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The enduring repercussions of the Asian financial crisis in 1997,
the worsening global economy following the burst of the dotcom
bubbles in 2001, the financial tsunami in 2008, and the incessant
rise in customer demand for better services have all contributed to
shrinking profit margins for businesses around the world. To cope
with these challenges, firms are discovering logistics as a
competitive weapon when looking for ways to strengthen and preserve
their market positions. One successful solution has been the
adoption of Just-in-Time manufacturing systems, which involve many
functional areas of a firm such as manufacturing, engineering,
marketing, and purchasing, among others. Just-in-Time Logistics
extends the JIT concept in manufacturing to business logistics, an
area that has been observed to account for more than 30 per cent of
sales revenue for some firms. It gives you an overview and an
introduction of JIT logistics, and provides managerial insights on
how to achieve improved logistics performance in terms of cost and
service enhancements. A discussion of the quality, implementation,
and performance measurement issues related to the application of
JIT in business logistics is also presented.
This book provides an introduction to the models, methods, and
results of some due date-related scheduling problems in the field
of multiagent scheduling. In multiagent scheduling, two or more
agents share a common processing resource and each agent wants to
optimize its own objective function with respect to its own set of
jobs. Since the agents have conflicting objective functions, they
have to negotiate among themselves with regard to sharing the
common resource to optimize their own objective functions. A key
feature of due date-related scheduling concerns the way in which
due dates are considered: they can be given parameters or decision
variables. For the former case, the motivation stems from the need
to improve inventory and production management. For the latter
case, due date assignment becomes a challenging issue since the
decision-maker has to balance inventory holding costs against the
benefits of fulfifilling orders in time. As for due dates, this
book addresses the following three different scenarios: (i) The due
dates of the jobs from either one or both of the two agents are
decision variables, which are determined using some due date
assignment models; (ii) The due dates of jobs in each job set are
considered as given parameters, whereas which due date corresponds
to a given job needs to determine; and (iii) The due date of each
job is exogenously given. When the last case is involved, the
objective function of each agent is related to the number of
just-in-time jobs that are completed exactly on their due dates.
For each considered scenario, depending on the model settings, and
on the objective function of each agent, this book addresses the
complexity, and the design of efficient exact or approximated
algorithms. This book aims at introducing the author's research
achievements in due date-related scheduling with two agents. It is
written for researchers and Ph.D. students working in scheduling
theory and other members of scientific community who are interested
in recent scheduling models. Our goal is to enable the reader to
know about some new achievements on this topic.
This book presents theory-driven discussion on the link between
implementing green shipping practices (GSP) and shipping firm
performance. It examines the shipping industry's challenge of
supporting economic growth while enhancing environmental
performance. Consisting of nine chapters, the book covers topics
such as the conceptualization of green shipping practices(GSPs),
measurement scales for evaluating GSP implementation, greening
capability, greening and performance relativity (GPR), green
management practice, and green shipping network. In view of the
increasing quest for environment protection in the shipping sector,
this book provides a good reference for firms to understand and
evaluate their capability in carrying out green operations on their
shipping activities.
This book presents theory-driven discussion on the link between
implementing green shipping practices (GSP) and shipping firm
performance. It examines the shipping industry's challenge of
supporting economic growth while enhancing environmental
performance. Consisting of nine chapters, the book covers topics
such as the conceptualization of green shipping practices(GSPs),
measurement scales for evaluating GSP implementation, greening
capability, greening and performance relativity (GPR), green
management practice, and green shipping network. In view of the
increasing quest for environment protection in the shipping sector,
this book provides a good reference for firms to understand and
evaluate their capability in carrying out green operations on their
shipping activities.
The goal of Just-in-Time (JIT) manufacturing is to strengthen a
company's competitiveness in the market place through a series of
dedicated, concerted and continuous efforts aimed at eliminating
waste of all kinds within the company. JIT manufacturing works on
the principle that the necessary products are only produced in the
necessary quantities at the necessary times. While this JIT
production principle sounds simple, to implement it in practice is
by no means a simple task.
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