著者

Qunzhi WANG Qiang LUO

出版者

ISCM Forum

雑誌

Innovation and Supply Chain Management (ISSN:21870969)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.10, no.3, pp.101-105, 2016-09-30 (Released:2016-12-21)

参考文献数

26

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Since the competition becomes much serious, how to develop by innovation is of great importance for Sichuan cuisine enterprises. Chain operation mode, being an efficient and effective way to enlarge the scale,is widely used by more and more Sichuan cuisine enterprises. However, their development still has a lot of problems because of the lack of the support from logistics and supply chain management. In this paper, after introducing the current situation, we analyse two main problems in the chain operation of Sichuan cuisine from the perspective of logistics and supply chain management, and also propose the reform direction.

著者

Hideki Hashimoto Mikio Kubo

出版者

ISCM Forum

雑誌

Innovation and Supply Chain Management (ISSN:21870969)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.10, no.1, pp.9-18, 2016-03-31 (Released:2016-12-21)

参考文献数

13

被引用文献数

4

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Recently almost all advanced companies own transactional ITs such as POS (point-of-sales), ERP (enterprise resource planning), MRP (material requirement planning), etc. Since analytic processes are necessary to obtain significant information from them, decision makers of most of those companies can not utilize the outcomes directly. A modern and advanced IT system consisting of models and algorithms is called analytic IT. The objective of the analytic IT is to help the decision maker. In this paper, we survey the supply chain (SC) optimization. We introduce three decision levels of the SC and show the classification of inventories. We also discuss several basic optimization models such as logistics network design, inventory, scheduling, lot-sizing, and vehicle routing models.

著者

Hideo Sato Yanwen Dong Vinod Kuma

出版者

ISCM Forum

雑誌

Innovation and Supply Chain Management (ISSN:21870969)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.10, no.1, pp.19-29, 2016-03-31 (Released:2016-12-21)

参考文献数

20

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As one kind of regional finance institutions (RFIs), shinkin banks have closer relations with development of regional economies than city banks. This paper aims to apply principal components analysis to evaluate the performance of shinkin banks' contribution to regional economies in northeast area of Japan. Different from the existing studies, this paper is the first attempt to use principal components analysis to analysis of shinkin banks. Meanwhile, we limit our analysis to 27 shinkin banks in the northeast area of Japan and put our emphasis on extracting an effective indicator to measure the contributions of the shinkin banks to regional economies and clarify the issues for the shinkin banks to improve or strengthen their regional contribution.

著者

Yangwen Dong Shinya Sato Vinod Kumar Kyoji Hoshino

出版者

ISCM Forum

雑誌

Innovation and Supply Chain Management (ISSN:21870969)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.10, no.1, pp.43-52, 2016-03-31 (Released:2016-12-21)

参考文献数

20

被引用文献数

3

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Major studies on cell production have put the emphasis on technical factors (machine order/layout, family part grouping, workŽow sequence, etc.), it is still insufficient to investigate how workers' aptitude affect the productivity of production cells. As the first attempt to examine the workers' aptitude toward the assembly tasks in production cells,we make a comparatively detailed literature review on the major theories and assessment measures developed in the field of industrial and organizational psychology. Then we give the definition of four aptitudes and related hypotheses from the aspects of workers' cognition and interest, finger dexterity, affection, and behavioral intention. We design a self-evaluation sheet to measure the workers' aptitudes, and moreover design a cell production experiment to investigate the relation between the workers' aptitudes and productivity of production cells. Through our experimental study, we verified statistically that the workers' cognition and interest, negative affection correlate significantly to the productivity of production cells. However, there are still some issues to be addressed further in order to measure the workers' aptitudes through the self-evaluation sheet.

著者

Chun FENG Xiaoqing TIAN

出版者

ISCM Forum

雑誌

Innovation and Supply Chain Management (ISSN:21870969)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.10, no.1, pp.1-7, 2016-03-31 (Released:2016-12-21)

参考文献数

12

被引用文献数

1

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The establishment of post-disaster humanitarian logistics (PD-HL) network is essential for humanitarian relief in emergency events, and the research of trust in PD-HL plays a crucial role in building and implementing humanitarian logistics network. This paper analyzes the trust structure of relief patterns in PDHL network based on three topology models: ACE (Agency Centric Efforts), PIE (Partially Integrated Efforts) and CAN (Collaborative Aid Networks). Three kinds of in?uence matrices of PD-HL networks are constructed and simulated through NK model to analyze the trust structure in three indicators including global optimum,the average of local optimum and the number of local optimum. Finally, several recommendations are given for the operations of PD-HL.

