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Background: Increasing competitiveness in the market, customer expectations related to the shortening of the deadlines and the reduction of prices of products and services force companies to improve the efficiency of internal processes. The integration of planning process is one of possible ways to achieve this aim. The integration of planning processes by the use of SOP model (Sales and Operations...
Background: The international trade of food commodities is still growing and food products are transported sometimes for a long distance using various modes. Food transportation issues should be discussed not only in respect to quality and safety concerns but also from environmental point of view. Numerous approaches are proposed to study impacts of food transportation along typical food chain on...
Background: The air transport market in Poland is undergoing significant changes, which take place both on the demand and supply side. Polish airports have experienced the unprecedented growth of air traffic. However, the increase in the number of airline connections - which benefits airports, passengers, aircraft industry and, indirectly, the whole society - at the same time results in the growth...
Background: This paper is concerned with the development of ameliorating inventory models. The ameliorating inventory is the inventory of goods whose utility increases over the time by ameliorating activation. Material and Methods: This study is performed according to two areas: one is an economic order quantity (EOQ) model for the items whose utility is ameliorating in accordance with Weibull distribution,...
Background: Supply chain risk management increasingly gains prominence in many international industries. In order to strengthen supply chain structures, processes, and networks, adequate potentials for risk management need to be built (focus on effective logistics) and to be utilized (focus on efficient logistics). Natural-based disasters, such as the case of Fukushima, illustrate how crucial risk...
Background: Business organisations are facing a lot of competition during these days. To withstand the competition and to remain in the front row, an enterprise should have optimum profitable plan for his business. Researchers in recent years have developed various inventory models for deteriorating items considering various practical situations. Partial backlogging is considerably a new concept introduced...
Identification and analysis of factors that affect the accuracy of demand planning process across the supply chain is one of the most important problems which influence the effectiveness of its material and information flows. Material and methods: On the basis of demand planning process investigation authors define the main elements affecting the right supply chain performance level and investigate...
Background: Physical decay or deterioration of goods in stock is an important feature of real inventory systems. Material and methods: In the present paper, we discuss an production inventory model for a Weibull deteriorating item over a finite planning horizon with a linearly time-varying demand rate and a uniform production rate, allowing shortages, which are completely backlogged. Results and conclusions:...
Background: One of the most important issues subject to theoretical considerations and empirical studies is the measurement of efficiency of activities in logistics and supply chain management. Simultaneously, efficiency is one of the terms interpreted in an ambiguous and multi-aspect manner, depending on the subject of a study. The multitude of analytical dimensions of this term results in the fact...
Backround: Turkey has an important transfer center among Middle East, Europe and Asia. Turkey intends to reach $ 500 billion export target in 2023. Turkish logistics sector has been rapidly grown. Both national and international companies invest their presence and service in the country. The study firstly aims to evaluate the degree of internationalization of firms in the Turkish logistics sector...
Background: Goods distribution by containers has opened new opportunities for them in the global supply chain network. Standardization of transportation units allow to simplify transport logistics operations and enable the integration of different types of transport. Currently, container transport is the most popular means of transport by sea, but recent studies show an increase in its popularity...
Background: Innovation in food and beverage packaging is mostly driven by consumer needs and demands influenced by changing global trends, such as increased life expectancy, fewer organizations investing in food production and distribution. Food industry has seen great advances in the packaging sector since its inception in the 18th century with most active and intelligent innovations occurring during...
Background: The emergences of global markets have increased competition worldwide. For Small Medium Sized Enterprises with limited resources to sustain in what is already a very competitive market there is a need for strong and continuously increasing Product Value to reduce business risks and revenue losses and to increase market share and customer satisfaction. To fulfill this need, Product Value...
Background: The aim of this paper is to present and analyze a new method of the logistics disaster management and concentrates particularly on terrorist attacks of CBRN type (C - chemical attack/weapon, B - biological attack/weapon, R - radiological attack/weapon, N - nuclear attack/weapon) at the airports. Each of the aforementioned is an issue of great importance and high priority for the airport...
Background: The paper presents the issues of parking in the cities. The idea of multi-storey, overground garage with the capacity of 400 cars per hour has been proposed in the paper. The main focus is on analyzing loading and unloading as well as trans-shipment of the cars on the storeys of the garage. Methods: The queuing theory has been used in the modelling process of the vehicles operation. The...
Background: Management practices are being carried out by most of the small and medium sized enterprises (SME) which substantially switched to sophisticated manner. This study aims to determine the relationship between human resource management (HRM) and supply chain management (SCM) in SME. Methods: the data from 195 manufacturing and service sectors SME were collected. The Pearson's correlation...
Background: This article is a discussion on the role of marketing in the activity of logistics service providers. The strong competition and changing purchasing preferences should motivate the transport, forwarding and logistics sector managers to apply the marketing approach in practice. Methods: Results of direct research, conducted among a targeted group of 100 companies from the transport, forwarding...
Background: Performance management system (PMS) is the process of quantifying action which leads to organizational efficiency, competitiveness and growth. Performance measurement is the vital element of quality management system (QMS). Innovative companies have a strong culture, clear sense of mission and purpose, a well thought out strategy and business philosophy of continuous improvement, driven...
Background: The present paper deals with the problems of a public transportation fleet management in public transportation operators. A management concept is proposed based on a real-time acquisition of parameters of public transportation passenger exchange. Methods: The relevant research utilised video materials documenting the processes of passenger exchange in public transportation. The proposed...
Background: Meeting service quality standards and striving for loyalty are two critical areas which have until now been overlooked by both the passenger transport industry and academia in Pakistan therefore the study sheds useful light on an issue hitherto untouched. Therefore increased sample size will help in increasing generalizability of study. Methods: This paper is designed to study the level...
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