The LM25 event will focus on traditional topics in logistics management as well as new emerging issues and has therefore a very diverse and open-minded setting, encompassing a variety of methodological approaches as well as regional and global perspectives. The following main issues are a tentative hint but are by no means exclusive, we do welcome all innovative ideas beyond this:

• Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management – Special Track Hydrogen Supply Chains
• Resilient Logistics and Supply Chain Management – Special Track Retail Logistics
• Human-centric Logistics Systems – Special Track Industry 5.0 and Physical Internet
• Operations Research in Logistics – Special Track Beyond Optimization? Empirically Grounded Analytics for Manufacturing and Logistics Systems
• Resilience and Safety Concepts in Logistics and Supply Chain Management
• Road, Rail, Maritime and Air Transportation Systems in Logistics and SCM
• Warehousing and Storage in Logistics
• Logistics and Safety in a Global Disruption Context
• Last Mile and First Mile Issues in Logistics
• Middle Mile Issues in Logistics and Supply Chain Management

We invite logistics experts to submit 6-8 pages short papers or 1-page abstracts solely for presentation regarding ideas and work in progress related to such issues in order to qualify for the conference publication options.

Call for Papers LM25 (PDF LINK)

Submission: Please submit your interesting and original conference contribution to the following e-mail address until May 15th, 2025: LM2025-dig@polimi.it

Authors are encouraged to use the following templates for creation of the required PDF file:

1. Conference Paper (up to 8 pages)
2. Abstract for Presentation (1 page)

Both templates can be downloaded here.

The LM 2025 program is scheduled from September 18, 10.00 hours to September 19, 17.00 hours at Politecnico School of Management (Bovisa Campus, Via Lambruschini 4/B, 20156 Milan).

A pre-program with a PhD workshop, a PostDoc / Early Career / Fundraising workshop and paper development workshop is organized on September 17 in the afternoon (13.00 to about 18.00 hours) according to the following details (running in parallel, so only participation in one workshop is feasible per person):

1. Dedicated to PhD researchers, the LM25 PhD workshops aims at supporting the development and design of a successful PhD journey, contribution might be most welcome for example to first and second year PhD students, please see the invitation call.
2. Directed at PostDoc and Early Career Researchers, the workshop in this regard includes fundraising and corporate collaboration and proposal writing issues for up to date and relevant research projects, detailed information can be found in this invitation call.
3. Interesting for researchers at all stages is the paper development and meet the editors workshop, including the feedback and discussion of any grown research project and journal manuscript of your choice, please study the invitation call.

A welcome dinner (self-paid) is organized on the evening of September 17, 2025 in Milan (from 20 hours).

For the full programm on Sept 18 and 19, the following honorable keynote speakers are part of the conference program:

• Prof. Margaretha Gansterer, University of Klagenfurt
• Prof. Alexander Hübner, TU Munich
• Steffen Obermann, Zufall Logistics Group, Göttingen
• Prof. Marco Taisch, Politecnico di Milano, MADE & MICS

The conference dinner is planned to take place on September 18, 2025 (from 20 hours) at the famous Osteria del Treno (“Sala Liberty”) at Via San Gregorio, 46, 20124 Milano.

Futher program details will follow.

There are already three full paper submission options connected to the LM25 conference in the Journal of Business Logistics (I50 and PI, closed), Journal of Business Economics (Hydrogen Supply Chains, closed) and Computers and Industrial Engineering (Call still open until May 1st, please contribute by this LINK). All manuscripts successfully under review within these three pre conference publication streams will be automatically part of the conference program and authors therein will receive separate notifications about their conference presentation contribution (special workshop session with LM25).

Complementary to these, the conference event welcomes conference contributions in the conference paper and conference abstract schemes. These will not be published online in order to allow for post conference publication efforts – authors will be invited to valuable post conference publication options with academic journals or for example the Springer Lecture Notes in Logistics (LNL, LINK), all of them rated with the VHB PMR 2024 (Logistics) context for high-quality publication outlets. The planned schedule is for accepted and revised conference contributions to be submitted as full (extended) papers before the end of October 2025 towards a successful publication during 2026. All authors will be notified about the further publication process with feedback and acceptance to the conference as well as during the event. Please submit your interesting and original conference paper (6-8 pages) or abstract (1 page) to the following e-mail address until May 15th, 2025: LM2025-dig@polimi.it

Submitting experts will receive automated acknowledgements to inform about the submission status and further notifications via e-mail. Reviews and comments as well as acceptance to the conference for all submissions will be communicated by June 30th, 2025. For each accepted paper, at least one author is required to register for the conference and present the work in person in Milan.

If you wish to participate in LM2025, you have to register.

€ 295 Regular fee

€ 195 PhD and master student fee

Click here to register.

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