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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">***Call for Papers *** 20th CSCMP European Research Seminar (ERS) on Logistics and SCM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Conference Venue: Verona, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Conference dates: June 19+20, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Submission deadline: February 28, 2025
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">This year’s theme “Supply Chain Transformation” of the ERS conference is aimed at challenging current practices, thinking patterns, and paradigms in supply chain
management by fostering forward-thinking discussions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">The CSCMP European Research Seminar (ERS) on Logistics and SCM is a global conference with a European background. It is an interactive conference, which centers
on intensive discussion of inspiring and thought-provoking research and new developments among all participants. ERS welcomes participants from around the globe with its aim to expose and discuss contemporary issues in logistics and supply chain management.
It is a platform for intensive interaction both formally in the sessions and informally outside of them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">ERS 2025 will be held in Verona, Italy, on June 19+20, 2025. We are looking forward to an exciting conference and meeting many of you in Verona!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">The conference offers four different submission formats, including submission to the Journal of Business Logistics (JBL).
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">For further information please visit:
<a href="https://www.ers-conference.org/">https://www.ers-conference.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Carl Marcus Wallenburg – Co-Chair of ERS 2025<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">The Chair of Logistics and Services Management</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">European Editor,
<i>Journal of Business Logistics</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Co-Chair,
<i>ERS 2025</i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Tel.: +49 211 44709-411; Fax: +49 211 44709-419</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="http://www.whu.edu/lsm" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">www.whu.edu/lsm</span></a> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#C00000;mso-fareast-language:DE">Research Conference ERS:</span></u></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#C00000;mso-fareast-language:DE">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">European Research Seminar on Logistics and SCM</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">;
<b><a href="http://www.ers-conference.org/"><span style="color:blue">www.ers-conference.org</span></a></b>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Die Stiftung WHU ist Träger der WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management is the Business School of the WHU Foundation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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