{"title":"Evaluating the performance of robust and stochastic programming approaches in a supply chain network design problem under uncertainty","authors":"R. Babazadeh, A. Sabbaghnia","doi":"10.1504/IJAOM.2018.10012440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJAOM.2018.10012440","url":null,"abstract":"Today, organisations have focused on improving their supply chain performance to achieve sustainable profit and proceed in volatile markets. The nature of today's volatile markets imposes parametric uncertainty to optimisation problems particularly in strategic decision making problems such as supply chain network design (SCND) problem. Two-stage stochastic programming (TSSP) and robust stochastic programming (RSP) approaches are widely used to deal with the uncertainty of optimisation problems. In this paper, the performance of these two approaches in a SCND problem is evaluated through conducting a case study in Iran and performing realisation process. The main objectives of this study are optimising three stage SCND problems under uncertainty and evaluating the performance of TSSP and RSP methods in optimising SCND problem under uncertainty. The results show that the RSP method leads to more robust solution than TSSP method. Also, the RSP method has more degree of flexibility to deal with the uncertainty according to DM preferences.","PeriodicalId":191561,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Adv. Oper. Manag.","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114526133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rodobaldo Martínez-Vivar, Alexander Sánchez-Rodríguez, Clara E. Marrero-Fornaris, Reyner Pérez-Campdesuñer, Gelmar García-Vidal
{"title":"Contributions to the planning of human resources in the territorial level","authors":"Rodobaldo Martínez-Vivar, Alexander Sánchez-Rodríguez, Clara E. Marrero-Fornaris, Reyner Pérez-Campdesuñer, Gelmar García-Vidal","doi":"10.1504/IJAOM.2018.10012442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJAOM.2018.10012442","url":null,"abstract":"Human resource planning at the territorial level is an essential requirement which contributes to decision making, both corporate and territorial levels, hence the need to observe this phenomenon with a prospective and systemic approach to ensure human resources in quantity and quality required for the performance of activity levels in the short, medium and long-term. These elements characterise this paper, which bases its study on the main theoretical observations made of the literature on the subject, providing a tool with the capability to determine the human resource requirements at the territorial level. This research aims to design and apply a procedure for the planning of human resources at the territorial level, characterised by its systemic, prospective and control nature. The main results of the applications are reflected in the improvement of the efficiency and effectiveness indicators, highlighting a reduction of the deficit of human resources in the territory of 33.4% and a decrease of the surplus of 30.7%, achieving a better use and availability of human capacities installed in the territory as a contribution to its prospective development.","PeriodicalId":191561,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Adv. Oper. Manag.","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128742015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Implementation of simulation for the analysis of available layout alternatives of manufacturing plant","authors":"Parveen Sharma","doi":"10.1504/IJAOM.2018.10012441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJAOM.2018.10012441","url":null,"abstract":"The analysis of quantitative factors is very complicated and necessary part for any industrial/practical problem. In the present study a simulation based approached has been proposed for analysing such data. In the proposed approach various layout models have been developed and analysed based on some selected factors. The % machine utilisation, total exits, total average time in the system, and total average time blocked have been considered as factors for the evaluation. There can be more than one alternative layout for one industry. The proposed study demonstrates that the performance of the each alternative is highly affected by some factors (i.e. % machine utilisation). The effect of some factors are ignorable on the performance of the layout, it is one of the output of the proposed study.","PeriodicalId":191561,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Adv. Oper. Manag.","volume":"54 86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126283996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Ocampo, Zhyla Vee A. Villegas, Jay-ann T. Carvajal, Cherry-Ann A. Apas
{"title":"Identifying significant drivers for sustainable practices in achieving sustainable food supply chain using modified fuzzy decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory approach","authors":"L. Ocampo, Zhyla Vee A. Villegas, Jay-ann T. Carvajal, Cherry-Ann A. Apas","doi":"10.1504/IJAOM.2018.10012444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJAOM.2018.10012444","url":null,"abstract":"Food manufacturing supply chain is usually characterised by various sustainability issues along with product quality and safety as serious concerns. In the current literature, the identification of drivers that would promote sustainable supply chain management becomes a popular theme and draws significant attention from domain scholars. Despite its popularity both in theory and practice, current works fail to ground these drivers on target sustainability practices which would have provided direct vertical links. Thus, this study attempts to identify sustainability drivers for food manufacturing supply chain management with the goal of making the target sustainable practices as grounds for the identification process. The fuzzy set theory is used to handle the vagueness associated with the elicitation of the degree of impact relations of drivers and practices by expert decision-makers and decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory approach is used to identify significant causal relations of drivers to practices. Findings suggest that the: 1) accessibility to products, services, and employment; 2) objective fulfilment, accurate supplier negotiation, accessibility of information; 3) socially responsible business practices are the significant drivers that promote most sustainable practices.","PeriodicalId":191561,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Adv. Oper. Manag.","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123732054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of barriers hindering the implementation of reverse supply chain of electronic waste in India","authors":"Karishma Chaudhary, K. Mathiyazhagan, P. Vrat","doi":"10.1504/IJAOM.2017.10009331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJAOM.2017.10009331","url":null,"abstract":"India is the fifth biggest producer of electronic waste (e-waste) across the globe but still 95% of the e-waste is handled by the unorganised sector in an unscientific way severely impacting the environment and health. There are many social, economic and environmental benefits linked with reverse supply chain (RSC) of e-waste. The study aims to identify and analyse the barriers hindering the effective implementation of RSC of e-waste in India based on a comprehensive literature review and interaction with the experts. Interpretive structural modelling methodology has been utilised to find out the mutual influences among the barriers. The analysis reveals: legal issues, lack of awareness, and lack of infrastructure as the major barriers to RSC of e-waste. The study provides very useful insights to facilitate policy decisions to promote e-waste recycling in India like implementing monitoring and control systems