Editorial

摘要

This special issue is intended to capture the latest advances in terms of applications and approaches for logistic systems design and management. Indeed, logistics entails a wide variety of open issues that continue challenging researchers and practitioners to find out even more competitive and attractive solutions (Slats et al., 1995). In particular, the need for integrated as well responsive supply chain management policies, where the logistic system has to be considered as a whole rather than a set of facilities, resources and connections, calls for a great effort to capture and deal with such a complex matter (Min and Zhou, 2002).