Toward sustainable operations of supply chain and logistics systems. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Voratas Kachitvichyanukul, Kanchana Sethanan, Paulina Golinska-Dawson, editors.
• Editors: Kachitvichyanukul, Voratas; Sethanan, Kanchana; Golinska-Dawson, Paulina
• Contents: Part 1 Supply Chain Management.- A supply chain network design considering network density -- Is Cash-to-cash cycle appropriate to measure Supply Chain Performance? -- Key performance indicator framework for measuring healthcare logistics in ASEAN -- Supply Chain Modelling under Uncertainty: A Supplier's Perspective -- A study on the changing structure of retail logistics -- Investigating the End-Customers' Acceptance of the Virtual Supply Chain: The Case of Grocery Retailers in Egypt -- Part 2 Sustainable Logistics -- The effect of institutional pressures and top managers' posture on green supply chain management -- Deployment of sustainable logistics optimization incorporated with modal shift and emission trading on carbon dioxide -- Sustainability Classification for SMEs -- a guidance of sustainability assessment with the use of averaged traits quality method -- Decision making criteria for sustainable remanufacturing -- A Framework for sustainable food supply chain: Reflections from the Indian dairy producers -- Waste Reduction in Meat Processing Industry: the application of MFCA (ISO 14051) -- A Suggestion of an Effective Reverse Logistics System for Discarded Tires in Japan -- A Study on The Optimal and The Collected Location of Industrial Wastes Treatment Facilities: A Case of The Intermediate Treatment Facilities in Chiba, Japan -- Part 3 Manufacturing and production logistics -- Performance Measurements Related to Lean Manufacturing that Affect Net Profit of SMEs in the Manuf acturing Sector of Thailand -- The survey on the challenges of organization of automotive components remanufacturing in small sized companies in Poland -- Makespan minimization for scheduling unrelated parallel machine with sequence-dependent setup time -- Single machine scheduling for minimizing earliness/tardiness penalties with sequence dependent setup times -- Part 4 -- Optimization problems in warehousing, distribution and transportation -- Designing of Relief Network for Disaster Response Operation -- Integrated relief supply distribution and evacuation: a stochastic approach -- Combining Simulation with Optimization to Evaluate Freight Logistics Performances for Developing a Corridor -- Time Management of Domestic Express Transportation Services -- Sugarcane Harvester Planning Based on the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Window (VRPTW) Approach -- A Memetic Algorithm Approach for Solving the Truck and Trailer Routing Problem -- Modified DE Algorithms for Solving Multi-depot Vehicle Routing Problem with Multiple Pickup and Delivery Requests -- Part 5 Metaheuristics and artificial intelligence methods -- Flexible multistage forward/reverse logistics network under uncertain demands with hybrid genetic algorithm -- Development of Heuristics in Sugarcane Harvest Scheduling for Mechanical Harvester in Sugarcane Supply Chain -- Territory Energy Management Performance Improvement -- An Assessment of Customer Contentment for Ready to Drink Tea Flavor Notes Using Artificial Neural Networks -- Particle Swarm Optimization with Multiple Learning Terms for Storage Location Assignment Problems Considering Three-Axis Traveling Distance -- A Particle Swarm Optimization Approach for Solar Cell Industry Multi-Stage Closed Loop Supply Chain Model -- A combined grey system theory and uncertainty theory based approach for supplier selection in supply chain management -- A fuzzy multi-objective model with MFCA approach for selecting products variety in a textile supply chain -- Part 6 Mathematical Programming, Operations Research and Statistical Techniques -- Manpower Planning with Multiple Tasks for a Call Center in Healthcare Service -- Developing Control Charts for Monitoring Time Interval between Nonconforming Items in High Quality Processes -- Workforce Planning for Single Call Center with Service Level Agreement -- Image Analysis for High Dimensional Control Chart in Sausage Color Consistency Detection.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 658.8; Environment; Business logistics; Sustainable development; Biotechnology; Production management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industrial Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management Science; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Organizational Behavior; Business logistics; Sustainable development; Science -- Environmental Science; Business & Economics -- Production & Operations Management; Sustainability; Management of specific areas; Technology & Engineering -- Environmental -- General; Environmental science, engineering & technology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319190068; 3319190067; 3319190059; 9783319190051
• Related ISBNs: 9783319190051
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 15, 2015).
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