A two-stage supply chain DEA model for measuring container-terminal efficiency

Despite the growing amount of research into container-port operations and efficiency, much of the literature on the subject treats container ports and terminals as black box systems without examining the structure of their transformation and production processes. Research on the network and multi-stage structure of container-terminal operating systems is scarce and its applications in the conte…

Modeling earthen dikes using real-time sensor data

The paper describes the concept and implementation details of integrating a finite element module for dike stability analysis ‘‘Virtual Dike’’ into an early warning system for flood protection. The module operates in real-time mode and includes fluid and structural sub-models for simulation of porous flow through the dike and for dike stability analysis. Real-time measurements obtained …

Getting real about Big Data: applying critical realism to analyse Big Data hype

An emerging application of Big Data is the addition of sensors and other micro-electronic devices to engineer-to-order (ETO) goods such as one-of-a-kind buildings and ships. The addition of micro-electronic devices can enable the setting up and operation of smart buildings and smart ships. The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical realist analysis of Big Data hype. This is necessary…

From global aspirations to regional dominance: the case of Deutsche Telekom

This paper aims to investigates the argument that the financial case for continued internationalisation by telecommunication companies is unclear with respect to Deutsche Telekom, a leading international telecommunications company.

Technical Efficiency Analysis of Container Terminals in the Middle Eastern Re…

Despite an increasing number of studies on the efficiency of container terminals, their focus has mostly been on advanced and emerging markets. There are limited studies on container terminals in developing countries such as those of the Middle Eastern region, which are located in a critical geographic position in the international maritime route between the East and the West. Information on th…

Total factor carbon emission performance: A Malmquist index analysis

This paper introduces a Malmquist CO2 emission performance index (MCPI) for measuring changes in total factor carbon emission performance over time. The MCPI is derived by solving several data envelopment analysis models. Bootstrapping MCPI is proposed to perform statistical inferences on the MCPI results. Using the index the emission performance of the world's 18 top CO2 emitters from 1997 …

Design and Establishment of Database on the AtoN Properties for AtoN Simulator

This study investigated the design and establishment of AtoN(Aids to Navigation) in the AtoN Simulator. In recent years, IALA(International Association of Lighthouse Authorities) has raised the need of a system which could verify whether AtoN is appropriate for the design of AtoN and placement planning. An AtoN Simulator provides simulation circumstances, including the topographical and enviro…

A new method for detecting outliers in Data Envelopment Analysis

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a computationally convenient way to measure efficiency that does not require an explicit functional relationship between inputs and outputs. However, because the frontier is constructed using extreme observations, DEA can be sensitive to extreme points, especially when data may be contaminated by measurement error. In such settings, the technical efficiency sc…

North American containerport productivity: 1984–1997

This paper undertakes two tasks: measurement of seaport infrastructure productivity growth in North America from 1984 to 1997, and exploration of several theorized causal relationships between infrastructure productivity and industry structure and conduct. A methodology is presented, data envelopment analysis (DEA), for measuring infrastructure productivity. Tobit regression is presented as a m…

Enterprise resource planning (ERP)—A brief history

This is a brief history of ERP—enterprise resource planning. Major ERP vendors are discussed as well as the major impact of developments in computer hardware and software on the industry. The industry consolidation that has recently occurred is also discussed. Interviews were conducted with Mr. Ed McVaney, founder of J.D. Edwards, Rick Allen, former VP of Finance and Administration, and Rick …

Effective Leadership in Superior-Subordinate Dyads

This paper describes and experimentally demonstrates the main tenets of an operant theory of leadership. Leadership is characterized in the current paper as involving problem solving operant behavior (Cerutti, 1989; Skinner, 1969) in a social context (Skinner, 1953). The theory was assessed under two experimental analogs modeled from generic formal organizational bureaucratic leader-follower ro…

An empirical model for assessing the effect of ports’ and hinterlands’ ch…

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Vol. 1 Issue: 3, pp.186-207

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2397-3757

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23 p.

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ATC PO NIA e

A methodology for enterprise systems post implementation change management

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41 p.

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Industrial Management & Data Systems

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Port infrastructure investment and regional economic growth in China : panel …

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0967-070X

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11 p.

Judul Seri

Transport Policy

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ATC PO SON p

Efficiency of trucks in logistics: technical efficiency and scale efficiency

The purpose of this paper is to propose a scheme to estimate the technical efficiency of trucks engaged in logistics and to analyze the properties of efficiency. The objectives are to determine individual-truck level technical efficiency using both radial and non-radial measures for freight trucks, to calculate the degree of input overuse.

Supply Chain Security Orientation: Conceptual Development And A Proposed Fram…

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.

The design of logistics operations for the Olympic Games

This paper aims to focus on the design of the organization, processes, and systems of Olympic logistics.

The design of logistics operations for the Olympic Games

This paper aims to focus on the design of the organization, processes, and systems of Olympic logistics.

