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The main objective of this research is to find out the economic impact of adopting green practices to the supply chains of manufacturing companies in Sri Lanka and the competitiveness gained through it. Greening the supply chain is looked at from three perspectives in this research namely, greening the inbound function, greening the production function and greening the outbound function where the...
Due to the significant growth in manufacturing environment disruptions and customer demand variability, logistics services have concurrently witnessed a disturbing increase in customer returns as part of the reverse logistics system. This paper proposes the use of the Vanguard Method approach for logistics services design that can reduce reverse logistics caused by forward logistics inefficiencies...
The changing role of logistics in automobile manufacturing may be leading to the blurring of the traditional distinction between design and manufacturing activities. This paper examines how the advent of integrated logistics supply chain may influence organizational learning in automobile manufacturing firms. The focus is on collaboration, information sharing, cooperation, and technology transfer,...
Environmental issues and governmental regulations have pushed companies to be more environmentally conscious and socially responsible. Sustainable production plays an important role in the global markets and companies practicing sustainable manufacturing processes for protecting the environment can increase their competitiveness. Reverse logistics is one of the sustainable approaches, which returns...
This work describes the strategy of a leading Mexican food firm to improve its inbound transportation cost level. This is based on the application of a broad scheme for identifying and assessing areas for improving based on supplier negotiation, increasing operations efficiency and redesigning distribution schemes. The partial results of the implementation of the improvement initiatives have been...
The originality of this paper consists in proposing a model that can be used to simulate the manner in which companies interoperate in cooperative supply chain networks. The objective is to develop a model that enables the analysis of the impact of business interoperability on the performance of cooperative supply chain networks. The analysis of the impact is based on the agent-based simulation method...
This work describes a suggested scheme to define a distribution strategy to increase the level of agility for a distribution network. This is based on the application of a scheme for increasing efficiency in the distribution operations on a detailed level. The Total Operational Vehicle Effectiveness (TOVE) index is used as the main performance measure. Availability, performance and quality wastes...
Horizontal collaboration is the pooling of logistics activities and consolidation of supply chains between two or more manufacturers for achieving mutual benefit. The concept of establishing horizontal relationships between supply chain partners has been first introduced by the European Union in 2001. Often, horizontal co-operation can lead to substantial economic benefits where it is a means of sharing...
The flow of returned products is becoming a significant concern for many manufacturers. The total value of commercial returns, which is defined as products returned by customers for any reasons within a specified warranty period, is estimated at about $100 billion a year in the United States. Therefore, these returns need to be remanufactured, recycled, and reused in order to utilize their value and...
The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a case study on incorporating postponement in an offshoring strategy at a Singapore-based manufacturer. Two stock keeping units (SKUs) are identified as being suitable candidates for postponement and several decoupling points along the SKUs' supply chain are investigated. The results show that while offshoring has been found to offer much larger...
The aim of this study is to analyze the influence of IT investments in supply chain governance (SCG) and its conceptions (contractual, relational and transactional). This study used qualitative and quantitative techniques to assist the researcher in obtaining a better and a more in depth understanding of the phenomenon. In the qualitative step, five items emerged that was applied to identify and measure...
Collaborative planning mechanisms coordinate the decisions of multiple, autonomous, and self-interested decisions makers under asymmetric information. The approach proposed in this paper extends collaborative planning for the distributed multi-level uncapacitated lot-sizing problem by integrating compensation payments. Compensation or side payments provide an incentive for individual decision makers...
Today's business environment is characterized by complex logistics networks which contain multiple actors participating in the provision of products and services. These (potentially) legally independent yet highly inter-dependent companies need to be coordinated in their actions to achieve a high supply chain performance. Thereby, peculiar challenges -- affecting the design of effective coordination...
The extent of collaboration among the companies in a manufacturing network impacts the parametric fluctuations in the network. This is displayed explicitly by the form of the network's normal modes. By gradually increasing the number of companies that actively collaborate, it is possible to see how the form of the normal modes changes. Initial understanding of this normal mode's resonant damping was...
In an era of worldwide economic downturn, managing supply chain disruptions is the best option in the success of any firm. In this context, this paper presents a supply chain risk mitigation framework for manufacturing firms. It was used agent-based model to create a framework to deal with the supply chain disruption. To validate the proposed model, it was used Petri net to assess the structural properties...
The purpose of this paper is to develop a nonlinear programming method for solving a type of cooperative games in which there are multiple objectives and coalitions' values on objectives are expressed with intervals, which are called intervalvalued multiobjective cooperative games for short. In this method, we define the concepts of interval-valued cores of interval-valued multiobjective cooperative...
The aim in this paper is to explore how the educational and research issues are handled in operations management and service systems in industrial engineering programs in major Turkish universities. Firstly, a review of the recent developments in the area is given. Based on this review, the performance of industrial engineering departments in major Turkish universities is assessed. The study identifies...
Competition is no longer company to company, but supply chain to supply chain and flexibility is viewed as a key dimension of supply chain performance in global competition recently. Companies must manage the entire supply chain and work together with supply chain node enterprises, have access to resources, knowledge, and information from the network, and improve supply chain flexibility. Relational...
The aim of this paper is to show the concept of Cyber Physical Logistics Systems (CPLS). The individual parts are based on already existing solutions, either industrial products or research demonstrators both based on the concept of the Internet of Things. After listing new requirements and opportunities of these CPLS and the basic technology layers, a real-world scenario is used to illustrate the...
With frequent food safety incidents, it becomes urgent and important to design an intuitively quantitative trust model to describe the trustworthiness of foods delivered in supply chains. However, current existing models are usually too subjective, because they heavily depend on experts' experiences to model the trust and set relevant parameters. Fortunately, the Internet of Agricultural Things may...
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