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Applications of Digital Technologies in Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management

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Digitalization revolutionizes business with the growing influx of technological innovation, possibly fueling the transition toward a more sustainable way of value creation. Apart from hardware-oriented mega-trends like robotics, it is mainly the software-based digital technologies that create fundamental change in processes, operations, functions, and even entire business models. Apart from the sheer introduction of the individual technologies to different application areas of the transportation and logistics sector, a clear picture of the prerequisites and expectable impacts of a holistic digital transformation is still not available though. In this chapter the authors address the research gap with a profound insight into theory and practice of digitalization in the transportation and logistics sector. Moreover, they develop a methodology for a structured evaluation of the digital transformation. The evaluation approach considers economic, ecological, and social dimensions at different levels of planning focusing on the respective requirements and the influences to be gained. With such a structured evaluation approach, researchers and decision-makers from practice are given a tool at hand to consider the extensive effects of digital transformation.

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Wei, F., Alias, C., Noche, B. (2019). Applications of Digital Technologies in Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management. In: Melkonyan, A., Krumme, K. (eds) Innovative Logistics Services and Sustainable Lifestyles. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98467-4_11

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