Developing countries, such as Taiwan, Singapore and Korea, are transforming to a multi-faceted consumer economy where financial services, medical services, research and development, education, distribution services, international business, technology product development and design, and retail development are fueling economic growth. The logistic and distribution services as a result have become…
Forest biomass terminals provide diverse services to the forest industry: buffer storage, transfers of material between different modes of transport, raw material upgrading, etc. Terminals’ operational costs are highly sensitive to their layout and design. In order to design efficient terminals, it will be essential to understand the current state of forest terminals. To this end, a survey wa…
For the most rapidly growing economic entity in the world, China, a new logistics operation called the indirect cross-border supply chain model has recently emerged. The primary idea of this model is to reduce logistics costs by storing goods at a bonded warehouse with low storage cost in certain Chinese regions, such as the Pearl River Delta (PRD). This research proposes a performance measurem…
The logistics costs of industrial enterprises in a supply chain are studied. The following aspects of logistics costs are included: an ABC (Activity-Based Costing) calculation model for logistics; average logistics costs of Finnish industrial manufacturers and suppliers; the factors which in¯ uence a company’s cost ef® ciency in logistics; and an ABC simulation model for the logistics costs…
This book contains six chapters that can be used on a self-contained basis as teaching cases in an undergraduate or specialist class setting on OR techniques applied to maritime container operations or for port operations. Instructors and students can look forward to an insightful presentation of the challenges facing the maritime supply chains and container port logistics service providers in …
The primary purpose of this book is to teach those unskilled in the art the basics of how to construct a new supply chain from scratch and begin its operation successfully. A secondary purpose of this book is to teach those with some practical business experience the basics of how to successfully modify an existing supply chain and continue its operation competitively
The purpose of this study is to introduce a new innovative means of container stacking/ storage as a potential solution for overcoming the lack of container yard space.
Despite a hangover from the worldwide economic crisis, international trade rebounded nicely with a record-level growth in late 2010. A sharp rise in international trade has sparked the international traffic growth. A majority of this traffic growth originated from maritime logistics which could move cargoes in large volume and at cheaper freight costs. Due to its cost-efficiency and easy acces…
One result of the continuing current competitive environment in Australia is cost pressure on the supply of manufacturing commodities such as anhydrous sodium sulphate. Commodity suppliers do not have much scope for providing value-added services. Anhydrous sodium sulphate, for example, is mostly brought to the customer’s attention when negative service characteristics occur – stocks run lo…
In a meeting with a COO (Chief Operating Officer) the author was told, “We have had dozens of consulting companies through here, each telling us that they know the best way to solve our productivity and logistics problems. But every one of them only solves a small part of the problem. Are you going to come in here and give me another solution that fixes a part of our problem but leaves us mis…
Seaports have traditionally been the focus of maritime logistics supply chains. Changing production patterns demanding greater end to end visibility by customers and accessibility to key inland population centers assume greater importance in the organization and design of transport resources and cargo flows.While synchronization of all aspects of the supply chain has become an operational neces…
Presents a case study of the marketing strategy of Birds Eye Wall’s and its focus on functional and service-related aspects of its trading relationships. Stresses the importance of the efficient consumer response process towards achieving both customer satisfaction and business efficiency and success. Details the use of extensive research and data analysis to forecast, measure, model and rev…
In the contemporary port business environment, port resilience is of paramount importance for supply chain continuity. A result of the increased integration of ports into supply chains is ports’ potential to supply chain disruptions. This paper introduces a PSCD management model that incorporates the application of risk management, business continuity management, and quality management theori…
Risks and uncertainties are ever more noted and factored into decision making today, and those stemming from supply chains are prominent in the competitiveness and viability of companies and organizations. The idea that every supply chain is made up of five internal chain/network constructs is presented, and these are physical, financial, informational, relational, and innovational. Further, fo…
The purpose of this paper is to study whether a fast supply network structure interacts with customer integration (CI) by positively moderating the relationship between CI and efficiency performance.
This paper aims to provide an answer to the important question of how can accurate assessment of supply chain practice and performance be conducted? By conducting audits across a sample of value streams it is thereby possible to identify the components of “good practice” via evidencebased procedures.
There are gaps in the countries of Africa between basic universal health care and what is provided. Educating those who are trying to help is important to bring about change. Recently, there are many organizations and individuals responding to those needs, including governmental and non-governmental organizations (NGO). These entities strive to improve the conditions of the African people by pr…
The purpose of this study is to examine how four large organisations have approached the implementation of new eBusiness mechanisms: namely online order processing, eProcurement, reverse auctions, and a private exchange. The objectives are to establish whether supply chain integration is an identified goal for the firms involved and to evaluate the extent of integration achieved through these p…
The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, it classifies research on distribution network design (DND) according to the methodologies adopted and themes tackled. Second, it discusses the main implications for practitioners. Finally, it proposes a few promising directions for future research.