著者

Jian WANG Ting Wang Yong Yin Qunzhi Wang Hiroaki MATSUKAWA

出版者

ISCM Forum

雑誌

Innovation and Supply Chain Management (ISSN:21870969)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.10, no.3, pp.81-92, 2016-09-30 (Released:2016-12-21)

参考文献数

72

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The performance measurement scales on logistics and supply chain management can be used not only for benchmarking but also for the strategic formulation. The measurement scales in different scorecards were summarized in four areas, i.e., Logistics Performance (LP), Planning/Execution Capabilities (PE), IT Methods and Implementation (IT), and Corporate Strategy and Inter-Organizational Alignment (SO). Six hypotheses on the relationships among these four areas were proposed. A survey with 177 samples was conducted in Chinese manufacturing and logistics industries to test the hypotheses. A proposed framework suggests that planning/execution capabilities in the strategic formulation should be separated from logistics performance and the operations on the corporate strategy and inter-organization alignment on supply chain should move earlier than the IT methods and implementation.

著者

Masato TAKANOKURA Tetsuo Yamada Masaru Kawakami Seiko Taki Munenori KAKEHI

出版者

ISCM Forum

雑誌

Innovation and Supply Chain Management (ISSN:21870969)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.10, no.2, pp.71-77, 2016-06-30 (Released:2016-12-21)

参考文献数

12

被引用文献数

2

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A healthcare service was visualized by physical activity of healthcare workers ’tasks at a longterm care nursing home in Japan. Physical activity was measured by four healthcare workers using an activity meter. The workers ’tasks in healthcare services were quanti?ed by high-intensity activity of 3.0 METs (metabolic equivalents) or more, and by the relationship between physical activity and healthcare tasks. A higher workload for healthcare workers could be quanti?ed by the average physical activity and the cumulative time of high-intensity activity of 3.0 METs or more. Healthcare workers with signi?cant experience completed daily tasks effectively, but the tasks included high-intensity physical activity or a higher workload. In addition to observational methods, improvement of healthcare services should be considered by quantitative variables.

著者

Chengnan Yan Meishan Piao Noritsugu Fujimoto

出版者

ISCM Forum

雑誌

Innovation and Supply Chain Management (ISSN:21870969)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.10, no.1, pp.31-41, 2016-03-31 (Released:2016-12-21)

参考文献数

9

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In this paper, we attempt to clarify the social consequences of the changes in the Northeast Asian labor market based on the results of a questionnaire survey on changes in Žexibility and security, which was carried out among workers in Japan, China, and Korea. In particular, we analyzed the reality of institutional development in employment,income, vocational training, and work-life balance in the labor market in three Northeast Asian countries by estimating the adaptation range of institutions in labor market. Furthermore, we attempted to undertaken an international comparative analysis on perceptions about work, leisure, and work-life balance under the institutions.

著者

Xianda Kong Hisashi Yamamoto Jing Sun Masayuki MATSUI

出版者

Japan Management Training Center

雑誌

Innovation and Supply Chain Management (ISSN:21870969)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.10, no.2, pp.61-67, 2016-06-30 (Released:2016-12-21)

参考文献数

32

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In uncertain cases, the result and efficiency of a current period (or production cycle) are in?uenced not only by the risks which exist in current period but also by the risks which exist in the previous ones. What is more, the risk itself is also affected greatly by the risks which exist in the earlier periods. This kind of problem is called a limited-cycle problem with multiple periods. Normally, workers ’efficiency is different on different tasks. How can we get an optimal assignment to minimize the total expected costs? In this paper, we consider the optimal worker assignment considering two kinds of efficiency, clever or poor efficiency on tasks. The regularity will be described that n-1 workers have two clever tasks of all, 1 worker has no clever task by contrast. Also, some numerical experiments will be done to check out the regularity of the optimal assignment that each worker has two or three clever tasks.

