Evaluating the operational efficiency of major ports in the Asia-Pacific regi…

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40

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1466-4283

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No. Panggil

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A Review and Evaluation of Logistics Performance Measurement Systems

Logistics encompasses a complex set of activities which require a collection of metrics to adequately measure performance. Ideally, the performance metrics used should be selected and maintained as a system, so they complement and support each other and provide the decision makers with a well balanced picture of the logistics process. Often in practice, however, performance measurement systems …

Hybrid approach for container terminals performances evaluation and analysis

Turnaround time, defined as the total time spent by a vessel within the port area, is one of the most important key performance measures for a container terminal. In this paper, the authors propose a hybrid approach based on simulation and genetic algorithms to investigate vessels’ turnaround time in a real container terminal under different scenarios characterised by increases in containers …

Ship-berth link performance evaluation: simulation and analytical approaches

In this paper we consider the performance evaluation of ship-berth link in port. The efficiency of operations and processes on the ship-berth link has been analysed through the basic operating parameters such as berth utilization, average number of ships in waiting line, average time that a ship spends in waiting line, average service time of a ship, average total time that a ship spends in por…

Optimum throughput and performance evaluation of marine terminals

The performance of marine terminals has generally been evaluated by comparing their actual throughputs with their optimum throughputs. The engineering approach that generally has been used to determine optimum throughputs may be appropriate when terminals have natural hinterlands. In a deregulated (competitive) environment in which the natural hinterlands of marine terminals have become diffuse…

Operational performance evaluation of major container ports in the Asia- Paci…

If international container ports are to gain a proper appreciation of their various advantages, disadvantages and potential opportunities in a globally competitive environment, it is essential that they conduct effective evaluation of their operational performance. The present study applies five models of data envelopment analysis (DEA) to acquire a variety of complementary information about th…

Multicriteria analysis in shipping investment evaluation

This paper discusses the needs and possibilities of widening the traditional perspective through which shipping investment decisions are taken by embedding them in a multicriteria environment. The set off point has been the frequent observation that a shipping decision maker (DM) faced with ship investment decision-making is influenced by factors that are not clearly financial or cannot be easi…

Groups in DEA based cross-evaluation: An application to Asian container ports

In container port performance evaluation, a group of ports in one country is always significantly different from a group of ports in another country. This is noticed as the heterogeneity of port performance. It is therefore necessary to further investigate the impact of the different groups on efficiency evaluation of ports. The cross-evaluation method is a DEA extension tool to identify best p…

Enhanced logistics service provider framework for higher integration and effi…

The concept of maritime logistics results from the convergence of maritime transport and supply chains. The paper aims to propose an enhanced logistics service provider (LSP) framework which facilitates LSPs to integrate supply chains in an optimal manner by utilising their unique expertise and experience. In the framework, the enhanced LSP serves as the single contact point for shippers and as…

Economies of container ship size: a new evaluation

Based on recent operation performance data, the earnings and costs of container service have been investigated in the context of two indices developed by the Japanese and used elsewhere in East Asian shipping: charter base and hire base. Although the average size of container ships on the world's main trade routes has increased over the past two decades it is dangerous to generalize about the e…

Economical evaluation of logistics centres establishment

This paper presents a method for assessing the financial viability of a new Freight village financed by private and public investments. The financial evaluation model constitutes four distinct phases, namely (a) site selection and traffic forecasts, (b) definition of services offered and corresponding dimensions, (c) estimation of investment and operation costs and (d) evaluation of investments…

An evaluation methodology for city logistics

This paper presents a methodology for evaluating city logistics initiatives using a dynamic tra c simulation with optimal routing and scheduling. This methodology was applied to a test road network. The performance of three city logistics initiatives, advanced routing and scheduling systems, cooperative freight transport systems and load factor controls were assessed in terms of total costs a…

An advanced risk analysis approach for container port safety evaluation

Risk analysis in seaports plays an increasingly important role in ensuring port operation reliability, maritime transportation safety and supply chain distribution resilience. However, the task is not straightforward given the challenges, including that port safety is affected by multiple factors related to design, installation, operation and maintenance and that traditional risk assessment met…

Evaluation of alternative logistics operations for the national supply of an …

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…

Evaluation methodologies of transportation projects in Japan

This paper examines the system and manuals for transportation project evaluation, which are recently introduced for all transportation modes, road, railway, airport and seaport projects in Japan. The manuals aim to evaluate the social signi®cance of projects from the viewpoint of ef®ciency and equity, by applying a sort of multi-criterion analysis, although adopting the cost bene®t analysis …

Estimating the impacts of demand response by simulating householdbehaviours u…

tTo facilitate the implementation of demand response (DR), it is necessary to establish proper methods toestimate and verify the load impacts of it. This paper develops a simulation model to investigate the jointinfluence of price and CO2signals in a DR program in the ex ante evaluation. It consists of a Markov-chainload model for forecasting the power demands of residential consumers and a sch…

Evaluation method of energy consumption in logistic warehouse systems

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978-3-319-22044-4

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xviii, 158 p.

