Empowering freight transportation through Logistics 4.0: a maturity model for value creation

Abstract

Logistics 4.0 is a recognized lever for improving efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability in logistics processes. Of these, the increasingly complex area of transport plays a key role in companies, as it directly impacts costs and service level. This paper investigates how Logistics 4.0 affects the design and configuration of the transportation process, so that companies can exploit the related benefits and create value. Using a systematic literature review, this study provides a framework for Logistics 4.0 in transportation, which includes the process dimensions to be taken into account when designing such a process. A maturity model complements the framework, which presents the configuration options for each process dimension in an evolutionary path from low to high implementation level. This paper is original in that it takes a novel process perspective, crucial for supporting the implementation of Logistics 4.0 in transportation, and discusses the associated opportunities for companies.

Blockchain-based Logistics 4.0: enhancing performance of logistics service providers

“…Although it is sufficient for evaluating logistics performance, it does not measure the value that Logistics 4.0 provides. Therefore, a possible new dimension can be introduced based on three Logistics 4.0 principles, namely automation, integration and intelligence (Modica et al, 2021). Automation describes the use of automated technologies such as autonomous transport systems to reduce resource consumption in providing services and to enable real-time autonomous data collection from the physical environment, allowing the information to be virtualised (Hoffmann and Prause, 2018;Modica et al, 2021).…”

“…Therefore, a possible new dimension can be introduced based on three Logistics 4.0 principles, namely automation, integration and intelligence (Modica et al, 2021). Automation describes the use of automated technologies such as autonomous transport systems to reduce resource consumption in providing services and to enable real-time autonomous data collection from the physical environment, allowing the information to be virtualised (Hoffmann and Prause, 2018;Modica et al, 2021). Integration refers to the capability of how the collected data samples are made accessible to all different actors across the supply chain network; promoting connectivity as well as information sharing within and beyond company boundaries at both horizontal and vertical levels of the supply chain (Arif et al, 2020;Modica et al, 2021).…”

“…Then the third level will use cyber-physical systems to introduce new business visions and processes. Modica et al (2021) developed a maturity model that delineates four phases illustrating how value is derived from the transformation of conventional transportation logistics process into a Logistics 4.0 solution. They detail the progression of data application from visibility to enhancing adaptability within the company, the evolution of decision scopes from monitoring to strategic decision-making, the decentralisation of decision levels, the realisation of real-time data acquisition, as well as the increase of automation, autonomy and the number of actors engaged the supply chain.…”

“…A blockchain-based track and trace system has the potential to seamlessly implement smart contracts and to integrate various supply chain flows, including physical, information and financial flows (Irannezhad, 2020). Furthermore, a blockchain system can be combined with other autonomous technologies that can keep track of events during the transportation process in an unambiguous manner (Issaoui et al, 2020;Modica et al, 2021).…”

Impact of Market Drivers on the Digital Maturity of Logistics Processes in a Supply Chain

“…Krowas and Riedel [87] proposed a maturity model for Intra-Logistics 4.0. Modice et al [88], through a systematic literature review, investigated the potential of the implementation of Logistics 4.0 technologies in transport processes in a supply chain. The previous studies have focused on a company's readiness, capacities, and attitude towards the adoption of the Industry 4.0/Logistics 4.0.…”