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Performance analysis of the closed loop supply chain

Asif, Farazee MA; Bianchi, Carmine; Rashid, Amir; … - In: Journal of Remanufacturing 2 (2012), pp. 1-21

Purpose: The question of resource scarcity and emerging pressure of environmental legislations has brought a new challenge for the manufacturing industry. On the one hand, there is a huge population that demands a large quantity of commodities; on the other hand, these demands have to be met by...

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Developing a comprehensive shipment policy through modified epq model considering process imperfections, transportation cost, and backorders

Sajjad, Waseem; Ullah, Misbah; Khan, Razaullah; Hayat, … - In: Logistics 6 (2022) 3, pp. 1-20

imperfections in the production processes and logistics. It has been well established that the real production inventory system acts …

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La teoría de restricciones y la optimización como herramientas gerenciales para la programación de la producción: Una aplicación en la industria de muebles

Romero Rojas, Julián David; Ortiz Triana, Viviana Karolina - In: Revista de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y … 27 (2019), pp. 74-90

The theory of restrictions (TOC) is a philosophy of continuous improvement, which focuses on the weakest link in the chain, to improve the performance of the production system. The purpose of the research was to determine the quantities to be made of each product and its production sequence in a...

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Business strategy and firm reorganization under changing market conditions

Ghosal, Vivek - 2009

This study is framed against the increasingly stringent environmental demands on the pulp and paper industry since the late-1980s to reduce water and air pollution, and the global economic slowdown of the early-1990s. The primary focus of this paper is an observation-based analysis conducted by...

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Industry 4.0 implies lean manufacturing: Research activities in industry 4.0 function as enablers for lean manufacturing

Sanders, Adam; Elangeswaran, Chola; Wulfsberg, Jens P. - In: Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management (JIEM) 9 (2016) 3, pp. 811-833

Purpose: Lean Manufacturing is widely regarded as a potential methodology to improve productivity and decrease costs in manufacturing organisations. The success of lean manufacturing demands consistent and conscious efforts from the organisation, and has to overcome several hindrances. Industry...

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Applying the theory of constraints to the logistics service of medical records of a hospital

Aguilar-Escobar, Víctor G.; Garrido-Vega, Pedro; … - In: European Research on Management and Business Economics … 22 (2016) 3, pp. 139-146

logistics of medical records in hospitals. The paper is based on a case study conducted aboutthe 2007-2011 period in the Medical … Records Logistics Service atthe Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena in Seville (Spain). From April 2008, a set of actions … in the clinical record logistics system were implemented based on the application of TOC principles. The results obtained …

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Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning (DDMRP): A systematic review and classification

Azzamouri, Ahlam; Baptiste, Pierre; Dessevre, Guillaume; … - In: Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management (JIEM) 14 (2021) 3, pp. 439-456

Purpose: Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning (DDMRP) aims to deal with variability by adjusting inventory levels while maintaining, or even increasing, customer service levels. This approach bridges the push and pull approaches. Even though it first made its appearance in 2011, research...

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Research method for management of thermoplastics production improvement in rubber industry with the use of 3D simulation modeling

Forrai, Sándor; Ludanyi, Balázs; Szabó, István Péter; … - In: Foundations of Management 13 (2021) 1, pp. 21-34

The paper concerns research and improvement of production processes in one of the European companies in the rubber industryThe company did not allow the name or country to be given.. The main goal is to improve the production process of the thermo-plastics obtained from polymer materials on the...

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Construction Value Chains and Their Productivity Growth

Kuusi, Tero; Junnonen, Juha-Matti; Kulvik, Martti - 2020

The construction industry has suffered from low growth in recent decades. Motivated by the economic impor-tance of the industry, we revisit the construction produc-tivity puzzle by analyzing the construction value chains of 12 European countries with data from the World In-put-Output and EU...

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Modeling a logistics hub using the digital footprint method: The implication for open innovation engineering

Shmatko, Alexey; Barykin, Sergey; Sergeev, Sergey; … - In: Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and … 7 (2021) 1, pp. 1-16

introduce modern management methods in logistics. This study examines the optimization of the technology of a distribution … center as the base node of a third-party logistics network operator. Our objective consisted in theoretically substantiating … through a node of a logistics network. To solve the problem, we constructed a mathematical model intended as a decision …

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