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Background: Fleets constitute the most important production means in transportation. Their appropriate management is crucial for all companies having transportation duties. The paper is the third one of a series of three papers that the author dedicates to the strategic vehicle fleet management topic. Material and methods: The paper discusses ways of building replacement strategies for companies'...
Background: Although there is still a lot to do as far as prevention and elimination of traditional health and work safety hazards is concerned, the problem of psychosocial risk prevention is extremely important nowadays. It is crucial to take into consideration the health of workers and promotion of health in the workplace, as the occupational stress epidemics is getting more and more widespread...
Background: Economic activity focused on manufacturing and supplying products for sale is one of the basic processes in the logistics supply chain. The specificity of production processes requires concentration on the product manufacturing factors in terms of both business practice and in relation to the source literature, which are crucial for the continuity of the material flow. A significant impact...
Background: Logistics costs in trading companies constitute an important group. The main problem in logistics costs management is the fact that these costs are not included in financial statements. The profit and loss statement includes control accounts exclusively. In the article the accounting tools that may be used in trading companies in order to improve present logistics costs and an increase...
Background: The purpose of this paper is to redesign the supply chain network of a lubricant company by implementing innovative solution concentrated on the deliveries of products and minimizing total loading, unloading and transportation cost. Methods: In this paper the authors' approach of redesigning the supply chain network (SCN) is presented. It is composed of 3 phases, such as analysis of a...
Background: Entities participating in the product innovation process and assortment management create an organization that processes information, so spending invested in the information processing decide on the final form of the new product and assortment management. An important condition for effective communication processes, integration, cooperation between these entities is the right collocation...
Background: Proposed to take into account non-linear performance in terms of synergy when make DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis). The solution of the problem is done for interacting schools, which can be regarded as business clusters. The inputs and outputs are selected by them importance at author's opinion. However the technique does not change when taking into account other factors that have a numeric...
Background: The presented paper analyses the problems of inventory control of perishable goods that can deteriorate during warehousing. It aims to propose generalization of classical models used in the optimal inventory control theory for perishable goods adapted for the case of additional expenses incurred by supply companies to goods' deterioration reduction. Methods: The generalized Wilson model...
Background: Despite the large number of studies on various aspects and forms of supply chain collaboration, the issue is still classified as a relatively poorly recognized research problem in the logistics field. This article is crucial in the discussion on the further directions for the development of cross-organizational collaboration. The main objective of these studies was to assess the readiness...
Background: Having considered increasing production of liquid and solid biofuels from rapeseed and bearing in mind its stable and unquestionable position in the food and animal feed industries, a rational approach towards technologically and logistically efficient utilization of by-products from rapeseed processing is required. The aim of the research presented in the article is to assess the transport...
Background: In this paper, an economic production quantity model is considered under a fuzzy environment. Both the demand cost and holding cost are considered using fuzzy pentagonal numbers. The Signed Distance Method is used to defuzzify the total cost function. Methods: The results obtained by these methods are compared with the help of a numerical example. Sensitivity analysis is also carried out...
Background: The role of air transport in the economic development of a country and its regions cannot be overestimated. The decision concerning an airport's location must be in line with the expectations of all the stakeholders involved. This article deals with the issues related to the choice of sites where airports should be located. Methods: Two main quantitative approaches related to the issue...
Background: Project effectiveness is synonymous with project success. It is measured or assessed in terms of the degree to which project objectives are achieved. This paper presents an approach to evaluating the effectiveness of logistics projects. The starting point is the analysis of the current state of knowledge in the area of assessing project effectiveness, including logistics projects. The...
Background: As in the case of deteriorating items, expiration plays a major role in inventory management, a generalized approach is studied based on an inventory model for deteriorating items with expiration dates. Methods: In this paper, the demand rate during the cycle time is assumed to be trapezoidal. Shortages are allowed and partially backlogged. An inventory replenishment strategy is formulated...
Background: This study investigates the role of an incremental change in organizational process in creating radical performance results in a service provider company. The role of Kaizen is established prominently in manufacturing, but is nascent in service applications. This study examines the impact of introducing Kaizen as an ODI tool-how it is applied, how it works, and whether participants believe...
Background: The aim of the article is to verify the logistics and marketing instruments used in transport enterprises in Lubuskie voivodeship. The article presents the results of surveys of transport companies. Based on these studies in transport enterprises in Lubuskie, the current level of the use of logistics and marketing instruments was determined. Logistics and marketing instruments were separated...
Background: Multilateral cooperation is an inherent part of any business and one of the most important factors in the success of modern enterprise. Therefore, in this paper the author addresses the problem of building relationships with partners in a supply chain and focuses on the development of relational abilities as well as inter-organizational ties, and his exploration and considerations are...
Background: The increasing role of trade as the integrator of distribution channels has been observed in Poland recently. Retail companies have gained a competitive advantage in relationships with both suppliers and recipients. The natural questions are, how the situation of the wholesale trade looks at present in such a situation and what prospects it has for the future. The main aim of this paper...
Background: The issue of managing sustainability in supply chain seems to be more and more complex. There are many aspects that need to be taken into consideration when planning, implementing and monitoring environmental and social conditions of supply chains. Despite many works, already published, on the concept of sustainable development (SD) is seems that the issue of assessment and especially...
Background: Access to information is the key element in the successful and efficient organization of transport & logistic processes. The importance of real-time access to information is confirmed by a panel workshop carried out with support of design thinking methodology. There are two ways of gaining access to the right information - manual, where human agency is needed and fully automatic, where...
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