eng
Poznan School of Logistics
Logforum
1734459X
2016-12-30
12
4
article
Antimicrobial packaging with natural compunds - a review
Renata Dobrucka
1
Poznan University of Economics, Poznan, Poland
Background: Packaging problems are an integral part of logistics and the implementation of packaging significantly affects the effectiveness of logistics processes, as a factor which increases the safety and the quality of products being transported. Active packaging is an area of technology needed to meet the requirements of the contemporary consumer. Active packaging creates additional opportunities in systems for packing goods, as well as offering a solution in which the packaging, the product and surroundings interact. Furthermore, active packaging allows packaging to interact with food and the environment and play a dynamic role in food preservation. The main role of antimicrobial packaging is to inhibit the growth of microorganisms that reduce the quality of the packaged product.
Methods: The application of natural antimicrobial agents appears to be safe for food products. Also, these compounds have potential applications as a natural preservative in the food packaging industry. This study presents some antibacterial agents, namely chitosan, nisin and pectins.
Results and conclusion: Natural substances used in active packaging can eliminate the danger of chemical substances migrating to food.
http://www.logforum.net/vol12/issue4/no1/12_4_1_16.pdf
logistics
antimicrobial packaging
natural antibacterial agents
eng
Poznan School of Logistics
Logforum
1734459X
2016-12-30
12
4
article
How to manage sustainable supply chain? The issue of maturity
Agata Rudnicka
1
University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland
Background: The issue of managing sustainability in supply chain seems to be more and more complex. There are many aspects that need to be taken into consideration when planning, implementing and monitoring environmental and social conditions of supply chains. Despite many works, already published, on the concept of sustainable development (SD) is seems that the issue of assessment and especially the issue of maturity in the light of the SD concept is still not developed enough.
Methods: The general aim of the paper is the analysis of the maturity issue in the context of sustainability. The main objective is to conceptualize the idea of maturity in sustainable supply chain. Beside the literature research the own proposition of theoretical model was described.
Results: The article describes the issue of maturity as an element of managing sustainable development in the supply chain. The author presented a theoretical model of the maturity. Moreover the author gave some recommendations how to manage the sustainability issue
http://www.logforum.net/vol12/issue4/no2/12_4_2_16.pdf
logistics
sustainable supply chain
sustainable supply chain management
maturity
sustainable supply chain maturity model
eng
Poznan School of Logistics
Logforum
1734459X
2016-12-30
12
4
article
Seamless communication in supply chains based on M2M technology
Walid Moneimne
1
Marcin Hajdul
2
Szymon Mikołajczak
3
Aspenta International, Dubai, United Emirates
Poznan School of Logistics, Poznan, Poland
Nova Tracking, Bydgoszcz, Poland
Background: Access to information is the key element in the successful and efficient organization of transport & logistic processes. The importance of real-time access to information is confirmed by a panel workshop carried out with support of design thinking methodology. There are two ways of gaining access to the right information - manual, where human agency is needed and fully automatic, where new M2M technology is implemented. Implementation of such technology improves seamless communication during transport execution and allows real-time access to needed information. The aim of the paper is to evaluate the influence of the effectiveness of using M2M technology and traditional way of communication as well as data gathering in order to ensure seamless communication in the supply chain.
Methods: Survey, design thinking, desk research and real case study results were used in the paper.
Results and conclusions: Seamless communication and implementation of M2M technology within the whole supply (including modes of transport and transport units) chain is a backbone of the lean and reliable digital supply chain.
http://www.logforum.net/vol12/issue4/no3/12_4_3_16.pdf
logistics
digital supply chain
seamless communication
M2M
supply chain visibility
time slots management
accounting of transport costs
eng
Poznan School of Logistics
Logforum
1734459X
2016-12-30
12
4
article
Supply chain and innovation activity in transport related enterprises in Eastern Poland
Giuseppe Ioppolo
1
Katarzyna Szopik-Depczyńska
2
Maciej Stajniak
3
Sylwia Konecka
4
University of Study of Messina, Italy
University of Szczecin, Poland
The Institute of Logistics and Warehousing, Poznań, Poland
Poznan School of Logistics, Poznań, Poland
Background: One of the development strategies uses R&D activity as the main source of innovation, which is often carried out in cooperation with other units, but in particular in the supply chain, and therefore applies to cooperation between enterprises and their customers and suppliers.
