A link between Logistics and Interoperability

The logistic appears as an important role in the growth of organizations, especially in high competitiveness environment. Increasingly, the business environment has become more complex and heterogeneous, so the ability to interact, share, collaborate their assets and information become a significant competitive advantage.

In this sense interoperability is a dynamic interface between their systems and flows and can provide the actors in a supply chain more efficient response regarding cost, quality, and responsiveness. Therefore, this article seeks to map the literature the relationship between logistics and interoperability by building a relevant portfolio of work. This work was characterized as exploratory, descriptive, qualitative and quantitative approaches.

This paper aims to develop the concept of Logistics Interoperability based on information technology, business and logistics activities. From the portfolio of papers resulting from the bibliometric research, an analysis of the contents by using a classification study of the works was applied. The gap found in the literature is concerned with the interoperability and applications directly related to logistics. One of the evidence, after the analysis of bibliometric portfolio contemplating the authors, journals, articles, keywords is the predominance of interoperability the systems area.