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This paper empirically examines the influence of lean supply strategy implemented in electronic-enabled manufacturing supply chains (EMSC) on lean manufacturing adoption in a sustainable manner. Adopting lean manufacturing often not only requires a lengthy period but also involves a prolonged...
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This paper analyses the social impact of liberalisation of plastic bottles in Malta, wherein the system of returnable glass bottles has effectively been replaced by a system of disposable plastic bottles. The paper applies concepts such as Ulrich Beck's (1992) 'risk society', and Michael...
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This paper contributes to the literature by examining evolution of voluntary environmentally sustainable practices (ESPs) in the US carpet industry. The case illustrates the importance of an integrated and multi-stakeholder industry group – Carpet America Recovery Effort – in supporting use...
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This study identifies, documents, and assesses the existing levels of awareness and implementation of sustainability …, designers, and contractors supplemented with four case studies illustrating the recycling of construction demolition waste (CDW … which were limited to green design efforts and uncoordinated attempts at recycling construction demolition materials. The …
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products remanufacturing. In this paper, we discuss the optimal decision for a joint manufacturing and remanufacturing system … in a multi-period horizon, including manufacturing decision, remanufacturing and disposal decisions of the returned …
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'emergence', provides a useful construct to understand infrastructure procurement dynamics and progress towards sustainability. … in recent years from competitive and resource-intensive procurement to more collaborative and sustainable approaches to … infrastructure governance is considered a major transition in infrastructure procurement systems. In order to better understand this …
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The importance of remanufacturing used products into new ones has been widely recognized in the literature and in …
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Sustainability has become a major issue in most economies, causing many leading companies to focus on product recovery … management in the remanufacturing context. We study a remanufacturing facility that receives a stream of returned products … remanufacturing facility are when to release returned products to the remanufacturing line and how many new products to manufacture …
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total system costs depends on the magnitude of the additional holding and backorder costs relative to potential procurement …
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different operational conditions, they usually require different remanufacturing effort/costs. Motivated by a project with a … major energy company that manages its inventory through options of ordering and remanufacturing returned products (cores) in … show that the optimal manufacturing-remanufacturing-disposal policy has a simple structure and can be completely …
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