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      <title>Supply Chain Resilience and Firm Performance in Liner Shipping Industry</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This study explores the relationship between supply chain resilience and firm performance in the Taiwanese liner shipping industry. The constructs of supply chain resilience consist of risk management culture, agility, integration, and supply chain (re-)engineering. The results show that the direct effects of risk management culture on agility, integration, and supply chain (re-)engineering are significant, and risk management performance has a significant direct effect on firm performance. The findings also suggest that the risk management performance plays an intermediary role between the three aspects of resilience (i.e., agility, integration, and supply chain (re-)engineering) and firm performance.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2016 09:07:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Analysis and Optimization of Railway Container Transportation Business Process</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[As an advanced mode of freight transport, the share of railway container transportation is significant in many countries while the percentage is much lower in China. Given that the business process is a critical link in the chain of logistics service, the reason can be concluded that, the current business process is not suitable for the new commercial environment. Under the background of railway freight transport reform, the importance of business process appears more prominent. This paper focuses on improving customer service quality by reducing the total time of the business process. Another objective of this study is to enhance the internal efficiency of system operation. In this paper, the current business process is described in the form of cross-functional flow chart and problems concerned are presented by analyzing step by step. In the next section, an optimization plan is proposed on the basis of business process reengineering (BPR) theory and environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA) model. In order to examine the effect of business process reengineering, a comparison based on practical experience is developed and the results of performance improvement are significant both in customer service and system operation aspects.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2015 10:03:37 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Analysis on Door-Door Total Logistics Service of Railway Freight</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The study of railway freight systems and total logistics is important to the reform and development of railway. By the SWOT enterprise strategic analysis method, the strength, weakness, opportunity and threat of railway door-to-door total logistics service are analyzed. In addition, with the introduction of the system engineering theory, this paper uses the Business Process Reengineering method and brings forward pertinent suggestions for the door-to-door total logistics service of railway freight transport.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2014 09:57:34 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Process Re-Engineering of Railway Freight Logistics</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This paper analyzes the current railway freight business processes, finds out problems in the process, and proposes the targets and design ideas of process re-engineering of railway freight logistics. Through establishment of a freight information system, relying on e-commerce platform, and re-engineering the entire processes of railway freight traffic, new processes which adapt to the development of railway freight logistics are proposed. With the deepening of China's WTO accession and the rapid development of information technology, as well as the great entrance of international logistics companies, China's railway transport enterprises are facing good opportunities for rapid development under an e-commerce environment and big challenges in the external, increasingly fierce competition (Liu Zuoyi, 2002). E-commerce, as a new operation mode, promotes railway freight develop standardization, integration and networking, and proposes new requirements for a rail freight background operation mode. It requires railway freight companies to use new business ideas and management models to rethink the railway internal business processes, optimize operation procedures, standardize the transportation course and reduce transportation costs in order to meet the requirements of the development of railway freight logistics.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2014 12:01:51 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Research on Logistics Process Reengineering about Railway Carload Freight-Sending Based on Petri Net</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[With the development of the social economy and modern information technology, the traditional process of railway carload freight-sending is unable to meet the increasingly complex logistics service demands. This paper proposes the concept of logistics process reengineering at first, and then it describes the traditional carload freight-sending process by using the characteristics of Petri net. In order to realize modern logistics operation, some optimizations and improvements are carried out on the original Petri net model based on its shortages. Finally, the simulation analysis is performed with the help of the Stateflow software kit of Matlab to validate the efficiency and superiority of the optimization schemes.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2014 12:20:19 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Reengineering the Locomotive Operation Management Process in the Railways of Iran (RAI)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This article is the result of a project performed in the Iranian Railways (RAI) with the purpose of radical process improvement to optimize the utilization of fixed assets. To carry out this project, a business process reengineering (BPR) methodology is customized. In this project, after completing preliminary studies and documentation and analysis stages, the locomotive distribution process was selected among all the other processes in the operations functional area as the most critical process, in regard of the situations of RAI, to be reengineered. According to the deployed methodology, after putting behind all necessary studies and documentations on the current performance of the locomotive distribution process, its problems were analyzed and improvement objectives set. Three alternatives have been presented for the new process and the proposed process is introduced in further detail.