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Challenges in Attaining Sustainable Development Goals in Port Klang: Port Management Perspective Prashanth Beleya; Geetha Veerappan; Wong Jian Ding; Jason Tan
International Journal of Supply Chain Management Vol 9, No 1 (2020): International Journal of Supply Chain Management (IJSCM)
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Sustainable development goals revolve around three broad elements: cost reduction, productivity enhancement and environmental protection. Seaport industry is inextricably linked to enormous competitions; requiring unceasing improvements to be able to achieve competitive advantages by addressing the relevant sustainable development goals. Dynamic capabilities theory is incorporated in this study to substantiate the relationship between sustainable development goals and sustainable competitive advantages. In addition, dynamic capabilities theory provides a guideline for port management in ascertaining efforts needed to stay relevant in the ever demanding seaport business. Nonetheless, in the process of attaining sustainable development goals, challenges are faced by port management. This study incorporates a qualitative approach, focusing in port Klang particularly on Northport and Westport due to the high volume of cargo handled and being national economic barometers. Interviews were conducted whereby the respondents were managerial personnel in their respective departments. The findings indicate that the challenges in attaining sustainable development goals comprise of technological constraints, financing issues, human capital barriers and supplier associated problems. Addressing these stumbling blocks proves advantageous for port Klang whereby the attainable sustainable development goals is a catapulting factor for ports to achieve sustained competitive advantages in the future.
Impact of Reverse Logistics in the Malaysian Electrical and Electronics Industry Prashanth Beleya; Mahendra Chelliah; Mohd Abidin Abu Bakar
International Journal of Supply Chain Management Vol 6, No 3 (2017): International Journal of Supply Chain Management (IJSCM)
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In todays world, technology keep on evolving at a fast pace. The revolution of technology can be witnessed since the past couple of decades. This leaded to the rapid growth of the EE industry as the dependence of human on electronic products increased rapidly over the years. In Malaysia, Electrical and Electronic industry plays a leading role in the manufacturing sector by contributing 26.94% of manufacturing output, 48.7% of export and 32.5% of employments [33]. There are approximately 1,900 companies active in this industry spread across a diverse range of sub-sectors such as consumer electronics, electronic components, industrial electronics and electrical product. The rapid expansion of EE industry and the rapid continuous innovation of state of art technology accelerated the EE product to be outdated at a short leading to significant increase in e-waste which consists of materials that are no longer usable which come from a range of electronics, from computers to household appliances to cell-phones [28]. This phenomenon is worsening many factors such as increasing population growth, increasing in purchasing power, affordability contributes to the generation of e-waste. Furthermore, in this era of advancing technologies, EE products have become a vital need in every segment of the society from a person to business entities and industry. However, the current RL in Malaysian EE is still low and not able to help in the reduction of all this e-waste. Besides the issue of e-waste, Malaysian EE is also facing a growing demand of customer in many aspects. As the development technology is always one step ahead of the EE Companys strategy, many companies should struggle to reach to all the changes appropriately. These companies should strive to balance their operation strategy, concept of product development with volatile customer demand to achieve revenue growth. RL is a logistic is an inverse of normal supply chain activity. It focuses primarily on the return or take-back products and material from the point of consumption to the forward supply chain for recycling, reuse, remanufacturer, repair, refurbishing, or safe disposal of the product and materials [66]. By adopting RL, e-waste can be dispose in a proper way or being reuse. RL can be implements in supply chain of every industry, yet this paper will focus on the EE industry.