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Rob Handfield is the Bank of America University Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management at North Carolina State University and Director of the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative (http://scm.ncsu.edu). Handfield is Editor-in-Chief of the online Logistics journal, Consulting Editor of the Journal of Operations Management, one of the leading supply chain management journals in the field, and the author of several books on supply chain management, including FLOW: How the Best Supply Chains Thrive (2022), Supply Chain Immunity: Overcoming our Nation’s Sourcing Sickness in a Post-Covid World (2023), The LIVING Supply Chain: The Evolving Imperative of Operating in Real Time (2017), Biopharmaceutical Supply Chains (2012), and Introduction to Supply Chain Management (1999, 25,000 copies sold, and translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Korean).

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Title: "The supply chain has no clothes: blockchain research & other influential logistics technology papers"

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Professor Swanson joined the University of North Florida’s Coggin College of Business in 2012 after a twenty-year business career in logistics. He teaches three graduate classes for students pursuing an MBA or MS in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, including strategic logistics management, graduate survey of transportation, and the graduate thesis. He also teaches a wide range of undergraduate logistics and transportation classes and takes pride in preparing students for professional jobs. Professor Swanson currently serves as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Transportation Journal, the oldest academic logistics journal recently passing sixty years of academic information. His research explores how information and technology advance transportation, logistics and supply chain management. He has published in the Journal of Business Logistics, the Journal of Retailing, the International Journal of Logistics Management, IEEE: Engineering Management Review; International Journal of Production Economics; Transportation Journal, Benchmarking: an International Journal, Ethics and Behavior, the Supply Chain Quarterly, the World Review of Intermodal Transportation Research, the Supply Chain Management Review, Supply Chain Management: an International Journal, Supply Chain Management Review, Supply Chain Forum: an International Journal, and others. Prior to becoming an academic, professor Dr. Swanson worked in the private sector specializing in warehouse management systems and automation, and worked in corporate logistics for Walmart and Pearle Vision.

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Can an Industry-Led Infrastructure Development Strategy Facilitate Electric Truck Adoption in Green Logistics? Insights from a Case Study in Norway

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Hao Yu is an Associate Professor and Program Leader of MSc in Industrial Engineering at UiT—The Arctic University of Norway. He is also a researcher at the Technological Competence Center of Arctic Logistics Operations. His research interests are real-problem-driven model development to solve complex decision-making problems in sustainable supply chains, forward/reverse logistics systems, location and network design, service systems, scheduling, and smart manufacturing and logistics in Industry 4.0/5.0. These optimization/simulation models can be used to minimize carbon footprints and environmental risks of logistics systems, improve the accessibility and cost efficiency of service networks, locate the charging stations for electric/hydrogen vehicles, autonomously configure reconfigurable manufacturing systems, improve the lockage efficiency of a water conservancy project, and so forth. He has led or been a key member of 10+ international projects funded by the Research Council of Norway, the Directorate of Higher Education and Skills, Innovation Norway, Nordplus, and EU and EEA Programmes. Currently, his research focuses on smart digital logistics twin and truck electrification in green logistics systems.

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Container Shipping Supply Chains: Overview & Opportunities

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Dr Dongping Song is a Chair of Supply Chain Management in the University of Liverpool Management School. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of CILT. He is acting as an Associate Editor for Transportation Research Part E and for International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics. His research interests include applying mathematical modelling, data analytics, artificial intelligence, and simulation-based tools to various supply chain, logistics and transportation systems, especially in maritime logistics. His research has been funded by EPSRC, ESRC, Royal Society, British Council, European Commission, and Chinese Research Councils, which has led to five books and over 80 refereed journal articles.