At present, the food and food packaging industry is increasingly confronted with and gently
forced by consumers and governmental organizations to resolve issues related to food …

Warehousing has been traditionally viewed as a non-value-adding activity but in recent
years a number of new developments have meant that supply chain logistics have become …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to illustrate an original decision-support tool (DST) that
aids 3PL managers to decide on the proper warehouse management system (WMS) …

The role of logistics in effective supply chain management is increasingly critical, and
researchers and practitioners have recently focused their attention in designing more …

Product intelligence is a new industrial manufacturing control paradigm aligned with the
context of cyber-physical systems and addressing the current requirements of flexibility …

Security and risk management in warehouses and logistics is a key factor to achieve a
sustainable and safe supply chain. The paper aims at proposing RFID-IoT-enabled …

Purpose Third-party logistic providers (3PLs) continuously strive for controlling and
improving their performances to gain a competitive advantage. The challenging environment …

A communicating object, or connected object, is a key element of the Internet of Things to
shift a perceptible real world into a wide digital virtual world known as the cyber-physical …

Customer orientation concerns the degree to which an organisation focuses on customers,
recognises their desires and places meeting their needs as a first priority. As managing the …

Warehouses are being impacted by increasing e-commerce and omni-channel commerce.
The design of current WMSs (Warehouse Management Systems) may not be suitable to this …