2024 December - 42 articles
Background: The blood supply chain (BSC) is crucial for providing safe and sufficient blood, but it faces numerous challenges and needs to be robust and resilient. This study provides a comprehensive model for managing and optimizing the BSC in real-...
Background: Today’s healthcare requires a modern style of management that adapts to the needs of both patients and employees. Imaging diagnostics has its specificity in the entire area of hospital logistics and influences the organization of wo...
Introduction: The aerospace industry has been significantly disrupted by recent economic downturns, underscoring the need for robust supply chain management. This is especially important given the complexity of aircraft manufacturing, the globalizati...
Background: This study explores the use of Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) models to optimize the collection and transportation of vineyard pruning biomass, a crucial resource for sustainable energy and material production. Efficient biomass...
Background: This paper introduces an enhanced multi-period p-mobile hub location model that accounts for critical factors such as service time, flow processing delays, and congestion impacts at capacity-constrained hubs. As (urban) transportation net...
This study investigates the transformation of e-commerce warehouse operations by integrating Lean Six Sigma tools to enhance efficiency and sustainability. Beginning with Value Stream Mapping (VSM) to identify inefficiencies, followed by a Hoshin Kan...
Background: The humanitarian supply chain (HSC) literature has observed significant growth in past years. The wide range of research areas and the interdisciplinary nature of humanitarian work have generated the need to examine and classify the liter...
Background: Green Public Procurement (GPP) is a sector that has been growing in recent years through policies encouraged by the European Union. In the Greek public sector, the respective National Action Plan (NAP), which sets specific targets for GPP...
Background: Indoor Positioning Systems (IPS) have gained increasing relevance in logistics, offering solutions for safety enhancement, intralogistics management, and material flow control across various environments such as industrial facilities, off...
Background: Food delivery motorcyclists face unique risks that often lead to risky riding behaviors. Thailand, with one of the highest rates of motorcycle-related injuries and fatalities globally, has seen a surge in food delivery services following...
Background: In multimodal transport the interplay of coordination methods and legal requirements is a challenging task. To address the latter, a combined approach for the coordination of a multimodal passenger transport system in accordance with Euro...
Background: This study explores forklift operators’ situational awareness (SA) and human errors in logistic operations using a multiphase approach as an innovative methodology. Methods: Ethnography, eye tracking, error taxonomy, and retrospecti...
Background: In agricultural supply chains, unequal bargaining power often leads to economic inequality, particularly for farmers. The fair profit distribution (FPD) approach offers a solution by optimizing supply chain flows (materials, information,...
Background: The capacity planning of production systems is one of the most fundamental strategic problems in the creation of a production plant. However, the implementation of increasingly complex production systems combined with sophisticated automa...
Background: In northern countries, spring requires the removal of large volumes of abrasive materials used in winter road maintenance. This sweeping process, crucial for safety and environmental protection, has traditionally relied on conventional me...
Background: The significant increase in home healthcare (HHC) driven by technological advancements, an ageing population, and heightened disease outbreaks—especially evident during the COVID-19 pandemic—has created an urgent need for impr...
Background: One of the ongoing challenges in freight transport operations is to balance efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability through the integration of sustainable practices to minimize the environmental impact. When it comes to truck payloa...
Background: Urban mobility management faces growing challenges that require the analysis and optimization of sustainable solutions. Digital twins (DTs) have emerged as innovative tools for this assessment, but their implementation requires standardiz...
Background: This study introduces a novel supply chain management (SCM) model tailored for the hospital industry in Thailand. The model emphasises the integration of third-party logistics (3PL) providers to streamline supply-processing-distribution (...
Background: The sustainable development of mountain areas, which have fragile ecosystems, has increasingly attracted the attention of researchers and practitioners. Logistics systems are crucial in supporting these regions and addressing mountainous...
Background: Automated vehicles are increasingly entering logistics operations, driven by factors like controllability, standardization, and reduced risk. However, successful automation requires understanding the diverse perspectives of logistics stak...
