As competition between value chains on globalized markets is constantly getting fiercer, there is a growing trend to achieve closer collaboration and integration within these value chains and increasingly more complex supply networks. Additionally, in the wake of the growing number of natural catastrophes with devastating effects on the humanitarian situation in the respective regions of their occurrence, researchers increasingly look into ways to enhance the processes of humanitarian logistics and seek for new ideas to support social, ecological and economic sustainability in logistic processes.
This volume, edited by Thorsten Blecker, Wolfgang Kersten, and Christian M. Ringle, provides valuable insights into:
- supply chain collaboration efforts
- sustainable supply chain solutions
- innovative information technology in supply chains
- supply chain design concepts.
This volume appeals to researchers and practitioners alike, who are interested in current contributions by international authors, providing theoretical, empirical and case-study oriented background and information on their research work.

I. Collaborating in the Modern Supply Chain
With Contributions by:
- Yasanur Kayikci and Helmut Zsifkovits
- Julio Sánchez Loppacher, Raffaella Cagliano and Gianluca Spina
- Dorsaf Zouari and Karine Evrard Samuel
- Nadine Voßen, Phil Friedrichsmeier, Eckart Hauck and Sabina Jeschke
- Ikuo Arizono and Yasuhiko Takemoto
II. Innovative Information Technology in Supply Chains
With Contributions by:
- Andrea Resch and Thorsten Blecker
- Carlos Alberto González Camargo, José Luis Martínez Flores, Claudia Malcón Cervera and Judith Cavazos Arroyo
- Verena Flitsch and Carlos Jahn
- Helena Preiß and Ludwig Weber
- Matthias Klumpp, Sascha Bioly and Gregor Sandhaus
- Warinya Meesilapawikkai, Poonpong Suksawang and Naenna Thanakorn
- Don Kerr, Kevin Burgess and David Moore
III. Sustainability and Humanitarian Logistics
With Contributions by:
- Thomas Keuschen and Matthias Klumpp
- Hella Abidi, Stephanie Kaiser and Matthias Klumpp
- Haiyan Wang and Mats Jackson
- Mouhamad Shaker Ali Agha, Robert van der Meer and Lesley Walls
- Kristina Hunke and Gunnar Prause
- Ashish Sharda, Gaurav Patel, Avi Jain, Ankit Kumar and Shubham Gandhi
IV. Designing Logistics and Supply Networks
With Contributions by:
- Malte L. Peters, Stephan Zelewski and Adina Silvia Bruns
- Günther Schuh and Volkan Ünlü
- Hannes Bade
- Martin Wallner and Jörg Schweiger
- Dominik Pfeiffer, David Jorch and Bernd Hellingrath
- Wolfgang Kersten, Thorsten Lammers and Henning Skirde
- Pornchanaok Pobundit and Somchai Pathomsiri