Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Haidar Abbas Author-X-Name-First: Haidar Author-X-Name-Last: Abbas Author-Name: Jamal A. Farooquie Author-X-Name-First: Jamal A. Author-X-Name-Last: Farooquie Title: Reverse logistics operations in a pharmaceutical retail environment Abstract: Not all the sales/deliveries at consumers'/intermediaries' end are always final. They may return it for a number of reasons. Consumers'/intermediaries' may also often find some medicines undesirably accumulated. Retailers may have such accumulations for poor sales, unexpected customer returns, perishability, etc. Therefore, another similar flow (reverse logistics) is required to carry such medicines backward for recovering value/proper disposal. This research aims at providing a detailed account of reverse logistics management of undesired medicines, various related issues and its performance, with respect to Indian pharmaceutical retail environment. What is being done (practices), why it is being done (drivers), how it is being done (return conditions) and what inhibits (barriers) are the major issues examined. Besides, the performance of reverse logistics programs was evaluated from the retailers' perspectives. The findings of this study are expected to establish some evidence regarding the prevalent reverse logistics practices and related issues for academicians and practitioners. Journal: Int. J. of Logistics Economics and Globalisation Pages: 1-12 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2018 Keywords: reverse logistics; reverse supply chains; returns management; recall of medicines. File-URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=90496 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:ids:injleg:v:7:y:2018:i:1:p:1-12 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Madhuri Saripalle Author-X-Name-First: Madhuri Author-X-Name-Last: Saripalle Title: Determinants of profitability in the Indian logistics industry Abstract: The Indian economy has one of the highest transportation and logistics cost as a percentage of gross domestic product (13%) globally. This paper analyses trends in profitability and discusses some key macro and micro level factors influencing the Indian logistics industry comprising road transport logistics, storage and distribution. It discusses the role of macroeconomic factors such as tax policy in influencing the logistics network complexity, which in turn increase logistics costs. At a micro level, the paper uses firm-level data of 201 companies from Prowess database and estimates an econometric model to analyse major determinants of profitability in the logistics sector. The study finds that liquidity, market share, debt-equity, and age are significant determinants of profitability in the logistics sector. Journal: Int. J. of Logistics Economics and Globalisation Pages: 13-27 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2018 Keywords: profitability; transportation; supply chain; logistics; third party logistics; 3PL; India. File-URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=90498 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:ids:injleg:v:7:y:2018:i:1:p:13-27 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Santanu Mandal Author-X-Name-First: Santanu Author-X-Name-Last: Mandal Title: Enablers of warning and recovery capabilities in supply chains: an empirical study Abstract: There is a growing challenge for the supply chain firms to address the uncertainties in a positive manner. Research on resilience and risk mitigation strategies have undersigned two effective capabilities: warning and recovery. However, the literatures on the development of these capabilities are yet to be developed. The current study adds to this nascent literature by exploring the role of organisation culture and lean production processes in generating warning and recovery capability. Survey instruments were developed based on the established sources (with necessary adaptation) and were utilised for the survey. 212 completed responses were obtained using the online survey and were analysed using the partial least squares. Findings showed that the organisation culture positively influences warning capability and recovery capability. Lean production processes although positively contributes for the development of the recovery capability; its influence on warning capability was not supported. Implications for the managers were also provided. Journal: Int. J. of Logistics Economics and Globalisation Pages: 28-48 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2018 Keywords: warning; recovery; organisation culture; lean processes; resilience. File-URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=90499 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:ids:injleg:v:7:y:2018:i:1:p:28-48 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mei Ling Wang Author-X-Name-First: Mei Ling Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Author-Name: Chang Hwan Choi Author-X-Name-First: Chang Hwan Author-X-Name-Last: Choi Title: How logistics performance promote the international trade volume? A comparative analysis of developing and developed countries Abstract: This paper analyses how logistics performance affects international trade volume and compares the different effects between developing and developed countries by employing a gravity model with panel data from 43 countries in 2010, 2012 and 2014. The findings show that an improvement of logistics performance index (LPI) has more impact on export volume than on import volume. And it has a more powerful influence on developed countries' trade volumes than on developing countries' trade volumes. To improve the competitiveness of developing countries' exports