E-Logistics and E-Supply Chain Management: Applications for Evolving Business

Researchers, students, and practitioners in logistics, information systems, and business examine how companies are restructuring their supply chains in order to accommodate new technologies and new ways of doing business on the Internet. In particular, they explore the creation of integrated supply chains, the development of virtual business communities, and how re-engineering business process and re-orienting business operations enable dynamic responses to new customer demands. Among specific topics are Web applications for outsourcing logistics services, measuring the impact of tools on the leanness of electronic procurement processes, monitoring and warning mechanisms of supply coordination in assembly system under delivery uncertainty, using radio-frequency identification technologies to electronically enable logistics supply chains, and a University of Greenwich case study of cloud computing.