Integration of Environmental Management and SCM

Sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) is a rather new phenomenon in the Operations Management/Operations Research literature. In the design of Sustainable Supply Chains the increase of transparency across the chain is essential and can be obtained through identification and traceability. Sustainable production often means a change in resource-areas and modes of transportation. Investment in sustainability implies innovations in supply chain management with accompanying costs and profits. We present a framework based on product and process innovations that provides insights in the relevant research questions for integrating Environmental Management and SCM. The framework is applied using the literature and practical case studies in this area

Strategic scenarios of global logistics: what lies ahead for Europe?

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Collaborative systems and business models to support the forest products industry

La concurrence internationale, notamment dans l'industrie des produits forestiers, est en constante augmentation et elle oblige les entreprises à produire des produits novateurs, à satisfaire la demande de plus en plus personnalisée des clients et à chercher l'accès à de nouveaux marchés. Néanmoins, les entreprises n'ont pas nécessairement la capacité d'atteindre ces réalisations individuellement. Par conséquent, établir une collaboration avec d'autres organisations pourrait les aider à résoudre des problèmes, qui peuvent ne pas être résolus individuellement. Dans cette recherche, la pertinence de la collaboration dans l'industrie des produits forestiers et des modèles d'affaires possibles pour l'établissement d'une cour de triage forestier sont étudiés, dans le but d'aider les investisseurs potentiels, les analystes commerciaux et les gestionnaires à avoir une analyse approfondie et rapide des aspects commerciaux clés de ces activités. La première partie de cette recherche examine les principaux moteurs, avantages, facilitateurs et défis des collaborations dans l'industrie des produits forestiers, afin d'aider les entreprises à identifier les mécanismes de collaboration les mieux adaptés à leur initiative de collaboration particulière. Un cadre conceptuel est élaboré pour identifier les diverses composantes affectant les mécanismes de collaboration pour créer une collaboration réussie dans l'industrie des produits forestiers. La deuxième partie de cette recherche examine les aspects commerciaux critiques de l'établissement d'une cour de triage forestier pour faciliter l'accès à la ressource tout en supportant une collaboration entre les parties prenantes. Pour atteindre cet objectif, le modèle d'affaires proposé par Osterwalder et Pigneur (2010) est appliqué pour développer des modèles spécifiques au cas d'une cour de triage. Deux canevas de modèles d'affaires différents sont donc proposés et peuvent être applicables aux entreprises pour analyser l'aspect commercial de la mise en œuvre d'une cour de triage forestier. Une analyse de planification stratégique (FFOM) est développée pour répertorier les forces, les faiblesses, les opportunités et les menaces associées à ces modèles.International competition, particularly in the forest products industry, is constantly increasing and it forces companies to produce innovative products, satisfy more customized demand, and develop new markets. Nevertheless, firms do not necessarily have the ability to reach these achievements individually. Therefore, establishing a collaboration with other organizations could help them in solving problems, which may not be solved individually. In this research, the relevance of collaboration in the forest products industry as well as possible business models to establish a log sort yard are investigated with the aim of giving potential investors, business analysts, and managers a detailed overview of the key business aspects of these business units. The first part of this research investigates the main drivers, benefits, facilitators, and challenges of collaborations in the forest products industry, in order to help firms identify the best-fit collaborative mechanisms for their particular collaborative initiative. A conceptual framework is elaborated to identify the various components affecting the collaboration mechanisms needed to create successful collaboration in the forest products industry. The second part of this research investigates the critical business aspects of establishing a log sort yard related to its specific goal and support collaboration. To reach this goal, the Business Model Canvas proposed by Osterwalder and Pigneur (2010) is applied to develop possible business models for log sort yards. Two different business models are proposed which may be useful to firms to analyze the business aspect of implementing a log sort yard. A strategic planning analysis (SWOT analysis) is developed to list the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats associated with these models

Green Logistics development and evaluation of the carbon footprint

Along with the worldwide climate changing, human activities and the rapid deterioration of the environment, Low-carbon economy in recent years become increasingly focus of attention in people's lives. The economic reform will gradually penetrate into the logistics system, modern logistics as a composite service industry, play a decisive role in the modern division of labor and cooperation under the social environment, it is a manufacturing! The important supporting business is an important bridge between production and consumption. The logistics industry is in a period of rapid development, the logistics process not only energy consumption demand is big, and the C02 emissions are also large. Coupled with the destruction of the human living environment, the greenhouse effect becomes more and more prominent, more the need of the development of green logistics, low carbon logistics. However, at home and abroad for most of the research of this aspect is still stay in the stage of qualitative analysis, quantitative analysis of the literature on energy consumption and C02 emission of less amount of logistics system. There are four objectives will be discussed. The first objective is the relevant literature on the green logistics is summarized, which lays the foundation for the research in this paper, green logistics. The second objective is the energy consumption and C02 calculation models were summarized, to provide reference for other scholars to conduct relevant research. The third objective is through statistical analysis, master the different modes of transport energy consumption and C02 emissions, and provide the basis for enterprises to choose the mode of transport. The fourth objective combining with specific examples, analyzed the carbon footprint of the logistics process instance modeling based on LCA.fi=Opinnäytetyö kokotekstinä PDF-muodossa.|en=Thesis fulltext in PDF format.|sv=Lärdomsprov tillgängligt som fulltext i PDF-format

New decision support tools for forest tactical and operational planning

Doutoramento em Engenharia Florestal e dos Recursos Florestais - Instituto Superior de AgronomiaThe economic importance of the forest resources and the Portuguese forest-based industries motivated several studies over the last 15 years, particularly on strategic forest planning. This thesis focuses on the forest planning processes at tactical and operational level (FTOP). These problems relate to harvesting, transportation, storing, and delivering the forest products to the mills. Innovative Operation Research methods and Decision Support Systems (DSS) were developed to address some of these problems that are prevalent in Portugal. Specifically, Study I integrates harvest scheduling, pulpwood assortment, and assignment decisions at tactical level. The solution method was based in problem decomposition, combining heuristics and mathematical programming algorithms. Study II presents a solution approach based on Revenue Management principles for the reception of Raw Materials. This operational problem avoids truck congestion during the operation of pulpwood delivery. Study III uses Enterprise Architecture to design a DSS for integrating the operations performed over the pulpwood supply chain. Study IV tests this approach on a toolbox that handled the complexity of the interactions among the agents engaged on forest planning at regional level. Study V proposes an innovative technological framework that combines forest planning with forest operations' control

Impact of Green Supply Chain Management Practices in India

Green supply chain management technique (GSCM) is a newer way to differentiate anorganization from its competitor organizations because it can highly influence the plannedsuccess of an organization. With rapid increasing awareness of environmental protectionglobally, the green trend of conserving our planet’s resources and protecting theenvironment is difficult to fight against, thereby putting more pressure on firms. With therapid change in manufacturing scenario globally, environmental as well as social issues arebecoming of great importance in running any business. Green supply Chain Management(GSCM) is a way to improve the performance of the process and the end products accordingto the requirements of environmental regulations agency. A green supply chain managementaims to constrict the waste product within the industrial system in order to keep and protectenergy as well as to prevent the dissipation of dangerous materials into the environment