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2013 11:53:25 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Integrating Business Processes to Improve Travel Time Reliability</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Improving travel time reliability is an emerging business activity for transportation agencies in the United States.  To improve the reliability of travel times on their roadway networks, transportation agencies must advance on a number of fronts.  These include collecting and analyzing data; integrating travel time reliability considerations into planning, programming, and project delivery; adopting innovative operational strategies and technologies; and modifying their institutional structures and business practices surrounding traffic operations.  This report addresses various ways that transportation agencies can reengineer their day-to-day business practices to improve traffic operations, address nonrecurring traffic congestion, and improve the reliability of travel times delivered to roadway system users.  The report is based on a series of case studies, mainly from the United States, that describe successful business processes.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:03:49 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Guide to Integrating Business Processes to Improve Travel Time Reliability</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This guide explores various ways that transportation agencies could reengineer their day-to-day business practices to enhance traffic operations, address nonrecurring traffic congestion, and improve the reliability of travel times delivered to roadway system users. It is based on a series of case studies that describe successful business processes. The case studies show how business processes were successfully reengineered in operational areas such as traffic incident management, work zone management, planned special event management, road weather management, and traffic control system management. The guide also provides a detailed introduction to the business process mapping tool.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:10:55 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Analyzing the environmental impact of transportation in reengineered supply chains: A case study of a leather upholstery company</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This paper examines the impact of process disaggregation and specialization on the environmental performance of the supply chain of a leather upholstery company. An enterprise input-output model that relates geographical information with production processes and transportation routes is developed. The current and a reengineered supply chain of a leather upholstery company are compared under different spatial configurations. The reengineered chain results in more adverse environmental impacts although financially better for the company in part because traffic almost doubles in the reengineered system.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 10:51:02 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Regulating efficiency into port-oriented chain systems: export coal through the Dalrymple Bay Terminal, Australia</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Supply chains generally, and port-oriented chains more particularly, are not easily integrated for operational efficiency. This is not especially surprising given their complexity and the underlying power relationships by which they are structured. Nonetheless, integration that does occur may reflect efforts to re-engineer the chain; or, not unusually, it may be the result of substantial, market-based rationalization and consolidation of the industry through corporate restructuring by merger, acquisition or joint venture. Much less common, at least in a ports/shipping context, is the attempt to induce supply-chain integration and operational efficiency by direct application of regulatory power and through the intervention of a regulator into the marketplace. In April 2005 the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), the Australian competition regulator, intervened in the export coal chain which is oriented on the large coal handling terminal at Dalrymple Bay in Queensland. The Commission, through its authorization powers, allowed the terminal operator to introduce a queue management system designed, inter alia, to reduce ship queuing at the terminal and in so doing reduce the costs of ship demurrage and its negative impacts on exports. This paper focuses particularly, but not only, on the conceptual relationships between regulation and supply chain efficiency; and it examines the mechanisms, processes and outcomes in the Dalrymple Bay case.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2007 10:35:50 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Analysis and Optimisation of Railway Nodes using Simulation Techniques</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This paper describes how railway nodes represent sensitive points of railway networks, the efficiency of which influences the effectiveness of network processes. Those nodes belong to the most complex service systems involving sophisticated technological processes and are equipped with quite complicated and costly technical devices.  Design of those systems and the organization of their operation have to facilitate the required capacity together with a high quality of service processes as well as minimal costs of resources. That intention can be achieved using various measures, e.g. track infrastructure modification, utilization of alternative kinds of resources, improvement of scheduling and rostering, enhancement of technological processes, adjustment of decision making strategies or entire system reengineering (that approach can be applied to a design of a  new node). The application of exact mathematical optimization methods is quite limited because of the high complexity of the above-mentioned systems. Computer simulation offers a quite flexible and credible technique eliminating the disadvantages of precedent approaches, i.e. a simulation model of railway node (substituting an existing or planned system) enables one to investigate all mentioned ways of an increase of node capacity. Efficient methodologies are introduced aimed at the solution of capacity problems related to railway nodes using the simulation software tool Villon, which was originally determined for simulations of railway marshalling yards; however its flexible hierarchical software architecture enabled us to extend its scope to other kinds of transportation nodes (including e.g. automobile traffic).]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:49:34 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>APPLICATION OF REENGINEERING TECHNIQUES IN REDESIGN OF PORT PROCESSES</title>
