The first paper, "How Logistics Is Evolving: Why It Is Appropriate for Today and the Next Decade", by Shannon Cleary and Carolan McLarney, highlights the evolution of logistics management, which is a critical function of supply chain management. The authors state that it is imperative for a business to have a global view of the entire supply chain to ensure successful integration across all business platforms. The paper suggests that continued growth through collaboration and crowd sourcing structures is the key to all future logistics strategies. Internet connectivity through cloud computing has the capabilities to provide transparent and precise delivery tracking across multiple third-party logistics operators. Sophisticated and well-integrated logistics application can help manage contracts, containerization and fuel costs, track commitments and deadlines, layer in new contracts and services and track overall quality. The paper shows that increased regulations, government support and transparency through a centralized database can improve the quality of data and flow of goods across the borders to facilitate more trade and logistics services, citing clues from multinational corporations like Walmart, Uber, Mercedes-Benz and Amazon.

The second paper, "Blockchain and IoT-Based Traceability for an Efficient Food Supply Chain: State-of-the-Art Literature Review", by Shivam Swarup and Gyaneshwar Singh Kushwaha, highlights the importance of traceability mechanism in food supply chain. The authors state that food processing is one of the highest contributing sectors in terms of domestic and international economic output. Hence, it is imperative to have an efficient food ecosystem where each stakeholder is kept accountable for maintaining the authenticity and quality of the food products. To broaden the understanding of current trends of research on food traceability, the authors have conducted a critical review of literature on IOT and food supply chain published over the last 22 years, i.e., from 1998 to 2020. They have observed that there have been quite a few studies in the development of a sustained food traceability application. However, there are weaknesses in the implementation of technological trends such as Blockchain on a large-scale food supply chain. The authors have concluded that there is an absolute need for traceability mechanisms providing transparency and efficiency to the overall ecosystem. With the recent technological trends such as Blockchain and IoT, traceability-based applications can be developed and implemented in real-time to realize the full potential of an efficient food supply chain. This paper presents a broader understanding of the current status of research in technology-based FSC traceability and suggests the future course of action to enhance its applicability. The third paper, "Implementation of QFD in Dairy Industry: A Quantitative Approach to Relating Customer Requirement with Operational Application", by Aswin Sambhu P R, Jyoti Pathak, Rushina Singhi and Vijit Chaturvedi, has applied Quality Function Deployment (QFD) in the dairy industry to study the voice of the customers meeting the technical requirement. To study the model, the authors have selected three different dairy companies functioning in India. The voice/need of the 300 customers was collected through a questionnaire-based survey. The responses were analyzed using quality function deployment matrix to understand the relation between customer needs and technical descriptors. Various important technical descriptors for the dairy products like quality, texture, form, freshness and durability of the packaged milk have been identified to satisfy the need of the customers. Further, competitive analysis was performed for these three competing dairies. The application of QFD in dairy industry demonstrated the ease and application of QFD model. The findings of the study can help academicians, researchers and practitioners to understand the needs of customers and development of products using QFD not only in dairy industry but also in various sectors.

The last is a research note, "Unloved but Indispensable Logistics: How to Improve Its Image?", by Gilles Pache and Rudolf O Large. It highlights the importance of logistics in ensuring the physical availability of goods to the right place at the right time. The authors reinstate that though logistics activities are indispensable for society, many people associate negative or at least unattractive images with logistics. Consequently, there are image-related shortcomings and problems. Negative attitudes towards logistics held by a large number of people influence public opinion and exert pressure on the political decision makers. Furthermore, negative perceptions of logistics also influence the private decisions of individuals, for example, the choice of care since they predominantly perceive the dark side of logistics. A well-known consequence of this effect is the shortage of truck drivers in many economies. However, the authors state that the Covid-19 pandemic has shown various bright sides to logistics and indicated that the world will need an increasing number of efficient logisticians and supply chain managers in the retailing sector, home delivery sector and health sector. To durably attract the best talents, especially from the new generation of graduate and postgraduate students, it is essential to improve the image of logistics by playing on several strategic levers. The authors present four levers in the context of the new digital economy: benefit segmentation, implementation of a perfect tracking system, simplification of the return policy and 'staging' of logistics.