E-Commerce in Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Abstract

As the electronic communication and digital information continue to grow with extensive popularization and application of internet technology, social economy is experiencing a fundamental change. The new economy of e-commerce solutions and global trade have forced companies to redefine their corporate strategies and to redesign their business models. E-commerce is bringing extensive growth and a landscape of continuing change in managing logistics and supply chain operations. This chapter describes the e-commerce and the evolution of logistics and supply chain and trends of e-commerce in logistics and supply chains. It gives a discussion on the integrated e-commerce and e-commerce logistics, and it ends with future research directions and a conclusion.