Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management: Volume 23 Issue 7

SCRIS: A knowledge‐based system tool for assisting manufacturing organizations in identifying supply chain risks

Berman Kayis, Putu Dana Karningsih

Risk identification is the first and crucial step in supply chain risk management process. Due to the nature and complexity of supply chain networks of manufacturing…

Three‐stage supply chain allocation with fixed cost

Vinay V. Panicker, R. Sridharan, B. Ebenezer

The purpose of this paper is of two‐fold. First, the authors propose the application of genetic algorithm (GA)‐based heuristic for solving a distribution allocation problem for a…

An integrated vendor‐buyer inventory model with partial backordering

Fateh Moshrefi, Mohammad Reza Akbari Jokar

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of supply chain coordination on inventory management while the retailer inventory cycle consists of a shortage period and the…

An approach to analyze logistic outsourcing problem in medium‐scale organization by CFPR and VIKOR

Raman Kumar, Harwinder Singh, J.S. Dureja

The purpose of this paper is to make out a complete solution to logistic outsourcing problem in a medium‐scale organization by using consistent fuzzy preference relation (CFPR…

Selection of logistic service provider using fuzzy PROMETHEE for a cement industry

Rajesh Gupta, Anish Sachdeva, Arvind Bhardwaj

The purpose of this paper is to develop a method to select the best alternative in a multi‐criteria decision making (MCDM) environment when the decision is taken by a group of…

Determining the parameters of MSG algorithm for multi period layout problem

Berna Ulutas, Tugba Saraç

The facility layout problem aims to assign machines/departments to locations and modeled as a quadratic assignment problem (QAP). Multi period facility layout is a special case of…

A genetic algorithm‐based approach for job shop scheduling

Rakesh Kumar Phanden, Ajai Jain, Rajiv Verma

The purpose of this paper is to optimise the job shop scheduling problem using simulation and genetic algorithm.

Factorial analysis of lifting task to determine the effect of different parameters and interactions

Sarbjeet Singh, Sunand Kumar

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effect of main parameters and their interactions on the workers' Lifting Index in a steel rolling mill.

Guest editorial

Anish Sachdeva, Vishal Sharma, Arvind Bhardwaj