This paper aims to show that Intelligent Products may be used to facilitate closed-loop reverse logistics processes. An analysis of the actors and processes in reverse logistics processes is presented to identify requirements towards the characteristics of a technical concept suitable to support closed-loop reverse logistics processes. That Intelligent Products fulfill the requirements is shown...

The markets globalization is one of the factors creating conditions for the development of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship does not have one generally accepted definition. Most often, entrepreneurship is perceived as the ability to increase the number of enterprises. Entrepreneurship can be understood as the potential to identify and use development opportunities regardless of own resources....

background: environment and its ecosystems are affected by various natural and man-made disasters. the environmental management in disasters tries to protect ecosystems, sustain development, reduce disaster risk, and adapt to or decrease the impact of climate change. this study aimed to investigate the impact of disasters on the environment and methods of reducing these effects. materials and m...

rural and nature tourism has experienced high growth over the past 20 years. one of the primary challenges facing rural tourism management is to establish a profitable and environmentally sustainable industry. moreover, sustainable tourism is a complex concept and it requires that nature and tourism activity should be studied from an integrated point of view. in this paper, we analyze how the e...

Progressively firms give more importance to management of processes of return that supposed excess inventories, customer returns, obsolete inventories and seasonal products ,that is to say, to the processes Reverse Logistics (Srivastava & Srivastava, 2006). So it increases the need for information flexibility because this one helps to reduce uncertainty of these processes (Koste & Malhotra, 199...

The role of sustainability has made it a vital point to measure companies’ financial performances and practices along the overall supply chain. Logistics service providers (LSPs) are among chain actors that need consider present better sustainable service. Therefore, we studied LSPs in Egypt, as Egypt set goals logistics sector be achieved by 2030. This research proposes new quality (SLSQ) scal...

environmental protection is a key element in urban management. due to complex relationships between human and environment in metropolises the importance of environment is ever-increasing. in this paper the current situation of environment in tehran metropolis including air, water, biodiversity and human habitat along with the most crucial threats, their effect as well as the associated agencies...

To promote the low-carbonization of rural logistics, embeddedness among low-carbon logistics potential (LRLP), strength (LRLS) and environmental regulations (ERs) was clarified by using analytical paradigm impetus–basis–target. According to embeddedness, an evolutionary framework system constructed analyze process this system. Then, a three-dimensional equation proposed based on framework, thre...

A study on the logistics activities of companies in the automotive, retail and consumer goods, chemicals, mechanical engineering, and construction and plant engineering industries Logistics in China: An All-inclusive Market? A study on the logistics activities of companies in the automotive, retail and consumer goods, chemicals, mechanical engineering, and construction and plant engineering ind...

Especially in logistics, process instances often interact with their realworld environment during execution. This is challenging due to the fact that events from this environment are often heterogeneous, lack process instance information, and their import and visualisation in traditional process engines is not sufficiently supported. To address these challenges, we implemented GET Controller an...