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Coordination of the Supplier–Retailer Relationship in a Multi-period Setting: The Additional Ordering Cost Contract
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Single machine scheduling with resource dependent release times and processing times
No full textAuthor name used in this publication: T. C. E. Cheng2004-2005 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journalAccepted ManuscriptPublishedGreen (AAM
Reverse Logistics as a Sustainable Supply Chain Practice for the Fashion Industry: An Analysis of Drivers and the Brazilian Case
No full textIn the face of environmental and social demands, companies have turned their focus to solutions that minimize environmental impacts and, at the same time, are economically and socially sustainable. In the fashion industry, in order to achieve a sustainable supply chain management (SSCM), among other initiatives, companies have to consider the implementation of used apparel collection programs, in other words, reverse logistics (RL) practice. In this matter, the objective of this study is to identify the most important drivers for RL development and to investigate the level of importance of each selected driver for the Brazilian apparel industry sector. First, international peer-reviewed publications on RL were considered to identify the drivers that allowed the design of a questionnaire to facilitate data collection. Second, with a prior list of 15 drivers, an empirical research was conducted involving three Brazilian textile companies to validate these drivers. The final list included nine influential factors. Subsequently, a Brazilian RL expert was consulted to analyze them. Analytical hierarchy process (AHP) approach was used to obtain the RL driver priority ranking. The main contribution of this research includes the fact that the most influential drivers for RL practice are policy- and economic-related issues, for the apparel textile sector. Due to the lack of specific legislation, Brazil is still in a green awakening process concerning textile end of life product management. Limited gains of scale and technology restrictions are the major impediments for the economic feasibility of RL in the apparel industry sector.</p
An FPTAS for parallel-machine scheduling under a grade of service provision to minimize makespan
No full textAuthor name used in this publication: T. C. E. Cheng2008-2009 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journalAccepted ManuscriptPublishedGreen (AAM
Initiatives and outcomes of quality management implementation across industries
No full textAuthor name used in this publication: Kee-hung LaiAuthor name used in this publication: T. C. E. Cheng2002-2003 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journalAccepted ManuscriptPublishedGreen (AAM
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Two-machine flowshop batching and scheduling
No full textAuthor name used in this publication: T. C. E. Cheng2004-2005 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journalAccepted ManuscriptPublishedGreen (AAM
Two-machine flowshop scheduling with job class setups to minimize total flowtime
No full textAuthor name used in this publication: T. C. E. Cheng2004-2005 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journalAccepted ManuscriptPublishedGreen (AAM
An FPTAS for scheduling with piecewise linear decreasing processing times to minimize makespan
No full textAuthor name used in this publication: T. C. E. Cheng2006-2007 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journalAccepted ManuscriptPublishedGreen (AAM
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