Nowadays, in highly competitive global markets and constant pressure to reduce total costs, enterprises consider group technology and Supply Chain Management (SCM) accordingly and usually separately as the key elements for intra and inter facilities improvement. Simultaneous consideration of the elements of these two disciplines in an integrated design can result in higher efficiency and ...

Manufacturing and logistics are globally facing transformational changes. The introduction of new technologies and the advances in equipment and intelligence capability are having profound effects on production and logistics in practice. New solutions for manufacturing and logistics are evolving to respond to various needs. In particular, production and services are transformed from vertically ...

This paper describes the application of discrete event simulation to study continuous material flow. Logistics is an integrated part of most manufacturing companies. The purpose of this study is to determine the required logistics operations to allow continuous operations of a chemical manufacturing plant. The application has been used to provide critical decision support.

The main issue of this work-in-progress paper is to address the explanation and understanding of change (and stability) in networks informed by a critical realist position. The aim is twofold. The next section presents a framework drawing heavily on a critical realist interpretation of logistics research (Aastrup & Nedergaard, 2000). Section three discusses a limited number of contributions fro...

A good hub centre will effectively help expand agglomeration economy effects and increase competitive advantages for global shipping carrier-based logistics service providers (GSLPs). Hence, the selection of hub location of logistics centre is very important for the GSLP companies. In light of this, the main purpose of this paper is to develop an integrated fuzzy MCDM model to evaluate the best...

Line-integrated supermarkets constitute a novel in-house parts logistics concept for feeding mixed-model assembly lines. In this context, supermarkets are decentralized logistics areas located directly in each station. Here, parts are withdrawn from their containers by a dedicated logistics worker and sorted just-in-sequence (JIS) into a JIS-bin. From this bin, assembly workers fetch the parts ...

0360-8352/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.cie.2011.11.011 ⇑ Tel./fax: +886 2 86625932. E-mail address: [email protected] Due to the IT advances, the logistics management faces a change to the new era. This article proposes a novel method to evaluate the real-time overall performance of a logistics network for a supply chain. The corresponding strategies to manage the...

Cloud computing is becoming more and more adopted as infrastructure for providing service oriented solutions. Such a solution is especially critical when software and hardware resources are remotely distributed. In this paper we illustrate our experience in designing the architecture of a community cloud infrastructure in an industrial project related to integrated logistics (LOGIN) for made in...

In global manufacturing a paradigm shift from “make-to-stock” to “make-to-order” can be observed. This shift calls for new logistics strategies. Logistics should not focus exclusively on the efficiency of the distribution system. Beyond, it is important to integrate the order process into the logistics strategy. Our vision in writing this paper is an integrated fulfilment process from customer ...