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Showing papers in "International Journal of Production Economics in 2012"


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TL;DR: In this article, the two key flows in such relationships are material and informa- tion flows in the supply chain integration process, and the two main flows in these relationships are information flow and material flow.

1,052 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the literature on sustainable supply chains during the last decade; 2000-2010; and provide frameworks for sustainable supply chain management and performance measures, and also provide a case study to illustrate the experience of a utility supply chain in setting performance indicators.

916 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the impact of environmental and social practices on the triple bottom line of the manufacturing industry. And they found that internal environmental programs have a positive impact on the three components of the triplebottom line, whereas internal social initiatives have a negative impact on only two components: social and environmental performance.

747 citations


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TL;DR: A mixed-integer linear programming based framework for sustainable supply chain design that considers life cycle assessment (LCA) principles in addition to the traditional material balance constraints at each node in the supply chain is introduced in this paper.

743 citations


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TL;DR: This paper updates the literature review on MC presented in a previous paper, and identifies research gaps to be investigated in the future through summary statistics.

613 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the extent of implementation of sustainable supply chain management practices (environmental purchasing and sustainable packaging) was investigated, and the outcomes of these practices on sustainable supply-chain performance were examined.

522 citations


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TL;DR: Sustainable business development (SBD) in manufacturing and services (M&S) has become a crucial issue in recent years owing to the impact of global warming, terrorism, earthquakes, hurricanes, and carbon footprint awareness, to site but a few causes as mentioned in this paper.

522 citations


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TL;DR: A comprehensive listing of AHP applications in operations management is presented and a framework for identifying the decision areas that have better research gaps to be studied by future researchers is developed.

516 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, three key social management capabilities: monitoring, collaboration, and innovation are defined and used to underpin case research in five multinational firms, and the field research revealed four key linkages that detail how managers actively can work toward mitigating social risks, creating new opportunities, and improving firm performance.

494 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine an apparel serial supply chain whose players initiate product "greening" and study the impact of greening costs and consumer sensitivity towards green apparels.

474 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of exploratory case-based research aimed at identifying three factors: the drivers that push companies to adopt “green” practices, the different practices that can be used to improve environmental sustainability, and the environmental KPIs measured by fashion companies.

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TL;DR: In this article, the optimal decisions on retail services and prices in a centralized and a decentralized dual-channel supply chain using the two-stage optimization technique and Stackelberg game were examined.

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TL;DR: The DMAIC (Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control) method in Six Sigma is often described as an approach for problem solving, but its generality limits the methodological support it provides, and which fails to exploit task-domain specific knowledge.

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TL;DR: In this paper, an Interpretive Structured Modeling (ISM) was used for identifying and summarizing relationships among specific attributes for selecting the best third party reverse logistics provider among the ‘ n ’ 3PRLPs.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the boundary spanning role of green operations and investigated the influence of environmental management capability (EMC) of suppliers on firm performance and pollution reduction, and found that process stewardship has a positive influence on performance outcomes.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between green supply chain management (GSCM) drivers (organizational support, social capital and government involvement) and GSCM practices (green purchasing, cooperation with customers, eco-design and investment recovery).

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TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of governmental financial intervention on green supply chain competition using a three-stage game-theoretic model were analyzed and Nash equilibrium solutions for governmental and chain member decisions were derived.

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TL;DR: In this article, a formal structured managerial approach for organizations to help evaluate the influence relationships among green supplier development programs (GSDPs) is introduced. But, formal modeling tools to aid managers in evaluating green supplier Development programs are virtually non-existent.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a review of lot-size models which focus on coordinated inventory replenishment decisions between buyer and vendor and their impact on the performance of the supply chain.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between lean production implementation and financial performance, focusing on the mediating role of inventory leanness in deriving the financial performance benefits commonly associated with lean production.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors combine fuzzy logic and analytic hierarchy process to form a decision-making model for different green initiatives in the fashion industry, which is used to analyse the associated risk of different alternatives, subject to different factors, be they deterministic or not.

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TL;DR: The objective of this research is to propose a manufacturing/remanufacturing policy that would minimize the sum of the holding and backlog costs for manufacturing and remanufacturing products.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate how system resilience can be improved by focusing on a supply chain network as a whole and analyze inventory placement and back-up methodologies in a multi-echelon network and view their effect on reducing supply chain risk.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a data envelopment analysis (DEA) technique and an empirical case of a Korean electronics industry were used to measure corporate sustainability management and the combined approach of cross-efficiency and dual-role factors was proposed.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an overview of literature on epidemics control and logistics operations aiming at stimulating further interest in the area of epidemics controlling supply chain management, focusing on defining the role of logistics operations and their management.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a supply chain consisting of two manufacturers and a retailer is considered, where the first manufacturer is a traditional manufacturer that produces the new product, while the second manufacturer operates a reverse channel producing remanufactured products from used cores.

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TL;DR: Work to develop guidelines for Material, Energy and Waste (MEW) process flow modelling to support the pursuit of sustainable manufacturing is reported on.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the drivers of sustainability and related key features based on extant literature and a case study, and two resultant frameworks emerge that display the interdependence of the triple bottom line and the essential elements required for a sustainable supply chain.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the advantages of integrating integrated production and distribution planning problems at an operational level for highly perishable products and showed that the economic benefits derived from using an integrated approach are much dependent on the freshness level of products delivered.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between sustainable procurement and e-procurement, two recent initiatives in public procurement in many countries, and developed a model to show that e-procurement and communication with suppliers support some types of sustainable procurement, and hinders others.