Analytic hierarchy process : An overview of applications

Design and control of warehouse order picking: A literature review

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Research on warehouse operation: A comprehensive review

Partnerships between companies receive a great deal of attention from top managers and researchers at the time of their formation. This attention results largely from the common perception that the initial structuring of partnerships and establishment of common goals determines partnership outcomes and success. In Alliance Advantage, Doz and Hamel shift the focus away from deal making to the internal processes within the partnership and the unfolding interactions among partners that play an important and relatively unexplored role in shaping outcomes. Focusing on the underlying reasons why companies enter alliances and the processes by which they continually learn from their interactions and re-evaluate common--and individual--goals, the authors paint a sophisticated picture of alliance dynamics over time. The authors challenge organizations to define their objectives for alliance formulation and consider whether their own corporate culture provides an "alliance ready" atmosphere.

Alliance advantage : the art of creating value through partnering

The real and the virtual worlds are growing speedily and closely to form the Internet of Things (IoT). In fact, IoT has stimulated the factories and the governments to launch an evolutionary journey toward the fourth industrial revolution called Industry 4.0. Industrial production of the new era will be highly flexible in production volume and customization, extensive integration between customers, companies, and suppliers, and above all sustainable. Reviewing and analyzing the current initiatives and related studies of the smart factories/Industry 4.0, this paper presents a reference architecture for IoT-based smart factories, defines the main characteristics of such factories with a focus on the sustainability perspectives. And then it proposes an approach for energy management in smart factories based on the IoT paradigm: a guideline and expected benefits are discussed and presented.

Smart factories in Industry 4.0: A review of the concept and of energy management approached in production based on the Internet of Things paradigm

The purpose of this paper is twofold: to classify the research to-date on Supply Chain Finance (SCF) according to the main themes and methods, and to propose directions for future research.,The review is based on 119 papers mainly published from 2000 to 2014 in international peer-reviewed journals and in the proceedings of international conferences.,The articles that provide a definition of SCF reflect two major perspectives: the ‘finance oriented’ perspective - focused on short-term solutions provided by financial institutions, addressing accounts payable and receivable - and the ‘supply chain oriented’ perspective - which might not involve a financial institution, and is focused on working capital optimisation in terms of accounts payable, receivable, inventories, and sometimes even on fixed asset financing.,While efforts were made to be all-inclusive, significant research efforts may have been inadvertently omitted. However, the authors believe that this review is an accurate representation of the body of research on SCF published during the specified timeframe, and feel that confidence may be placed on the resulting assessments.,The paper presents a comprehensive summary of previous research on this topic and identifies the most important issues that need to be addressed in future research. On the basis of the identified gaps in the literature, four key issues have been highlighted which should be addressed in future research.

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Supply chain finance: a literature review

Opening the black box of food waste reduction

Surplus food management plays a key role in sustainable development, because effective management of food resources and products can reduce food waste and food poverty. This paper addresses the multifaceted concept of food supply chain sustainability by presenting a model of surplus food generation and management (called ASRW, Availability-Surplus-Recoverability-Waste), which encompasses the integrated food supply chain (i.e. business, environmental and social players). The model was developed using a bottom-up approach, by conducting 30 exploratory case studies and iterating theory development and data analysis. Three confirmatory case studies, from different food supply chain stages, are also presented to show the suitability of the model in the identification of food waste reduction strategies.

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Opening the Black Box of Food Waste Reduction

The paper evaluates and compares the expected travel distance for different routing strategies- namely traversal and return policies in low-level pickerto-part systems. Items are assigned to storage locations on the basis of the ratio of the required space to the order frequency (cube-per-order index or COI). The focus is on narrow-aisle systems, in which the distance travelled crossing the aisle from one side to the other is negligible compared to the distance travelled along the centreline of the aisle. For both routing policies, an efficient COI-based stock location assignment strategy is first developed. Second, analytical models are derived which relate the expected travel distance required to fill an order to the main system parameters (i.e. the COI-based ABC curve; the number of picks in a tour; the number, length and width of aisles). Simulation results confirming the accuracy of the analytical models are presented. Finally, preference regions as a function of the number of picks in a tour and dif...

Routing policies and COI-based storage policies in picker-to-part systems

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to classify research on information and communication technology (ICT) for logistics and freight transportation on the basis of the main themes and methods and proposes directions for future researchDesign/methodology/approach – The review is based on 44 papers published from 1994 to 2009 in international peer‐reviewed journals The academic papers are analysed and classified according to the research methodology adopted and the themes addressedFindings – While there are many contributions taking the “public transportation” perspective (ie the viewpoint of public stakeholders), papers focussing on the “private transportation” perspective (ie the viewpoint of the private companies offering logistics and transportation services) are fewer and relatively more recent Additionally, even though in recent years researchers have also started to examine the decision‐making process of ICT adoption, many themes are under‐represented in literature, such as the subject of 

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Supply chain finance: a literature review

Opening the black box of food waste reduction

Opening the Black Box of Food Waste Reduction

Routing policies and COI-based storage policies in picker-to-part systems

ICT for logistics and freight transportation: a literature review and research agenda