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Optimizing PV Microgrid Isolated Electrification Projects—A Case Study in Ecuador
Mathematics, 2022 Access to electricity for the rural and indigenous population of Ecuador’s Amazon Region (RAE) is considered a critical issue by the national authorities.
Bruno Domenech +5 more
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Enhancing AAA capabilities in humanitarian supply chains through 4PL adoption [PDF]
Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain ManagementPurpose – This paper aims to explore the impact of fourth-party logistics (4PL) adoption on the agility, adaptability and alignment (AAA) capabilities within humanitarian supply chains (HSCs). Design/methodology/approach – Semi-structured interviews with
Matthew Tickle +2 more
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International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 2021 PurposeThis Impact Pathways paper aims to provide a timely and structured discussion of real-world problems at Marks and Spencer and in retail in general, evoked through the current COVID-19 pandemic.Design/methodology/approachThe article presents ...
M. Schleper +3 more
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Operations management and collaboration in agri-food supply chains [PDF]
Production Planning & Control, 2020 The food industry is one of the largest industries in the world, partly local, partly global, sometimes manual, sometimes highly automated, including individual food producers or processors, and companies from small to multinational. In recent years the food industry has begun to receive more attention from the academic community in the areas of ...
Hernandez, Jorge E. +2 more
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International Journal of Production Research, 2020 The adoption of technologies by the operations and supply chain management (OSCM) field is leading to extraordinary disruptions. And with the rapid emergence of cutting-edge and more disruptive technologies, the OSCM is striving to take advantage of such
M. Queiroz +3 more
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International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 2022 PurposeThe purpose of this article is to discuss the theme of managing operations and supply chains in the so-called “new normal”. It reflects the themes emerging from recent research and how these might be conceptualized.Design/methodology/approachThe ...
Anthony Alexander +3 more
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Coordination at the 10-year mark of the JHLSCM–from global response to local preparedness [PDF]
Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, 2021 Purpose – At the inception of the Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management (JHLSCM), logistics coordination was identified as important, both in practice and research, but few studies on the topic had been published. Ten years later,
Marianne Jahre, Leif-Magnus Jensen
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Journal of Global Operations and Strategic Sourcing, 2022 Purpose This research aims to provide systematic insight into the current maturity of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) in operations and supply chain management (OSCM), by analyzing the existing literature, contemporary concepts, data and
M. akbari, Nghiep Ha, S. Kok
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Sustainable Design and Management of Industrial Systems—A Human Factors Perspective
Applied System Innovation, 2022 The aim of this concept article is to articulate multiple contributions from socio-technical fields into an approach for sustaining human-centred lifecycle management of industrial systems.
Denis Alves Coelho
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A Genetic Algorithm to Minimize the Total Tardiness for M-Machine Permutation Flowshop Problems
Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation, 2012 The m-machine, n-job, permutation flowshop problem with the total tardiness objective is a common scheduling problem, known to be NP-hard. Branch and bound, the usual approach to finding an optimal solution, experiences difficulty when n exceeds 20. Here,
Chia-Shin Chung +3 more
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