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Wang Rui Qin and Zhu Jia-Fu, 1996
No full textLeft-right: Wang Rui Fin from Inner Mongolia, Barbara Cargill, Head School of Management, Zhu Jia-Fu from China and Tom Assan from South Africa attended the Fifteenth International Seminar on Staff and Educational Development (ISSED). Hosted by Barbara Cargill, the theme of the seminar was: Higher Education's Interface with Vocational Training and Business. Photograph originally appeared in Connections, the 'Swinburne Staff News', 29 August 1996
Tetra Pak: creating a recycling chain in China
No full textIn early 2016, the newly appointed recycling planning coordinator for an industry-leading food packaging and processing company, Tetra Pak International SA (Tetra Pak), was reviewing his company's recent success in creating a recycling chain in China. By 2015, Tetra Pak China had successfully created a recycling chain system, increasing China’s recycling rate from almost 0 to 28 per cent. It had done so by following a four-stage process: scanning the recycling market, building awareness and selecting partners, creating recycling capacity, and securing the recycling capacity. While the recycling planning coordinator was pleased with this recent success, he knew that questions remained: How could Tetra Pak continuously motivate recyclers to grow? How could Tetra Pak support recycling activities to achieve an even higher recycling rate? How could Tetra Pak achieve its recycling targets without much financial support
Multiple multi-tier sustainable supply chain management: a social system theory perspective
Full text linkA multi-tier supply chain is a complex system as it covers a focal company and multiple tiers of suppliers in a complex supply chain network. This study explores the complexity in multi-tier sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) through a social systems theory perspective. We carried out a case study on IKEA China’s sustainable cotton initiative and examined its five cotton-textile supply chains. The primary data were collected through 22 semi-structured interviews with managers of IKEA China and their multi-tier suppliers. The findings suggest that in order to cope with environmental complexity in implementing multi-tier sustainable initiatives, focal companies tend to create both internal complexity and collaborative complexity in a variety of governance mechanisms. In addition, environmental overlap and available collaborative complexity increase in this process and can feed back into systems to facilitate further creation of requisite variety. We contribute to the multi-tier SSCM literature through providing an in-depth understanding of nuanced mechanisms of managing different tiers of suppliers to cope with complexities by adopting a social systems theory perspective. We also contribute to multi-tier supply chain governance mechanisms from an evolution perspective
Performance study of MFI for CDMA2000 1X cellular system
No full textThesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2004.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 65-66).This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Multiframe Interleaving (MFI) is the support of 40 and 80ms supplemental channel frames for CDMA2000 1X. Longer frames improve interleaver performance by separating adjacent symbols further in time and thus require less E[sub]b/N[sub]t, in burst noise conditions, to maintain a target FER at a given data rate. The overall benefit is to improve throughput capacity for today's high bandwidth cellular services. This thesis analyzes the average power usage and data throughput with longer frames for various channel models and radio configurations. Through experimental and simulative testing in a laboratory setting, MFI is shown to use less power per unit of throughput at the link layer in slow fading, single path channel environments. However, gains over 20ms frames diminish for faster fading and multipath, and the limitation of the forward link scheduler in accurately predicting channel conditions handicaps any gains at the link level.by Jia Fu Cen.M.Eng
sj-docx-1-npx-10.1177_1934578X221096172 - Supplemental material for Antimicrobial and Antioxidant Metabolites From the Cultured Suspension Cells of <i>Marchantia polymorpha</i> L.
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-npx-10.1177_1934578X221096172 for Antimicrobial and Antioxidant Metabolites From the Cultured Suspension Cells of Marchantia polymorpha L. by Ya-yun Cai, Ting Chen and Jia-fu Cao in Natural Product Communications</p
Packaging recovery ecosystems from a circular supply chain perspective – Insights from China and Brazil
No full textThis paper provides a circular supply chain perspective of packaging recovery ecosystems implemented by a prime supplier of food packaging in China and Brazil. Through a case study approach, the paper provides valuable insights to academics and practitioners interested in the Chinese and Brazilian markets as well as in supply chains supporting recovery ecosystems in the packaging industry. The industrial practices addressed in the paper are related to restorative material flows advocated by the circular economy. The paper also makes a theoretical contribution by developing a circular supply chain archetype that builds upon existing sustainability narratives of supply chains
Cross-border e-commerce firms as supply chain integrators: the management of three flows
No full textCross-border e-commerce is becoming increasingly popular around the world. With the development of technology, competition has gradually shifted from commodity-based attributes, such as cost and quality, to a supply chain’s service capacity for e-commerce. Within this context, the present paper delineates how cross-border e-commerce firms can generate supply chain service capabilities that yield improvements in supply chain relationship quality to e-tailors and other platform users. Insights are derived through data collected via a multiple case study approach based on four Chinese cross-border e-commerce enterprises (OSell, Zongteng, BizArk and Linca); data were collected from 41 semi-structured interviews, field visits and secondary data. Relying on the service dominant logic as the theoretical foundation, we identify three supply chain resources (flows related to information, logistics and finance) and their interplay as being critical for the development of supply chain service capabilities, which in turn lead to an improvement in the quality of supply chain relationships (assessed by the dimensions of trust improvement/commitment, risk mitigation, and customer satisfaction). The results offer important insights into how to best manage relationships by cross-border ecommerce firms in order to foster relationship quality, an attribute that has become so critical today for competitive differentiation
Service design of green and low-carbon intracity logistics: an AHP approach
No full textClimate change is the greatest global challenge faced by mankind today. With a rise in intelligent shared logistics and public awareness of environmental protection, implicit problems in intracity logistics, such as environmental pollution, resource waste, high carbon energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, should be solved urgently to achieve carbon neutrality. On this background, this study combines the analytic hierarchy process and gray correlation method to provide the best decision-making choice and benchmark enterprise for the green and low-carbon development of intracity logistics. In this research, the distribution business of six intracity logistics enterprises with the highest market share in China was investigated in detail. The target hierarchy standard focused on four aspects of green logistics: operation ability, infrastructure, resource utilisation and personnel factors. The four aspects are extended to 16 criteria. Supported by the survey data, this study provides a realistic reference for decision-making and a benchmark case for the low-carbon development of intracity logistics.</p
Circular Supply Chains in Emerging Economies – a comparative study of packaging recovery ecosystems in China and Brazil
Full text linkThis paper provides a circular supply chain perspective of packaging recovery ecosystems being implemented by Tetra Pak, a prime global player in the food packaging industry, in two major emerging economies: China and Brazil. The circular supply chain archetype considered in the research allowed a consistent comparative analysis of Tetra Pak’s circular supply chains in both countries. Through a case study approach, the research provides theoretical propositions and learning points that are valuable for academics and practitioners interested in the Chinese and Brazilian markets as well as in the supply chains supporting recovery ecosystems in the packaging industry. In particular, the distinct environments in the Chinese and Brazilian markets render Tetra Pak opportunities to design circular supply chains in different ways showing adaptation and learning to local market characteristics. The industrial perspectives from these emerging economies add to the contributions offered in the paper. Overall, the conceptual considerations and practical recommendations presented in the paper provide useful insights for the development of further studies and implementation of industrial practices advocated by the circular economy
IKEA: sustainable cotton initiative in China
No full textThis case presents an industry leading company - IKEA's multi-tier sustainable cotton initiative in China. The case begins with the background information of IKEA, cotton production in China and cotton-textile supply chain. It then presents IKEA's sustainable cotton practice globally. This is followed by IKEA China's motivation to implement sustainable cotton initiatives, its processes and the impacts on its cotton-textile supply chain. Finally, it ends with the case summary.</p
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