Guest editorial

摘要

The NOFOMA network is a society of Nordic researchers within the logistics and supply chain management (SCM) fields. The main activity of the NOFOMA network is to carry out an annual conference gathering for researchers primarily from the Nordic countries, but also from other countries around the world. Molde University College, Specialized University in Logistics, hosted the 27th NOFOMA Conference in Norway June 2-5, 2015, in collaboration with NTNU in Trondheim. The conference theme was "Towards sustainable logistics and supply chain management", reflecting an important topic that companies are facing today. The call for abstracts attracted 97 submissions for consideration that led to 52 full papers accepted for presentation and publication in the conference proceedings. In total, 25 of the papers were also presented as works in progress. Of the 52 full papers, ten focussed on issues related to the conference theme, as "green logistics," "reverse logistics" and "sustainable value chains." Three of these were related to transportation, which attracted another three papers. The majority of the papers, 22 papers, addressed research issues in the broad field of SCM, covering subfields such as supply chain flexibility, - risk and - resilience, supply chain services, global operations, purchasing and supplier development. Furthermore, seven papers examined topics related to information and communication technologies and logistics, including information sharing and visibility. Three papers addressed methodologies in logistics and SCM research, while the remaining papers addressed other topics within logistics like inventory management, urban logistics, optimization and simulation modeling and manufacturing.