Volume 60, Issue 334, January - April 2024

Digitization in logistics and its effect on sustainability in Nigeria

Adetayo Olaniyi Adeniran^1♦, Gbemileke Tobi Oyeniran², Adedayo Ayomide Adeniran³, Muraina Joseph Mosunmola⁴

¹Federal University of Technology Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria
²Georgia State University, Atlanta, United States
³University of Ibadan, Nigeria
⁴Ekiti State Unversity, Ado-Akiti, Nigeria

^♦Corresponding author
Federal University of Technology Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria

ABSTRACT

This study examined the application of digitization in logistics, and its effect on sustainability. As part of the fourth industrial revolution, most businesses are currently digitizing. Case study research design was employed by focusing on five ecommerce logistics companies in Nigeria, and it is rooted in qualitative research methods and semi-structured interviews. Seventeen (17) pertinent criteria were identified; of these, ten (out of seventeen) relate to the economic feature of sustainability, two to the environmental feature, and the remaining five to the social feature. The study demonstrated the significant sustainability effect of utilizing digital technologies and applications in logistics within e-commerce logistics companies. Notably, the economic implications of digitization in sustainability effect outweighed the other dimensions, even though participant evaluation of some criteria was ambiguous. It revealed that the social effects of digitalization are often negligible. For labour patterns, digitization was identified to pose a danger. Land-use minimization was the primary effect of digitalization on the environment. Social value will be created by digitization than economic value.

Keywords: Digitizaton; E-commerce; E-commerce logistics; Industry 4.0; Sustainability

Discovery, 2024, 60, e15d1420

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi.v60i334.e15d1420

Published: 03 April 2024