International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management: Volume 54 Issue 4

Safety in context: routines and the effect of a balanced safety and operations focus on worker perceptions and performance

Matthew D. Roberts, Matthew A. Douglas, Robert E. Overstreet

To investigate the influence of logistics and transportation workers’ perceptions of their management’s simultaneous safety and operations focus (or lack thereof) on related…

Who changes what, when and where? Elaborating postponement when integrating hardware and software objects in global supply chains

Lorenzo Bruno Prataviera, Andreas Norrman

The postponement principle concerns defining when and where value is added, usually referring to hardware components for physical products. However, in modern supply chains…

Exploring the impacts of ecommerce activities on the spatial resilience of warehouse clubs: the role of retail agglomeration

Xiaodan Pan, Guang Li, Martin Dresner, Benny Mantin

As ecommerce becomes more prevalent, traditional brick-and-mortar retailers such as warehouse clubs (WCs) face the challenging task of maintaining and growing their customer base…

Integrating mobile parcel lockers into last-mile delivery networks: an operational design for home delivery, stationary, and mobile parcel lockers

Marcel Peppel, Stefan Spinler, Matthias Winkenbach

The e-commerce boom presents new challenges for last-mile delivery (LMD), which may be mitigated by new delivery technologies. This paper evaluates the impact of mobile parcel…