      <link>https://trid.trb.org/View/723686</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Basic findings and recommendations of a 3-year research project are presented.  The project deals with the application of business process reengineering methods to small- and medium-sized ports as a way to achieving overall effectiveness of port processes, as well as producing port-user benefits of all kinds.  The project adopted a customer-oriented process view for tackling the problems faced.  It produced a number of "tools" and work guidelines that port authorities can use to reconsider and review their processes with a view to changing (reengineering) them to increase efficiency.  The basic premise and reasoning behind the work was that simply applying advanced technology to current port processes does not produce dramatic improvements.  Normally these processes are fragmented, that is, they lack transparency and continuity because a variety of entities with seemingly conflicting interests are involved.  To overcome this fragmentation and maximize the possibility of synergetic effects, a dynamic reconfiguration of the whole port system (i.e., the processes, entities involved, and their interrelations) is suggested.  A brief review is presented of tools that were produced.  Also described are specific generic reengineering solutions for port processes that resulted from the work, based on the suggested dynamic port system configuration.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2002 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>CONSTRUCTION BUSINESS COMPETITIVENESS AND GLOBAL BENCHMARKING</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The focus of this paper is on developing quality and sustainable construction businesses capable of riding market shifts and growing both nationally and internationally.  Knowledge of current management tools and techniques will no doubt prove useful in the quest for transforming a nonperforming business. However, no long lasting effect can be expected unless attention is paid to the fundamental principles and practices that govern organizational behavior, including the views an organization has of its customers, competitors, and itself.  Commercial performance of organizations has increasingly become not only dependent on resource efficiency, but also on retooling and aggressive new business development initiatives as well as reduction in base production and operational costs.  The human factors and mental models that people have within any given organization profoundly affect the success or failure of that organization. This paper offers a critical review of the current concepts and techniques influencing construction organizations with a focus on people and organizational improvements.  A set of critical success factors is then distilled, followed by a systematic process of applying the same to achieve success.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2000 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>WHY USE ENACTABLE MODELS OF CONSTRUCTION PROCESSES?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Construction is a process-based industry.  In such an industry, it is important to have a clear understanding of the process. One way to achieve this is by the use of a process mode.  In a European Community funded research project, the business process of a small U.K. construction company was modeled and analyzed. Both visual modeling and enactable modeling techniques were used in this exercise.  This paper aims to show how process understanding can be better achieved by a combination of visual models and enactable models.  This is supported by examples from the construction company process studied.  The tools and techniques used in this exercise are those developed by the collaborators of the project.  The visual modeling is done using ProcessWise WorkBench and Role Activity Diagrams.  The view of the business process given by the ProcessWise WorkBench models is predominantly process based, whereas Role Activity Diagrams provide a role based view of the process.  The enactable modeling is done using RolEnact, a modeling tool that enacts formal specifications of processes.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 1999 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION'S VISION 2000: REENGINEERING THE PROJECT-DEVELOPMENT PROCESS</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) is one of the largest agencies in the Tennessee state government.  It is responsible for maintaining and managing an integrated transportation system as well as awarding contracts for construction and maintenance.  TDOT's concern is to fulfill its obligations to the public by providing a system that functions well and is safe and cost-effective.  Like other government agencies, TDOT faces strong pressure from its stakeholders to become more efficient in a changing environment.  Technological advances, management methodologies that have shifted from function-oriented to process-oriented, and a new cost-awareness based on these same trends are some of the issues that the department is currently addressing with support from the professional services firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).  In their strategic planning, TDOT executives determined that the time had come for radical change through business process reengineering (BPR).  BPR calls for a full-fledged effort, analyzing processes as the core task in the reengineering.  TDOT began by focusing on the project-development process for new construction.  Once goals were determined, a series of steps followed, including surveying the users of the various processes to establish requirements and expectations, establishing key baseline measurements, and comparing reengineered processes with best-in-class organizations.  For the reengineering effort to succeed at TDOT, a close collaboration was maintained between the TDOT subject-matter experts and BPR, change-management, and information-technology experts from PwC.  Successful BPR will lead to more improvement efforts in TDOT.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 1999 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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