Tls Newsletter Volume 3, Edition 2. February 2010,
2010
University of North Florida
Tls Newsletter Volume 3, Edition 2. February 2010, Unf Transportation And Logistics Society
Transportation & Logistics Society Newsletter
Inside the Newsletter: In the know--Case Competition. Cookie Wednesday is Back all proceeds go to Relay for life. In the Know--Dress for Success. Important Spring Dates. Professional Spotlight on Lynn Brown. Get to Know Cole Norton
Information Sharing In A Long-Term Supply Chain Relationship: The Role Of Customer Review Strategy,
2010
University of Pennsylvania
Information Sharing In A Long-Term Supply Chain Relationship: The Role Of Customer Review Strategy, Zhong J. Ren, Morris Cohen, Teck Hua Ho, Christian Terwiesch
Operations, Information and Decisions Papers
In this paper, we study the practice of forecast sharing and supply chain coordination with a game-theoretical model. We find that in a one-shot version of the game, forecasts are not shared truthfully by the customer. The supplier will rationally discount the forecast information in her capacity allocation. This results in Pareto suboptimality for both supply chain parties. However, we show that a more efficient, truth-sharing outcome can emerge as an equilibrium from a long-term relationship. In this equilibrium, forecast information is transmitted truthfully and trusted by the supplier, who in turn allocates the system-optimal capacity. This leaves both the …
Drivers Of Finished Goods Inventory In The U.S. Automobile Industry,
2010
University of Pennsylvania
Drivers Of Finished Goods Inventory In The U.S. Automobile Industry, Gerard. P. Cachon, Marcelo Olivares
Operations, Information and Decisions Papers
Automobile manufacturers in the U.S. supply chain exhibit significant differences in their days of supply of finished vehicles (average inventory divided by average daily sales rate). For example, from 1995 to 2004, Toyota consistently carried approximately 30 fewer days of supply than General Motors. This suggests that Toyota’s well-documented advantage in manufacturing efficiency, product design, and upstream supply chain management extends to their finished-goods inventory in their downstream supply chain from their assembly plants to their dealerships. Our objective in this research is to measure for this industry the effect of several factors on inventory holdings. We find that two …
Lululemon’S Commitment To The Environment: A Tangle Of Seaweed, Suppliers, And Social Responsibility,
2010
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Lululemon’S Commitment To The Environment: A Tangle Of Seaweed, Suppliers, And Social Responsibility, A. Erin Bass
Marketing and Management Faculty Proceedings & Presentations
It was the morning of Wednesday, November 14, 2007. The article on the front page of the New York Times Business Section read “‘Seaweed’ Clothing Has None, Tests Show.” The story asserted that one of Lululemon’s product lines, VitaSea, which purported to contain a seaweed fiber designed to release marine amino acids, minerals and vitamins into the skin upon contact with moisture, contained no such ingredient. Both Chip Wilson, Chairman and Founder of athletic wear retailer Lululemon, and Robert Meers, Lululemon’s CEO, were about to embark on their first damage-control mission since the company’s Initial Public Offering in July. This …
Uncovering The Dirty Secrets Of A Food Paradise: Young Journalists Go Undercover,
2010
Singapore Management University
Uncovering The Dirty Secrets Of A Food Paradise: Young Journalists Go Undercover, Estelle Low, Miak Aw
Social Space
Singapore is universally known as a food paradise, but far less is known about the enormous amount of waste generated daily by individuals, supermarkets, food outlets and hotels. 20-something investigative journalists Miak Aw and Estelle Low go undercover to shed light on how much we waste as a nation and why this needs to change.
Evaluating The Effect Of Operational Conditions And Practices On Warehouse Performance,
2010
Texas A&M University
Evaluating The Effect Of Operational Conditions And Practices On Warehouse Performance, Andrew L. Johnson
11th IMHRC Proceedings (Milwaukee, Wisconsin. USA – 2010)
Analyzing warehouse performance across different environments is critical to improving overall productivity and reducing costs. Although two-stage DEA estimators have been shown to be statistically consistent, the finite sample bias of DEA in the first stage carries over to the secondstage regression, which causes bias in the estimated coefficients of the contextual variables. The bias is particularly severe when the contextual variables are correlated with inputs. To address this shortcoming, we apply insights from Johnson and Kuosmanen (2010), who demonstrate that DEA can be formulated as a constrained special case of the Convex Nonparametric Least Squares (CNLS) regression to develop …
New Start-Up Company Makes Parking A Whole Lot Smarter!,
2010
Wright State University - Main Campus
New Start-Up Company Makes Parking A Whole Lot Smarter!, Arijit Sengupta
ISSCM Faculty Publications
Whether it’s parking at a major event, or just getting into campus, one of the biggest headaches of our daily routines comes from the commute, and sometimes the hardest part is what comes in the end – finding a parking spot. SmartRF Solutions, a new startup company founded by Dr. Arijit Sengupta and his business partner, provides custom solutions for AVI enabled parking systems, starting from basic access control systems to complex end-to-end systems for large parking chains.
