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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.
Surveying a road map for future supply chain research
By Dr. Mustafa Çagri Gürbüz and Dr. Victoria Muerza. Readers of posts here will be aware of just some of the vast range of supply chain related research, supported variously by the EU, national and local governments, and industry, that...
Training and education: key steps towards logistics decarbonisation
By Dr. Susana Val, Director of ZLC and Dr. Beatriz Royo, Postdoctoral Research Fellow An early finding from the EU-cofunded LEARN (Logistics Emissions Accounting and Reduction Network) project has been the need to develop comprehensive education and training provision around...
Trends in brand-retailer supply chain relationships
By Carolina Cipres, Director of Research at ZLC Readers of academic journals or the trade press could be forgiven for believing that supply chain relationships between brand manufacturers and their retailers are characterised by co-operation, collaboration, seamless exchange of information,...
Building an ambidextrous supply chain & operations strategy
By Leonardo Gomes and Dr. Rafael Diaz An ambidextrous supply chain is one that is designed to reconcile conflicting goals such as exploration – related to creativity, innovation, disruption, and variation increase– and exploitation –related to efficiency, productivity, and variation...
Aragon demonstrates competitive advantage as location for international distribution
By Dr. Milos Milenkovic and Dr. Victoria Muerza In recent years the Aragon region, and PLAZA (Logistics Platform of Zaragoza) in particular, has had some significant success in attracting the distribution activities of international companies and is naturally keen to...
Making intelligent use of supply chain data
By Dr. Spyridon Lekkakos and Dr. Beatriz Royo Logistics and supply chain operations are rich sources of useful data. Wherever and whenever goods and materials are worked on, inspected, transported, stored or received, information is recorded. Unfortunately, relatively little of...
Clearing paths for urban freight
By Dr. Beatriz Royo and Dr. Susana Val Across the world, urbanisation continues relentlessly and irreversibly. People move to the cities to find work, education, services, amenities and social experiences to enrich their lives and more and more urban areas,...
Exploring new models to tempt process industries home
By Dr. Mustafa Çagri Gürbüz For many years there has been a trend for companies in many of the process industries to relocate their operations outside Europe, with the loss of skilled jobs, capital investment and to some extent technical...
How are counterfeit drugs procured?
Gürbüz, M. C., Wagner L. How are counterfeit drugs procured?. MIT Supply Chain Frontiers, May 20, 2014 The infiltration of fake medicines into the pharmaceutical supply chain is a major problem, and conventional methods for detecting fake medicines are generally...
New approach to capacity planning cuts drug company capital requirements
Three Masters students from ZLC have developed new tools to address lot sizing and capacity planning in the pharmaceutical industry, which have the potential significantly to reduce working capital requirements. By Dr. Rafael Diaz and Dr. Spyridon Lekkakos Traditionally, strategic...
Creating reliable and Accurate GHG emissions data for the logistics sector
By Dr. Beatriz Royo, Research Fellow at the MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program. It is a truism that "you can't control what you can't measure". The freight and logistics sector accounts for some 7% of global carbon emissions. If business trends...
Effective trade data – from pipedream to pipeline
By Luca Urciuoli, Adjunct Professor at the MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program The four-year, CORE (Consistently Optimised Resilient secure global supply chains) project has concluded. With 70 partners and a budget of about Euro 49 million from the EU 7th Framework...