across the e-waste supply chain, need for a dedicated e-waste etc.","PeriodicalId":191561,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Adv. Oper. Manag.","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124062487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strategies of light vehicle manufacturers in South Africa based on supply chain decision drivers","authors":"I. Ambe","doi":"10.1504/IJAOM.2017.10009344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJAOM.2017.10009344","url":null,"abstract":"This article seeks to determine supply chain strategies of light vehicle manufacturers in South Africa based on the decision drivers. A descriptive research design was employed, based on a survey of light vehicle manufacturers. The results revealed that decision drivers such as production, inventory, location, information, transportation, sourcing, as well as pricing are vital in determining supply chain strategies. All of the light vehicle manufacturers employed lean supply chain strategy while few of the manufacturers employed agile supply chain strategy. There were mismatch between strategies and practices with regard to the decision drivers, and in some instances, the drivers were not always in line with the chosen supply chain strategy. It is therefore, imperative for South African supply chain managers to understand their customers' needs and implement the right decision drivers to ensure alignment with their chosen strategy for the supply chain in order to optimise competitive advantage.","PeriodicalId":191561,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Adv. Oper. Manag.","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129592213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A novel method to handle route failure in fuzzy vehicle routing problem with hard time windows and uncertain demand","authors":"Sandhya Bansal, R. Goel, V. Katiyar","doi":"10.1504/IJAOM.2017.10009338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJAOM.2017.10009338","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a fuzzy vehicle routing problem with hard time windows (FVRPTW) having uncertain demand is addressed. Since customer's demand is assumed to be known only upon arrival at customer location, a planned route may fail to meet realised demand of customer. This situation is known as route failure. Instead of adopting simple recourse methods to handle route failure, this paper proposes a novel method titled 'non-restocking' to solve route failure. The problem is formulated as a two stage recourse model with an objective of minimising the total cost and at the same time maximising the obtained sale in a competitive environment. Uncertainty in demand is represented by fuzzy numbers. Route construction for the modelled problem is done by ant colony system. The computational results show that the proposed two stage model with the proposed new recourse scheme produces high quality solutions. Benefits of the proposed method are demonstrated by applying it to milk routing problem.","PeriodicalId":191561,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Adv. Oper. Manag.","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122309565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nazatul Syida Ahmad Suhaimi, Anuar Nawawi, A. S. P. Salin
{"title":"Determinants and problems of successful ERP implementations - Malaysian experience","authors":"Nazatul Syida Ahmad Suhaimi, Anuar Nawawi, A. S. P. Salin","doi":"10.1504/IJAOM.2017.10009353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJAOM.2017.10009353","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to analyse factors influencing the success of the implementation of enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and examine any problems associated with its execution. Two companies from the construction and property development industry were selected as case studies. Triangulation of data collection methods which included observation, document analysis and interviews was employed. This study found that support from the top management, end-user satisfaction, change management, as well as the reorganisation of business process as the factors that can either lead to the success or failure of the outcome of an ERP system implementation. Poor support from top management, data quality and the usefulness of information from the ERP system are the top obstacles that need to be managed by the companies to ensure their return on ERP investment is worth every dollar. This study implicates that training needs to be provided for all level of staff including top-level management.","PeriodicalId":191561,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Adv. Oper. Manag.","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128978382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A model for measuring success of an organisational management system","authors":"M. Hatefi","doi":"10.1504/IJAOM.2017.10007709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJAOM.2017.10007709","url":null,"abstract":"Today, businesses and industries have focused on projects of implementing management systems like strategic management, information systems and project management. The literature on such systems shows that, in spite of their importance, a general success indicator has not significantly explored. Hence, the main goal of the current research study is to design an indicator to quantify the success of project through deep assessment of key success factors. The proposed model takes into account four aspects of management systems: organisation, human, software and hardware. The opinions of a group of experts are elicited for identifying key success factors and weighting them. The proposed indicator is a valuable tool in the conceptual phase of any management system project. Taking a proactive notice to this indicator reduces the resource wastes and direct managers to start projects in a productive manner.","PeriodicalId":191561,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Adv. Oper. Manag.","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132091920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Applications of MOORA method for benchmarking decision in Indian industries","authors":"Bhupender Singh","doi":"10.1504/IJAOM.2017.10007712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJAOM.2017.10007712","url":null,"abstract":"The selection of decisions becomes multifaceted as decision makers in service environment have to assess a wide range of alternatives based on contradictory criteria. These decisions are more intricate as the numbers of attributes are dependent on critical success factors for particular industry. Thus, in a realistic problem for service industries, it is difficult to identify the benchmark model in competitive scenario to sustain superlative in their areas. Therefore, based on constraint of novel and simple method that can recognise paramount decisions for selection supplementary to multi attitude decision making (MADM) methods, a multi-objective optimisation on the basis of ratio analysis approach (MOORA) method is applied in this paper where three different examples for MOORA application which consist of: 1) selection of best alternatives; 2) ranking of internal assessment for benchmarking in an industry; 3) ranking of different types of benchmarking process as per their usage are considered. With applications of multi-objective optimisation on the basis of MOORA, becomes easier as comparison to other MADM methods for solving diverse decision making problems in concurrent service environment which is sympathetic for executives in alternatives selection and their attributes to pursue benchmark.","PeriodicalId":191561,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Adv. Oper. Manag.","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115162658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}