Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is a well-studied area of operations research that has resulted
in significant cost savings in global transportation. The primary goal of the VRP is to find the
best route plan that minimizes ...
Retail sales forecasting is the process of estimating the number of future sales for a specific
product or products. However, producing reliable and accurate sales forecasts at a product
level is a very challenging task ...
Operations research techniques have helped optimize container terminal
operations over the past decades and have been a regular feature of maritime logistics
and maritime supply chain literature in addition to being in ...
Public sector investments contribute to economic growth and enhance the productivity of a
country. According to the Central Bank annual report 2020, the Government of Sri Lanka
spends around 30% of total annual expenditure ...
The company selected for the case study King Ceramics is the dominant market leader in Sri
Lankan tile industry with the expanding their business to 16 various countries worldwide. Having
an efficient distribution network ...
A supply chain interconnects the global and local partners, suppliers, organizations in strategic
level. Knowledge of supply chain management is becoming wisdom in future trends, forecasting,
and providing the competitive ...
The manufacturing industry gave birth to enterprise resource planning. It offers a typical in work environment for a company to take part its main corporate administration operations with a unique central database, allowing ...
A documented Business Continuity Plan (BCP) is a necessity in the competitive business environment today as everyone is running on a race to achieve their goals and targets. Considering the risk mitigation, some are already ...
demand imposing immense pressure on many governments primarily due to scarcity of the
public resources required to implement them. This particular context demands the
governments and other related agencies to allocate ...
The worldwide total retail sales hit $23.4 trillion in 2020 of which 18.5 trillion are in traditional physical store sales and four trillion are in E-commerce related sales. With the twentieth century closing we have seen ...
In contrast to the global situation, Sri Lankan cash supply chain does not use SCM applications significantly. In general, currency moves through the supply chain in a very similar way as of the retail product flow. Being ...
Being the largest service organization in the country, the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) is not only responsible to ensure the internal or external threats to the national security of Sri Lanka, but also to ensure the environmental ...
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Sri Lanka is strategically located in the middle of the East-West main shipping lane has the right location to operate as a Regional Logistics Hub. Due to the location advantage, ever since in the history, country ...
The use of digitalization techniques has revolutionized the way of operating for many businesses today. It has become quite crucial for modern-day apparel manufacturers to use these techniques to cater to the highly ...
The container traffic in Colombo Sea port and suburbs is a major issue for Sri Lanka Customs in their process of releasing cargo with a minimum time frame. The research is mainly focused on how to reduce the container ...
Covid-19 pandemic has changed people’s buying behavior and most of retail supermarkets are in a great challenge of fulfilling customer requirements due to “Panic buying” behavior. Since the current trend has become an ...
Maritime transportation has become the most popular cargo transportation mode over a long period of time. It has evolved, today, up to container transportation where it has geared up the platform to container terminal ...
Behavioral supply chain management is a subdiscipline within behavioral operations
management that is growing rapidly. Judgmental adjustments of forecasts are considered part
of this domain given the salience of forecasts ...
The importance of airport emission inventory is more specific in the local context as it directly affects the local air quality. The assessment of emission from different phases of flight separately has not received ...
Warehouse operation and management is a critical part in manufacturing and service industry. This research anlysis the strategies for improving the warehouse efficiency in leading tile manufacturing organization (RPL) in ...