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

The submission options for the LM25 conference have been closed since June 2025. We are happy to have recieved high numbers of submissions and the evaluation and acceptance process is continuing with the individual author teams. The full conference program will be announced once registration has closed after July 31, 2025. We are happy to welcome you to Milan in September 2025.

Please use the following mail address for all requests and communications regarding the conference: LM2025-dig@polimi.it

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
• Andreas Hillmann, REWE Group Logistics, Köln
• Prof. Susanna Relvas, Tecnico Lisbon
• 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.

Is the Future of the Warehouse aligned with a human-centric perspective?

Thursday September 18, 2025 – Keynote Talk at 11.30 hours

Susana Relvas is an Associate Professor with the Habilitation degree at the Department of Engineering and Management (DEG) of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon (UL), Portugal. She currently coordinates the LOG.lab, an academic laboratory in collaboration with a Portuguese retailer to support research, teaching, societal impact, and innovation in Logistics, and she is an Executive Committee Member of the Executive School of IST Técnico+. Within the last five years, she has served as Vice-President of DEG, Executive Committee member of IST Campus in Oeiras, Deputy Director for Competitiveness and Funding of IST, and Coordinator of the Executive Lifelong Training Program of DEG. In 2023, she received, along with her co-authors, the EURO award for the best EJOR paper – Innovative Applications of OR. Her research interests are Logistics, Operations Management, and Supply Chain Management applied to topics such as the Retail Industry, Warehousing, Agri-Food Supply Chains, applying Operational Research and Management Science methods.

The Future of Retail Logistics – Human-Machine Interaction in Retail Warehouses

Thursday September 18, 2025 – Keynote Talk at 16.00 hours (RETAIL SPECIAL SESSION)

Alexander Hübner is a Full Professor for Supply and Value Chain Management at the Technical University Munich (TUM), Germany. Prof. Hübner holds a Ph.D. (2011) from the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany. He was an Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technol-ogy (MIT) and served for Logistics and Supply Chain Management at the Luxembourg Centre of Logistics. Before joining TUM, he headed the Institute for Supply Chain Management at the European Business School. He also worked as a Project Manager as McKinsey&Company serving retail and con-sumer goods clients (2005-2012). His latest research has been published, amongst others, in IISE Trans-actions, Production and Operations Management, and Transportation Science. His research focuses on decision support systems in the retail industry. He founded and leads the EURO Working Group “Retail Operations” and is the Editor-in-Chief of Logistics Research.

Practical Retail Logistics Management – Questions towards Research [DE]

Thursday September 18, 2025 – Keynote Talk at 18.00 hours (RETAIL SPECIAL SESSION)

Andreas Hillmann is lead logistics manager for REWE Germany, with the REWE group being one of the largest European retailers in grocery retailing and also engaged in tourism services. He studied management engineering at the TU Munich and has more than 20 years of logistics management experience in different positions with REWE and PENNY.

Logistics and Vehicle Routing between AI & Social Sustainability Management Requirements

Friday September 19, 2025 – Keynote Talk at 9.30 hours

Margaretha Gansterer currently holds a full professor position at the University of Klagenfurt. Since October 2019 she is serving as Head of the Department of Operations, Energy, and Environmental Management and since 2022 as Dean of the Faculty of Management, Economics & Law. Margaretha obtained her PhD and her Habilitation at the University of Vienna. She also held a professor position at University of Magdeburg. From 2020 to 2021 she served as International Liaison (Europe, Middle East, Africa) of the INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics (TSL) society. She is currently member of the board as TSL Past President after leading the society as President in 2024. Since 2022 she is board member of the Austrian OR society and Austrian representative for IFORS: She is also serving the EURO WISDOM Forum as member of the events subcommittee since 2021. Her research focuses on combinatorial optimization with a special interest in collaborative planning problems.

Logistics and the Human Factor – Logistics 5.0 in Business Practice

Friday September 19, 2025 – Keynote Talk at 15.30 hours

“How does the future look? Honestly – no idea. But I do know how I’d like it to be: mindful in how we treat people and sustainable in how we treat the planet.” That’s the mindset Steffen Obermann brings to work each day. At the ZUFALL logistics group – a family-owned company with 2,300 people – he leads the internal innovation lab. His role: to build bridges between today’s logistics reality and tomorrow’s start-up world. Between tradition and transformation. His focus: strengthening the organization’s ability to change and to innovate. Along the way, the logistics start-up LogiMate and a city logistics concept were born – built on the belief that planet, people, and profit can align. But Steffen’s role at LogiMate is far from the typical managing director job: he actively supports the young all-women founding team, who will eventually assume leadership. The zufall.lab is Steffen’s fifth company – in his fifth industry. Along the way, he is on a mission to shape a different kind of working world – one where people focus on their strengths and where impact matters more than status.

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. 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 November 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.

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.

We kindly ask you to register for the conference before July 31, 2025 (12.00 PM) in order to allow for effective program and scheduling planning, thank you!

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