The analysis safety and health risks of workers in the municipal solid waste landfill in Malaysia

The aim of the paper is to reflect the findings from a case study conducted on the awareness to the operation of the municipal solid waste landfill. The study focused on safety and health risks for workers in the municipal solid waste landfill in Malaysia. Workers involved in and face occupational health and safety hazards which are as diverse as the materials they are handling. The study was conducted to identify the safety and health risks to their workers and implementation of appropriate exposure prevention or control measures. The information analysis throughout the research was gathered from survey conducted on a few key personnel of the company. Finally, the study draws several relationships between operation of municipal solid waste landfill in Malaysia and safety and health risk for workers and reflects several recommendations for further research

Inventory risk based technique for spare parts utilization

The equipment breakdown due to unavailability of spare parts has incurred challenges for the manufacturing industry in managing the inventory. Consequently, the problem of spare parts unavailability has lead the organization towards unproductive and eventually impact the financial performance.Therefore, maintaining good system has direct connection with spare parts availability. The inventory planner always strive hard to ensure that the spare parts are always available for the maintenance used.Nevertheless, maintaining high inventories of spare parts often conflict from meeting the needs of equipment reliability for the manufacturing plant.In view of this situation, management of spare parts become critical in ensuring the equipment reliability.This paper describes an innovative risk quantification technique using Binary Decision Diagram (BDD) for the spare parts inventory control.The technique modified the BDD concept by translating the failure history into binary decision.From the binary process, the data will be converted into spare parts probability table and failure impact is analyzed. These two functions of risk, will be calculated in order gain the risk in monetary value

Human Factor in Green Supply Chain

Implementation of green supply chain is an important in leading a firm, organization or company to gaining competitive advantage. In this research study, the variables have influence towards the implementation of green supply chain are identified, they are human factor. Human factor that researcher have used in this study is safety and health, attitude, personal factor and workload which was used as independent variables in this study. Total of 105 sample size has been taken from third year student who taking International Business course as respondents. Study survey has been conducted through random sampling. A total 110 questionnaires have been distributed to the sample of chosen consists the four independent variables of human factor, that are safety and health, attitude, personal factor and workload, while green supply chain is the dependent variable. Quantitative survey had been used for this study. From regression analysis result showed all hypotheses supported with significant value. The result concludes that all the independent variable in this study give a significant impact to the implementation of green supply chai

Innovative, Marketing and Supportive Capability Impacts Towards Logistics Performance

Logistics function as an important role in business operation. Due to the increasing competition in this industry, organization should make sure the business logistics is efficient and effective. In achieving the increase in performance and indirectly increase the profit of an organization, logistics is an important element that need be taken into consideration seriously. This paper investigates the effect of innovative, marketing and supportive capability towards logistics performance. the study has been conducted in towards the SME organization in area of Putrajaya. 117 respondents from SMEs were collected to identify the relationship of innovative, marketing and supportive capability towards the logistics performance. Hence, factor analysis was done includes the correlation and regression analysis to examine relationship that exists. The findings identify that that innovative, marketing and supportive capability that contribute to logistics performance. Index Terms: Innovative, Marketing, Supportive, Logistics Performanc

Inventory, Warehousing and Transportation Management Impacts Towards Logistics Performance in Supply Chain Management

Abstract The purpose of this article is to proposed a framework that related to the factors that impacts the logistics performance due to lack of equal agreement on the factors that affecting logistics performance. Factors that been proposed in this article includes inventory management, warehouse management and transportation management. It will also be discussing others general factors that affecting the logistics performance. A comprehensive discussion on all three variables been done in order to provides greater insight on the factors that affecting the logistics performance. These comprehensive reviews include the management of inventory, warehousing and transportation and provides greater definition on the variables terminology that are related. Therefore, a framework has been proposed for further stud

Factors influence consumer's behaviour toward logistics e-waste recycling in Malaysia

E-waste generate are greater than e-waste being disposal by consumer in Malaysia which will contaminate the environment and risking public health as well.Past studies revealed that e-waste can be disposal by three ways such as burning, recycling and put at landfill which recycling are the most appropriate concept to reduce the e-waste in an efficiency and effective manner.Previous studies in reverse logistics article mainly focus on recycling concept from supplier or manufacturer context which lack of study connective between logistics company strategy and consumer behaviour. Total 420 undergraduates from University Utara Malaysia (UUM) were choose as respondents due to their knowledgeable about e-waste, high self discipline and technology generation user via convenience sampling method and data collected will analysis with SPSS version 23.The findings reveal the all the variables such as attitude toward recycling, awareness of environment consequence, perceived social norms, perceived convenience are positives correlated with behaviour toward logistics e-waste recycling in this study

