This study draws attention to the upcoming changes within sustainable value chains and manufacturing environments caused by the digital transformation. With a special focus on Industry 4.0 (I4.0), the presented study explores the scientific progress...
While prior research has consistently established a significant link between production and operations management (POM) practices and organizational financial performance (OFP) across various contexts, the mechanisms driving this connection remain un...
The decoupled operation of electricity and water systems under variable demand conditions and tightly coupled operational constraints tends to increase total operating costs and reduce overall resource-use efficiency. In response, this study develops...
As complex system engineering involving multiple stakeholders, multi-objective collaboration, and multi-spatiotemporal scales, the components, logical structure, and functional mechanisms of production equipment operation management and control (PEOM...
In this study, a mine production management application (app) using a Bluetooth beacon and tablet PC was developed to support the efficient operation of an underground mine loading-transport system. The app receives signals from the Bluetooth beacons...
Operations Management includes the management of all company activities that support the input–output cycle [...]
In Mediterranean regions, afforested areas were planted to ensure the permanence of land cover, and to protect against erosion and to initiate the vegetation processes. For those purposes, pine species were mainly used; however, many of these stands,...
The supply chain management plays a crucial role in delivering products from a supplier, through the manufacturer, distributors, and retailers to the targeted customers. The lifecycle of the products can be ended at any stage due to imperfect quality...
Under the global trend of sustainability, many companies selling fashion products have to reshape their operational strategies. Over the past few years, we have witnessed many fashion companies going green by re-engineering their business processes a...
Moderate-scale farming is an important pathway for promoting the high-quality development of China’s pig industry. Based on survey data from 809 pig farms in Heilongjiang Province in 2024, this study assesses the moderate operating scale of pig...
End-to-end traceability offers significant opportunities for product lifecycle visibility, sustainability enhancement, and regulatory compliance in product management. However, it faces challenges in data integration and management, supplier collabor...
This paper focuses on the sustainable development path of agricultural production in China under the pattern of intensive management, which aims to promote the agricultural green production networks consisting of new agricultural operators and tradit...
This paper explores the relationship between human factors in construction safety and their effects on operational efficiency. It investigates how safety incidents resulting from human errors influence productivity, project timelines, and overall cos...
The mining industry faces increasing challenges in enhancing productivity within complex operational environments characterized by the interaction of technical, organizational, human, and external factors. Nevertheless, existing studies frequently ex...
The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the FinTech industry has significantly reshaped operational workflows, product innovation, and risk management, all of which are pivotal to company valuation. This study investigates the impact of AI...
The high-mix, low-volume (HMLV) industry has seen growth in the need for product customisation with research to increase manufacturers’ flexibility for the variation in market demands. This paper reviews 152 documents from 2000 to October 2022,...
Job satisfaction has become a significant factor in organizational performance, particularly in operational sectors such as port activities, where efficiency, coordination, and safety are essential. Port operations provide a theoretically relevant se...
Across production and processing systems, biological residuals are inconsistently defined, with the same materials treated as waste, by-products, or resources depending on context. This ambiguity constrains the identification of valorization pathways...
The industrial relevance of biomimetic design rests on whether a biological principle can be converted into an engineering solution that is manufacturable, verifiable, scalable, and traceable in operation. This critical integrative review considers t...
Nowadays, water savings on industrial plants have become a significant concern for various plants and sections. It is vitally essential to propose applicable and efficient techniques to retreat produced water from onshore and offshore production unit...
Tactical planning in timber harvesting involves aspects related to forest macro-planning and, particularly, the allocation of resources and sequencing of activities, all of which affect the allocation of timber in forest yards and roads and the produ...
Modifying the stand dynamic functional determinates of structural stand density management models (SSDMMs) through the incorporation of site-specific biophysical height-age equations enabled the simulation of the effects of increasing mean temperatur...
Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP) is a widely used approach through manufacturing environments in a variety of sectors. With a tendency to go to specialized, smaller lot sizes in several industries (e.g., the pharmaceutical sector), companies are...
Renewable energy targets in the European Union (EU) have raised the demand for timber and are expected to increase dependence on imports. However, EU timber consumption levels are already disproportionally high compared to the rest of the world. The...
Background: By examining the recent advancements in technology, particularly the transformation of material into digital flows and its impact on customer demands, the aim of this paper is to investigate supply chain management (SCM) by analyzing seve...
