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Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology has gained increasing popularity in businesses to improve operational efficiency and maximise costs saving. However, there is a gap in the literature exploring the enhanced use of RFID to substantially add values to the supply chain operations, especially beyond what the RFID vendors could offer. This paper presents a multi-agent system, incorporating...
The rapid development of the electrical and electronic products (EEPs) market in recent years has created both positive and negative impacts on the environment and humans. In order to achieve sustainable development, the most critically negative impacts – i.e., waste EEP (WEEP) — must be properly handled, such as disposal, remanufacturing, recycling, reusing, to name a few. Among the suggested solutions...
There are some quality and safety problems for material management in the construction project. Based on material batch mapping, we design a traceable model for material quality in this paper. in the model we define the traceable object (TOB). Based on traceable batch record and coding step by step, the model defines the batch quality feature (BOF). Based on the BOF, the model associates material...
In R/M integrated supply chain, the collecting time, the quality and the quantity of the used-products are uncertain. All of these uncertainties have great impacts on the management of R/M integrated supply chain. By using the technology of Internet of Things, these uncertainties can be reduced efficiently. However, the R/M integrated supply chain based on IoT must face another problem: a unit product...
Traditional management frameworks that have been applied to governance of systems are no longer effective in the context of systems of systems. To provide an effective governance framework for a system of systems, it is necessary to understand the governance mechanism in its entirety, including its fundamental components, or pillars.
From the time Intel became aware of the potential for conflict minerals to enter our supply chain, we have responded to this issue with a sense of urgency and resolve. In July 2010, the US Government enacted legislation that requires all US publicly traded companies to file disclosures and reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) related to the use of Conflict Minerals (tin, tantalum,...
In any customer driven supply chain, the acquisition of customer knowledge can help companies to attain a competitive advantage in product innovation. Since the existing approaches have not considered this knowledge as a weighted factor in the case based supplier selection processes, this paper aims to present an agent-based framework for supplier selection based on the case-based reasoning approach...
This paper explores the evolution of supply chain management IT solutions and looks at how these relate to each other and the overall performance of supply chain operations. A number of different technologies that help companies master their supply chain are looked at, and major benefits and drawbacks with these are presented. The IT solutions are categorized in three areas: data management, data...
Philips has asked its suppliers to declare their compliance with REACH, ROHS and other requirements by making BOMcheck declarations, with a preference for Full Material Declarations. The roll out started in March 2010 and more than 1200 Philips suppliers have started to make declarations, mainly regulatory compliance declarations. There are a number of hurdles to overcome such as awareness raising,...
Enterprise supply chain management (E-SCM) is a network management system of interconnected businesses and spans all movement and storage of raw materials, work-in-process inventory, and finished goods from point of origin to point of consumption. E-SCM is also a main part of enterprise resources planning (ERP), and is usually designed as a subsystem of ERP. In this paper, a framework of medium and...
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an important ubiquitous computing technique used for automatic item identification and data capture. It has been widely deployed in various areas to automate previously labor-intensive inventory control and item identification. In this paper, we develop a framework to apply RFID in securely tracing of materials flows in supply chains. Timely and accurate material...
Increasing global competition and cost pressure force construction enterprises to discover undetected cost-saving potentials. We develop an option model to quantify a flexible supply contract, by which the contractors, in addition to a committed order quantity, can purchase option contracts and decide whether or not to exercise them after demand and price are realized when both the product demand...
How does a warehouse pertain to the relief efforts before or during disasters? The need to supply goods and services to help individuals that have lost homes, cars, personal belongings, loved ones or even jobs is important. The goods can consist of medical supplies, food, clothes, blankets and other non perishable goods. These goods need to be stored in a safe and accessible environment. By definition...
Scientific management of plant is an important factor in the success of manufacturing enterprises, and improving the level of plant management will help enterprises achieve their business goal. Merge the ideas of supply chain management and epurate the module plant management, and construct plant management in the supply chain operations reference model is proposed based on the equipment “push-pull...
Currently, cost management is playing an import role in building the overall competence of construction supply chain (CSC). In order to solve the major problems of cost management in our CSC, we propose that lean thinking be applied to CSC cost management so as to improve cost competence of our CSC by eliminating all forms of non-value added activities and wastes across the entire supply chain. This...
With the increased focus on optimizing procurement processes, different procurement concepts have been developed. However, for these concepts no widely accepted best practice solutions exist. Furthermore, customers often impose specific conditions on suppliers. Thus implementations of these concepts are always different. Consequently suppliers cannot provide standardized services (e.g. Vendor Managed...
Green degree evaluation of construction supply chain is a key problem of Green Construction Supply Chain (GCSC) Management. The paper analyzes the influential factors of resource saving, pollution reduction and economic effect for GCSC evaluation. Then, a GCSC evaluation model is proposed by analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and fuzzy comprehensive method. The index weight and fuzzy matrix are discussed...
This paper presents a review of the research about the application process of supply chain management in construction. Based on the fundamental concepts and characteristics, this paper investigates pre-conditions, limitations, obstacles consisting in the construction industry, and introduces models for the application. The indicators and methods indispensable to evaluating the adoption of supply chain...
Green supply chain, in this time and age, is the one of the most prevalent topics in the supply chain management. Meanwhile the conceptions and the measurements of green supply chain play a significant role in the certain fields (e.g., such as environmental protection, sustainable development of economy, to enhance the products in the international market etc.) This thesis aims to give an evaluation...
Based on the theory and tHought of active Service, handLing the support notion and mode of active logistics, and making use of the advanced technique about Internet of things, This paper discusses the issue of active distribution in supply chain, integrity to information, interaction to resources, supervision to state and coordination to Link.
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