Isscm Graduating Cohort, 2010,
2010
Wright State University
Isscm Graduating Cohort, 2010, Raj Soin College Of Business, Wright State University
ISSCM Master Cohort Posters
Poster congratulating the 2010 Graduating Cohort from the Master of Information Systems and the Master of Science in Logistics and Supply Chain Management Programs.
Pricing And Inventory Control In Dual-Channel Network With One Manufacturer And Retailer,
2010
Singapore Management University
Pricing And Inventory Control In Dual-Channel Network With One Manufacturer And Retailer, Zhicong Pan
Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)
The study on multi-channel problems has been one of the most active research fields in recent years. In this paper, we consider a dual-channel network problem with one manufacture and one retailer. The manufacturer, acting as the Stackelberg leader, sells a single type of product through a traditional channel to the retailer and/or through a direct channel to customers. The retailer, acting as the follower, operates a Newsvendor model, ordering from the manufacturer and selling to the customers. We study the problem with the deterministic demand. We develop an efficient algorithm to find the joint optimal policy for three prices: …
Pricing And Lead Time Decisions In A Duopoly Common Retailer Channel,
2010
Singapore Management University
Pricing And Lead Time Decisions In A Duopoly Common Retailer Channel, Xiuming Niu
Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)
This thesis studies a dual-level decentralized supply chain consisting of two suppliers and two retailers facing a price- and lead-time-sensitive demand. We model the suppliers’ operations as M/M/1 queues and demand as a linear function of the retail prices and promised delivery lead-times offered to the customers. Three different kinds of games are constructed to analyze the pricing and lead-time decisions of the suppliers and retailers. We show the existence of a unique equilibrium in all games and provide the exact formulas to compute the optimal decisions for both the suppliers and retailers. We further present numerical examples to illustrate …
The Welfare Of Animals In The Pig Industry,
2010
WellBeing International
The Welfare Of Animals In The Pig Industry
Agribusiness Reports
The discordance between the behavioral needs of pigs and the life afforded to those raised commercially for the meat industry has created many animal welfare problems. Methods of pig production have changed substantially over the last several decades, and industrialized confinement operations have largely overtaken small, diversified farms. Overcrowded in indoor, barren environments, pigs in commercial production facilities are offered little opportunity to display their full range of complex social, foraging, and exploratory behavior. Behavioral abnormalities, such as tail-biting and aggression, arise due to environmental and social deficiencies. Poor air quality and intensive confinement may lead to health problems, and …
Adopting A Cage-Free Production Policy For Animal Products In Brazil,
2010
WellBeing International
Adopting A Cage-Free Production Policy For Animal Products In Brazil
Agribusiness Reports
Farm animal welfare is becoming an important concern for governments, producers, and consumers worldwide. In particular, intensive confinement systems, such as battery cages and gestation crates, have been acknowledged as severely impairing to the physical comfort and expression of natural behaviors of animals. The European Union and select states in the United States have already passed bills eliminating these housing systems over the next several years. Numerous international retail and food production companies, including Burger King (North America), Smithfield Foods, and McDonald’s (Europe) are committed to gradually eliminating the use and sale of eggs and pork produced via intensive confinement …
A Critical Review Of Electrical Water-Bath Stun Systems For Poultry Slaughter And Recent Developments In Alternative Technologies,
2010
University of Bristol
A Critical Review Of Electrical Water-Bath Stun Systems For Poultry Slaughter And Recent Developments In Alternative Technologies, Sara J. Shields, A. B. M. Raj
Agribusiness Collection
Prior to slaughter, most farmed birds move through a constant-voltage, multiple- bird, electrical water-bath stun system. Using this system subjects live birds to stressful and painful shackling, and the potential exists for them to receive prestun electric shocks and induction of seizures while still conscious. The existing elec- trical water-bath stunner settings, particularly those used in U.S. slaughter plants, are not necessarily based on sound scientific data that they produce a consistent, immediate stun, and research indicates that they are not effective in all birds. Further, in multiple-bird, electrical water-bath systems, birds may miss the stunner completely. Evidence suggests that …
The Impact Of Animal Agriculture On The Environment And Climate Change In Brazil,
2010
WellBeing International
The Impact Of Animal Agriculture On The Environment And Climate Change In Brazil
Agribusiness Reports
The intensification of farm animal production in industrialized agricultural systems, or factory farms, compromises animal welfare and degrades the environment. Animal agriculture inefficiently consumes natural resources, contributes to deforestation, and produces immense quantities of animal waste, threatening water and air quality and contributing to climate change. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations estimated in 2006 that animal agriculture was responsible for 18% of global, anthropogenic, or humaninduced, greenhouse gas emissions and was ―by far the single largest anthropogenic user of land."
