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Background: The most important contemporary methodological problems in the study of supply chains include creating and verifying hypotheses and theories as well as selecting appropriate research schemes. An acceptance of the different ways to explain problems (induction, deduction or abduction) is key. It should be remembered that interesting and useful results can be achieved only with well-formulated...
Background: This article is motivated by the fact that most approaches to capital budgeting are deterministic. In reality, the capital budgeting problem is accompanied by the uncertainty and risk associated with dealing with imprecise data. Taking this uncertainty into account when performing analyses and calculations not only helps to better measure the profitability of investment projects, but also...
Background: In a rapidly changing competitive environment and increasing customer expectations, an efficient supply chain is a very important success factor. What should be avoided and what should be considered during planning and supply chain management? Is it possible to apply the same solutions to each business model (B2B/ B2C)? The following article presents the perspective of manufacturing companies...
Background: In hereby article authors try to summarize how AI can be use by companies within production and warehousing. On the basis of previously developed Logistics 4.0 maturity model authors also propose Artificial intelligence maturity levels and on its basis a survey has been conducted in selected Polish and Norwegian companies and actual AI state of development and maturity levels has been...
Background: The extremely demanding and dynamic situation on the 21st-century market along with market trends such as globalization, product unification or the development of e-commerce and m-commerce make it harder for businesses to compete and lead to greater deployment of technologies. As customers’ expectations rise to an unbelievable level, all firms are searching for new means to succeed. Therefore,...
Background: Dynamic change has compelled Malaysian Polytechnics to embrace service quality to achieve competitive advantage and sustainability for nation economic development. Current literature in higher education service quality shows that appropriate implementation of HEdPERF in the organization operation will improve the service quality and job satisfaction that subsequently will enhance the organizational...
Background: Although extant studies have highlighted the importance of specific demand planning practices in risk mitigation, there is a scarcity of research that shows the simultaneous effects of demand planning practices on the disruptions induced by operational risks in supply chains. In order to reduce this gap, this paper aims to explore the impact of the demand planning process on operational...
Background: Remanufacturing transforms end-of-life products into new products, which brings cost savings for the usage of energy and materials and environmental protection. Sustainability is a significant issue for remanufacturing SMEs trying to stay competitive in the marketplace, while remanufacturing seems to be a promising strategy to explore for increasing the environmental and economic burdens...
Background: This article aims to determine the role of environmental cooperation and collaboration in supplier relationship management. The following concepts are introduced: supplier relationship management, environmental cooperation and environmental collaboration. Supplier relationship management aims at building bonds with suppliers that exceed the transactional approach to market cooperation...
Background: Transportation Problem (TP) is a special case of integer programming, characterised by indisputable practical significance (in particular in the area of logistics). For this reason, many techniques have been proposed to solve the problem both in optimum and approximate manner. The problem of selecting an effective technique for determining a suboptimal solution for TP was addressed by...
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