The business environment has changed tremendously in the last two decades. Corporations have been forced to realign their global strategies and in order to cut costs, they started to transfer activities which were previously performed in-house to the market (e.g. IT, manufacturing or logistics) focusing instead on their core competencies… Contents 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 PROBLEM [...]
The aim of this project is to provide to the governmental decision-maker, a medium that can assist him/her in improving the infrastructure investment decision in the economical, environmental and sustainable aspects. This means that, the Return on Investment (ROI) of the concerned transport infrastructure, complying with ecological and sustainable constraints must be positive, and corresponding [...]
As a consequence of increased globalisation, the competition among companies is growing and new ways have to be found to succeed in the new business climate. The purpose of this thesis is to describe logistics collaboration in supply chains. During the past two decades, a new trend towards integration and collaboration in supply chains has [...]
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 [...]
Supply chain management addresses the management of materials and information across the entire chain from suppliers to producers,distributors, retailers, and customers. In the past few decades, scholars gave ample attention about the impact of inventory on Supply Chain Management (SCM). Roughly speaking, research on supply chain management has been mainly focused on three major issues. [...]
Rapid technological advancements have completely revolutionalised the way things are done in the business world today. Proliferation of the internet and related technologies in the 1990s made it possible for companies to do business over the internet and it became easier and faster to do business both with suppliers and customers. With the ushering in [...]
Corporations have turned increasingly to global sources for their supplies. This globalization of supply has forced companies to look for more effective ways to coordinate the flow of materials into and out of the company. This Master Thesis is a part of PlymoVent’s business to customer plot, with the aim to investigate how the consumers [...]
It is the gift of the last decade of the 20th century that most of the economies of the world are zooming towards market orientation. Rapid innovations in the field of science and technology, especially information and communication technologies along with heavy industrialization as a consequence of liberalization policy of almost all economies of the [...]
Title: Strategies for Sustainable Supply Chain Management: Supplier Interaction Devices In a competitive business environment that requires strategy and innovation to improve the bottom line, supply chain management (scm) has been vital in creating competitive advantage. Increasingly, companies are also identifying sustainability as an opportunity to create competitive advantage. This project explores supply chains as [...]
The increasing material costs and the rapid advances in computing technology have both motivated and promoted the study of network problems that arise in several different application domains. This dissertation consists of four chapters on network applications in transportation, telecommunications, and supply chain management. The core of our research is to apply heuristic search procedures [...]