Indian Institute of Management Calcutta

About: Indian Institute of Management Calcutta is a education organization based out in Kolkata, India. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Supply chain & Context (language use). The organization has 415 authors who have published 1354 publications receiving 21725 citations. The organization is also known as: IIMC & IIM Calcutta.

Comparing Static and Dynamic Policies for Vehicle Routing Problems with Backhauling and Dynamic Customer Demands

Abstract: Dynamic vehicle routing problems with backhauling VRPB, although important, have attracted little attention in the literature. Dynamic VRPB is more complex than dynamic vehicle routing problems VRP without backhauling, and since VRP without backhauling is a special case of VRPB, models and algorithms for dynamic VRPB can easily be adapted for dynamic VRP. In this paper, the author compared between static and dynamic policies for solving VRPB with dynamic occurrences of customer delivery and pickup demands. They developed heuristic algorithms for medium-sized problems under static and dynamic policies. Although dynamic policies are always at least as good as static policies, the author observed from numerical experimentations that static policies perform relatively well for low degrees of dynamism dod. On the other hand, dynamic policies are expected to perform significantly better than static policies for high dod and early availabilities of dynamic customer delivery and pickup demand information. The author concludes the paper by providing directions for future research on dynamic VRPB.

A Noble Genetic Algorithm to Solve a Solid Green Traveling Purchaser Problem with Uncertain Cost Parameters

Abstract: The traveling purchaser problem (TPP) is a notable generalization of the traveling salesman problem (TSP) which involves selecting a subset of markets at a minimum traveling cost such that the dema...

Evaluation of relative performance of product designs: A fuzzy dea approach to quality function deployment

Abstract: The Fuzzy DEA approach is introduced in Quality Function Deployment (QFD) to evaluate relative performance of alternative product designs, when performance characteristics obtained from voice of customers are fuzzy, product design data are often limited, inaccurate and vague, and imprecise relationships exist among engineering and performance characteristics.

Innovation Styles, Processes, and their Drivers: An Organizational Perspective

Abstract: Technology innovation is not just a result of funds invested in research and development of a firm; it is a culmination of long-standing investments in well-thought-out processes, plans, and strategies. The chapter aims to address these aspects of technological innovations. The innovation process is a unique one, and each firm has a different style of bringing in innovation as per their requirements. These diverse innovation requirements are a direct consequence of the organizational structure and the innovation philosophies that those structures have embedded in them. Based on academic research done over the past decades on topics of organizational impact of innovation, the authors analyze the different innovation philosophies that organizations have, the processes that organizations use to promote innovation, as well as the drivers that impact these philosophies and processes.

Strategic approach to manage supply chain flexibility: a proposal

Abstract: Today’s Supply Chains (SCs) are operating in complex and competitive business environment. To adapt, reduce or eliminate stimuli (uncertainty, disturbances or changes), making the SC more flexible is emerging as a new strategic tool. In reality, SCs are managed by various performance measures and flexibility is one of them, which is being more focused by researchers and industry practitioners. However, Supply Chain Flexibility (SCF) has continued to be a major challenge to comprehend and put it into real practice. An attempt has been made to develop a flexibility scorecard focusing on the flexibility metric in a balanced way. The paper addresses the important issues of how to provide flexibility in SCs and develops a specific proposal based on a Balanced Scorecard (BSC) approach.