The ¿EffizienzCluster LogistikRuhr¿ was a winner in the Leading Edge Science Cluster competition run by the German federal Ministry of Education and Research. The mission and aim of the ¿EffizienzCluster LogistikRuhr¿ is to facilitate tomorrow¿s individuality ¿ in the sense of individual goods supply, mobility, and production ¿ using 75 percent of today¿s resources. Efficiency ¿ both in economical and ecological terms ¿ is enabled by state-of-the-art and innovative logistical solutions including transportation, production and intralogistics.
These proceedings ¿Efficiency and Logistics¿ give first answers from 27 research projects as an insight into the current state of research of Europe¿s leading research and development cluster in logistics and as a contribution to the discussion on how logistics as a science can help to cope with foreseeable resource shortage and sustainability as global challenges.

1. Introductory Essay: Logistics Research and the Logistics World of 2050 .- 2. Integrated Corporate Social Responsibility Management in Logistics Networks.- 3. Good Governance in Global Supply Chains from Eight Perspectives .- 4. The Competitiveness Monitor as an innovative foresight support system for mobility, logistics and beyond.- 5. Valuation of hybrid identification processes as an enabler for the Internet of Things.- 6. Efficiency in Logistics Facilities.- 7. Integrated Air Cargo Hub (IACH) ¿ The air cargo transport chain of the future .- 8. Multimodal Promotion ¿ Finding and Benchmarking Resource-Efficient Transport Alternatives with Combined Transport.- 9. Development of a Concept for Safe and Durable Transport Chains for the Steel Industry.- 10. Urban Business Navigation ¿ Efficient, Resource-Conserving, Industry-Specific Navigation.- 11. DiNav ¿ Dynamics in Navigation.- 12. ePOD@Home: electronic proof of delivery at point of delivery .- 13. Urban Retail Logistics ¿ research into the bundled urban store deliveries of the future.- 14. Development of a concept for inner-city delivery & supply utilizing electromobility .- 15. Minimal invasive construction sites ¿ an approach to reduce consumption in a building and maintaining infrastructure .- 16. Green Logistics: Comparability of the Environmental Effects of Logistics Services.-17. Green Logistics: Optimisation Approaches for Resource-Efficient Logistics Services.-18. Upstream Carbon Dioxide Assessment at the Product Level .-19. Environmental and Sustainable Performance from a Supply Chain Management Perspective.-20. A Foundation of Sustainability Related Supply Chain Risks in Stakeholder Theory.-21. Towards a Standardized Supplier Code of Conduct ¿ Requirements from a Literature-Based Analysis.-22. An Introduction to Logistics as a Service .-23. Supply Chain Execution Supported by Logistics IT Services .-24. Service Design Studio for SaaS.-25. Business object model for realization of individual business processes in the logistics domain.-26. Challenges in the Planning, Organization, Execution and Control of International Supply Chains.-27. Smart tracking of objects in logistics processes with the help of image processing.-28. Tray Cycling ¿ Logistics for Urban Mining .-29. Resource Efficiency of Facility Logistics Systems .-30. Supply Chain School - A Logistics and Supply Chain Management Education Platform.-31. Integration of Case-based and Ontology-based Reasoning for the Intelligent Reuse of Project-related Knowledge.-32. Scientific Further Training in Logistics. New Paths in Vocational-Operational Qualification .