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Managerial Publications
We connect our research with business practice
What Are Managerial Publications?
At ZLC, we believe in the importance of sharing knowledge beyond the academic sphere. That’s why we publish opinion pieces, technical analyses, and specialized outreach articles in industry media, professional journals, and leading platforms in logistics and supply chain management.
Through these publications, we aim to make our research accessible to a broader audience, spark dialogue around key challenges in logistics, and contribute to the continuous improvement of the business ecosystem.
Our researchers provide insights on trends, innovation, digitalization, sustainability, and emerging business models in logistics—always with a rigorous and practical approach.
ZLC Managerial Publications
Access a selection of articles published by our research team.
Strategies for commodity procurement
By Dr. Mustafa Çagri Gürbüz, Professor at ZLC. Leer versión en español With colleagues from Dalian, Shanghai and Singapore, I have been exploring how companies can create and benefit from more flexible strategies in the procurement of commodity-type goods and...
Modelling sustainability opportunities in logistics
Spanish version Major companies are increasingly aware of the need to evaluate, and reduce, their GreenHouse Gas (GHG) emissions, for commercial, regulatory and reputational as well as ethical reasons. Generation of CO2 and other GHGs through the Product Life Cycle...
No bricks without straw – new value chains for crop wastes
By Dr. Luca Urciouli, Adjunct Professor at ZLC. Cultivation, harvesting and crop processing produces large volumes of waste and residue – straw, stalks, top growth, prunings, husks, pulp and so on. Typically these may be ploughed in, used for animal...
Digital transport solutions for the many, not the few
By Dr. Beatriz Royo, Associate Professor and Carolina Ciprés, Director of Research at ZLC. The COVID-19 lockdowns across Europe have really brought home just how much we all depend on mobility, personally and for the goods and services we need....
Anybody here speak Finance?
By Dr. Alejandro Serrano, Professor and Dr. Spyridon Lekkakos, Assistant Professor at ZLC. How often does this happen? The Operations or Supply Chain Director proposes something – perhaps a new inventory policy, or an investment in increased production, or a...
Helping cities plug in to electric mobility
Dr. Alicia MartÃnez de Yuso, Research Office Technician and Dr. Milos Milenkovic, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at ZLC. A team from ZLC has been appointed to help lead the new SOLUTIONSplus programme on urban electric mobility. Supported from the EU’s Horizons 2020...
Delivering sustainability by post
By Dr. Beatriz Royo, Associate Professor at ZLC and Dr. M. Teresa de la Cruz, Project Manager at ZLC. Digitisation is having one of the major impacts on the business models of national postal operators. Letters have been replaced by...
Education for tomorrow's supply chain
Dr. Alicia Martinez de Yuso, Research Office Technician at ZLC. Logistics and supply chain practice is changing at a rate not seen since the invention of the railway, or the shipping container. And whereas previous transformations involved individual technical breakthroughs...
The Physical Internet from shippers’ perspective
By Carolina Ciprés, Director of Research and Dr. M. Teresa de la Cruz, Project Manager at ZLC Logistics and supply chain management is full of inefficiencies: one third of trucks travelling across Europe is empty, with an average load factor...
Mobility responses to the urban jungle
By Dr. Teresa de la Cruz, Project Manager and Dr. Beatriz Royo, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at ZLC Zaragoza Logistics Center is delighted to be co-ordinating work on the new SPROUT or Sustainable Policy RespOnse to Urban mobility Transport project. This is...
Shared data is key to low carbon logistics
By Dr. Beatriz Royo, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at ZLC and Dr. Spyridon Lekkakos, Assistant Professor at ZLC. Freight transport, logistics and supply chains are an increasingly data-rich environment. Yet it is claimed that only a quarter of the data available...
3D printing: impact on supply chains
By Mustafa Çagri Gürbüz, Professor at ZLC and Research Affiliate at MIT CTL. Disruptive technologies such as big data analytics, cloud computing, Internet of Things are likely to shape the future of supply chain management. According to industry experts, 3D...