著者

Ammar Y. ALQAHTANI Surendra M. GUPTA Kenichi NAKASHIMA

出版者

ISCM Forum

雑誌

Innovation and Supply Chain Management (ISSN:21870969)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.8, no.4, pp.140-149, 2014-12-28 (Released:2015-03-15)

参考文献数

39

被引用文献数

1

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In product recovery the disassembly process has an important role since it allows for separation and retrieval of desired parts and materials. End-of-life (EOL) products with missing and/or nonfunctional components increase the uncertainty associated with disassembly yield. Sensor-embedded products (SEPs) eliminate a majority of uncertainties involved in EOL management by providing life-cycle information of products. This information includes the content of each product and component conditions, and enables the estimation of remaining useful life of the components. Once the data on the products are captured, it is possible to make optimal EOL decisions without any preliminary disassembly or inspection operations. This paper presents an Advanced Remanufacture-To-Order, Disassembly-To-Order and Refurbishment-To-Order (ARTODTORTO) model with disassembly precedence relationships among components of an air conditioner (AC). It also inspects and analyzes the impact of using smart sensors in End-of-Life products (EOLPs) on system performance. Various experimental design studies are conducted based on orthogonal arrays (OAs). The customers' demands may be satisfied either by purchasing new components, reassembling components from the returned used products, refurbishing products, or remanufacturing used products based on customers' needs. Discrete event simulation models are used to calculate various performance measures under different experimental conditions.

著者

Masahiko TANAKA Hangfeng LUO Shuhei INADA Akihiro NAKATSUKA

出版者

ISCM Forum

雑誌

Innovation and Supply Chain Management (ISSN:21870969)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.7, no.1, pp.25-31, 2013-03-31 (Released:2014-04-02)

参考文献数

20

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In this paper, we consider the customer call center operation which is one of the personal computer enduser services. We deal with the problem as a case study where the optimal allocation of the call center staffwhich is called agents is determined. This previous proposed model was to provide the optimal agents' allocation for the call center service based on queuing (Erlang loss formula) [18, 19] and linear programming theory [20]. Here, besides it,we're going to address or examine the mode, considering the queuing space of not-using phones or the phones that no agents are using and the repeated calls that the customers would call when they couldn't reach any agents directly or immediately, and they couldn't even get into the queuing space of not-using phones. Then we show the effectiveness or the extent of the effectiveness of the model.

著者

Chihiro WATANABE

出版者

ISCM Forum

雑誌

Innovation and Supply Chain Management (ISSN:21870969)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.7, no.3, pp.92-104, 2013-09-30 (Released:2014-04-02)

参考文献数

27

被引用文献数

2 10

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Abstract: Dramatic advancement of the Internet has generated global simultaneous dependency on information technology (IT) which has, contrary to anticipation, resulted in the bi-polarization between IT advanced economies and IT growing economies. While the latter enjoy a virtuous cycle between advancement of IT and its productivity increase,IT advanced economies have fallen into a pit of a vicious cycle as further advancement of IT decreases its productivity. Consequently, countries in IT advanced economies suffer economic stagnation. Similar bi-polarization derived from beyond anticipation issue can also be observed in business performance in high-technology firms. Aiming at elucidating the inside the black box of the foregoing growth engine resulting in bi-polarization, an empirical analysis utilizing a new approach integrating techno-metrics, psychophysiology and advanced monitoring techniques is demonstrated thereby insightful suggestion to the above engine is provided. Innovation-consumption co-evolution based on co-evolutionary acclimatization strategy is suggested to be essential for a resilient business while maintaining efficiency. A platform toward this resilient business model is proposed. Dramatic advancement of the Internet has generated global simultaneous dependency on information technology (IT) which has, contrary to anticipation, resulted in the bi-polarization between IT advanced economies and IT growing economies. While the latter enjoy a virtuous cycle between advancement of IT and its productivity increase,IT advanced economies have fallen into a pit of a vicious cycle as further advancement of IT decreases its productivity.

著者

Yoshiki YAMAGATA Hajime SEYA

出版者

ISCM Forum

雑誌

Innovation and Supply Chain Management (ISSN:21870969)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.7, no.3, pp.75-82, 2013-09-30 (Released:2014-04-02)

参考文献数

21

被引用文献数

4 8

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This paper extends the concept of our proposed (Yamagata and Seya, 2012) community-based disaster resilient electricity sharing system (DRESS) as a complement or alternative to a feed-in tariff(FiT) to achieve CO2-neutral transportation in cities. In our proposed system, electricity generated from widely introduced solar photovoltaic panels (PVs) is stored in the“cars not in use ”in a city. For example, almost half of the cars in the central Tokyo metropolitan area are used only on weekends and thus are kept parked during weekdays. These cars represent a huge new potential storage depot if they were replaced by electric vehicles (EVs), that is, they could be used as storage batteries in a V2G system. The present study extends our proposed system in the following two senses. Firstly, different from Yamagata and Seya (2012), this paper uses actual ground area data (footprint) of each building to estimate PV supply, which may lead to more accurate estimations. The results show that although the entire electricity surplus (PV supply minus demand) could be stored without waste if 12% of the EVs not in use were utilized as storage batteries at an aggregate (city) level,there exist significant regional mismatches at the local district level. Hence secondly, based on the geographical PV supply-demand estimates, this paper analyses the possibility of local electricity sharing by looking at the geographical distribution of high-storage potential areas using a spatial clustering technique. This paper extends the concept of our proposed (Yamagata and Seya, 2012) community-based disaster resilient electricity sharing system (DRESS) as a complement or alternative to a feed-in tariff(FiT) to achieve CO2-neutral transportation in cities. In our proposed system, electricity generated from widely introduced solar photovoltaic panels

