimization problems whose objectives and constraints share the same uncertain parameters. The existing approaches separately address the worst cases of each objective and each constraint, and then reform...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,821 Views
20 Pages

21 September 2020

The wood-processing industry currently does not sufficiently use modern technologies, unlike the automotive sector. The primary motive for writing this article was in cooperation with a Slovak wood processing company, which wanted to improve its logi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,338 Views
28 Pages

9 November 2024

Background: This study introduces a novel supply chain management (SCM) model tailored for the hospital industry in Thailand. The model emphasises the integration of third-party logistics (3PL) providers to streamline supply-processing-distribution (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,543 Views
20 Pages

Technological progress, such as the launching of a new generation of drug-coated stents as well as new antiplatelet drugs, has resulted in the treatment of myocardial infarction (MI) becoming much more effective. The aim of this study was to assess i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,716 Views
23 Pages

Postal services have re-emerged across numerous emerging economies worldwide as essential logistics providers, harnessing their vast coverage and dependability in the face of expanding e-commerce platforms and technological innovations. This study in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
230 Views
20 Pages

23 January 2026

A new family of stochastic η-power log-logistic diffusion processes was introduced and defined based on the classical log-logistic diffusion model. The probabilistic characteristics of the proposed process were derived through an analysis of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
17,606 Views
23 Pages

Improvement of the Logistics Flows in the Receiving Process of a Warehouse

  • Afonso Vaz de Oliveira,
  • Carina M. Oliveira Pimentel,
  • Radu Godina,
  • João Carlos de Oliveira Matias and
  • Susana M. Palavra Garrido

Background: The present work is related to a project developed in a company dealing with the security and communication systems, fire alarms, and electronic displays sector, located in the district of Aveiro. This work aims to improve the logistics f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
168 Citations
14,424 Views
19 Pages

Logistic Regression for Machine Learning in Process Tomography

  • Tomasz Rymarczyk,
  • Edward Kozłowski,
  • Grzegorz Kłosowski and
  • Konrad Niderla

2 August 2019

The main goal of the research presented in this paper was to develop a refined machine learning algorithm for industrial tomography applications. The article presents algorithms based on logistic regression in relation to image reconstruction using e...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
27 Citations
16,784 Views
9 Pages

The world of logistics is changing and entering a new era. The advance of digitalization and technologization enables new business models, increased process efficiencies, novel planning approaches, and much more but, on the downside, there is also th...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
9,755 Views
20 Pages

Shared Logistics—Literature Review

  • Maria Matusiewicz and
  • Dorota Książkiewicz

4 February 2023

In the face of the energy crisis and the ever-increasing earth’s temperature, one of the ways to deal with these two challenges is to make better use of the existing resources, decoupling, and the circular economy. The solution for the full use...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
11,920 Views
19 Pages

21 January 2022

The article concerns the problem of efficiency of the Just-In-Time (JIT) system, taking into account the benefits for the company and external costs. The aim of the article was to present the conditions conducive to the effective implementation of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,350 Views
17 Pages

21 October 2019

The main purpose of the paper is to explore the importance of stakeholders’ interaction in the different stages of the implementation process of city logistics initiatives and to assess the extent to which interaction may vary between two appar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,650 Views
26 Pages

12 December 2021

Presently in Chinese chain supermarkets, many enterprises have built automatic equipment and information facilities in the logistics center of their supply chain systems. Modern logistics technology and equipment largely depend on the resource integr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,693 Views
19 Pages

This study aims to provide valuable insights into the information logistics process and to ensure the effectiveness of its systems in the business environment by discussing the banking sector. In this regard, this study investigates the information l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
443 Views
22 Pages

23 January 2026

Background: Green logistics practices are crucial for achieving the EU’s Green Deal objectives, addressing environmental challenges, improving supply chain efficiency, and fostering business sustainability. This paper presents a conceptual fram...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,404 Views
24 Pages

Case Study of Municipal Waste and Its Reliance on Reverse Logistics in European Countries

  • Olga Lingaitienė,
  • Aurelija Burinskienė and
  • Vida Davidavičienė

5 February 2022

The authors have examined municipal waste, its components and their integration with reverse logistics processes. Background: The theoretical part begins with a definition of municipal waste. Later, the integration between municipal waste and reverse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,374 Views
13 Pages

A Taxonomy of Technologies for Human-Centred Logistics 4.0

  • Alexandra Lagorio,
  • Chiara Cimini,
  • Fabiana Pirola and
  • Roberto Pinto

16 October 2021

Following the spread of the Industry 4.0 paradigm, the role of digital technologies in manufacturing, especially in production and industrial logistics processes, has become increasingly pivotal. Although the push towards digitalization and processes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
11,145 Views
16 Pages