An optimization approach to determining the number of vendors to employ

Presents an approach for evaluating the number of vendors to employ in a procurement situation using multiobjective programming (MOP) and data envelopment analysis (DEA). The approach advocates developing vendor-order quantity solutions (referred to as supervendors) using MOP and then evaluating the efficiency of these supervendors on multiple criteria using DEA. Formulations are presented for …

An efficiency analysis of cargo-handling operations at container terminals

In this paper, a Data Envelopment Analysis approach is used to assess the efficiency of cargo-handling operations at a container terminal and study the factors influencing it. The aim is to provide recommendations that would allow a container terminal to reach high technical efficiency scores, in order to increase its inner productivity. A three-stage methodological framework is proposed to ana…

Advantages of intermodal logistics platforms : insights from a Spanish platform

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the advantages that an intermodal logistics platform may provide to companies integrating a supply chain, both to manufacturers/distributors and to logistics providers.

Application of centralised DEA approach to capital budgeting in Spanish ports

In this paper, we propose a number of non-radial, output-oriented, centralised DEA models to determine individual and collective output target levels, input slacks and input reallocations as well as additional inputs acquisitions under a capital budget constraint. The application of the proposed approach to the Spanish Port Agency is presented. The overall amount of inefficiency currently found…

North American containerport productivity : 1984–1997

This paper undertakes two tasks: measurement of seaport infrastructure productivity growth in North America from 1984 to 1997, and exploration of several theorized causal relationships between infrastructure productivity and industry structure and conduct. A methodology is presented, data envelopment analysis (DEA), for measuring infrastructure productivity. Tobit regression is presented as a m…

Increasing efficiency in the supply chain for short shelf life goods using RF…

Short shelf‐life grocery goods present some of the biggest challenges for supply chain management due to a high number of product variants, strict traceability requirements, short shelf‐life of the products, the need for temperature control in the supply chain, and the large volume of goods handled. A Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) based data capture system can help solve the problem…

Integrated supply chain management from the wholesaler’s perspective: Two A…

Documents two case studies conducted in Australian companies from the wholesaling sector. Both companies are importers and wholesalers supplying into the retail sector. The aim of the case studies was to establish to what extent each had adopted and implemented new technologies for the management of supply chain activities. Although both companies have approached implementation of established t…

The effects of technology and TQM on the performance of logistics companies

Total quality management (TQM) and technology are fast becoming essential features of business strategy for the success of many leading organizations in the world. More and more companies are using technology and adapting TQM for sustaining competitiveness in the marketplace. TQM works well for internal integration of logistics companies and they can benefit from the use of technology, includin…

The efficiency of European container terminals and implications for supply ch…

This paper investigates the efficiency of container terminals within the context of global supply chain management. The efficiency and scale properties of 104 of Europe’s container terminals with annual throughput of over 10,000 TEUs1 in 2003, distributed across 29 European countries, are derived using data envelopment analysis. The main findings are that significant inefficiency pervades mos…

The technical efficiency of container ports: Comparing data envelopment analy…

The efficiency of the container port industry has been variously studied utilising either Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) or Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA). Given the strengths and weaknesses associated with these two approaches, the efficiency estimates and scale properties derived from these analyses are not always convincing. This paper applies both approaches to the same set of containe…

Logistics integration processes in the food industry

This paper sets out to empirically analyse the integration process that firms follow to implement supply chain management (SCM). This study has been inspired by the integration model proposed by Stevens.

Performance gaps in the dyadic order fulfillment process

The purpose of this paper is to assess the existence of logistics performance gaps in the dyadic order fulfillment process.

Supply chain management – back to the future?

Distribution arrangements are becoming increasingly complex and dynamic in business as well as in consumer markets. The purpose of the present paper is to explore and discuss the theoretical frameworks available to interpret these distribution arrangements, to uncover how they are interrelated and to suggest extensions.

Vendor-managed-inventory (VMI) in construction

The purpose of this paper is to describe the challenge of managing logistics at corporate level in construction industry; and to present and evaluate vendor-managed-inventory (VMI) as a potential solution for small item logistics.

