Title: Integration Flow Management (IFM): Applying lean principles to complex airport logistics projects Our research has two primary goals. The first one is to investigate to what extent the concepts of lean production are applicable to complex Siemens Airport Logistics (SAL) projects. With the example of Toyota we know, lean principles are very effective in [...]
Forecast design at GE Healthcare Europe: design of the process for the unit production forecast
Predicting customer demand is the key factor to achieve excellence in supplychain performance (Rick Hoole & Shrunti Mandana, 2005). When businesses become more and more competitive, excellence in the supply chain turns into a prerequisite for survival. Making predictions of the future is seldom easy and is dependent on gained experience from historical events – [...]
Supply chain optimization in the forest industry
The scope of this thesis is modelling and solving large-scale planning problems in the supply chain within the forest industry. Five research papers are included, the first three of which focus on the modelling, and the last two on the solution methods. All problems included are tactical multi-commodity problems expressed as mixed integer programming (MIP) [...]
Evaluating Supply Chains – The Development of a Model to Evaluate Multinational Supply Chains
The purpose of this dissertation was to develop a general model for evaluating multinational supply chains. This model could provide guidelines for process-based manufacturing companies when comparing or choosing between different supply chains in order to make long-term investment decisions.Therefore, the authors looked through various measurement, comparison and evaluation theories. The data gained during interviews [...]
Developing a strategic procurement process: a case study at Boliden AB
Boliden is one of the leading mining and smelter companies in the world. Boliden have mines in Sweden and Ireland and smelters in Sweden, Norway and Finland. Their main products are copper, zinc, lead, gold and silver. To make it easier to standardize the procurement process and introduce new lead-buyers, Boliden has decided to create [...]
Test Laboratory Amalgamation Layout
Schefenacker Vision Systems Australia (SVSA) in Lonsdale manufactures Passenger Vehicle Exterior & Interior Rear View Mirrors, Light Truck Rear Mirrors, Motor Mechanisms for Electric Motors and Door Handles. Schefenacker Lighting Systems Australia (SLSA) in Taree manufactures Tail Lamps, Turn Signals, High Mounted Stop Lamps, Interior Lighting and Small Lamps. Both of these divisions have their [...]
Material handling at Volvo Construction Equipment Braas
Title: Internal material handling at Volvo Construction Equipment Braas Material handling is a large part of a company´s internal work and represents between 15 % and 70 % of the total cost of a manufactured product. By improving the internal handling of material, more efficient distribution and manufacturing flows are possible. The material handling process [...]
The Role of Top Management in Supply Chain Management Practices
Supply chain management (SCM) has been discussed by researchers as well as business practitioners for more than two decades now, but still surprisingly little of this philosophy can be seen in today’s business practices. One important enabler for taking the SCM philosophy from theory into practice that is often mentioned, but not investigated in-depth, is [...]
Essays on Model Assisted Survey Planning
The quality of sample survey results is to a large degree dependent on decisions made by survey statisticians at the planning stage. The first paper studies two issues related to the planning stage: (i) the sensitivity of model assumptions concerning the relation between the size measure and a study variable in without replacement probability proportional-to-size [...]
Revenue management of hotel industry in Hong Kong
Revenue management is a method for profitably managing capacity that used in the hospitality industry. Overbooking and allocation of perishable assets are the techniques which commonly used. The hotel-operating environment in Hong Kong is highly competitive, in order to survive and generate more revenue, the use of perishable assets is critical. Hotel room is perishable, [...]