International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management: Volume 49 Issue 10

Supply chain management and Industry 4.0: conducting research in the digital age

Erik Hofmann, Henrik Sternberg, Haozhe Chen, Alexander Pflaum, Günter Prockl

Toward a Digitally Dominant Paradigm for twenty-first century supply chain scholarship

Theodore Stank, Terry Esper, Thomas J. Goldsby, Walter Zinn, Chad Autry

The digital advances in modern industry are accelerating changes in the broad social, economic, political and business environments within which supply chain management (SCM) is…

Emerging procurement technology: data analytics and cognitive analytics

Robert Handfield, Seongkyoon Jeong, Thomas Choi

The purpose of this paper is to elucidate the emerging landscape of procurement analytics. This paper focuses on the following questions: what are the current and future state of…

Real-time data processing in supply chain management: revealing the uncertainty dilemma

Sabrina Lechler, Angelo Canzaniello, Bernhard Roßmann, Heiko A. von der Gracht, Evi Hartmann

Particularly in volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) business conditions, staff in supply chain management (SCM) look to real-time (RT) data processing to reduce…

Stock visibility for retail using an RFID robot

Marc Morenza-Cinos, Victor Casamayor-Pujol, Rafael Pous

The combination of the latest advancements in information and communication technologies with the latest developments in AutoID technologies, especially radio frequency…

Publisher’s note

Jenny Chester