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Food traceability has an important role in maintaining the sustainability of food supply chain. Every player a chain must be able to create internal and external so that can formed. However, building suitable system is not easy task. The development been identified as complex problem due difficulty accommodating varied characteristics each stage interdependence between stages Therefore, solve t...

Paper Aims This paper aims to develop an approach support group decision making combining methods and tools a holistic MCDA process. Originality Authors have been using Value-Focused Thinking (VFT) for structuring problems with different methods, but there is lack of process that defines clear transition from VFT those methods. Here we propose fill this gap. Research method Rich Picture structu...

Traditional “hard” OR has been based on quantitative modelling and embodies, usually implicitly, a positivist or empiricist philosophy. “Soft OR”, for instance problem structuring methods such as SSM, developed as an antithesis and embodied an interpretivist or constructivist philosophy. This has generated somewhat of a schism between the two sides. Previous papers have advocated critical reali...

The trends of the green supply chain are attributed to pressures from the environment and from customers. Green innovation is a practice for creating competitive advantage in sustainable development. To keep up with the changing business environment, the construction industry needs an appropriate assessment tool to examine the intrinsic and extrinsic effects regarding corporate competitive adva...

System Dynamics (SD) and Discrete-event simulation (DES) can be viewed as complementary approaches to modeling. Both are popular simulation approaches and have been applied in a wide range of situations for various purposes. Reviewing the literature from the multimethodology field allows us to develop a modeling framework that considers the differing ways in which SD and DES could be combined. ...

Business process analysis and modeling is a crucial step in formulating information systems user requirements. The practice of information technology (IT) development does not indicate a lack of problems in spite of the growing number of modeling techniques. This article gives an action research account of formulating and applying a new business process modeling framework to manufacturing proce...

This paper presents and compares the SSDDD “Systematic Soft Domain Driven Design Framework” to DDD “Domain Driven Design Framework” as a soft system approach of information systems development. The framework use SSM as a guiding methodology within which we have embedded a sequence of design tasks based on the UML leading to the implementation of a software system using the Naked Objects framewo...

Paper aims This study presents several business analytics tools that allow improving the tactical planning of collection process for a Colombian solid-waste management company. Originality The extant literature operations research/analytics applied to these systems focuses on facility location or vehicle routing. Tactical decisions are seldom studied in devoted waste systems. By contrast, focus...