in a global economy, developing countries should first and foremost prioritise improvement in procedural sectors like the customs process, tracking, and infrastructure. Journal: Int. J. of Logistics Economics and Globalisation Pages: 49-70 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2018 Keywords: logistics; international trade; developing and developed countries; logistics performance index; LPI. File-URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=90504 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:ids:injleg:v:7:y:2018:i:1:p:49-70 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Yohannes Yebabe Tesfay Author-X-Name-First: Yohannes Yebabe Author-X-Name-Last: Tesfay Author-Name: Per Bjarte Solibakke Author-X-Name-First: Per Bjarte Author-X-Name-Last: Solibakke Title: Trade concentration and dynamics of the Norwegian imports: an application of R-MANOVA model Abstract: This article proposes to analyse trade concentration and dynamics of the Norwegian import's expenditures by applying the two-way random effect MANOVA (R-MANOVA) model. The MANOVA model factors considered in this econometric analysis are origin continents or countries (spatial effects) and the business cycles (dynamic effects). The R-MANOVA model fit estimation results confirms that the Norwegian import trade is sustainable in both short and long run controlling for the effect of both origin continent and business cycles. More importantly, the expenditure and the share of Norwegian imports across the continents show considerable dynamics. The overall econometric estimation results suggest that across all continents the Norwegian import expenditure is increasing with time. However, the share of the Norwegian import expenditures across continents is relatively stable. The analysis confirms that European exporters will be the leading partners for Norwegian import expenditures in future trade patterns. The ranking of the remaining continents in descending order will be Asia and Oceania, North and Central America, South America and Africa. Journal: Int. J. of Logistics Economics and Globalisation Pages: 71-104 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2018 Keywords: trade concentration; trade dynamics; MANOVA models; Norway. File-URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=90505 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:ids:injleg:v:7:y:2018:i:1:p:71-104 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Siddhartha Rajagopal Author-X-Name-First: Siddhartha Author-X-Name-Last: Rajagopal Author-Name: Bala Krishnamoorthy Author-X-Name-First: Bala Author-X-Name-Last: Krishnamoorthy Author-Name: V.B. Khanapuri Author-X-Name-First: V.B. Author-X-Name-Last: Khanapuri Title: Competitive logistics capability for sustainable organisational performance: a study of the textile industry in India Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to explore how sustainable organisational performance can be achieved by acquiring competitive logistics capabilities. Data from a national sample of 113 operations and senior managers in home textile companies was gathered. Regression models have been built between competitive logistics capabilities and each of the variables of cost leadership, organisational flexibility, customer service and organisational performance to determine the effects and relationships. The results indicate that acquiring competitive logistics capabilities like organisational flexibility and customer service have a greater positive impact compared to cost leadership on organisational performance. With organisations seeking to deliver value to the market all the time in order to remain competitive, do efforts to develop competitive logistics capabilities result in improved organisational performance? This study provides evidence that acquiring competitive logistics capabilities can lead to enhancement of organisational performance. Journal: Int. J. of Logistics Economics and Globalisation Pages: 105-124 Issue: 2 Volume: 7 Year: 2018 Keywords: logistic capability; cost leadership; CL; organisational flexibility; OFL; customer service; CS; organisational performance; India. File-URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=92430 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:ids:injleg:v:7:y:2018:i:2:p:105-124 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Yohannes Yebabe Tesfay Author-X-Name-First: Yohannes Yebabe Author-X-Name-Last: Tesfay Title: Applications of the Kraljic-Tesfay portfolio matrix and the hyper-hybrid coordination in global supply chain analysis Abstract: This article proposed to show the limitations of transaction cost analysis (TCA) based on deep examinations of the causes of the Bullwhip effect. To analyse the potential causes of the Bullwhip effect, the author applied panel data regression models and seemingly unrelated regression models on the experimentally simulated data from beer distribution game. The best-fitted Cochrane-Orcutt autoregression recursive estimation result of the seemingly unrelated regression models prevails that the Bullwhip effects can be caused by both intra-organisational and inter-organisational coordination of the business partners in the supply chain. The effects of the intra-organisational coordination on the bullwhip effects showed the drawback of the existing theory of organisational coordination. Consequently, the author figured out, the solutions of the TCA are still insufficient to produce effective and efficient organisational coordination. In order to diagnose the drawbacks of the TCA, the author introduced a new type of organisational coordination called the hyper-hybrid (Tesfay-coordination) governance. Finally, the author has shown some of the applications