Coordination to manage dependencies between logistics service providers and shippers

Sallnäs, Uni

doi:10.1108/ijpdlm-06-2014-0143

Cited by 33 publications

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“…The authors found that the buyer has to increase cross-functional and cross-organizational activities in order to preserve its performance. Regarding the coordination aspects of the environmental practices between shippers and 3PLs, Sallnas (2016) [113] found that 3PLs generally depend on shippers in setting the coordination conditions, but the shippers are subjected to 3PLs to achieve successful environmental practices. Focusing on the environmental awareness, Vieira et al (2016) [114] analyzed the relationship among shippers, 3PLs and carriers in managing green actions.…”

Section: Shipper's Perspectives and Collaborationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental Sustainability in Third-Party Logistics Service Providers: A Systematic Literature Review from 2000–2016

2018

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Despite the increasing interest toward environmental issues in the freight transport and logistics service sector, a comprehensive and updated assessment of the existing literature is still missing. This paper aims to fill this gap by presenting the results of a systematic literature review of publications in the area of environmental sustainability in third-party logistics service providers (3PLs) between the years 2000 and 2016. The review offers insight into the critical dimensions of green matters in transport and logistics service companies using an analytical framework based on the following five topic areas: influencing factors, green actions and the impact on performance, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools supporting the green actions, energy efficiency in road freight transport and shipper's perspective and collaboration. The results indicate that, despite the number of published papers having grown significantly from 2008 onward, some areas remain highly under-researched such as ICT and performance measurement. Several research gaps have been identified in each topic area, and a set of propositions forming an agenda for future research directions has been suggested.

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Section: Shipper's Perspectives and Collaborationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental Sustainability in Third-Party Logistics Service Providers: A Systematic Literature Review from 2000–2016

2018

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“…Secondly, by investigating both the LSPs and shippers, the paper has been able to view the problem from multiple perspectives. At the intersection of the LSPs and their customers lies great improvement potential for energy efficiency, when the actors collaborate in a long-term commitment on equal footing and work together towards environmental sustainability [50]. Following suit, this paper contributes to the body of knowledge by taking an interactive approach to capacity utilisation and presenting multiple interpretations of energy efficiency.…”

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“…Many causes, such as inflexibilities, limited information sharing, and compromises, which lead to inefficiencies for at least one actor, resulted from the relationship between the actors. Sallnäs [50] described those dependencies between the LSPs and the shippers, and stated that if both parties had high environmental ambitions for their relationship, then the coordination of their environmental practises became more likely. This was confirmed through the interviews, however, the responsibilities were too-often eschewed and forwarded to another actor.…”

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Energy Efficiency in Logistics: An Interactive Approach to Capacity Utilisation

Wehner

2018

Sustainability

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Logistics operations are energy-consuming and impact the environment negatively. Improving energy efficiency in logistics is crucial for environmental sustainability and can be achieved by increasing the utilisation of capacity. This paper takes an interactive approach to capacity utilisation, to contribute to sustainable freight transport and logistics, by identifying its causes and mitigations. From literature, a conceptual framework was developed to highlight different system levels in the logistics system, in which the energy efficiency improvement potential can be found and that are summarised in the categories activities, actors, and areas. Through semi-structured interviews with representatives of nine companies, empirical data was collected to validate the framework of the causes of the unutilised capacity and proposed mitigations. The results suggest that activities, such as inflexibilities and limited information sharing as well as actors' over-delivery of logistics services, incorrect price setting, and sales campaigns can cause unutilised capacity, and that problem areas include i.a. poor integration of reversed logistics and the last mile. The paper contributes by categorising causes of unutilised capacity and linking them to mitigations in a framework, providing a critical view towards fill rates, highlighting the need for a standardised approach to measure environmental impact that enables comparison between companies and underlining that costs are not an appropriate indicator for measuring environmental impact.

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“…Commonly, a positive cooperation strategy of stakeholders will significantly improve the operational performance of G&SL [76] and even the entire supply chain [19]. Therein, the benefits brought by the collaboration between suppliers and customers [77] and LSPs-shippers [78] are particularly salient. The government plays a dominant role in the knowledge dissemination [79] and economic incentive of greenization [20], leading to the innovation of logistics technology.…”

Section: Planning Policy and Management Research Of Gandslmentioning

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A Systematic Literature Review of Green and Sustainable Logistics: Bibliometric Analysis, Research Trend and Knowledge Taxonomy

Ren

Dong

Sun

et al. 2019

IJERPH

141

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Ever-growing globalization and industrialization put forward impending requirements for green and sustainable logistics (G&SL). Over the past decades, G&SL initiatives triggered worldwide deliberations, aiming at easing negative transport externalities and improving supply chain performance. This review-based paper attempts to offer a joint quantitative and qualitative understanding for the overall evolutionary trend, knowledge structure, and literature gaps of the G&SL research field. Employing the science mapping approach, a total of 306 major paper published from 1999 to 2019 were retrieved, elaborated on, and synthesized. Visualized statistics regarding publication years, journal allocation/co-citation, inter-country/institution collaboration, influential articles, co-occurred keywords, and time view clusters of research themes were analyzed bibliographically. On this basis, a total of 50 sub-branches of G&SL knowledge were classified and thematically discussed based on five alignments, namely (i) social-environmental-economic research, (ii) planning, policy and management, (iii) application and practice, (iv) technology, and (v) operations research. Finally, the current knowledge obstacles and the future research opportunities were suggested. The findings contribute to portray a systematic intellectual prospect for the state quo, hotspots, and academic frontiers of G&SL research. Moreover, it provides researchers and practitioners with heuristic thoughts to govern transportation ecology and logistics service quality.

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Coordination to manage dependencies between logistics service providers and shippers

Cited by 33 publications

References 41 publications

Environmental Sustainability in Third-Party Logistics Service Providers: A Systematic Literature Review from 2000–2016

Environmental Sustainability in Third-Party Logistics Service Providers: A Systematic Literature Review from 2000–2016

Energy Efficiency in Logistics: An Interactive Approach to Capacity Utilisation

A Systematic Literature Review of Green and Sustainable Logistics: Bibliometric Analysis, Research Trend and Knowledge Taxonomy

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