Dear Colleagues,

Nowadays, companies are forced to compete on a global level and have to face continuous changes to cope with the following situations:

• Increasingly competitive global markets with increasingly demanding customers;
• Economic fluctuations that challenge companies into major structural changes;
• Reduced life cycles of products, which for many companies means that their chances to survive depend largely on their innovative capacities;
• The necessity of sharing information effectively among companies that work jointly, in order to get a quicker response.

Collaborative relationships among companies emerge as a response to all these problematic situations. The optimal management of collaboration becomes increasingly relevant when we focus on small and medium-sized companies, which are not able at an individual level to compete or even access the global market. However, if they were able to create a collaborative network model they would be able to obtain a competitive advantage over other larger companies. In this Special Issue, we will invite researchers to present new designs of logistic networks focusing on collaborative relationships, for example, designing new collaborative processes and all the inter-company relationships arising from them.

Sustainability will lunch a new Special Issue devoted to “Collaborative Supply Chain Networks”; the aim of this Special Issue is to share ideas, innovation, theories, models, technologies, applications, and tools in the collaborative supply chain for the industry among the scientific community. The collaborative supply chain is seen as a promising combination that will transform the flow of products between manufacturing facilities and users.

We want to offer researchers and practitioners from various disciplines that constitute the scientific field of the collaborative supply chain network the opportunity to work on promising lines of research and to publish their developments in this area.

Prof. Lorenzo Ros-McDonnell
Assoc. Prof. Maria Victoria de-la-Fuente
Guest Editors

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• Collaborative Supply Chain Networks
• Logistic Networks
• Supply Chain Collaboration: strategies and relationships among companies
• Collaborative platforms: people, capacities, infraestructure and technologies
• Collaborative Supply Chain solutions: new designs and models