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Improving firm performance through sustainable operations

Mervegül Kirci

As concerns over environmental sustainability rise, corporations must extend their efforts to improve their environmental performance while at the same time realizing economic growth. The endeavor represents challenges on both strategic and operational fro ...

EPFL2017

Practical control methods for vacuum driven soft actuator modules

Jamie Paik, Matthew Aaron Robertson

Vacuum-powered Soft Pneumatic Actuator (VSPA) Modules have been described to afford advantages for rapid development of reconfigurable, multi-DoF soft pneumatic robots powered by vacuum by reducing their logistical complexity, however they also present new ...

2017

Benefits of working capital sharing in supply chains

Ralf Seifert, Margarita Protopappa

Supply chain finance and working capital management are important avenues to reduce supply chain costs. Small suppliers may not have sufficient working capital to finance their operations and efficiently supply their customers. We develop a model that capt ...

Palgrave Macmillan2017

Modeling sediment pulses on an armored channel

Anton Schleiss, Mário Jorge Rodrigues Pereira Da Franca, Carmelo Juez Jiménez, Elena Battisacco

Dams trap sediments in the upstream reservoir, thus the continuity in sediment transport along the river is interrupted. Several negative aspects related to the lack of sediment supply were observed downstream many dams and the artificial replenishment of ...

2016

Mitigating Crime Risks in the International Logistics Network

Toni Antero Männistö

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 raised major concerns about the vulnerability of global transportation systems to transnational crime and terrorism. Although the attacks occurred in the context of passenger transport, they spurred unprecedented ...

EPFL2015

Le chaos dû au trafic est-il une menace pour la Suisse?

Pierre-Yves Gilliéron

Chaque année les pertes de temps dues à une surcharge de trafic augmentent et génèrent des coûts importants pour la société. Les décideurs politiques, les planificateurs en transport et les entreprises sont confrontées au défi d'assurer le transport de biens et de personnes en Suisse. Lors de la journée its-ch 2014 organisée le 29 octobre à Fribourg, deux questions essentielles ont été présentées et discutées: les informations du trafic et la gestion du trafic dans les villes. Cet article résume les principales interventions de ce colloque, avec notamment les exemples des villes de Londres et de Lyon.

2014

On the role of trust types and levels on inventory replenishment decision

Rémy Glardon, Amin Kaboli, Naoufel Cheikhrouhou, Maryam Darvish

Using a participatory simulation platform, this paper investigates the inventory replenishment decisions made under different trust categories. Depending on the type of trust (trust in supplier versus trust in customer) and level of trust (high versus low) ...

2014

The Effect of Coercive Power on Supply Chain Inventory Replenishment Decisions

Rémy Glardon

Supply chains often consist of stakeholders with different power levels collaborating with each other in order to meet customer demand. This im-balance of power along the supply chain is a critical factor that affects its short and long-term behavior, as w ...

Bernard Grabot, Bruno Vallespir, Samuel Gomes, Abdelaziz Bouras, Dinitris Kiritsis2014

Supply chain crime - taxonomy development and empirical validation

Supply chain security (SCS) management has been widely discussed among policy makers, supply chain practitioners and scientists since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. However, the extant academic literature offers only a cursory look on crime p ...

Inderscience Enterprises Ltd2014

Taste heterogeneity and latent preferences in the choice behaviour of freight transport operators

Michel Bierlaire

In this paper we show that individual attitudes of road carriers and their latent preferences toward specific freight service attributes do play a role in determining their mode choices. Specifically, we contribute to the empirical literature on freight ag ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2013