Purpose: The objective of this paper is to propose an approach to comparatively analyze the performance of drugs and consumable products warehouses belonging to different healthcare institutions. Design/methodology/approach: A Cluster Analysis is completed in order to classify warehouses and...

Despite the increasing attention that supply chain risk management is receiving by both researchers and practitioners, companies still lack a risk culture. Moreover, risk management approaches are either too general or require pieces of information not regularly recorded by organisations. This...

Purpose: This paper aims to evaluate different logistics configuration to deliver batteries from the supplier to the production lines of a European carmaker who is implementing new propulsions for its models. Design/methodology/approach: Several scenarios about the supply chain for traction...

City logistics (CL) has recently emerged as a comprehensive and coordinated approach to reduce the negative impacts of last mile logistics, making urban freight distribution more sustainable from both an economic and an environmental point of view. Assessing the viability of CL initiatives is...

Several methods and indicators are used to measure logistic performances; thus sometimes there are various values for the same performance. This paper starts examining the structure for a supply chain performance measurement according to the service quality requirements, and determines an...