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Table 5 The proposed sustainability dashboard

Sphere Category Indicator

Economic Logistics performance Vehicle loading rate

Warehouse loading rate

Finance balance Yearly cost benefit analysis

Quality Service Service rate

Environmental
and social

Environmental effects GHG emission reduction

Traffic congestion reduction

Social effects Percentage of jobs to create/reconvert

measurements and environmental/social indicators. Seven indicators have been
defined, and are presented in Table 5 . Note that an operational dashboard has to be
understood by different readers, so it is recommended to have between five and
eight indicators for overall workability.

5 Conclusions, Stakes and Future Development

Logistics sharing is becoming a popular approach to reduce the distribution costs
of a product. However, the subject has not been extensively studied in the liter-
ature. In this chapter, we presented the main concepts of logistics sharing in the
freight distribution sector, focusing on collaboration for transportation-based
sharing approaches. We presented both an organizational model for the develop-
ment of a sharing-based information system and an analytical model for its stra-
tegic decisions, defining the categories of factors that can impact them.
A collaborative sharing approach must have an efficient information sharing
system. In this perspective, several aspects have to be considered in the different
planning horizons. Tactical decisions deal with technological and planning tools,
management sharing between the potential actors of the sharing-based supply
chain, both at internal and external levels. The strategic decisions are based on the
possible tactical choices to define the main objectives and the sharing solutions to
be developed, also taking into consideration the risks inherent to these choices.
Several organizational issues are at stake and can be deduced from the models and
examples of logistics sharing approaches presented above. The first is to consider
transportation explicitly as part of supply chain management methods, providing
multidisciplinary research that includes systems engineering, information science,
economy, management, sociology and other scientific approaches to decision-
making, to mention the most important ones. In this sense, group-decision theory
becomes a field of investigation that can produce interesting results for logistics
sharing management-decision support. The second issue, concerns any logistics
strategic decision-maker who must make a preliminary analysis of the factors
affecting the key decisions, in order to choose the best approach to meet their
goals. Thirdly, for company managers, the challenge is to correctly identify the