The past two decades have experienced an unprecedented rise in enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems implementation among asset-intensive organizations. Typical asset-intensive industries such as oil & gas, energy, ...

Managers tend to improve the use of resources (inputs) of organizations to obtain the most productivity. Additionally, many industrial units have multi-stage structure in which the output of one stage is the input to the ...

In view of the growing environmental consciousness among product users, the issue of product sustainability is one of the challenging tasks being faced by product designers, manufacturers,environmentalists and, decision ...

The aim of this study is to compare the aviation derived reliability metric known as the Maintenance Free Operating Period (MFOP), with the traditionally used, and commonly found, reliability metric Mean Time Between Failure ...

In project planning process, resource over-allocation is a major shortcoming. The resource over-allocation causes the schedules not to be applicable in practice. Besides, in real projects, it is hard to predict the duration ...

The purpose of this paper is to examine how bank enabled electronic financial supply chain management (FSCM) systems influence the relationship between business partners in dyadic supply chains in emerging economies such ...

Reliability is one of the most important factors of complex systems which play a crucial role in performance of modern systems. In this study, a novel algorithm for estimating reliability of ready-to-use systems in designing ...