Guest Editorial to the Special Issue on Logistics and Supply Chain Systems Engineering

Logistics and supply chain systems (SCSs) are an important part of industrial systems. In order to establish an optimal logistics and supply chain system (SCS), the systems approach which focuses on the "whole picture" and achieving "global optimality" should be adopted. In this special issue, we collect and feature papers which explore different problems in logistics and SCSs. Important approaches, such as game theory, simulation, metaheuristics, robust control, fuzzy sets, and multiobjective optimization, are found to be employed in exploring problems in logistics and SCSs. We conclude this article by discussing "what is next" for research in logistics and SCSs engineering in the Industry 4.0 era and beyond.