Under the title: “Logistics at its Best – Crisis-Resilient with Knowledge and Innovation”, this event, together with the accompanying conference proceedings, aims to position itself in light of some less favorable economic facts and the challenges of an increasingly complex world. It seeks to identify the essential contribution that logistics makes to our daily lives and activities.The synthesis of science and industry is a key success factor of the “Logistikwerkstatt Graz” conference series. The present 13th volume of the conference proceedings contains the lecture materials in an annotated form.