of the hyper-hybrid coordination to solve complex problems of global supply chain analysis. Journal: Int. J. of Logistics Economics and Globalisation Pages: 125-150 Issue: 2 Volume: 7 Year: 2018 Keywords: Bullwhip effects; transaction cost analysis; TCA; stochastic models; hyper-hybrid coordination and Kraljic-Tesfay portfolio model. File-URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=92431 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:ids:injleg:v:7:y:2018:i:2:p:125-150 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Rajiv Aserkar Author-X-Name-First: Rajiv Author-X-Name-Last: Aserkar Author-Name: Shashank Verma Author-X-Name-First: Shashank Author-X-Name-Last: Verma Title: Quality issues in the Indian e-commerce delivery model from the viewpoint of young people Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to identify the issues that affect product delivery in the Indian e-commerce market. A research survey was conducted and the data was analysed to establish the relationship between the determinants and the e-commerce delivery quality. The research finds that e-commerce consumers in India evaluate the quality of e-commerce delivery through factors like the quality of the product delivered, the efficiency of the logistic service provided, flexible and friendly return policies and how well the customer is served from order inception to after the delivery of the product. The study recommends that the determinants identified in this research are employed by Indian e-commerce companies, which will improve quality of their deliveries and aid them in serving their customers effectively. The research focuses on the aspect of 'product delivery and fulfilment', thereby finding the link between customer expectations and e-commerce delivery. Journal: Int. J. of Logistics Economics and Globalisation Pages: 151-169 Issue: 2 Volume: 7 Year: 2018 Keywords: electronic-commerce; e-commerce; delivery; logistics; quality issues; India. File-URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=92433 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:ids:injleg:v:7:y:2018:i:2:p:151-169 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: James A. Kling Author-X-Name-First: James A. Author-X-Name-Last: Kling Author-Name: Jack T. Ampuja Author-X-Name-First: Jack T. Author-X-Name-Last: Ampuja Title: Dimensional weight pricing in transportation and logistics: US shipper knowledge and best practice responses in the e-commerce era Abstract: With the rise of e-commerce, a large number of shippers are experiencing increased logistics costs due to dimensional weight pricing. 'Dim weight' pricing calculates a ratio of package volume to weight in order to penalise low density shipments by charging higher rates. This paper explains the methods and rationale of dimensional weight pricing by parcel and LTL carriers. The results from a survey of over 100 US shippers is presented to better understand shipper knowledge and responses to dim weight pricing and to document increasing shipping costs. Shippers were also asked to identify best practices in packaging and negotiations that were used to counter these increased logistics costs. The implications of this rate practice on supply chain costs and practices in e-commerce are discussed; the most serious impact is on manufacturers and distributors of low density products and those unable or unwilling to invest in technologically sophisticated solutions. Journal: Int. J. of Logistics Economics and Globalisation Pages: 170-185 Issue: 2 Volume: 7 Year: 2018 Keywords: e-commerce; electronic commerce; dimensional weight; packaging; parcel; logistics; transportation; shipping density; small package shipping; fulfilment; less than truckload; LTL; freight pricing; dim weight. File-URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=92436 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:ids:injleg:v:7:y:2018:i:2:p:170-185 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ozgur Isil Author-X-Name-First: Ozgur Author-X-Name-Last: Isil Title: The valuation impact of carbon reporting: assessing firm-specific and extended supply chain carbon disclosures of S%P 500 firms Abstract: Prior corporate sustainability studies that examine the association between corporate environmental performance (CEP) and corporate financial performance (CFP) primarily focus on firm-specific environmental impacts, avoiding considerations of the much larger environmental impacts within firms' extended supply chains. In addition, prior literature has concentrated more on the performance of regulated pollutants, less on unregulated pollutants. This study focuses on these two gaps by examining three interrelated questions: 1) the association between firm-specific greenhouse gas (GHG) performance and valuation; 2) the association between GHG reporting in the extended supply chain and valuation; 3) the moderating effect of reporting GHG emissions in the extended supply chain on the association between firm-specific GHG performance and valuation. The results suggest that firm-specific GHG emission performance is positively associated with valuation and that reporting GHG emissions in the extended supply chain affords firms an incremental valuation premium. Journal: Int. J. of Logistics Economics and Globalisation Pages: 186-207 Issue: 2 Volume: 7 Year: 2018 Keywords: valuation impact; carbon reporting; firm-specific; extended supply chain; climate change; carbon disclosure. File-URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=92441 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:ids:injleg:v:7:y:2018:i:2:p:186-207 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: José Vicente Caixeta-Filho Author-X-Name-First: José Vicente