Secure management of Australia's commercial critical infrastructure presents ongoing challenges to both the owners of this infrastructure as well as to the government. It is currently managed through high-level information sharing via collaboration but does this situation suit the commercial...

The emergence of the internet has forced a wealth of firms to explore a new form of channels of distribution, i.e., internet channels. Managing the impact of introducing an internet channel into an existing distribution system is probably one of the greatest challenges today. This research...

To explore the significant role of human resource practices in Indian software industry, in-depth interviews were conducted with heads and senior human resource managers. The interview questions for this study were structured broadly on human resource practices such as staffing, training and...

The article investigates the Brazilian third-party logistics (3PL) sector which, increasingly competitive, offers clients a wide variety of services/IT technologies in the quest to bolster efficiency. The main research objective is to determine which variables significantly impact 3PLs scale...

This paper considers the hybrid flow shop scheduling problem. Most real world scheduling problems are NP-hard in nature. The main purpose of this paper is to present a new approach to the objective version of the well known hybrid flow shop problem. The processing of each job on each machine is...

Solving a multiple travelling salesperson (mTSP) is more difficult than solving a travelling salesperson. Although the TSP has received a great deal of attention, the research on the mTSP is limited. In the mTSP, the N cities must be partitioned into m tours, with each tour resulting in a TSP...

For a globalised supply chain to be responsive, the firm should have the ability to meet short lead times, respond to wide ranges of quantities demanded, handle a large variety of products, build highly innovative products and meet a very high service level. Vendor managed inventory (VMI) is one...

This paper is concerned with the network design problem for parcel ground distribution facilities. The design involves three interacting levels of facilities in addition to customers, with each lower level being assigned to exactly one higher level. The link cost, depending on the transportation...

In this paper, we study the effect of lead time from the buyer's point of view on joint price and inventory optimisation problems in a continuous time setting using an average profit maximising model that extends the familiar EOQ model. The behaviour of the model is studied using numerical...

This case aims to survey the effect on logistic and supply chain management of the internet age and current technologic opportunities and to report the benefits which the companies can gain after reengineering by electronic business. And, the supply chain management of ABB Turkey Inc. is...