For the food industry, the depletion of arable land and a growing world population demand controlling the sustainability of agricultural inputs to the industry. Controlling the sustainability of these supplies means controlling the economic, social, and environmental performance of the supply chain. In practice, little is known about how companies can efficiently extend their existing supply ch…
This paper aims to report on an exploratory study investigating supply chain security orientation (SCSO), a firm-level construct addressing companies’ multiple approaches toward mitigation of supply chain security breaches and supply chain risk management.
Supply chain security (SCS), as a component of an organization’s overall supply chain risk management strategy, has become a critical factor for businesses and government agencies since September 11, 2001, yet little empirical research supports policy or practice for the field. Therefore, this paper develops and presents a categorization of SCS based on existing research. This categorization …
The purpose of this paper is to compare the supply chain strategy, flexibility, and performance relationships in the context of SMEs in Canada and Pakistan.
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between corporate and supply chain strategy, as well as its implementation in a multinational paper producing company. Traditionally paper producing companies have had a strong interest in developing a physical infrastructure for their customer deliveries. However, supply chain thinking is still an unstructured issue in the case company.
This paper aims to apply service-dominant logic thinking to the field of supply chain management (SCM) in order to classify, structure, and analyze different types of supply chain services (SCS) collected from interdisciplinary literature. The authors investigate how value is co-created between supply chain actors and develop research propositions regarding the influence of service type on valu…
Supply chain risk management (SCRM) has recently gained increasing attention in the supply chain context, both from the practitioners’ perspective and as a research area. Given the relevance of the topic, the aim of the present paper is to present a focused literature review, investigating the process of knowledge creation, transfer and development from a dynamic perspective within the contex…
The service-dominant (S-D) logic views supply chains as value co-creation networks. These networks promote knowledge growth amongst network members via resource deployment and coordination. The exchange of knowledge and utilization of operant resources among the network members leads to co-created service offerings and value proposals for the end-users, with the ultimate goal of transforming en…
The author, Peter Levesque, has over 20 years of international transportation and logistics experience and has been working in Hong Kong since 1996. Prior to joining Modern Terminals, he served at several management positions including American President Lines, DHL’s Supply Chain in Asia Pacific, CEVA Logistics, and co-founded a 3PL company, V-Logic Limited, in 2001. He also served as an Adju…
The purpose of this paper is to develop a better understanding of how the supply chain structure (i.e. degree of vertical integration) of a focal organization shapes the breadth of its portfolio of technologies.
The purpose of this paper is to propose a typology of radio frequency identification (RFID)-based tracking solution designs to fit differing fashion supply chains. The typology is presented as principles of form and function contributing toward a design theory of configurable RFID tracking for fashion logistics.
The purpose of this paper is to describe miscommunication about the ubiquitous term “supply chain visibility” (SCV), to propose a precise definition for it and identify its salient characteristics.
The purpose of this research is to describe how total cost concept with logistical based costing (LBC) is developed in detail and then used to build logistical models on the Microsoft Excele platform that are integrated from the customer’s factory to the supplier’s door.
The purpose of this paper is to examine the changes in governance structures that evolved as reverse logistics systems were developed. The UK car crash repair sector was used as a case study.
This reflective paper aims to identify and discuss key areas for the development of, and research into, supply network performance measurement systems.
This study aims to examine logistics infrastructure, trade differences, and environmental and social equity factors, for a set of 89 countries.
With supply chains distributed across global markets, ocean container transport now is a critical element of any such supply chain. We identify key characteristics of ocean container transport from a supply chain perspective. We find that unlike continental (road) transport, service offerings tend to be consolidated in few service providers, and a strong focus exists on maximization of capital …
In green logistics operation, all logistics processes form a bidirectional closed-loop topology. In order to model and optimize such a kind of structure, a standardized closed-loop logistics operation reference model is built which aims to provide supply chain managers with general analysis. Based on the reference model, potential risks of closed-loop logistics chain can be analyzed including n…
Singapore’s electronics manufacturers are facing many questions. In the computer hard-drive industry, where the problem of obsolescence is common and where a product’s lifecycle may be only six months, manufacturers are anxious to know what the next order-winning criteria will be. Since low labour costs are no longer a key factor, many organisations are developing their competencies in rese…