Department of Operations & Supply Chain

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Operations & Supply Chain serves as the backbone of any business organization, be it a manufacturing facility or a service provider. It enables organizations to achieve their objectives through providing effective and efficient solutions to customer needs.

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Browsing Department of Operations & Supply Chain by Subject "Operational Framework"

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    Framework of reverse logistics: the case of pakistani industries
    (2012) Ijaz Yusuf
    By products and waste materials are the parts of every manufacturing activity. These wastes can be a valuable input for various industry processes if handled properly and can cause the environmental damage if handled unprofessionally. It is usually assumed that supply based approach to recycling can disrupt the market equilibrium whose beauty reside on the well known demand and supply principle. Recycling industry is totally depends upon supply based approach because no one can predict the returns in a originating from different streams. Reverse logistics are the valuable input for the recyclers. This paper presents the framework of reverse logistics optimizing the stakeholders’ gain, social gain, economic gain and environmental gain. It identifies the roadblocks that prevail in recycling industry and describes various types of returns and wastes. This paper not only highlights the recycling activities but as well shares the best practices for effective implementation.
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    Reverse logistics
    (Pakistan Academy of Sciences, 2013) Ijaz Yusuf; Abdul Raouf
    This paper presents framework of reverse logistics optimizing the stakeholders’ gain, social gain, economic gain and environmental gain. It identifies the roadblocks that prevail in recycling industry and describes various types of returns and wastes. Framework of the reverse logistics is evolved on the basis of actual happening of the items shown in table 1-4 disposed off from industries shown in table 6. The rejected items require environmental disposal passing through the different phases described in flow of operational framework. An operational framework of reverse logistics is developed studying fifty organizations.. In addition three best practices of reverse logistics are proposed by consolidating the experiential information and rich hands on industrial experience in supply chain and reverse logistics area. The research has proposed the Social, Stakeholder, Economic & Environmental (SSEE) sustained gain model optimizing the benefits of stakeholders and highlights the variety of waste and its operational methodology in Pakistani industry. The proposed framework does not include the hospital waste, radioactive waste, hazardous materials waste, municipal waste, agricultural waste and cold chain waste like meat, milk, etc.The operational framework is existing way of doing that takes the waste materials from point of origin to the point of recycling. A better understanding of this framework may help researchers and front line managers to develop better, more accurate models for effective and sustainable utilization of waste materials, benefiting organizations and society by simultaneously enhancing the cost effectiveness and improving environmental awareness. The paper provides an operational framework of reverse logistics and 2S2E sustained gain model. Specific applications are examined through empirical research.