^21st international scientific conference Business Logistics in Modern Management – BLMM2020 organized by Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Economics in Osijek, will be held on 7^th-8^th October, 2021 at Faculty of Economics in Osijek, Croatia. Scientific conference will proceed in paper presentations and round-table discussion aiming to bring together scientists and experts engaged in contemporary challenges of business logistics and SCM issues with the purpose of exchange of scientific ideas.

Accepted papers will be published in our periodical publication Proceedings of international scientific conference Business Logistics in Modern Management with ISSN number and which will be sent to evaluation in reference scientific databases.

Submission Guidelines

Abstracts/papers will only be accepted for review on the condition that they have not been copyrighted or previously published, they are not being considered for publication, and they are not in press elsewhere.

• Papers should be written in English language.

Conference topics are dealing, but not limited to:

• Transportation issues
• In-plant logistics
• Digital supply chain
• Route optimisation
• Distribution design models
• Retail supply chains
• E-commerce supply chain
• Big Data in supply chain
• Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence in supply chain
• Innovative forms of distribution channels
• Spatial development of retail and logistics capacities
• Production and distribution of food products
• Efficiency in logistics
• International and regional value chains and networks – logistical point of view
• IT in supply chain management
• Business logistics as a function of international exchange improvement
• Financial flows in value chains
• Sustainability in logistics
• Green supply chain management
• Inventory management issues
• Challenges of demand management
• Contemporary warehousing trends
• Educational challenges in business logistics and supply chain management
• Theory of business logistics and supply chain management
• Supply chain risk and resilience
• Reverse logistics and closed-loop supply chains
• Outsourcing in logistics
• Omnichannel supply chains
• Relationships management and trust in supply chain management
• Global logistics
• Forecasting
• Blockchain in logistics and supply chain management
• Automation and robotics in supply chain
• Humanitarian logistics
• Supply chain management in Central and Eastern Europe
• Logistics innovations
• Supply chain integration
• Supply chain workforce challenges
• Supply chain planning
• Lean and agile supply chains
• Elastic logistics
• Transparency in supply chains
• Standard certification in supply chains

Publication

Accepted papers will be published in our periodical publication Proceedings of international scientific conference Business Logistics in Modern Management with ISSN number and which will be sent to evaluation in reference scientific databases.

Earlier proceedings of International scientific Conference Business Logistics in Modern Management (BLMM) are indexed in following databases: Web of Science Conference Proceedings Citation Index (from 2015 to 2019), EconLit Full Text (from 2013 and 2014), EBSCO – Business Source UItimate and Business Source Corporate Plus (from 2016), Econpapers and IDEAS (from 2008 to 2020), Hrčak (from 2014 to 2020). Each new publication goes through their standard evaluation process (e.g. EconLit and WoS are “non-all inclusive” databases).

Venue

The conference will be held at Faculty of Economics in Osijek, Croatia.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to logistics@blmm-conference.com; davor.dujak@efos.hr or jelena.franjkovic@efos.hr