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Joseph L Cavinato - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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financing the global supply chain growing need for Management Action
Thunderbird International Business Review, 2010Co-Authors: John F Mathis, Joseph L CavinatoAbstract:This article investigates a growing desire by companies to better manage the financing of the global Management Action supply chain and explores best practices. Supply-chain managers and finance or treasury managers, however, live in different worlds, and integration does not come easily. The article argues that decentralized finance functions lead to financial inefficiencies. The authors identify five subarchitectures to competitive supply chains and argue that visualizing the supply chain financially is the first step to controlling and improving it. Finance is embedded in every step of the supply chain — and business model. Management guidelines of what to change, what to eliminate, and what to adapt are presented along with the new starting points of strategy and customers' ever-changing needs. Consequently, the end game is profit maximization rather than only cost minimization, and both within acceptable risk parameters. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
John F Mathis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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financing the global supply chain growing need for Management Action
Thunderbird International Business Review, 2010Co-Authors: John F Mathis, Joseph L CavinatoAbstract:This article investigates a growing desire by companies to better manage the financing of the global Management Action supply chain and explores best practices. Supply-chain managers and finance or treasury managers, however, live in different worlds, and integration does not come easily. The article argues that decentralized finance functions lead to financial inefficiencies. The authors identify five subarchitectures to competitive supply chains and argue that visualizing the supply chain financially is the first step to controlling and improving it. Finance is embedded in every step of the supply chain — and business model. Management guidelines of what to change, what to eliminate, and what to adapt are presented along with the new starting points of strategy and customers' ever-changing needs. Consequently, the end game is profit maximization rather than only cost minimization, and both within acceptable risk parameters. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Hugo A. Decampos - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Supply chain design: Issues, challenges, frameworks and solutions
International Journal of Production Research, 2014Co-Authors: Steven A. Melnyk, Ram Narasimhan, Hugo A. DecamposAbstract:Truly effective supply chain Management is planned and purposive. A value-driven supply chain that is coupled to the strategic priorities of the firm is the result of deliberate Management Action and strategic corporate investments aimed to procure, develop and configure the appropriate resources, processes and metrics that define that firm's supply chain. A framework of supply chain design is proposed that comprehends three key levels of factors critical in understanding supply chain design: influencers, design decisions and building blocks. Influencers are higher-level considerations such as the business and political environment, the business model employed, the firm's desired outcomes and the supply chain life cycle. Design decisions include the social, behavioural and physical/structural design elements that define a supply chain. Building blocks include the inventory, transportation, capacity and technology decisions that are used to implement the supply chain. Supply chain design needs to comprehend these three levels of analysis. The articles in this special issue are introduced in the context of these levels of analysis and a research agenda is suggested that can be pursued in light of this framework, highlighting areas that are covered in this special issue and areas where research opportunities exist.
Haris Doukas - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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From big data to smart energy services: An application for intelligent energy Management
Future Generation Computer Systems, 2018Co-Authors: Vangelis Marinakis, Spyros Mouzakitis, Leandro Madrazo, John Tsapelas, Álvaro Sicilia, Haris Doukas, Sgouris SgouridisAbstract:Big data is an ascendant technological concepts and includes smart energy services, such as intelligent energy Management, energy consumption prediction and exploitation of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. As a result, big data technologies will have a significant impact in the energy sector. This paper proposes a high level architecture of a big data platform that can support the creation, development, maintenance and exploitation of smart energy services through the utilisation of cross-domain data. The proposed platform enables the simplification of the procedure followed for the information gathering by multiple sources, turning into Actionable recommendations and meaningful operational insights for city authorities and local administrations, energy managers and consultants, energy service companies, utilities and energy providers. A web-based Decision Support System (DSS) has been developed according to the proposed architecture, exploiting multi-sourced data within a smart city context towards the creation of energy Management Action plans. The pilot application of the developed DSS in three European cities is presented and discussed. This “data-driven” DSS can support energy managers and city authorities for managing their building facilities’ energy performance.
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OPTIMUS decision support tools: Transforming multidisciplinary data to energy Management Action plans
2016 7th International Conference on Information Intelligence Systems & Applications (IISA), 2016Co-Authors: Haris Doukas, Evangelos Spiliotis, Vangelis Marinakis, John PsarrasAbstract:Making Smart Energy Cities (SEC) a reality requires an intelligent and integrated assessment and consideration of various data sets, as well as relevant intelligent systems in a transparent and accessible manner. The scope of this paper is to present an innovative package of decision support tools (entitled “OPTIMUS”) for energy managers and energy consultancies, in order to make cities more energy efficient and sustainable. OPTIMUS package includes the Smart City Energy Assessment Framework (SCEAF) Tool, the Tracker Tool and the Decision Support System (DSS). The purpose is to optimize the energy use in main city's buildings (municipal, office, educational and entertainment buildings, buildings for sports facilities, etc.), taking into consideration their interAction with energy systems, such as renewable energy production, smart district heating and cooling grids through CHP (Combined Heat and Power) and other energy sources.
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A framework for integrating user experience in Action plan evaluation through social media: Transforming user generated content into knowledge to optimise energy use in buildings
2015 6th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA), 2015Co-Authors: Evangelos Spiliotis, Phaedra Dede, Vangelis Marinakis, George Anastasopoulos, Haris DoukasAbstract:This paper introduces a methodological approach for evaluating the thermal comfort of building users, captured through social media, in order to evaluate and accordingly adjust energy Management Action plans. A framework for performing sentiment analysis of messages is developed and a pilot case is presented for optimally scheduling the temperature set-point adjustment of a municipal building, based on user thermal comfort criteria retrieved from social data.
Steven A. Melnyk - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Supply chain design: Issues, challenges, frameworks and solutions
International Journal of Production Research, 2014Co-Authors: Steven A. Melnyk, Ram Narasimhan, Hugo A. DecamposAbstract:Truly effective supply chain Management is planned and purposive. A value-driven supply chain that is coupled to the strategic priorities of the firm is the result of deliberate Management Action and strategic corporate investments aimed to procure, develop and configure the appropriate resources, processes and metrics that define that firm's supply chain. A framework of supply chain design is proposed that comprehends three key levels of factors critical in understanding supply chain design: influencers, design decisions and building blocks. Influencers are higher-level considerations such as the business and political environment, the business model employed, the firm's desired outcomes and the supply chain life cycle. Design decisions include the social, behavioural and physical/structural design elements that define a supply chain. Building blocks include the inventory, transportation, capacity and technology decisions that are used to implement the supply chain. Supply chain design needs to comprehend these three levels of analysis. The articles in this special issue are introduced in the context of these levels of analysis and a research agenda is suggested that can be pursued in light of this framework, highlighting areas that are covered in this special issue and areas where research opportunities exist.
