Digitalization trends are reshaping the industrial world. Recent advances in machine learning, artificial intelligence and automation, as well as the ever-increasing capacities of smart devices, have created a whole new business ecosystem. Additionally, customers are demanding more innovative, more diverse and greener products. This creates numerous challenges for all actors in the supply chain; yet, they also present a chance to create solutions and practices that improve performance and productivity. HICL 2018 focuses on research concepts and ideas that enable these tools and ideas to be used in logistics and SCM.  » about The Road to a Digitalized Supply Chain Management