دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی سیستم های پشتیبانی تصمیم گیری برای لجستیک پایدار: تحلیل کتاب شناختی - امرالد 2017

INTRODUCTION

Logistics is vital to the success of supply chains and inevitably linked with the overall organizational performance. The activities may involve freight transport, materials handling, storage and inventory management. Logistics has the potential of bringing tremendous impact on local as well as global trade by aiming to supply the right items at the right place and right time. In the past two decades, there has been a growing concern for environmental and social impacts of logistics besides economic aspects. In this regard, the term ‘green logistics’ and ‘sustainable logistics’ has been used by organizations and academic researchers. According to Chang and Qin (2009), “The green logistics refers to plan, control, management and implementation of the logistics system through the advanced logistics technology and environmental management, aiming to reduce the pollutant emission.” Zhao et al. (2009) further explained that “the meaning of green logistics is to improve resource utilization, reduce resource consumption and waste, and minimize environmental pollution when implementing logistics activities, through rational planning, optimize resource allocation and use environmental technology”. Mckinnon et al. (2012) defined 'green logistics' as the study of the environmental effects of all the activities involved in logistics in both forward and reverse directions. Sbihi and Eglese (2010) suggested that “green logistics is concerned with producing and distributing goods in a sustainable way, taking account of environmental and social factors.”

CONCLUSIONS, LIMITATIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS

This paper presents a systematic review and bibliometric analysis of literature about decision support systems for sustainable logistics. It is pertinent to note that the state of research in this area is still in its infancy and requires swift advancement given the dynamics of business environments. We have used bibliometric and visualization tools to analyse journal paper data and have drawn the following conclusions from this study: (1) The publication trend in this area has been rising since 2013, however, the absolute frequency of these publications is still low. (2) There are only two top contributing authors in this area who are also found to be the only paired authors. (3) The only influential journal in this area is International Journal of Production Economics, which published four papers in the last two years. (4) The geographic distribution of contributing affiliations is focused at the Eastern part of North America, Western Europe and Asia. (5) The top collaborating organizations are either within the United States or the United Kingdom. (6) The keyword statistics and text visualization reveal that certain models, systems and frameworks have been proposed to solve logistical issues concerning sustainability but the research area is partially covered regarding various decision support system configurations as well as different types of problems within logistics.