Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to unveil the circular economy (CE) values with an ultimate goal to provide tenets in a format or structure that can potentially be used for designing a circular, closed-loop supply chain and reverse logistics. Design/methodology/approach: This is...

Purpose: This study aims to improve the reception and positioning of materials in the warehouse, as well as the internal logistics of a bus manufacturing company by acting upon the processes of supply line management. Design/methodology/approach: This study is based on the action research...

This thesis describes the application of a novel decision support process formachined part estimating in small and medium-sized engineering companies. ManySMEs tend to adopt manual estimating techniques, however this dependence on humanexpertise represents a risk to such organizations. Better...

The Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore face particularchallenges from increasing competition from manufacturers in China, India andother East Asian countries. For these SMEs, survival and growth dependcritically on defining their own competitive space among other companies in...

This thesis describes research that has developed a decision model for the analyticalselection of manufacturing best practices.The competitiveness and growth in the manufacturing sector is critical for Singaporeeconomy. Design and improvement of manufacturing systems is imperative tosustain the...