The aim of the study was to identify the variable determinants of the impact of the character of relationships among enterprises and their suppliers and customers on their innovative performance, within regional industrial systems and to define the constraints for a model regional structure of innovation network tailored to the needs of Poland and its regions.
Methods: 167 enterprises belonging to the transport sector and operating in the area of Eastern Poland took part. In order to determine the impact of relationships with suppliers and customers on innovation activity, models based on probability analysis - probit models - were used.
Results: It can be clearly stated that the cooperation of industrial enterprises in the transport sector with customers and suppliers activates innovation activity and its specified attributes. However, the probability varies depending on the test variable adopted.
Conclusions: The cooperation with suppliers and customers is the cognitive aspect in the development of innovation activity in industrial enterprises representing the transport-related sector. Such cooperation has a stimulating effect on expenditures on innovation activity and on the implementation of innovative solutions in the field of technological innovation (products and processes).
http://www.logforum.net/vol12/issue4/no4/12_4_4_16.pdf
logistics
innovation
supply chain
industry
transport
region
eng
Poznan School of Logistics
Logforum
1734459X
2016-12-30
12
4
article
Comparison of multiple-criteria decision-making methods - results of simulation study
Michał Adamczak
1
Roman Domański
1
Norbert Wagener
1
Poznan School of Logistics, Poznan, Poland
Background: Today, both researchers and practitioners have many methods for supporting the decision-making process. Due to the conditions in which supply chains function, the most interesting are multi-criteria methods. The use of sophisticated methods for supporting decisions requires the parameterization and execution of calculations that are often complex.
So is it efficient to use sophisticated methods?
Methods: The authors of the publication compared two popular mu
http://www.logforum.net/vol12/issue4/no5/12_4_5_16.pdf
weighted sum model
analytic hierarchy process
multiple-criteria decision-making
simulation study
eng
Poznan School of Logistics
Logforum
1734459X
2016-12-30
12
4
article
Selected aspects of the logistics network of public hospitals in the competitive market of health services
Justyna Majchrzak-Lepczyk
1
Benedykt Bober
2
Poznan University of Economics and Business, Poznan, Poland
Academy of Hotel Management and Catering Industry in Poznan, Poznan, Poland
Background: The below considerations provide an overview of the issues of sustainable development, logistics, to financial engineering instruments and the role of intellectual capital in the process of transformation of public hospitals. The aim of this research was to assess the competitiveness of the network of public hospitals in the market of health services based on literature studies, as well as empirical research.
Methods: Empirical study using a questionnaire survey was conducted in the period from January 2007 to December 2011, in the area of Warmia and Mazury, Pomerania and Wielkopolska.
The goal of this questionnaire survey was to know the medical staff reviews issues related to adaptation to the nature of the network of public hospitals methods and logistics tools, sustainable development, corporate social responsibility - CSR. The study was carried out in 104 public hospitals, on a sample of 8975 respondents.
Results and conclusions: Analysis of the completed study showed that the logistic processes and their improvement in the health sector play a significant role.
The surveyed entities explicitly draw attention to the need for information systems, pro-environment activities, access to information, or the use of GS1 global standards.
These tools allow you to increase the efficiency of supply chains, ensuring not only tracking and tracing of products from the manufacturer to the patient, but also enabling better protection against making a mistake or counterfeit products.
http://www.logforum.net/vol12/issue4/no6/12_4_6_16.pdf
logistics
network of hospitals
CSR
logistics
competitive market
sustainable development
eng
Poznan School of Logistics
Logforum
1734459X
2016-12-30
12
4
article
SERVICE QUALITY AS A PREDICTOR OF CUSTOMER SATISFACTION AND CUSTOMER LOYALTY
Azman Ismail
1
Yusrizal Sufardi Mohd Yunan
1
University Kebangsaan Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia
Background: Service quality, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty have received a special attention in the recent health sector literature. The aim of this study was to examine the correlation between service quality and customer satisfaction as well as the correlation between service quality and customer loyalty.