Background: The rise in natural and man-made disasters has increased the need for effective search-and-rescue tools, particularly in resource-limited areas. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used for this purpose due to their flexibili...
Background: Supply chain performance (SCP) is impacted by complexity brought about by static and dynamic drivers. This study aims to investigate the effects of supply chain complexity (SCC) on SCP and ascertain whether additive manufacturing best pra...
Background: Amid growing global uncertainty and increasingly complex disruptions, the ability of supply chains to rapidly adapt and recover is critical. The incorporation of artificial intelligence (AI) into supply chain management represents a trans...
Background: Despite the resurgence of interest in augmented reality (AR) due to Industry 4.0 and its ability to resolve several challenges faced by current business models, comprehensive research examining the capabilities of AR in supply chain manag...
Purpose: The integration of AI with blockchain technology is investigated in this study to address challenges in IoT-based supply chains, specifically focusing on latency, scalability, and data consistency. Background: Despite the potential of blockc...
Background: Circular supply chains (CSCs) aim to minimize waste, extend product lifecycles, and optimize resource efficiency, aligning with the growing demand for sustainable practices. Machine learning (ML) can potentially enhance CSCs by improving...
Background: In the pursuit of sustainable energy sources, residual biomass has emerged as a promising renewable resource. However, efficiently managing residual biomass poses significant challenges, particularly in optimizing supply chain operations....
Background: Warehousing operations, crucial to logistics and supply chain management, often seek innovative technologies to boost efficiency and reduce costs. For instance, AR devices have shown the potential to significantly reduce operational costs...
Background: Over the last years, the assessment and selection of suppliers, based on the environmental performance of their products/services and their operations, has reached paramount importance and attracted the interest of many researchers and pr...
Background: The integration of drone technology into healthcare logistics presents a significant opportunity to enhance the speed, reliability, and efficiency of medical sample transportation. Methods: This paper provides a narrative review of curren...
Background: The supplier selection process (SSP) has grown as a crucial mechanism in organizations’ supply chain management (SCM) strategies and as a foundation for continuously gaining a competitive advantage. The concept of the circular econo...
Supply chain management is essential for businesses to handle uncertainties, maintain efficiency, and stay competitive. Financial risks can arise from various internal and external sources, impacting different supply chain stages. Companies that effe...
Offshore logistics has a substantial economic impact in the regions where offshore activities are prevalent, and has a huge opportunity to utilize the shared and collaborative logistics approach. The collaborative and shared logistics approach usuall...
Background: In many urban areas, 80% to 90% of pollutant emissions are generated by road traffic, particularly from heavy vehicles. With the anticipated surge in e-commerce logistics, the need for effective urban mobility control measures has become...
Background: Logistics has become a key driver of global economic production. This study investigates the role of logistics in global economic production by presenting a novel theoretical framework that integrates logistics performance into traditiona...
Background: Quality, Safety and Security are embedded in all aspects of port operations and are crucial for port industry stakeholders. Over the past decades, numerous assurance systems, codes, and regulations for quality, safety, and security have b...
Background: This paper addresses the common question of how service providers compare to their competitors and what their competitive advantages are. It focuses on the North Adriatic ports of Trieste, Koper, Rijeka, Venice, and Ravenna, all members o...
Background: The dynamic vehicle routing problem (DVRP) is a complex optimization problem that is crucial for applications such as last-mile delivery. Our goal is to develop an application that can make real-time decisions to maximize total performanc...
Background: As road transport companies increasingly integrate electric trucks (eTrucks) into urban fleets, evaluating their performance in real-world conditions is essential for effective fleet management and infrastructure planning. Methods: This s...
Background: Supplier involvement in product development has proven beneficial for companies and is a phenomenon researched in various domains. The definitions of supplier involvement represent points of origin and dimensions addressed in research. St...
Background: The on-demand warehousing (ODW) model is emerging as a platform-enabled logistics solution based on resource sharing for businesses needing storage space. It is based on a business-to-business marketplace where companies can provide (or r...
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