Welfare Issues With Furnished Cages For Egg-Laying Hens,
2010
WellBeing International
Welfare Issues With Furnished Cages For Egg-Laying Hens
Agribusiness Reports
Furnished cages were developed in response to criticisms about conventional battery-cage confinement of laying hens in commercial egg production. Battery cages—small, barren, wire enclosures—restrictively confine the birds, depriving them of the opportunity to display many important patterns of behavior. In contrast, furnished cages are typically equipped with a nest box, perch, and dustbathing area, thereby providing more behavioral outlets than conventional cages. However, similar to conventional battery cages, furnished cages provide an unacceptably limited amount of space per bird; prevent many important locomotory activities, including running, jumping, flying, and wing-flapping; and constrain perching, dustbathing, and nesting. The severe locomotory restriction …
A New Milp Approach For The Facility Layout Design Problem With Rectangular And L/T Shaped Departments,
2010
Tel-Aviv University
A New Milp Approach For The Facility Layout Design Problem With Rectangular And L/T Shaped Departments, Yossi Bukchin, Michal Tzur
11th IMHRC Proceedings (Milwaukee, Wisconsin. USA – 2010)
In this paper we propose a new approach for the facility layout problem (FLP) and suggest new mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) formulations. The proposed approach considers simultaneously the location of the departments within the facility and the internal arrangement of the machines. Two models are suggested, where the first addresses the rectangular department case and the second allows nonrectangular departments defined by an L/T shape. New regularity constraints are developed to avoid irregular department shapes.
Strategic End-Of-Life Management Of Electronic Assembly Product Recovery In Sustainable Supply Chain Systems,
2010
University of Miami
Strategic End-Of-Life Management Of Electronic Assembly Product Recovery In Sustainable Supply Chain Systems, Vaidyanathan Jayaraman, Tim Baker, Yong Joo Lee
All Faculty Scholarship for the College of Business
In the past decade, technological advances in electronic data management have spurred economic growth while constant innovation and changing market forces have transformed the electronics industry into one of the most competitive business in the world. This industry is material constrained in which new products are constantly being introduced while used products are redesigned and recycled to support enhanced functionality. In this article, we discuss a case study based on a product recovery problem faced by an electronics company that faces complex materials separation while there is a need to balance holding and processing costs with fluctuating commodity markets for …
An Hsi Report: Adopting A Cage-Free Production Policy For Animal Products In Brazil,
2010
WellBeing International
An Hsi Report: Adopting A Cage-Free Production Policy For Animal Products In Brazil, Humane Society International
HSI REPORTS
Farm animal welfare is becoming an important concern for governments, producers, and consumers worldwide. In particular, intensive confinement systems, such as battery cages and gestation crates, have been acknowledged as severely impairing to the physical comfort and expression of natural behaviors of animals. The European Union and select states in the United States have already passed bills eliminating these housing systems over the next several years. Numerous international retail and food production companies, including Burger King (North America), Smithfield Foods, and McDonald’s (Europe) are committed to gradually eliminating the use and sale of eggs and pork produced via intensive confinement …
The Welfare Of Piglets In The Pig Industry,
2010
WellBeing International
The Welfare Of Piglets In The Pig Industry
Agribusiness Reports
Pig production has changed dramatically over the last several decades, and most piglets are now raised on industrialized commercial operations that confine thousands of animals on one site. In these facilities, piglets are born and reared under conditions that dramatically contrast with the natural environment they are biologically adapted to fit. In nature, a mother sow builds a nest of twigs and leaves for the birth of her litter, and, after several days, the piglets gradually begin to leave the nest, explore their environment by rooting and nibbling, and slowly integrate into a larger family group. Piglets on commercial production …
Understanding Mortality Rates Of Laying Hens In Cage-Free Egg Production Systems,
2010
WellBeing International
Understanding Mortality Rates Of Laying Hens In Cage-Free Egg Production Systems
Agribusiness Reports
In cage-free egg production systems, concerns have been raised over hen mortality rates. High mortality is an obvious indicator of poor welfare, and problems should be addressed without delay. It is important to note, however, that mortality can vary substantially between hen flocks, and that some cage-free systems have healthy flocks that do not suffer substantial death losses. These systems can serve as models for the rest of the industry, since mortality is not inherent to any particular system, but a consequence of how well the system is managed.
