About RAILS

RAILS – Review of Advances in Industry, Logistics & Supply Chains aims to be a leading transdisciplinary academic platform on contemporary issues in industrial management, logistics, and supply chains.

Rooted in an approach that is both scientific and open to practical applications, the journal welcomes work that questions, analyzes, and sheds light on the organizational, technological, social, environmental, and territorial dynamics at work in these fields.

• Encourage the production and dissemination of theoretical and empirical knowledge on industrial, logistics, and supply chain practices.
• Promote transdisciplinary approaches involving management sciences, economics, sociology, engineering, information sciences, political sciences, and environmental sciences.
• Create a space for dialogue between researchers and practitioners in order to bring the academic and operational worlds closer together.
• Support industrial, digital, ecological, and human transitions through rigorous, critical, and innovative analysis.

An indicative and evolving list:

• Production, operations, and performance management
• Logistics strategies and supply chain management
• Digitalization, information systems, data, and applied AI
• Risk management, resilience, and sustainable logistics
• Skills development and industrial human resources management
• Governance, responsible purchasing, flow management
• Industrial innovation, lean management, quality and continuous improvement
• Productive territories, industrial policies, urban logistics
• Ecological transitions, circular economy, green logistics
• Ethics, social responsibility, humanitarian logistics

RAILS – Review of Advances in Industry, Logistics & Supply Chains welcomes a variety of contributions on industrial management, logistics, and supply chains. Articles may take an academic, professional, or applied approach. The types of texts expected include:

Research articles: present original, theoretical or empirical work, or a review of the literature, shedding new light on an issue related to industry, logistics or the supply chain.

Case studies: describe concrete experiences (companies, projects, solutions implemented), with an analysis of the results, challenges encountered, and lessons to be learned.

Critical reviews: analyses of books, reports, conferences, or initiatives that are significant for the academic or professional community.

• Researchers, lecturers, and doctoral students in management sciences and related disciplines
• Professionals in the industrial, logistics, and supply chain sectors
• Institutions, think tanks, public or regional decision-makers
• Advanced students in specialized courses

• ISSN: 2981-2674
• Frequency: two regular issues per year, with the possibility of special issues
• Languages: articles published in French or English
• Contact: contact@rails-journal.org

All articles published in RAILS – Review of Advances in Industry, Logistics & Supply Chains are protected by copyright. Authors retain the copyright of their work and grant the journal the right of first publication.

Authors retain copyright without restrictions and grant RAILS a non-exclusive right of first publication. Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0).

RAILS provides immediate open access: full texts are freely available upon publication, without embargo or registration. No author fees are charged at any stage from submission to publication, including editorial processing and peer review.

This licence permits reading, downloading, copying, distributing, printing, searching, indexing, sharing and adapting the texts, including for commercial purposes, with credit to the authors and source, a link to the licence and an indication of changes, without implying their endorsement of the reuse. Third-party material carrying a separate notice remains subject to its own terms.

The CC BY 4.0 licence takes effect from volume 2, no. 2 (2026).

Licence text: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

RAILS is published by Association AIMIL (Association Internationale du Management Industriel et de la Logistique), France. Association website: https://aimil.org/. Journal contact: contact@rails-journal.org.

RAILS operates through the voluntary work of the people contributing to its editorial and scientific activities.