Methods: The self-report questionnaires gathered from patients at army medical centres in West Malaysia were used for this purpose.
Results: The outcomes of SmartPLS path model analysis showed that service quality dimensions, namely tangible, reliability, responsiveness, assurance and empathy were significantly correlated with customer satisfaction and customer loyalty.
Conclusions: This finding confirms that the capability of service providers to appropriately implement the quality dimensions in providing medical services has enhanced customer satisfaction and customer loyalty in the organizational sample.
http://www.logforum.net/vol12/issue4/no7/12_4_7_16.pdf
logistics
service quality
customer satisfaction
customer loyalty
army medical centers
SmartPLS
eng
Poznan School of Logistics
Logforum
1734459X
2016-12-30
12
4
article
The future of logistical education in Poland and Ukraine: comparative analysis of students\' opinions
Halina Ryzhkova
1
Irena Pawłyszyn
2
Nina Rizun
3
Alfred Nobel University, Dnipro, Ukraine
Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland
Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland
Background: A professional future is the next logical step after a student completes their chosen degree course. More frequently, even during their studies, young people seek opportunities to participate in various conferences, training courses, internships, work placements, and to travel abroad, etc. All of this has one main goal - to increase the student's attractiveness as a potential employee on the labour market. Thus, it becomes very important to ask relevant and timely questions to students about the knowledge they gain during their studies, the skills they possess and how they perceive their future work.
Methods: This paper presents the views of students of logistics and related disciplines regarding their future careers. The aim of this study was to investigate the expectations, skills and visions of the future of the young generation who stand at the threshold of their careers, in two countries - Poland and Ukraine. The test method used for collecting opinions was a questionnaire.
Results: This paper recognises key elements of young people's perception of the labour market. They present a brief theoretical discussion on the issue in question. The authors present the results of the comp
http://www.logforum.net/vol12/issue4/no8/12_4_8_16.pdf
students\' professional future
logistics
labour market
employment
job
eng
Poznan School of Logistics
Logforum
1734459X
2016-12-30
12
4
article
Virtualization of work in global supply chains
Sabina Wyrwich-Płotka
1
Jarosław Witkowski
2
Opole University, Opole, Poland
University of Economics in Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland
Background: The paper is devoted to the notion and benefits of implementing virtual work in global supply chains. Virtual work must be understood as an intentional activity of a human being, aimed at rendering services (tangible and intangible), by means of ITC tools, performed in a distance from the traditional place of work, in a mobile manner. The empirical research were conducted on the basis of 4 case studies of global leaders of supply chains, which in accordance with M. Fisher's classification, represent two types. The case studies confirmed the positive influence of virtual work both in effective and flexible supply chains. Favourable market and technological conditions and increasing awareness of benefits of virtual work will make it more and more widespread in companies comprising global supply chains.
The aim of the study is to demonstrate the cause and effect relationships between virtual work and competitiveness of efficient and flexible supply chain.
Methods: The paper is based on the available recent scientific-theoretical research and publication. The authors analyzed 4 enterprises in Poland. The enterprises representing a flexible or an effective supply chain, either using or not a virtual work. The study carried out the authors had the form of individual interviews. The authors used case studies to show that virtual work brings notable benefits in an effective and flexible supply chain.
Results: Based on these case studies, the authors demonstrated reasons to implement virtual work in selected enterprises. The reasons to implement virtual work are determinants of possible achieve economies in effective and flexible supply chain
Conclusions: The examined case studies show that virtual work brings different benefits. In the effective supply chain, virtual workers enable to increase effectiveness and financial results for example. In the flexible supply chain the virtual work can be a way to maintain and build long-term relations with suppliers and customers.
http://www.logforum.net/vol12/issue4/no9/12_4_9_16.pdf
virtual work
supply chain
supply chain management
flexible supply chain
effective supply chain
new methods of work