16th Biennial International Conference on Industrial Logistics (ICIL 2025)
Dates: October 30 – November 2, 2025
Location: Ritsumeikan University, Tokyo Campus, Japan

The 16th Biennial International Conference on Industrial Logistics (ICIL) 2025 will take place in Tokyo, Japan, from October 30th to November 2nd, 2025, hosted by the International Centre for Innovation and Industrial Logistics (ICIIL) and held at Ritsumeikan University’s Tokyo Campus. We are honored to announce that the keynote address will be delivered by Prof. Jayant Rajgopal of the University of Pittsburgh.

ICIIL is a non-profit professional association that has been developing an integrated view of Industrial Logistics, while sharing and exchanging ideas and research results among professionals, academics, students, and industrialists. The ICIL is the main means of attaining these objectives worldwide, with events held in France (1993), Brazil (1995), the USA (1997), Russia (1999), Japan (2001), Finland (2003), Uruguay (2005), Lithuania (2006), Israel (2008), Brazil (2010), Croatia (2012), Croatia (2014), Poland (2016), Israel (2018), and Croatia (2023). In 2025, Japan will host researchers once more.

The conference will feature a multidisciplinary program that will include original research results and contributions to the fields of logistics and supply chain management. Organizing and Scientific Committees gladly invite professionals, academics, students and industrialists to send contributing papers to the conference. We invite original research that examines the effect of Industry 5.0 on logistics and supply chain management. We also welcome papers on advanced analytics, supply chain optimization, smart and connected logistics, circular economy models, and carbon-neutral operations. Topics such as data-driven decision-making, ethical sourcing, waste reduction, and digital transformation are also highly relevant. We particularly value contributions that demonstrate how novel approaches drive innovation in industrial logistics and supply chain management by connecting theory and practice.

Conference Themes Include:
Logistics and Distribution
Digital Logistics Systems
Procurement and Inventory
Strategic Supply Chains
Sustainable Logistics and Waste Management

Paper Submissions
Participants are invited to submit full papers that contribute to theoretical, empirical, or practical aspects of industrial logistics. Selected papers will be recommended for publication by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Operations Research series. Final selections will be made prior to the conference, and the volume will be edited by:

Prof. Petri T. Helo
University of Vaasa

Prof. U. Aytun Ozturk
Ritsumeikan University

Full paper deadline: July 31, 2025
Submission platform: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icil2025

Registration
Details on paper submission, events, and conference fees are announced on the official ICIL 2025 website.

https://icil2025.iciil.net/

Contact and Information
For questions regarding participation or contributions, please email: ozturk@fc.ritsumei.ac.jp