Current Issue : October - December Volume : 2014 Issue Number : 4 Articles : 4 Articles
Located in the West Asia and borders of the Gulf of Oman, Persian Gulf, and Caspian Sea,\nIran positioned half way on the trade between Asia and Europe, offers sea ports, railroad\nservices and land connections between two continents. Aided by this strategic location; in the\ncoming years; road and rail freight will become increasingly important to Iran as source of\nforeign income. Therefore, many logistics and transportation companies have started to study\nthe market in order to understand the challenges and prepare for new upcoming changes. For\nthe same purpose; Butane Run as one of leading liquid transporters commissioned a\ncomprehensive 360�º market study to Emrooz Marketing Research Company. Desk research,\nsurvey on trading companies and truck drivers, study business model and marketing approach\nof two foreign full-transport service companies as well as in-depth interviews and focus\ngroup discussions have been conducted in order to map the Iranâ��s transportation market, draw\nlessons on how modern transport companies operate and what are the driversâ�� expectations.\nFirst time in this industry, SORF�© analysis model also has been used in order to puts all available cards on the table and gives much broaden outlook to the company senior\nmanagement on the targeted market. Consequently new strategy for Butane Run crafted to\nfurther develop its business, operate on transportation of trading goods, invest in upgrading\nits fleet, infrastructures, software, etc; pushed its T/O and gained massive market share....
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a non-parametric technique for evaluating the efficiency of\nDecision Making Units (DMUs) with multiple inputs and outputs. Evaluating performance supply\nchain is one of the uses of DEA. But hence, the traditional DEA models treat with each DMU as a\nââ?¬Å?black boxââ?¬Â, thus, the performance measurement may be not effective. So, there are necessities for\nnetwork DEA models. The primary condition for the use of DEA models is that the data are exact.\nBut in the real word, we are often conformed to vague and uncertain data and performance evaluation\nby usual methods in the presence such data may lead errors in decision-making process, so for\nmaking applied decision and more adaptive to real word, it is undeniable need for fuzzy logic to\nevaluate the efficiency of unit. In this paper, at first, a new non-radial network DEA model for\nevaluating performance supply chain is introduced, by considering intermediate production. Its\noptimal solution can separate inefficient and strong efficient DMUs, and finally we solve this model\nwhen the all data are fuzzy numbers....
In today's competitive market, manufacturers not only intend to improve internal conditions,\nbut choosing the best of markets and suppliers is at the top of their agenda. Selecting the best\nalternatives in each of these decisions requires analysis of many factors, which as a result,\nencounters organizations with a problem of multi-criteria decisions. On the other hand, the\napplication of the grey relational analysis (GRA) in connection with consideration of the\ncriteria in different managerial and operational issues has been referred to in many articles\nalong which goal programming may consider several goals according to the priorities of the\ndecision maker. The combination of these two techniques may create a model that takes into\nconsideration various goals through simultaneous consideration of varied criteria.\nIn this article, a model of decision making is presented, which evaluates potential suppliers\nwith the help of combination of the grey theory system and goal programming and\nconsideration of various constraints, and ultimately, the best options are selected and the\npurchasing plan from each in every period is determined as well. For the purpose of\nexamination, the model�s reliability has been evaluated by case basis in a big automotive\nmanufacturing plant, and senior managers have approved the results....
The Arab Bridge Maritime Company suffers seasonal trailers congestions on its liner service\nacross the Gulf of Aqaba due to several problems, this research focuses on identifying the\ntrailers congestions problems, constraints, and business challenges affecting the efficiency of\nthe maritime and land transport operation on the overall transportation chain of supply for the\ncompany and carry out the necessary reengineering process on the day to day operations\nprocesses for a better ships efficient operation, smooth flow of trailers, and better customer\nsatisfaction by utilizing three information technologies, the LRIT, RFID and SMS, taking into\nconsideration the business environment, i.e. limited city and port infrastructure, seasonal\nincrease in trailers movement, available technologies in the market and ABM ships capacity....
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