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Development of sustainability performance measurement framework for measuring complex sustainability impacts in the manufacturing industry

Janmontree, Jettarat; Zadek, Hartmut - 2020

Purpose: This research aims to develop a framework of sustainability performance measurement and to propose … sustainability impact criteria that can be used to measure complex sustainability impacts in the manufacturing industry. Methodology …: Fuzzy-Analytical Hierarchy Process (Fuzzy-AHP) and the Delphi method were used to calculate the weights of sustainability …

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Commercial electric vehicle routing in urban logistics: A systematic literature review

Frederhausen, Sebastian; Klumpp, Matthias - 2020

overall sustainability. Methodology: For an initial structuring step of this growing research field, this paper conducts a … urban logistics (e.g. retail, parcel delivery, gastronomy). Findings: The results point out topical gaps regarding the …, research gaps where identified regarding specific urban logistics requirements like energy management considerations for …

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Environmental sustainability in B2C e-commerce: The impact of multiitem shopping

Siragusa, Chiara; Mangiaracina, Riccardo; Tumino, Angela - 2020

regard. This allows to make significant considerations on sustainability from a logistics perspective. …Purpose: B2C e-commerce is growing worldwide, and a major concern regards its environmental sustainability. Some … while evaluating the environmental sustainability of the purchasing processes, which is not tackled by literature in this …

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Public sustainable transportation planning with service level efficiency: Hamburg case study

Sodachi, Majid; Sahraei, Pardis; Valilai, Omid Fatahi - 2020

Purpose: Public transportation in large cities has significant impacts on the environmental, social, and economical perspectives. However, the proper assignment of re-sources in public transportation creates paradoxical challenges since by increasing service level efficiency, the environmental...

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Energy-efficient supply chain design: Data aggregation and processing

Schreiber, Lucas; Jarmer, Jan-Philipp; Kamphues, Josef - 2020

Purpose: Due to changing customer requirements and political regulations more and more companies strive to optimize their energy efficiency in regards to products and processes. The optimization of processes within supply chain design (SCD) is one lever in this regard. Since required data is...

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Modelling the IT and business process landscapes at inland intermodal terminals

Grafelmann, Michaela; Zlotos, Constatin; Lange, Ann-Kathrin - 2020

Purpose: A wide range of customer relationships, services and organizational interfaces characterizes inland intermodal terminals, which are hubs of combined transport. The purposes of this paper are twofold. The first is to highlight challenges of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) at the...

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Impact of port layouts on inter-terminal-transportation networks

Nellen, Nicole; Poeting, Moritz; Bschorer, Kristina; … - 2020

Purpose: Major seaports consist of several terminals with different functions. The different locations of terminals in relation to each other influences the organization of inter-terminal transportation as well as transports into the hinterland. The focus of this study is to understand how...

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Defining the quota of truck appointment systems

Lange, Ann-Kathrin; Kreuz, Felix; Langkau, Sven; Jahn, … - 2020

Purpose: Truck appointment systems (TAS) are a widely used method to alleviate peaks in truck arrivals at container terminals in seaports and in the hinterland. One big advantage is the opportunity to reduce operation costs for the terminals and the truck queue length in front of the terminal...

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Stowage planning for inland container vessels: A literature review

Franzkeit, Janna; Schwientek, Anne Kathrina; Jahn, Carlos - 2020

Purpose: The focus of this publication is literature on the Stowage Planning Problem for small container vessels. The problem is important not only for safety reasons con-cerning stability, but also for enhancing efficiency, as restacking of containers is time consuming and therefore expensive....

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Tactical planning in tramp shipping - A literature review

Pache, Hannah; Grafelmann, Michaela; Schwientek, Anne … - 2020

Purpose: This paper discusses the current state of research on tactical planning in tramp shipping problems. The constantly changing demands in operative tramp shipping make tactical or strategical, i.e. longer-term planning, in comparison to operative planning more complex. The purpose of this...

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