In today's competitive situation, it is necessary to understand how production systems should
be designed and put into operation in order to support competitive industrial production. Our …

To prepare this paper, a study of the logistics literature has been conducted together with
several case studies. The empirical evidence has been collected in Europe as well as in the …

Manufacturing competitiveness frequently relies on company ability to rapidly reconfigure
their assembly systems. This paper introduces assembly system proactivity, a concept based …

This paper examines a business and IS/IT initiative at Volvo that involves managing the
development and implementation of an agile aftermarket supply chain. The case is based on …

On the path towards sustainability for the urban area, local authorities make decisions that
affect freight transport. However, local authorities might not always be aware of the effect …

Intermodal transport between road and rail, also known as combined transport, has received
a large interest in recent years as part of a possible solution for a sustainable and efficient …

The purpose of this study is to identify the existing and required information attributes (ie the
actual transmitted information) that need to be exchanged between the studied hubs and …

Purpose–The paper aims to define the most beneficial types of information within a supply
chain and their level of value for different partners in the supply chain. A secondary objective …

1.1 Background In recent years, the cargo transport process has improved mainly in the
areas of logistics efficiency and documentation handling. Security within the cargo transport …

Efficient collection and distribution of items are important because fewer resources and less
energy would be used and this would help the world to be more sustainable. Many goods …