Logistics is an interdisciplinary field of study. Modern logisticians need to integrate business management and administration skills with technology design, IT systems and other engineering fields. However, based on research of university curricula and competence standards in logistics, the engineering aspect is not represented to full potential. There are some treatments of logistician compet...

Despite the enormous strides of the logistics profession in the last twenty years, it is still neither widely recognized nor easily understood by business professionals outside it. In part, it is because the profession itself has not yet succeeded in providing a widely accepted and easily understood definition of the field and its thrust. This paper presents a framework for thinking about logis...

Nowadays, organizations are facing two major challenges. First, huge amount of consumed products is considerably destructing the environment and on the other hand, because of increasing competition in business environment, creating long-lasting competitive advantage and long-term relation with customers has become a necessity for organizations to survive and thrive. In this competitive conditio...

Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the benefits of logistics clustering, with the intent to explain their growth and popularity among private agents and policy makers during the last decade. Design/methodology/approach – Because of limited knowledge about the benefits of logistics clustering a main objective of this paper is theory building. The authors employed a ground...

In the United States, Joint Vision 2020 (www.dtic.mil/jv2020) identifies “Focused Logistics” as a key component of achieving dominance across the full spectrum of warfare in future conflicts. As a result, logistics must increase in its presence in military simulation environments in order to accurately portray a real-world military environment with all of its required complexity. To date, howev...

In the pursuit of enhanced competitiveness organisations are today searching for innovative business models in order to foster economic benefits. In Slovenia, several clusters are being formed, including the Slovenian Transport Logistics Cluster (STLC) as one of the most important. The STLC is currently in the stage of dynamic growth, demanding business model formation and adequate informatisat...

Smog in industrial zones, the depletion of the ozone layer, and global warming demonstrate exemplarily the harmful impact of business activities on environmental systems and the societies that act within them. Therefore, customers and many governments around the world are developing a more conscious and respectful attitude toward the environment, turning environmental concerns into a central el...

This paper analyzes the characteristics of cloud computing and IOT (internet of things), introduce a logistics operation based on cloud computing and IOT, which establish a logistics information interchange, data exchange to meet the business requirements of the various types of logistics public information platform.

The logistics processes of the storage logistics enterprises is analyzed, the warehousing information models, system structures, management modules and their operational processes are studied, to provide enterprises with an automatic business information platform which not only meets internal management needs, but also the demands for the exchange of information between the enterprise supply ch...