Logistics software systems and functions: an overview of ERP, WMS, TMS and SCM systems -- Logistics Mall - A cloud platform for logistics -- Empirical Qualitative Analysis of the Current Cloud Computing Market for Logistics -- The Logistics Mall – An IT-Architecture for Logistics-as-a-Product -- Business Apps meet the challenge of covering continually changing logistics requirements -- Seamless Interoperability in Logistics: Narrowing the Business-IT Gap by Logistics Business Objects -- Challenges of Cloud Business Process Management.

This edited monograph brings together research papers covering the state of the art in cloud computing for logistics. The book includes general business object models for intralogistics as well as user-friendly methods for logistics business process design. It also presents a general template for logistics applications from the cloud. The target audience primarily comprises researchers and experts in the field, but the book will also be beneficial for graduate students.