In the industrial internet environment, the operation and control of production equipment have become increasingly complex, and their performance directly affects the efficiency, benefits and sustainable development of manufacturing enterprises. From...
Intense international competition pushes the actors of wood supply chains to implement efficient wood supply chain management incorporating coordinated cost-saving strategies to remain competitive. In order to observe the effects of individual and co...
Madura cattle are a nationally important indigenous Indonesian beef cattle breed and a locally adapted genetic resource that supports smallholder livelihoods and beef production under tropical dryland, low-input farming conditions. As an indigenous I...
Sustainability has become crucial in today’s business landscape. Customers, suppliers, partners, and investors are increasingly demanding that companies be aware of their impacts on the environment and society. Achieving sustainability in busin...
The ready-mix concrete supply chain is highly disruptive due to its product perishability and Just-in-Time (JIT) production style. A lack of technology makes the ready-mix concrete (RMC) industry suffer from frequent production failures, ultimately c...
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Effective management of cotton production logistics (CPL) against volatile environmental conditions while maintaining product quality and yield at acceptable costs has become challenging due to increasing global population and consumption and climate...
This paper provides new insights to the area of sustainable manufacturing systems at analyzing the novel paradigm of integrated production logistics, quality, and maintenance design. For this purpose, we investigate the optimal production and repair/...
Theoretical arguments suggest that better environmental performance can lead to cost advantages through a more efficient use of resources and higher labor productivity. To provide empirical support for these arguments, we investigate how environmenta...
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This paper considers a carbon emission cap and trade market, where the carbon emission cap for each entity (either government or firm) is allocated first and then the carbon trading price is decided interdependently in the carbon trading market among...
This study examines how leverage affects real earnings management (REM) in non-financial firms listed on the Korea Composite Stock Price Index from 2010 to 2018 by employing total, short-term, and long-term debt ratios (i.e., leverage) as independent...
The evaluation and prediction of the agricultural machinery field efficiency is essential for agricultural operations management. Field efficiency is affected by unpredictable (e.g., machine breakdowns) and stochastic (e.g., yield) factors, and thus,...
This study examines upstream non-quality drivers and their root causes in development-to-production transition processes, with a focus on New Product Introduction (NPI) environments characterized by high technological and organizational complexity. A...
The flexible packaging industry has registered a significant growth over the last years, especially due to rising demand from healthcare, automotive, construction, food, beverage, and retail industries. It is essential for the production plants to re...
Water has become a critical resource due to increased manufacturing activities. However, there is a lack of detailed information on water management and consumption by industries. In the recent bibliography, lean–green was established as a good appro...
Scientific regulatory systems with suitable analytical methods for monitoring quality, safety, and efficacy are essential in medicinal plant drug discovery. There have been only few attempts to adopt the analytical quality by design (AQbD) strategy i...
Mass customization (MC) is a business strategy that stands for the ability to develop high value-added products within short time frames and at relatively low costs. It emerged from the manufacturing industry and has been applied to several industria...
Coordinating the digital transformation of globally dispersed factories within international manufacturing networks has become a critical issue for competitiveness, yet there has been limited attention paid to this issue in previous research. Therefo...
This study applies data envelopment analysis (DEA) to evaluate the economic sustainability of U.S. airlines by examining labor efficiency as a pivotal component of cost management and long-term sustainability. Focusing on five key employee categories...
Largely motivated by the industrial practice in which a platform giant will encroach online retailing by introducing private label (PL) products, this paper aims to investigate the optimal introduction decision for a platform and identify the best sa...
Informal recycling workers (IRWs), including waste pickers (WPs) and waste sorters, are essential constituents of sustainable ecosystems in many cities in the Global South. Despite their valuable contributions to the economic and environmental dimens...
Production planning and control (PPC), responsible for all the activities that keep production running regularly, plays an essential role in the transition to more sustainable manufacturing systems. PPC decision-making processes need to be driven by...
This editorial introduces the Special Issue “Mathematical Methods and Operation Research in Planning, Scheduling and Supply Chain Operations Management” of the journal Mathematics. The Special Issue gathers nine peer-reviewed papers that,...
The purpose of this study is to examine the spare parts supply chain when introducing new computer technology products to the market. Background: Despite the growing importance of after-sales service, the supply chain for spare parts for ICT (informa...
The most successful applications of Blockchain Technology are still in the area of crypto-currencies, although both scientists and practitioners have discovered the potential of Blockchain Technology in Supply Chain Management. There is a significant...
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