For expediently integrating service partners and software modules to enhance the openness and service level of the manufacturing integrated service platform, the browser/server/database architecture is presented as its software architecture, on this basis, its function structure is divided into preponderant manufacturing resource sharing system, intelligentized and independent design system for...

Due to business and environmental issues, the efficient design of an integrated forward/reverse logistics network has recently attracted more attention from researchers. The significance of transportation cost and customer satisfaction spurs an interest in developing a flexible network design model with different delivery paths. This paper proposes a flexible mixed-integer programming model to ...

the study was undertaken with the objectives to: (1) study the present status of plastic waste management and the existing phnom penh household willingness and their influence factors to segregate plastics for recycling and reuse (plastics & non plastics); (2) study how other cities encouraged and obtained the participation of their population in plastics recycling and reuse and (3) recommend w...

A review of the literature indicates that most formulations for humanitarian logistics are extensions of methods for commercial applications that do not fully account for the particular challenges in humanitarian operations. In contrast to commercial logistics, operational costs are of secondary importance for humanitarian logistics since responders are frequently more concerned about allocatin...

The supply chain is a dynamic and integrated system in which all enterprises are integrated to obtain optimization of the whole chain. Integration is a process of redefining and connecting parts of a whole in order to form a new one. In traditional supply chain integration, the definitions of parts are usually limited by the boundary of the enterprises: the integration emphasizes connecting eac...

background: with the rapid development of health services, the progress of medical science and technology, and the improvement of materials research, the consumption of medical consumables (mcs) in medical activities has increased in recent years. however, owing to the lack of effective management methods and the complexity of mcs, there are several management problems including mc waste, low m...

Recent supply chain literature are mainly concentrated on the quality of conventional supply chain information systems, the study on the e-fulWllment has not been visibly noticeable. This paper uses factor analysis to determine four e-fulWllment success factors: information quality, service quality, system quality, and work performance quality. Later, this paper uses discriminant analysis metho...

Taniguchi defines City Logistics as “the process of totally optimising the logistics and transport activities by private companies in urban areas while considering the traffic environment, traffic congestion and energy consumption within the framework of a market economy”. The distribution of goods based on road services in urban areas contribute to traffic congestion, generates environmental i...

The selection and implantation of sufficient and appropriate continuous improvement strategy are the key success factors for improving firm performance and enhancement of competitive advantage on manufacturing industries. As a result special role are given to Continuous improvement programs such as Supply Chain Management (SCM), Six-Sigma, Total Quality Management (TQM), Kaizen, Just-in-Time (J...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to explore family medicine residents' perceptions of a newly restructured integrated longitudinal curriculum. METHOD A purposeful sample of 16 family medicine residents participated in focus group interviews conducted from a grounded theory perspective to identify the characteristics of this training model that contribute to and that challenge learning...