Six Sigma in Urban Logistics Management—A Case Study

  • Justyna Lemke,
  • Kinga Kijewska,
  • Stanisław Iwan and
  • Tomasz Dudek

13 April 2021

A city as a system that constitutes one of the most important areas of human activities. The significant role to fulfill their expectations pay the goods transport and deliveries. These issues are the subject of urban logistics. In broad terms, urban...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,935 Views
15 Pages

20 December 2021

This scientific publication is dedicated to the development of scientific methodological and practical recommendations about the formation of ecologistics approaches towards usage of the energetical potential of wooden biomass as a promising trend of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,072 Views
40 Pages

Background: The transportation of petroleum products via multimodal logistics systems is a complex process subject to operational inefficiencies and elevated risk exposure. The efficient and resilient transportation of petroleum products increasingly...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,639 Views
15 Pages

1 November 2023

The Peace–Athabasca Delta (PAD) in northern Alberta is one of the world’s largest inland freshwater deltas and is home to many species of fish, mammals, and birds. Over the past five decades, the PAD has experienced prolonged dry periods...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,244 Views
15 Pages

Model for Evaluating Outsourcing Logistics Companies in the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Cheng-An Tsai,
  • Tien-Hwa Ho,
  • Jyh-Shyan Lin,
  • Chien-Chih Tu and
  • Che-Wei Chang

14 September 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected the world’s manufacturing industry, particularly in terms of the continued increase in logistics costs that has led to an increase in business operating costs. This study proposes a two-stage model for eval...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,898 Views
23 Pages

4 July 2024

In this paper, we will compare two solution options to determine whether the deployment of an autonomous mobile robot will be a beneficial investment for a company not only in terms of cost, time, and manpower savings, but also in terms of efficiency...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,344 Views
28 Pages

Background: Gold mining is a critical part of the industry of Central Asia, contributing significantly to regional economic growth. However, gold production management faces numerous challenges, including adopting innovative technologies such as AI,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,553 Views
18 Pages

16 June 2023

The extraction of underground minerals in hilly regions is highly susceptible to landslides, which requires the application of InSAR techniques to monitor the surface displacement. However, repeated mining for multiple coal seams can cause a large di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,029 Views
24 Pages

Medication Logistics in Professional Homecare Organisations: An Assessment of the Practical Implementation of Regulations and Recommendations

  • Nicole Lötscher,
  • Christoph R. Meier,
  • Tania Martins,
  • Franziska Zúñiga and
  • Carla Meyer-Massetti

10 September 2025

Background/Objectives: Patients receiving professional homecare often require support in managing their medication. In Switzerland’s legislative system, medication logistics (ordering, delivery, pickup, storage) are regulated differently by eac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,006 Views
26 Pages

Simulation of Low Carbon Layout Optimization of Disassembly Line Based on SLP Method

  • Jia Mao,
  • Jinyuan Cheng,
  • Xiangyu Li,
  • Honggang Zhao and
  • Dexin Yu

15 March 2023

New concepts such as low-carbon economy, low-carbon production, low-carbon living and even low-carbon cities have become popular topics in environmental protection. The disassembly line part of reverse logistics is accompanied by high carbon emission...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,049 Views
24 Pages

Background: Ensuring cost-efficient and high-quality processes for logistics tasks is a significant competitive factor for companies. This includes not only improving existing processes but also examining outsourcing opportunities. Current trends, su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,540 Views
42 Pages

24 November 2023

Background: Logistics management in the clinical trials industry is a very challenging undertaking because it involves multiple stakeholders, complex processes, diverse software applications, intensive white-collar jobs, and onerous quality standards...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,929 Views
11 Pages

Scheduling Approach for the Simulation of a Sustainable Resource Supply Chain

  • Henning Strubelt,
  • Sebastian Trojahn,
  • Sebastian Lang and
  • Abdulrahman Nahhas

The general goal of waste management is to conserve resources and avoid negative environmental impacts. This paper deals with the optimization of logistics processes at an underground waste storage site by means of solving scheduling issues and reduc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
315 Views
24 Pages

Resilience in Humanitarian Logistics: Adjusting Capacity in the Points of Distribution in Natural Disaster Areas

  • Raúl R. J. Heras-Garrido,
  • Marco Serrato,
  • José Holguín-Veras and
  • Miguel Jaller

3 February 2026

Background: The administration and management of humanitarian logistical operations are considered critical factors. The extreme and unexpected nature of events such as natural disasters poses logistical challenges to humanitarian support agencies pr...

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