Dear Colleagues,

A supply chain is a set of all the organizations, individuals, resources, and activities involved in the creation and sale of a product, from the delivery of basic materials from the supplier to the manufacturer, up to the end user. Supply chain management (SCM) is the management of the three main flows of a supply chain: the product flow, the financial flow, and the information flow. A supply chain may be considered as a complex system in which, if properly managed, its value may be greater than the sum of its parts.

A network represents a complex system as a set of interrelated actors which may be persons, firms, countries, but even buyers and suppliers, and social network analysis (SNA) provides a set of tools to analyze their relationships and to measure both the static properties and dynamic development of the networks.

This Special Issue welcomes both conceptual and empirical contributions on the social network analysis tools applied to supply chains to provide novel perspectives on SCM and solve SCM problems. Authors from different disciplines such as business, management, economics, and other related disciplines are invited to submit their papers. Multidisciplinary research that embraces the diversity of supply chain perspectives is appreciated. Submissions could relate but are not limited to social network analysis applied to the following topics:

• Procurement management;
• Demand forecasting and stock management;
• Collaboration and coordination in the supply chain;
• Packaging of products, warehousing and materials handling;
• Design and management of distribution networks;
• Freight transport systems;
• Reverse logistics;
• Information systems for logistics;
• Organisation and control of logistics systems;
• Sustainability and green logistics;
• Supply chain risk management and eco-resilience;
• Health care supply chain

Prof. Dr. Fernanda Strozzi
Prof. Dr. Alessandro Creazza
Prof. Dr. Claudia Colicchia
Guest Editors

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• Social network analysis
• Supply chain management
• Logistics and transport
• Sustainability