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Background: In the recent period, one could notice that more and more international companies implementing their strategies based on the concept of risk management. These companies when they evaluate and qualify their suppliers use the requirements of quality management standards, quality assurance standards (in particular sectors), safety and security management standards for supply chain, as well...
Background: The paper deals with production process scheduling problem. In large companies, the decision-making process about operators’ work, machines availability and production flow is a very difficult task, which is often being done by employees. Thus, not always the decision made is optimal in terms of cost, production time, etc. Methods: As a solution, two intelligent methods: Tabu Search and...
Background: Currently, many IT tools are used in every field. Therefore, the management of enterprises want modern IT solutions to also include logistic applications in various and diversified business profiles. It is also related to the minimization of operating costs. The EDI system makes it possible to achieve such goals. For this reason, research was carried out in selected Polish and Russian...
Background: Literature studies and analysis of the situation in business practice indicate the organizational culture as an important determinant that can inhibit or assist in the implementation of adaptive, proactive and proinnovation changes. New situations appearing in the external and internal environment as well as new conditions created by technical and technological progress oblige enterprises...
Background: This study investigates the relationship between CSR (corporate social responsibility) practices and enterprise performance. We have collected the data from 248 different enterprises located in different industrial areas of Karachi, mainly including S.I.T.E industrial area, Federal-B industrial zone, and West Wharf industrial area, Karachi Export processing zone, Bin Qasim industrial zone,...
Background: The following paper was developed to assess maturity levels in regards to sustainable development goals. Highly unstable business environment and opportunities occurring on the market require effective and quick decision making process. It is a challenge to follow such dynamic changes within and outside organization while maintaining sustainable goals. However authors state that this is...
Background: The information technology (IT) is presented in all levels of the supply chain, from the communication with suppliers, through the manufacture process and until the delivery to clients. Moreover, IT has a positive effect on the performance of the supply chain. In this context, it is important for the IT sector to register a positive evolution, in other words it is important that the IT...
Background: The complexity and uncertainty of the modern world encourage companies to use nowadays project management practices. Research of project management maturity allows assessing how well companies are prepared to run projects. The main motivation behind the article was lack of project management maturity assessment on the Polish logistic market. In the article, the authors describe research...
Background: Businessmen intending to rent or purchase a warehouse facility find it difficult to compare them. Surface area, cubic capacity or the number of reloading docks are not sufficient factors to make a decision. The aim of this paper is to provide a basis for the creation of international system of evaluation of warehouses from the point of view of future investors. Methods: A literature review...
Background: The key players in the vehicles’ recycling system are disassembling facilities, which manage flows of waste and reusable parts. The focus of the company’s business activity lies in stream of reusable parts, which is the most valuable, considering possibilities of selling (economic value) and resources saving (ecologic value). As a result of conducted research problem with demand forecasting...
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