著者

Thomas BRUDERMANN Romana RAUTER Yoshiki YAMAGATA

出版者

ISCM Forum

雑誌

Innovation and Supply Chain Management (ISSN:21870969)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.7, no.3, pp.83, 2013-09-30 (Released:2014-04-02)

参考文献数

63

被引用文献数

1 4

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The current discussion on urban resilience is dominated by infrastructural and technological considerations. Although behavioral reactions to extreme events very well impact the overall resilience of urban systems, they are not very well considered. In order to close this gap, we review relevant insights on human decision making and collective dynamics, and propose a framework for studying behavioral aspects in the context of urban resilience. We findthat human decision making is often based on simple ‘heuristics'. Especially in emergency situations, e.g. during or in the aftermath of extreme events, simple decision making rules replace careful and rational assessment of different choice alternatives. However, collective reactions to extreme events are note only dependent on individual decisions, but are shaped by complex interactions of various system elements, including the natural and manmade environment, people's interactions with the environment, and people's interactions with each other. For a proper anticipation of possible collective reactions and their impact on urban systems, we suggest agent-based simulations which utilize decision making insights and interaction data gathered in experiments and in the field. The current discussion on urban resilience is dominated by infrastructural and technological considerations.

著者

Mohammadreza PARSANEJAD Hiroaki MATSUKAWA Tomoichi SATO

出版者

ISCM Forum

雑誌

Innovation and Supply Chain Management (ISSN:21870969)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.7, no.2, pp.66-74, 2013-06-30 (Released:2014-04-02)

参考文献数

13

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Measuring project success is a challenging issue among researchers and practitioners, because of its multidimensional properties. During the last three decades, numerous researchers have tried to define and illustrate its dimensions. But still there is no general agreement about it. To measure and predict success of a project, we need to take into account all project stages including utilization stage of the product of a project in an integrated approach. In this paper we try to introduce a novel model to measure project success considering selection, execution and utilization stages. The model is based on the deviations from the goal of each stages. And the amount of success in this model which we call the “Circles Model”, is the magnitude of proximity to the final goal. We apply it to an example and measure its success quantitatively. Lastly we discuss four extensible directions for future studies to apply the model on high performance projects, multi stakeholders space, program and portfolio domain and finally to explore the inŽuence of the performance of each stage on the performance of the next stages.

著者

Yasuhiko TAKEMOTO Ikuo ARIZONO

出版者

ISCM Forum

雑誌

Innovation and Supply Chain Management (ISSN:21870969)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.7, no.2, pp.52-57, 2013-06-30 (Released:2014-04-02)

参考文献数

11

被引用文献数

2 5

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In Japan, books and magazines have been distributed under the resale price maintenance and consignment sale systems. At present, the return rate of books and magazines has reached approximately 40 percent of the quantity of publications under the systems mentioned above. This is a severe problem from the viewpoints of both business and environment. For the purpose to solve this problem, a new sale system where wholesale price is reasonable while buyback price is inexpensive has been programmed and practiced. The wholesale and buyback prices are important contract parameters in the transaction program between publisher and bookstore. In this paper, the publishing supply chain consisting of a publisher and a bookstore is formulated as a mathematical model. Then, we have developed a new approach to solve the collaborative sale contract problem with wholesale and buyback prices as contract parameters.

著者

Yue WU Hongyu LI Jinsheng YANG Liming ZHENG

出版者

ISCM Forum

雑誌

Innovation and Supply Chain Management (ISSN:21870969)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.7, no.2, pp.39-45, 2013-06-30 (Released:2014-04-02)

参考文献数

26

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This study discusses management principles which provides computational aid to management including monitoring, analysis and navigation of knowledge creators activities. Firstly, it attempts to identify two management principles based on the Ontological Shift Model, and give three indicators to diagnosis knowledge creation projects.