Importance of warehousing has increased during the recent decade and among cost issues, these outlets have become value adding centers; responding to market changes with maximized corporate profitability. Our research concerns Finnish and Swedish companies, and their warehousing decisions in...

Manufacturing employment has continuously declined in developed economies for more than decade time, but service sector in turn has significantly grown. Services also include warehousing, which connects customers and globally concentrated manufacturing units together. In this manuscript we...

This working paper offers an evaluation of the performance of the Port of Helsinki, as well as an analysis of the port?s impact on its territory and an assessment of relevant policies and governance. It examines declining port performance in the last decade and identifies the principal factors...

Export led economies of Slovakia and Czech Republic have shown impressive performance on activity regarding to Rail Baltica corridor countries (trade vol. incr. by 200-300 % in decade time). However, long-term plans in transportation logistics are tied upon corridors (road and rail) ending to...

One main theme of European Union’s in transport policy statements has been the increased role of railways in the reducing environmental impacts and costs of transport activity. One option to increase the modal share of rail transport is to utilize the dry port concept, particularly applicable...

In this paper, we highlight the need to provide education that represents a business process view of organisational functioning. Following three computer supported methodologies are evaluated first: traditional simulation; systems dynamics simulation; and business gaming. Operations management...

Usually, the transportation sector's actors are evaluated within the national or company level through bunch indicators without emphasising performance as a whole system and the nature of these indicators (the division of outputs and inputs is blurred). In this research, we propose Data...

Nearly for two decades, throughput accounting has argued against practices of management accounting. It has built mainly its alternative theory on simple and static example of choosing right product mix to maximize profitability of a manufacturing unit. In this research work, we simulate...

New Product Introduction (NPI) activity has considerably increased due to ever shortening product life cycles. Therefore, cash flow management is a vital part of NPI, and is based on the cumbersome equation of customers, demand development, product margin, payment programmes, supply lead times...

Throughput Accounting (TA) has been analysed within the previous research works through the product mix problems, and it has been concluded that this method provides nearly optimal decisions (as compared to static optimisation methods), and performs significantly better than the other accounting...