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The pressure on companies towards sustainable development is changing the way they are dealing with their supply chain network. Practices are not limited to the company level. They are involving suppliers, customers, government, society and other stakeholders that impact and are impacted by the...
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project scheduling problems. First, the two problem categories are described. This includes a classification of packing … problems as well as of project scheduling concepts. While both problem classes are different with respect to their fields of … special cases of models for project scheduling. The aim is to indicate which project scheduling models can be used to capture …
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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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-based approaches for logistics and supply chains. They present business models and investment options for enhanced strategic decision … Logistics with regard to: Innovation and Technology Management, Advanced Manufacturing and Industry 4.0. Supply Chain Analytics …
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transport and marketing costs, the necessity of a good network of roads and ports that links production areas to consumer … facilities, and related investments; in improving monitoring and coordination of markets; and in ensuring effective regulation at …
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Logistics can be seen as a key competitive factor in the automotive industry due to the rising number of model variants … and options. With the increasing importance of logistics (Gunasekaran et al. in Int J Prod Econ 87(3):333-347, 2004), the … evaluation of logistics effectiveness and efficiency is gaining increased attention. Logistics performance management (PM) is the …
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The survival of a business is nowadays more than ever a matter of utmost importance. The process of globalization and current economic crisis are the two main reasons that caused the situation of uncertainty and instability on the world market. In this paper we made a theoretical approach and...
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98 professionals involved in logistics and transport activities. Additionally, key literature on transport initiatives … group is not wholly representative of all sectors. Respondents were mainly managers from Spain involved in logistics and … transport activities. Surveyed companies included manufacturing, retailers, wholesalers and third-party logistics providers …
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importance, formal research on the contribution of supply chain logistics, including the relative impacts across different … logistics dimensions, is less. The importance of supply chains has been recently been brought to the forefront in the wake of … examine the relative effects of the different aspects of supply chain logistics on economic growth. Placing the empirical …
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challenging obstacles to international transport and logistics of the new vaccines and vaccine inputs needed for manufacturing … cooperation and coordination, including national, regional and international cooperation, among key industrial stakeholders in the … public and private sectors. Such cooperation and coordination will help to smooth and ease the import and export process for …
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