The 16th Biennial International Conference on Industrial Logistics 2025 will take place in Tokyo, Japan, from October 30th to November 2nd, 2025, hosted by the International Centre for Innovation and Industrial Logistics (ICIIL) and held at Ritsumeikan University’s Tokyo Campus. Prof. Jayant Rajgopal (University of Pittsburgh) will deliver the keynote address.

ICIIL is a non-profit professional association that develops an integrated view of Industrial Logistics and facilitates the exchange of ideas and research among professionals, academics, students, and industry leaders. The ICIL is the main platform through which these objectives are pursued worldwide, with events held in France (1993), Brazil (1995), the USA (1997), Russia (1999), Japan (2001), Finland (2003), Uruguay (2005), Lithuania (2006), Israel (2008), Brazil (2010), Croatia (2012), Croatia (2014), Poland (2016), Israel (2018), and Croatia (2023). In 2025, Japan will host researchers once more.

The conference will feature a multidisciplinary program that will include original research results and contributions to the fields of logistics and supply chain management. The Organizing and Scientific Committees welcome submissions from professionals, academics, students, and industry practitioners. We especially encourage research that examines the effect of Industry 5.0 on logistics and supply chain management. We also welcome papers on advanced analytics, supply chain optimization, smart and connected logistics, circular economy models, and carbon-neutral operations. Topics such as data-driven decision-making, ethical sourcing, waste reduction, and digital transformation are also highly relevant. We particularly value contributions that demonstrate how novel approaches drive innovation in industrial logistics and supply chain management by connecting theory and practice.

Paper Submissions

Participants are invited to submit full papers that contribute to theoretical, empirical, or practical aspects of industrial logistics. Selected high-quality papers will be recommended for publication in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Operations Research series. The series is indexed in Scopus and other academic databases. Final selections will be made prior to the conference, and authors must submit revised versions by the deadline to be eligible.

List of Topics

• Supply Chain Management
• Purchasing and Procurement
• Inventory Management
• In-plant Logistics
• Material Handling
• Plant Layout
• Operations Management and Scheduling
• Plant Location
• Warehousing
• Warehouse/DC Design and Layout
• Storage Equipment and Systems
• Warehouse Process Optimization
• Warehouse Location
• Distribution Design and Planning
• Distribution Management
• Transportation
• Transportation Modes, Intermodal Transport
• Transportation Management, Route Optimization
• Simulation Modelling of Logistics Systems and Processes
• Logistics 5.0
• Robotics in Logistics
• Digital/Smart Logistics
• Logistics Information Systems
• Identification and Communication
• E-logistics
• Packaging and Labeling
• Reverse Logistics
• Recycling and Waste Management
• Sustainable (Green) Logistics / SCM
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Reliability and Maintenance of Logistic Systems
• Financial and Economic Modelling / Aspects of Logistics
• Forecasting
• Customer Service
• After-sales Support
• Logistics Outsourcing
• Global Logistics
• Ergonomics in Logistics

Committees

Program Committee

• Axmann B. (Germany)
• Bakir N.O. (Oman)
• Benavides A.J. (Peru)
• Bielecki M. (Poland)
• Bortolini M. (Italy)
• Brlek P. (Croatia)
• Burinskiene A. (Lithuania)
• Cajner H. (Croatia)
• Cancela H. (Uruguay)
• Canen A.G. (Brazil)
• Cohen Y. (Israel)
• Dubreta N. (Croatia)
• Dujak D. (Croatia)
• Dukic G. (Croatia)
• Fernandez I. (Spain)
• Gajsek B. (Slovenia)
• Helo P. (Finland)
• Hirz M. (Austria)
• Kolar D. (Croatia)
• Kulturel-Konak S. (USA)
• Lerher T. (Slovenia)
• Manzini R. (Italy)
• Mayrhofer W. (Austria)
• Menipaz E. (Israel)
• Opetuk T. (Croatia)
• Ozturk U.A. (Japan)
• Piñeyro P. (Uruguay)
• Quezada F. (Chile)
• Rogic K. (Croatia)
• Rossit D. (Argentina)
• Safran M. (Croatia)
• Sawik T. (Iceland)
• Schmidt S. (Germany)
• Syahrial E. (Malaysia)
• Tammela I. (Brazil)
• Tanaka K. (Japan)
• Tharmmaphornphilas W. (Thailand)
• Tohme F. (Argentina)
• Viana V. (Uruguay)
• Wellbrock W. (Germany)
• Wu X. (China)
• Yildiz H. (USA)

Organizing committee

• Prof. Hector Cancela - Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay
• Prof. Alberto G. Canen - COPPE, Federal University Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Prof. Goran Dukic - FMENA, University of Zagreb, Croatia
• Prof. Isabel Fernandez - University of Oviedo, Gijon, Spain
• Prof. Petri Helo - University of Vaasa, Finland
• Prof. Tone Lerher - University of Maribor, Slovenia
• Prof. Ehud Menipaz - Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva Ira Center for Business Technology and Society, Israel
• Prof. U. Aytun Ozturk - Ritsumeikan University, Japan

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to ozturk@fc.ritsumei.ac.jp