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Surface vs. Air Shipment of Humanitarian Goods under Demand Uncertainty [PDF]
Production and Operations Management, 2018 The combination of insufficient funds and limited information regarding the demand in regions of desperate need presents a great challenge to many humanitarian organizations. This study examines how a humanitarian organization can minimize the expected shortage in delivering relief aid to regions of need, either though surface or air transportation, in
Scott Webster, Burak Kazaz
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Environmental, financial, and accessibility analysis of low-density high-value goods shipment
Transactions on Transport Sciences, 2022 In recent decades finished and semi-finished commodities are the most common and fastest-growing cargo categories for transportation in Europe. These commodities usually have low density and are of high value. This paper aims to assess the CO2 emissions,
Maryam khooshechin gilak, Alper Cebeci
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Inventory Management for Irregular Shipment of Goods in Distribution Centre
IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2016 The shipping amount of commodity goods (Foods, confectionery, dairy products, such as public cosmetic pharmaceutical products) changes irregularly at the distribution center dealing with the general consumer goods. Because the shipment time and the amount of the shipment are irregular, the demand forecast becomes very difficult. For this, the inventory
Hitoshi Takeda +2 more
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HIDDEN DANGEROUS GOODS CONTAINING LITHIUM BATTERIES SHIPMENT BY AIR FREIGHT [PDF]
Proceedings of the Conference on Global Research on Sustainable Transport (GROST 2017), 2018 Abstract: Lithium batteries recently become recommended power sources due to its advantages which have high specific energy, high capacity, long cycle, etc. The development of lithium batteries pushes the development and production of electonic equipments to the next step. As the effect, the demand for electronic equipment shipments rises.
Nada Septiara +2 more
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Application of 5S and Visual Management to Improve Shipment Preparation of Finished Goods
IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2019 Abstract The purpose of this paper is to present a lean case study to resolve issues related to shipment preparation in the finished goods store of a manufacturing industry. The process was first investigated through cause and effect diagram.
L K Yik, J F Chin
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The Response of Capital Goods Shipments to Demand Over the Business Cycle [PDF]
Finance and Economics Discussion Series, 2012 This paper studies the behavior of producers of capital goods, examining how they set shipments in response to fluctuations in new orders. The paper establishes a stylized fact: the response of shipments to orders is more pronounced when the level of new orders is low relative to the level of shipments, usually after orders plunge in recessions.
Jeremy J. Nalewaik, Eugénio P. Pinto
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Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management, 2020 Purpose: A supply chain consists of raw material suppliers, manufacturers and retailers where inventory of raw materials and finished goods are involved, respectively.
Pablo Biswas, Bhaba Sarker
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Seafarer market structure analysis of Korean merchant shipping in COVID-19
Asian Journal of Shipping and Logistics, 2023 COVID-19 pandemic clearly demonstrates that seafarers are essential for sustaining world shipping services and global supply chain. Understanding the characteristics of supply and demand in seafarer market will be a solution for the bottleneck issues of ...
Yong An Park +3 more
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A literature review of the perishable inventory routing problem
Asian Journal of Shipping and Logistics, 2022 The inventory routing problem arises when inventory management and vehicle routing decisions are integrated instead of treated as separate problems.
Homayoun Shaabani
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