Shared values through human resource management: In supporting the transformation plan

Malaysia needs to work fast and smart in order to realize the achievement of Vision 2020.The Government recognised that the departments underperform largely due to the status quo, i.e. the limitations of the way the Government was structured and organised.Thus in order to bring about the transformation, shared values must be embedded in the organization culture. Values refer to the standards and expectations hold by the employees of the organization that guide aspects of practice performance.Generally, in services, the core values that support, respect choice, collaboration, and customer service are critical foundation stones of a trusting therapeutic relationship.Hence, this case is related to one of the government department who put great effort to transform.Before the department can move forward for the transformation agenda, it is critical to understand their current values and practices, which subsequently enable to identify the performance gap that hindered the achievement of the assigned target. The case provides valuable insight on the necessary part of the transformation process, particularly in developing the right values and practices in the government sectors

A rule-based approach for discovering effective software team composition

Human aspects in software engineering play a key role in composing effective team members.However, to date there is no general consensus on the effective personality types and diversity based on software team roles.Thus, this paper aims to discover the effective personality types and diversity based on two software team roles – team leader and programmer by using a rule-based approach.The rule-based approach by employing the rough set technique was used to discover patterns of the data selected.In this study, four main steps were involved to discover the patterns – reduct generation rules, rules generation, rules filtering, and rules evaluation.The results show that the rules generated achieved acceptable prediction accuracy with more than 70 per cent accuracy.In addition, the ROC value achieved 0.65, which indicates the rule-based model is valid and useful.The results reveal that the extrovert personality type is dominant for both software team roles and a homogeneous or heterogeneous team plays an equal role to determine an effective team.This study provides useful rules for decision makers to understand and get insight into selecting effective team members that lead to producing high quality software

The critical issues of adopting halal logistics services

Halal is in the nature of business and trade, and is becoming a global symbol for quality assurance and lifestyle choice.The primary issue is thousand of products and services produced at the global level have different of Halalization process such as symbolism, logo and certification from countries such as Malaysia, Australia, Singapore, Indonesia and China.Segregation of Halal and non-Halal food products must be highly practiced to avoid contamination.Although Halal is booming and on an upward trend, there are very limited studies published on Halal logistics and academic research in this area is highly needed.This study aim to investigate the issues of companies to get the Halal certification, finance capacity of company and the government support towards Halal logistics company.This study is examined in the case of Halal logistics in Kedah.Results obtained from this study uncover the various issues faced by Halal logistics service providers and are categorized into three critical issues. (BARRIER 1) Halal certification issue, (BARRIER 2) Government support issue, (BARRIER 3) Financial issue.The data was collected via an interview and primary source was used. The respondents are from middle management in Halal logistics company. This study is exploratory in nature and data are collected through series of focus group interviews and process with narrative analysis.The researcher managed to underline the research limitation such as the lack of empirical evidence, lack respondents from non-logistics companies and the study only focuses on Halal logistics thus ignoring other Halal businesses such as Halal pharmaceutical and Halal tourism.Plus, the issues uncovered open more doors for potential future research on barriers and critical success factors in adopting Halal into logistics management

Factors affecting implementation of blockchain in retail market in Malaysia

Certain types of blockchains were made and developed for various purposes. Despite the development of cohort systems, the blockchain needs more development from the perspective of Malaysia. In addition, blockchain is the only cryptographic block currency that improves retail marketing. This study has critically analyzed the variables of the current research Framework of the blockchain implementation in retail market. Thus, this study aims to implement blockchain in retail market for increaseing customer benefits in order to improve the retail industrial supply chain activities. In order to achieve the main aim, this study comprises of two main phases, which are theorietical study, developemnt of proposed blockchain factors and its implementation. The blockchain experience of variables, blockchain management, blockchain transaction policy, blockchain adaption and implications were discussed gradually. Finally, we demonstrate the underlying theory, the theoretical framework and the hypotheses were discussed in detail