Business process management (BPM) is becoming the dominant management paradigm. Business process modelling is central to BPM, and the resultant business process model the core artefact guiding subsequent process change. Thus, model quality is at the centre, mediating between the modelling effort and related growing investment in ultimate process improvements. Nonetheless, though research intere...

Selection and negotiation of purchasing bids is a complex decision making process that requires consideration of a variety of vendor attributes such as price, delivery performance, and quality. Although several decision models have been utilized for vendor evaluation and selection, this paper proposes a buyer–seller game model that has distinct advantages over existing methods for bid selection...

Extensive research has been devoted to economic production quantity (EPQ) problem. However, little atten-tion has been paid to problems where depreciation cost and process quality cost must be considered, simulta-neously. In this paper, we consider the economic production quantity model of minimizing the annual total cost subject to depreciation cost and process quality cost, where depreciation...

This paper analyses how the technical and managerial support of buyers affects performance investment capacity Brazilian pig farmers. The also influence farmers’ on their own that in turn influences requirements demanded by buyers. We developed a structural equation model applied to sample 199 farmers including piglet (n=91) finishers (n=108) working under production contracts. includes two con...

Many nations have created ecological policies and regulations to prevent industries from emitting excessive amounts of carbon emissions into the environment. While significant progress has been achieved in direction sustainable growth, many still rely on nonrenewable energy sources. This study explores viability investing green technology achieve optimal decisions (lot sizes, lead time, investm...

The aim of the present work was to investigate the ability of Cocopeat to remove of lead (II) from aqueous solutions. The effects of different parameters such as particle size, adsorbent dosage, pH, contact time, agitation speed and concentration on the removal process has been investigated. The maximum removal of lead ion (92.5%) took place in the pH range of 4 contact time in 30 minutes a...

Executive summary 1. Most traded goods have important qualities which cannot be revealed by inspection or ordinary use. These qualities, which are difficult or impossible to detect but which nevertheless play a role for the buyer, are called credence characteristics. Credence goods are goods for which the buyer's decision-making is dominated by concerns about credence characteristics. 2. Creden...

This paper aims to present the critical issues and methodologies to improve robotic machining performance with flexile industrial robots. Design/methodology/approach – A complete solution using active force control is introduced to address various issues during the robotic machining process. Programming complex couture parts without a CAD model is made easy by using force control functions such...