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Evaluating the Impact of Sustainability and Pipeline Quality on Global Crude Oil Supply Chain Efficiency Jain, Sunny Paraskumar; Jones, Erick; Gupta, Shalini; Okate, Samuel I
International Journal of Supply Chain Management Vol 3, No 4 (2014): International Journal of Supply Chain Management (IJSCM)
Publisher : ExcelingTech

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (13.161 KB) | DOI: 10.59160/ijscm.v3i4.1011

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In this paper, the efficiency Curve model shown in Modelling the Supply Chain (Author: Shapiro) is modified to compare Crude oil supply chain among Indonesia, Russia and Columbiabased on oil transportation distances and associated cost, refinery costs, and the costs associated with refinery sustainability and pipeline quality. However this model was originally used to determine the optimal locations of distribution centres based on transportation cost and the capacity of the distribution centres, this model was modified to allow the use of different costs associated with the quality condition of the pipeline and the costs of sustaining an environmentally friendly facility. This case used to optimize the total cost of oil supply chain for Indonesia, Russia and Columbia. We seek to extend our previous supply chain model, which represent the outbound oil supply chain. The outputs of this paper are efficiency curve that show how the costs of pipeline quality and facility sustainability affect the overall costs of the oil industry of Indonesia, Russia and Columbia. Keywords supply chain management, efficiency curve, quality, sustainability, optimization, crude oil supply chain, Russian Oil pipeline, and Oil refinery.
Chipped Pharmaceuticals from Production to in VIVO (in body) Drug Delivery Becoming Reality Jones, Erick; Gupta, Shalini; Jefferson, Felicia; Rogers, Jamie; Choi, Jae Bong; Bolton, Joshua; Cochran, David
International Journal of Supply Chain Management Vol 4, No 1 (2015): International Journal of Supply Chain Management (IJSCM)
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Abstract—Researchers previously researched on theories on advances in medical technologies. Building upon advances in medical technology that collect measured data to facilitate patient diagnosis and business decisions. This research extends production can further meet ongoing need for the healthcare industry that focuses upon pharmaceuticals processes to improve item tracking and data collection. These improvements may lead to improving quality of care while reducing cost. Similar to previous research we focus on the remote, non-invasive characteristics of RFID that can provide information without imposing additional burden onto the patient or staff. We suggest that RFID enabled devices can provide convenient and accurate data for disease diagnosis, evaluation of prescription non-compliance and identification of medication dosage errors. This paper builds upon previous research to describe the background of RFID tracking system that begins with compliance documentation from the drug manufacturer through confirmation of patient compliance by capsule extraction from the bottle, into a pill case and ultimately ingested or inserted into the body. This transcript provides additional information about healthcare trends in order to motivate the need for a biocompatible RFID system. We distinguish this research from our earlier research with a table that shows how production and warehousing can be integrated on the backend to reduce costs.Keywords— RFID; e-pedigree; pharmaceuticals; tracking