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No. Panggil

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Supply chain management: a strategic perspective

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Vol. 22 Iss 6 pp. 614 - 6312

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30 p.

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International Journal of Operations & Production Management

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A nonlinear multi objective approach for the supplier selection, integrating …

The impact of transportation on the supplier selection has received very scant attention in the literature. This is a great limitation because splitting orders across multiple suppliers will lead to smaller transportation quantities which will likely imply larger transportation cost. Moreover, transportation and inventory elements are highly interrelated and contribute most to the total logisti…

A multi-criteria evaluation of container terminal technologies applying the C…

Over the recent years, the usage of containers has dramatically increased; subsequently, port container terminals annually serve more and more intensive flows, which leads to the necessity to find the ways of increasing terminal performance in order to achieve that a growing number of containers would be expeditiously served. The minimization of container handling duration in a terminal would r…

A model for evaluation and selection of suppliers in global textile and appar…

The issue affecting US textile/apparel companies in global business competition is to find suitable suppliers for their operations. The selection and evaluation of their global suppliers to meet the goal of having effective and efficient supply chain operations and strengthening their position in the market become critical for US textile/apparel manufacturers to maintain their competitiveness i…

Dimensions underlying retail logistics and their relationship to supplier eva…

Logistics is becoming an increasingly important part of overall retail strategy because it provides opportunities for enhanced profit, market growth and sustainable competitive advantage. This research examines the underlying factors which impact retail logistics. The factors found are warehousing/transportation, supplier performance/communications, internal information systems, activity levell…

Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) evaluation and selection: Literature revie…

The purpose of this paper is to provide an insight to the outsourcing decision-making through investigating if the old evaluation/selection criteria and methods still fit with current business priorities or not and, therefore, to identify the appropriate criteria and methods to develop a new selection framework. Since the economic recession of 2008, logistics outsourcing decisions have become m…

Supply chain management practices in Indian industry

Increasing uncertainty of supply networks, globalization of businesses, proliferation of product variety and shortening of product life cycles have forced Indian organizations to look beyond their four walls for collaboration with supply chain partners. With a gross domestic product (GDP) of over US$474.3 biilion, the Indian industry spends 14 percent of its GDP on logistics. Considering this s…

A new fast, reliable filtering method for multiple criteria decision making

This paper aims to introduce a new method for the evaluation and selection (filtering) of alternatives in a complex multi-criteria decision environment.

An evaluation of greenness of major Korean ports : a fuzzy set approach

As environmental concerns over managing seaports are gaining its importance, evaluating the greenness of the port accordingly draws a serious academic and research attention. However, the lack of the research aptly dealing with this particular problem attributes to the complexity of the problems involving various quantitative and qualitative factors, combined with the appropriateness of an eval…

Assesing international port operations

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10 p.

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Benchmarking of marine bunker fuel suppliers: the good, the bad, the ugly

The purpose of this paper is to construct a realistic best practice benchmark and develop a methodology for comparison of individual suppliers of marine bunker fuel. As is well-known in this trade, unfair business behaviors in the bunker fuel market are not uncommon, resulting in financial losses for the buyers

Agile service oriented shipping companies in the container terminal

Agility is regarded as one of the core capabilities and the developing trend of supply chains and their enterprises. Along with the development of economical globalization, supply chain management and containerization as well as container ports as a part of supply chain take more roles like logistics or distribution centers. Under this background, the container terminal should have superior res…

The construction of knowledge from the scientific literature about the theme …

The purpose of this paper is to know what scientific literature presents about the theme evaluation of seaport performance, thus enabling the construction of knowledge in the researchers and the identification of gaps in the research that will lead to advances in the area from the identification of the characteristics of a portfolio of relevant international publications

Using FAHP to determine the criteria for partner's selection within a green s…

The criteria selection of green suppliers is an interesting and practical research topic. With the development and consciousness of environmental management, this issue has received a significant consideration from academics, researchers and businessmen. The purpose of this paper is to study what factors are considered to be the most important when choosing partners/suppliers in a green supply …

Training evaluation levels and ROI: the case of a small logistics company

This study’s purpose is to contribute to literature on training evaluation following Kirkpatrick’s four-levels model and estimating each training program’s return on investment (ROI) using evidence from a small firm.