DEA-based performance measurement of seaports in Northeast Asia-radial and no…

The center of global container traffic has been shifted from the Europe and the U.S.A. to the region of Northeast Asia, which mainly includes China, Japan and Korea. How to survive in the fiercest competitive environment and to optimize the logistics network in the region of Northeast Asia is becoming a hot topic in both business and academic area. This paper proposes a scheme to estimate the t…

DEA-based performance measurement of seaports in northeast Asia: radial and n…

The center of global container traffic has been shifted from the Europe and the U.S.A. to the region of Northeast Asia, which mainly includes China Japan and Korea. How to survive in the fiercest competitive environment and to optimize the logistics network in the region of Northeast Asia is becoming a hot topic in both business and academic area. This paper proposes a scheme to estimate the te…

Logistics firms performance: efficiency and effectiveness perspectives

The purpose of this paper is to assess the efficiency, effectiveness and performance of logistics companies in Singapore and Malaysia which are the growing logistics hubs in Asia by using a triangular data envelopment analysis (DEA). It also identifies various factors that significantly affect the efficiency, effectiveness and performance of the Singaporean and Malaysian logistics companies and…

The efficiency analysis of container port production using DEA panel data app…

Applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to container port production have been largely restricted to standard DEA models using cross-sectional data. The efficiency results derived may be biased; for instance, as the result of random effects or a recent investment in future production. In overcoming this problem, panel data on container port production may be more suitable for medium- to…

An analysis of the competitiveness of major liner shipping companies

This paper investigated if differences of the profits of the Korean and other global shipping companies were affected by the shipping route specialization. A panel data model was applied to nine shipping companies during the 2009-2015 period, to determine to what extent freight rate, bunker fuel prices, scale economies and chartered vessel ratios affected the profits. The results showed freight…

An application of centralized data envelopment analysis in resource allocatio…

This paper presents an application of centralized data envelopment analysis (CDEA) to analyse the performance of a number of container terminals supervised by one liner shipping company. It provides a systematic and centralized perspective of resource reallocation based on one company’s perspective. The numerical results show that two of the
ve dedicated terminals are, by and large, ef
cient…

Humanitarian logistics in disaster relief operations

This paper aims to further the understanding of planning and carrying out logistics operations in disaster relief.

Slacks-based efficiency measures for modeling environmental performance

We develop two slacks-based efficiency measures for modeling environmental performance on the basis of environmental DEA technology. Of the two measures, one is a composite index with a higher discriminating power for modeling economic–environmental performance, and the other can be used to estimate the impacts of environmental regulations. We apply the proposed measures to model the CO2 emis…

Planning enterprise resources by use of a reengineering approach to build a g…

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Vol. 101 Iss 9 pp.

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11 p.

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Industrial Management & Data Systems

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AIS data visualization for maritime spatial planning (MSP)

The constant increase in marine traffic and the simultaneous growth of the demand for exploiting marine areas (e.g., installing offshore wind power plants) require an adequate planning strategy for managing high traffic volumes. Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) is the process of public development of an allocation plan for distributing, both spatially and temporally, human activities in marine a…

Using E-Business To Enable Customised Logistics Sustainability

Purpose – This paper seeks to analyse and propose how e-business can be coupled with different logistics strategies to achieve customized logistics sustainability (CLS). Design/methodology/approach – In this paper, a conceptual model for CLS has been developed and, using four cases from industry, the model is further enhanced and validated. Findings – Three main streams in supply chai…

Toward Creating Competitive Advantage With Logistics Information Technology

Purpose – Successfully implementing and exploiting the right information technologies is critical to maintaining competitiveness in today’s supply chain. However, simply adopting off-the-shelf technologies may not necessarily induce this competitiveness unless the organization combines these technologies with additional complimentary resources. This study draws on the logistics innovatio…

The effect of maritime transport costs on the extensive and intensive margins…

This article investigates the determinants of maritime trade. It focuses in particular on the extent to which variations in trade-related costs between Asia and Europe help to explain the surge in Euro–Asian trade in eight of the most emblematic categories of products related to Asian success: textiles, footwear, confection, machinery, electronic products, vehicles, furniture and pharmaceutic…

On balancing supply chain efficiency and environmental impacts : an eco-DEA m…

Indian dry ports (inland cargo-consolidation and distribution centres) are expected to play a pivotal role in connecting the North Indian heartland with the gateway seaports of Mundra, JNPT and Chennai. However, in this process, dry ports contribute considerably to the vexing problem of atmospheric pollution because of the ensuing road and rail transportation. There is a considerable body of re…

The efficiency of European container ports: a cross-sectional data envelopmen…

This paper focuses on measuring the efficiency of container terminals in Europe using the data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach. Container terminals in Europe play an important role in the region’s economic development and, as the result of their geographic concentration, face fierce competition compared with the rest of the world. Despite this, studies of the efficiency of container termi…

Electronic data interchange (EDI) in port operations

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Vol. 8 No. 2

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0957-6053

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6 pages

Judul Seri

Logistics Information Management

No. Panggil

ATC PO GAR e

The general principles of value chain management

Explores the principles of value chain management, as they apply to both public and private products, and explores the impact of e‐commerce and collaborative planning through the Internet on reducing costs and uncertainty in supply chains. Drawing on experience from global initiatives with e‐centreuk, and recent applications within Nestlé UK, makes a plea for simplicity and standardisati…

The development of a framework for route selection in multimodal transportation

The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework for route selection in multimodal transportation which can reduce cost, lead time, risk and CO2 emission in multimodal transportation systems.