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Reverse logistics is an activity associated with a product/service after the point of sale, the ultimate goal to optimize or make more efficient aftermarket activity. Enterprises that have implemented reverse logistics have been able to enhance consumer service and response times, minimize environmental influences by minimizing waste and enhance complete corporate citizenship. In this connection,...
Right of way process of high voltage, 110–132 K.V, transmission power lines projects is complicated process as it is based on more than fifty interrelated steps that involve several departments and governmental agencies to obtain the necessary permits and secure approvals of power lines routes. Permitting process has to be within time frame of about one to one and a half year which is composing twenty...
The challenge in last-mile supply chains deliveries is to maintain and improve the operational cost-effectiveness by the implementation of efficient procedures while facing increased levels of congestion in cities. One competitive alternative is Horizontal Cooperation (HC). City distribution problems under HC conditions can be modeled as multi-depot vehicle routing problems, which are NP-hard problems...
In this paper, we discuss the issue of collaborative data sharing among a number of parties to provide rich online services to their clients. We assume that each party hosts its data in a private cloud infrastructure but they collectively agree to certain well-defined set of accesses and access restrictions to one another's databases. We show how these can be used to derive access rules that become...
This paper presents the electric planning process and requirements in Muscat Distribution Company (MEDC) and discusses how the planning can be enhanced by using best practices. Also, the paper describes the planning model used in MEDC. Planning challenges and constraints are discussed. These include high demand growth, design and technical constraints, technical and non-technical losses, security...
Nowadays, effective and accurate analysis of customer requirements (CRs) is vital in the new product development process, especially in the early design stage, where corresponding changes can be made easily into the further development stages. Quality function deployment (QFD), acting as a customer-centric product development tool, is widely utilized in the product planning stage. Despite its “House...
Emergent changes are common in large engineering projects and in such dynamic project environments planning and documentation work are often deprioritized in favor of actionable decisions. Previous research has failed to look at the planning and documentation problem as a sociotechnical system as it relates to project managers' and engineer's practical work. In this article, a single case study approach...
Currently, the universities systematically construct professional competencies. However, mutual integration, as well as transferable competencies, communication and management skills of graduates, deficits of which are highly notable in practice, are needed even more. The most effective method to develop these competencies appears to be the use of live projects. In this paper we describe our experience...
Supply Chain Management efforts are continuously seeking for improvements to better manage inventory levels and fulfill customer orders in a cost effective manner. However, defining system capacity by reacting to sales orders levels and inventory availability may create a bullwhip effect along the supply chain. This review is dedicated to compare two different manufacturing capacity planning strategies...
Succession planning and career path are often used to develop the employee career path in the organization based on their interest and capabilities. The problem is a lack of integrated information system to help the company in finding the successors of vacant positions and in mapping out the employee career path. Several methods were used in this research such as questionnaire and benchmarking with...
There has been many previous studies that discuss the control for the production of coconut flour and raw material inventory. But a system or a computer-based model for coconut flour industry in North Sulawesi has not or does not exist. For that reason, coconut flour industries also require tools on in running the business as developed in this study. The problem in this research is how to make the...
In the financial market the decision on when buying or selling stocks is fundamental in order to achieve profit. There are several techniques that can be used to help investors in order to make a decision. One of those is the employment of technical analysis that consists of chart studies concerning the behaviour of stock prices. In this paper we describe our approach for this problem of decision...
In this paper the Crew Rostering Problem (CRP) from a Brazilian public transit company is modeled and solved by a Genetic Algorithm (GA). The CRP consists of assigning duties on weekdays, Saturdays and Sundays to the crew members of a company over a given planning horizon, minimizing the number of crews and also balancing the workload of the crews, reducing the total number of accumulated overtime...
Lean logistics regards lean thinking as a guide, driven by customer demand, using a series of lean methods to keep improving, eliminate waste, and create value-added logistics activities throughout the value chain so that logistics can effectively and smoothly flow throughout the chain. For engine manufacturing has many work-in-process inventories, station busy/free unbalanced, crowded production,...
This paper describes our experience using entrepreneurial clients to teach a Project Management course. Although the majority of students are currently Marketing & Management Communication Students, Engineering and Computer Science Design students also participate, and learn from the multidisciplinary teams formed for the coursework. The course focus is first and foremost on project management...
In the field of culture performance, there are communication difficulties between the two sides of industrial chain. On one hand, the audience is difficult to get in line with their ticket price expectations and interests, moreover, the market lacks of a platform for ticket business aggregation. On the other hand, performance producers are difficult to obtain audience's demand. Performances were produced...
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) value relates to the extent to which its investment have created value for an organization. The issues of ERP value are how to define and to measure ERP value. Therefore, the objectives of this research are not only to develop a model for ERP value but also to define and to measure ERP value in the post-implementation stage. Using the Resource-Based View (RBV) approach,...
As commercial roles for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) become clearer and demand for services provided by them increases, UAVs rely more on new cloud computing services and cooperative coordination to provide mission planning, control, tracking and data processing. This article presents the UAV as a Service (UAVaaS) framework, which ports features commonly found in traditional cloud services, such...
ITIL is a large collection of best practices, tools and methods used in the management and handling of IT services. It's composed of five books related to the most important IT management fields. In this paper, we will place the emphasis on the Service Operation field in ITIL and more precisely, on the incident management process used for managing the life cycle of IT incidents. The main idea is to...
Information systems projects are collective, collaborative, complex, knowledge-intensive and creative efforts that involve many people working in different phases and activities. Therefore, the knowledge and its management are considered valuable resources for guaranteeing the success of these projects. This paper attempts to present a conceptual framework that integrates the knowledge management...
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