The Importance of Logistics Efficiency to Customer Service and Firm Performance

Logistics is considered to have a significant impact on a manufacturing organization's performance. This research utilizes a pilot study, a large‐scale survey of manufacturing managers, and linear structural relations (LISREL). The research methods develop measures and test relationships among six constructs: physical supply, physical distribution, logistics spanning processes, customer servi…

Roles of supplier performance measurement: indication from a study in the aut…

Contrasts generic concepts and roles of intra‐organisational performance measurement with concepts of supplier performance measurement. Presents indications from a study of five vehicle manufacturers in Europe with regards to their practices of supplier evaluation in the area of logistics. Based on a categorisation of functions of intra‐organisational performance measurement develops a conc…

Make vs buy vs partnership in distributing commodities: a case study and a me…

This paper deals with the decision making about the strategic alternatives for distributing a commodity – the bulk cement – characterised by an extremely high incidence of the transportation costs. It is based on the case of Italcementi Group (ITC), the largest European producer of cement, leader in Italy with a share higher than 30 per cent and growing abroad through acquisitions and for…

Fuzzy testing and selecting better processes performance

The principal aim of this study was to provide more realistic output data based on imprecise measurements of product quality. The real-world problems in fuzzy testing and selecting better processes performance are considered.

Factors for strategic evaluation of enterprise information technologies

In the last decade, we have witnessed companies investing in financially and laboriously expensive enterprise information technologies (EITs) that unify the internal and external supply chains for the purpose of gaining strategic advantages. As performance metrics data resulting from such investments are beginning to emerge, both practitioners and researchers are taking a critical look at wheth…

Evaluation of forecasting models for air cargo

Virgin Atlantic Cargo is one of the largest air freight operators in the world. As part of a wider strategic development initiative, the company has identified forecasting accuracy as of strategic importance to its operational efficiency. This is because accurate forecast enables the company to have the right resources available at the right place and time. The purpose of this paper is to under…

Evaluating alternative industrial network organizations and information systems

The purpose of this paper is to present a simulation-based evaluation method for the comparison of different organizational forms and software support levels in the field of supply chain management (SCM).

Environmental impacts as buying criteria for third party logistical services

The purpose of the paper is to analyse whether environmental issues form a supplier selection criteria of companies when sourcing third party logistics (3PL) services.

Hybrid analytical hierarchy process model for supplier selection

This paper aims to propose a new approach called “analytical hierarchy process weighted fuzzy linear programming model (AHP-FLP)” for supplier selection.

A model to determine complexity in supply networks

The purpose of this paper is to further advance an existing supplier evaluation model for the purpose of identifying those supplier relations which predominantly threaten or worsen a company’s performance. A defined basic set of parameters to determine complexity facilitates the identification of critical locations within a supply network (SN) under certain business conditions.

OutsourcingOutsourcing reverse logistics and remanufacturing functions- a con…

The purpose of this paper is to provide a tool for decision makers to make more informed decisions regarding their outsourcing policies.

Supplier selection and controlling using multivariate analysis

An efficient supplier management is of central importance for successful supply chain management. It begins with the identification of potential suppliers and leads to the controlling of the supplier-buyer-connection. This paper aims to design a new supplier-rating system that fits the practical needs of supplier rating and supports many other steps of the suppliers management process.

Strategies for improving a long-established terminal’s performance: a simul…

Due to a long-lasting increase in global trade, only interrupted by the late-2000s economic crisis, container traffic has grown dramatically. As a result, new terminals have opened and existing terminals face much higher container handling than before. In order to meet these challenges, one of the biggest container terminals in Turkey has begun to reconsider its terminal operations and to achie…

Performance evaluation model for reverse logistics- the case of recycled comp…

Waste computer reverse logistics involves numerous complex factors and operating procedures that must be dealt with, and usually consumes considerable resources and time. Therefore, how to eff ectively deal with the growing number of discarded computers is a key concern that governments, businesses, and environmental organizations are eager to resolve. This study reviews the literature and cond…