Purpose: Medical tourism service requires involvement of multiple parties from the service network, however medical tourism is not well studied from a supply chain management perspective. This study suggests a conceptual ...

Purpose: This paper proposes a new model for further research on how to select criteria in supplier selection, through a literature review and analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of previously used methods. D ...

This paper deals with a new flexible job-shop scheduling problem in which the objective function to be minimised is the sum of the earliness and tardiness costs of the jobs and the costs of the operations required to perform ...

Purpose: Industry 4.0 offers a new network approach by using advanced Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for manufacturing industries in particular. Thus, this paper analyzes the understandings of the heavy ...

Purpose: The aim of the paper is to pick up the result of a previously published paper in order to deepen the discussion. We analyze the solution against the background of some well-known concepts and we introduce a newer ...

Purpose City logistics is a challenge in many cities. Literature works focus on the analysis of large or local-scale solutions to increase the efficiency of freight transport. However, store deliveries from the perspective ...

The proposed study has been developed during an internship job experience at the automotive supplier company Continental. The supporting activities have been focused on the logistic area of the aftermarket sales department, ...

The coordination efficiency of Supply Chain Management is determined by two opposite poles: benefit from improved planning results and associated coordination cost. The centralization grade, applied coordination mechanisms ...

The production industry has to control the material flow from suppliers to customers; the supply chain is the name for the network that performs these activities, and the enterprises have to consider it as a key issue that ...