Management Science, Logistics, and Operations Research

Management Science, Logistics, and Operations Research

Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 481

ISBN13: 9781466645066|ISBN10: 1466645067|EISBN13: 9781466645073

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4506-6

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With the influence of operations research and management science, business and administration methods have made significant strides in advancing the effective application methods for decision-making processes.

Management Science, Logistics, and Operations Research examines related research in decision, management, and other behavioral sciences in order to exchange and collaborate on information among business, industry, and government. This book presents innovative theories and practices in operations research and is essential for practitioners, educators, and researchers for improving business functions and decision-making.

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Advances in Logistics, Operations, and Management Science (ALOMS) Book Series

Exploring the Important Issues of Management Science, Logistics, and Operations Research

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Chapter 1

Case Studies of RFID Practices for Competitive Inventory Management Systems (pages 1-25)

Alan D. Smith

The nature of emerging business technologies, such automatic identification, and data capture innovations, such as smart cards, touch memory, and RFID, proves to be a difficult process to implement and achieve, despite recent...

Chapter 2

An Integer Programming Model to Maximize Battery Manufacturing Productivity (pages 26-37)

Hesham K. Alfares

An Integer Programming (IP) model is formulated and optimally solved for a real-life production planning problem. The model is used to determine the optimum production plan for the formation stage of battery manufacturing in a local...

Chapter 3

Improving Security and Efficiency of Multimodal Supply Chains Using Monitoring Technology (pages 38-52)

Johan Scholliers, Sirra Toivonen, Antti Permala, Timo Lahtinen

Multimodal supply chains are characterized by multiple changes of transport modes, vehicles, and transport operators, and hence, the risks for theft, untimely delivery, and freight quality deterioration increase. There is a growing...

Chapter 4

RFID: From Closed Manufacturers’ Systems to Supply Chain-Wide Tracking (pages 53-64)

Antti Permala, Karri Rantasila, Eetu Pilli-Sihvola, Ville Hinkka

The use of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tracking in closed systems is replacing barcode as dominant tracking system in many industrial sectors because RFID enables reading multiple objects simultaneously without visual...

Chapter 5

Ordering Policy for Imperfect-Quality Deteriorating Items with Initial-Inspection and Allowable Shortage under the Condition of Permissible Delay in Payments (pages 65-80)

Chandra K. Jaggi, Mandeep Mittal

While developing the inventory model with shortages under permissible delay in payments, it has been observed in the literature that the researchers have not considered the fact that the retailer can earn interest on the revenue...

Chapter 6

Innovating Practices in Managing Engineering Design Projects (pages 81-95)

Fernando Abreu Gonçalves, José Figueiredo

We can address innovation from different perspectives. In engineering practices we can look to changes resulting from attempts to discover ways of overcoming difficulties. How can we manage these innovative practices in engineering...

Chapter 7

Essentials of Linear Programming for Managers: From System of Inequalities to Software Implementation (pages 96-127)

Hossein Arsham, M. Bardossy, D. K. Sharma

This chapter provides a critical overview of Linear Programming (LP) from a manager's perspective. The main objective is to provide managers with the essentials of LP as well as cautionary notes and defenses on common modeling...

Chapter 8

Using Holistic Strategy to Govern Today’s Extended Enterprise (pages 128-138)

Kenneth Saban

Governing extended networks is often associated with having the latest collaborative technology and business processes. However, current studies suggest that both are only part of the answer. This chapter argues that a holistic...

Chapter 9

A Stakeholder Perspective of Sustainable Supply Chain Management: Evidence from a Developing Country (pages 139-166)

Mohamed Gamal Aboelmaged

Industrialization leaves no doubt that our planet is suffering from global warming, depletion of natural resources, pollution, waste, and other environmental concerns. Consequently, businesses, communities, and governments have been...

Chapter 10

Key Success Drivers for Large High-Technology Projects: Prediction and Practice (pages 167-178)

Phil Crosby

Success in project management, and particularly in large, high-technology projects, continues to test the resources of organisations and their sponsors. This chapter revisits the conclusions of an earlier meta-study (Crosby, 2012a)...

Chapter 11

Analysis, Critique, and Proposed Revision of Crew Resource Management for Cockpit Automation: The R-MPM and ERICA (pages 179-206)

Ronald John Lofaro

It is well over 30 years since the first (then called) Cockpit Resource Management (CRM) training, now called crew resource management was introduced. It is a shibboleth, a sacred cow as it were, despite many issues, concerns, and...

Chapter 12

Beyond the Paradox of Service Industrialization: Approaches to Design Meaningful Services (pages 207-220)

Jesús Alcoba González

Highly industrialized services add value to a company, but at the same time they can destroy it, should an almost identical proposal be made to two different clients who are seeking different experiences. The analysis of human...

Chapter 13

Adoption and Utilization of ICT in the Chinese Third-Party Logistics Industry (pages 221-242)

Kwok Hung Lau, Haibo Huang

This paper reports the findings of a questionnaire survey on the adoption and utilization of information and communication technology (ICT) – an important tool to enhance efficiency and responsiveness in modern-day supply chains – in...

Chapter 14

A Platform for Collaborative Outbound Logistics (pages 243-266)

Yves Wautelet, Isabelle Mirbel

Electronic collaboration in the field of Supply Chain Management notably allows enhanced visibility for each of the involved actors through information sharing and global optimization through coordination. The proper achievement of...

Chapter 15

Why Information Systems Replication Strategy Fails in Transnational Operation (pages 267-288)

Angela Lin, Shin-Horng Chen

In search of cheaper resources and being able to serve nearby market more efficiently in order to maintain and improve their market position in a global economy, companies relocate, extend, or establish new production facilities...

Chapter 16

Framework Based on Benefits Management and Enterprise Architecture: The Private Cloud in the Business Strategy (pages 289-309)

António Rodrigues, Henrique O’Neill

In 2010, a framework aiming to address strategic investment decisions on IT infrastructure was developed. It was based in Benefits Management principles and Enterprise Architecture concepts, being inspired by the emerging public...

Chapter 17

Performance of Firms: A Study of Offshore Outsource Service Providers (pages 310-332)

Soni Agrawal, Kishor Goswami, Bani Chatterjee

With the evolution of information technology, firms offshore outsource services to developing and low service cost countries to have cost as well competitive advantages. This is a growing practice, but there has been limited...

Chapter 18

Evolution of Supply Chain Collaboration: Implications for the Role of Knowledge (pages 333-374)

Michael J. Gravier, M. Theodore Farris

Increasingly, research across many disciplines has recognized the shortcomings of the traditional “integration prescription” for inter-organizational knowledge management. This research conducts several simulation experiments to...

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