Current Issue : January - March Volume : 2014 Issue Number : 1 Articles : 4 Articles
The purpose of this conceptual paper is to explore the literature pertaining to logistician\r\ncompetency. It discusses stakeholders in logistics industry to pursue further research on\r\ntapping current elements in competency for future logisticians. The discussion includes the\r\ngeneral view about logistician competency, the relationship between logistics and competency,\r\nand the Malaysia logistics industry in general. The paper wish to present a proposition where\r\nknowledge, skills, internship, and curriculum will attribute to Malaysia logistician\r\ncompetency....
Given the increasingly significant impact of\r\nan efficient product-location strategy on warehouses�\r\nperformance from a service level and operational costs\r\nperspective, this paper presents a possible operations\r\nresearch-oriented solution to provide a tangible\r\nreduction of the overall required warehousing space,\r\nthereby translating the storage location assignment\r\nproblem (SLAP) into a vertex colouring problem\r\n(VCP). Developing the topic of their previous work on\r\nthe development of an effective multi-product slotcode\r\noptimization heuristic, the authors focused on\r\nfinding a cost-effective way to solve the SLAP through\r\na mathematical-optimization approach. The formulation\r\nvalidation on a real industrial case showed its high\r\noptimization potential, and benchmarking simulations\r\ndisplayed performances significantly close to the best\r\ntheoretical case. Indeed, the optimized value results\r\nwere definitively close to the SLAP lower bound\r\ncalculated assuming a randomized storage policy\r\nwhich, distinct from the developed solution, must\r\ninevitably be supported by warehouse management\r\nsystem software. On the contrary, the proposed\r\nmethodology relies upon a dedicated storage policy,\r\nwhich is easily implementable by companies of all\r\nsizes without the need for investing in expensive IT\r\ntools....
We propose that managing the flow of people through an organization shares many of the same \r\ncharacteristics and challenges as managing the flow of materials through a traditional supply \r\nchain, and that supply chain management principles and practices can be fruitfully applied to \r\ntalent management. In particular, we focus on the application of value stream mapping to aid \r\norganizations in understanding their people-related processes and identifying opportunities for \r\nimprovement, and on the use of simulation modeling to help organizations evaluate and make \r\ndecisions about improving talent flow. We discuss the applicability of supply chain principles to \r\nhuman capital, and then illustrate the applicability of value stream mapping and simulation \r\nmodeling using a real-world case study of a large, complex organization....
This paper is aimed to analyze the environmental impact in supply chain researches and daily transport operations. We have made a survey based on setting the general criteria and the interaction between the supply chain features and their effect on the environment. We integrate the congestion effect as a supply chain risk factor.\r\nThe survey has been shared world-wide via professionalsââ?¬â?¢ websites and emailing. Also, in this paper we will evaluate the congestion level and impact in ââ?¬Å?FLORIS Distributionââ?¬Â company in Tunisia....
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