Author-X-Name-Last: Caixeta-Filho Author-Name: Thiago Guilherme Péra Author-X-Name-First: Thiago Guilherme Author-X-Name-Last: Péra Title: Post-harvest losses during the transportation of grains from farms to aggregation points Abstract: All of Brazil's competitive advantages and productive gains tend to bleed away as its farm products pass through the various post-harvest stages, mainly due to logistic bottlenecks and deficiencies. To improve the prognosis for food security, one can avoid losses along the supply chain. This research is intended to adapt indicators and mitigation strategies derived through research in the USA to reduce post-harvest losses, especially in the transport of grains, and make this information available in Brazil. The implementation of a specific policy designed to prevent the post-harvest loss in the USA by either a public or private agent was not encountered during this research, which makes one think that this type of care is mostly driven by the market, economics, and perhaps the farmers' interest in protecting their harvested grains and taking pride in a job well done. Journal: Int. J. of Logistics Economics and Globalisation Pages: 209-247 Issue: 3 Volume: 7 Year: 2018 Keywords: losses; grains; agriculture; logistics; post-harvest losses; transportation; on-farm storage; aggregation points; Brazil; US. File-URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=93755 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:ids:injleg:v:7:y:2018:i:3:p:209-247 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tzong-Ru Lee Author-X-Name-First: Tzong-Ru Author-X-Name-Last: Lee Author-Name: Hsing-Wen Wang Author-X-Name-First: Hsing-Wen Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Author-Name: Yi-Hsiang Hsu Author-X-Name-First: Yi-Hsiang Author-X-Name-Last: Hsu Title: The feasibility study of promotion activities in farmers' markets with regional agricultural products Abstract: The farmers' market is one of the channels that enable farmers to distribute their products. If the healthy and nutritional regional agricultural products can be integrated into the market as well as select the best marketing strategy and promotions after market research and consumer analysis, consumers can be stimulated to buy the products, instead of always demanding for healthy food, as well as interact face to face with producers. This paper designed different questionnaires for administrators, farmers and consumers of 27 farmers' markets in Taiwan. With the aid of grey relational analysis, the important promotional campaigns are determined. Based on answers of questionnaires, the important way to combine regional agricultural products and farmer's market and the important promotional campaigns are determined. The important promotional campaigns can help governments in establishing indexes to assess the performance of markets and can facilitate communication with the farmers' market. Based on results, this paper forwarded four suggestions concerning market management and policy making in the future for both the market administrators and the agricultural affair authorities. Journal: Int. J. of Logistics Economics and Globalisation Pages: 248-267 Issue: 3 Volume: 7 Year: 2018 Keywords: farmers' market; regional agricultural products; feasibility study; grey relational analysis; GRA. File-URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=93767 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:ids:injleg:v:7:y:2018:i:3:p:248-267 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Yenming J. Chen Author-X-Name-First: Yenming J. Author-X-Name-Last: Chen Author-Name: Tzong-Ru Lee Author-X-Name-First: Tzong-Ru Author-X-Name-Last: Lee Author-Name: Yaqian Xiao Author-X-Name-First: Yaqian Author-X-Name-Last: Xiao Author-Name: Miaohua Lin Author-X-Name-First: Miaohua Author-X-Name-Last: Lin Author-Name: Yunxuan Li Author-X-Name-First: Yunxuan Author-X-Name-Last: Li Title: Strategic risk management in the stocking decisions of frozen vegetables Abstract: Many crops are harvested once a year and the produces will meet the requirements of the entire year. For example, carrots usually harvest in winter and most of them must be refrigerated to fulfil the annual demands. The remains are then released to the fresh auction market. The refrigerated vegetables will be carefully released to the market month by month according to the expected demand of the entire year. In this study, simulated optimisation analysis is carried out based on a design of experiments. Results show that: 1) the higher the probability of the natural disease in the future, the more the hoarding; 2) when substitutive vegetables are expected to be scarce, the hoarding should increase; 3) when the quality of this batch of harvest is worse, then the hoarding should decrease. Our simulation results show that profit reaches the highest if natural shipments are 40,000 t. Journal: Int. J. of Logistics Economics and Globalisation Pages: 268-276 Issue: 3 Volume: 7 Year: 2018 Keywords: root vegetables; frozen hoarding; simulated optimisation; annual harvest; uncertain demand; substitutive produces; supply-demand balance. File-URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=93768 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:ids:injleg:v:7:y:2018:i:3:p:268-276 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Xiao Xu Author-X-Name-First: Xiao Author-X-Name-Last: Xu Author-Name: Tran Xuan Thuong Author-X-Name-First: Tran Xuan Author-X-Name-Last: Thuong Author-Name: Hwan-Seong Kim Author-X-Name-First: Hwan-Seong Author-X-Name-Last: Kim Author-Name: Sam-Sang You Author-X-Name-First: Sam-Sang Author-X-Name-Last: You Title: Optimising supply chain management using robust control synthesis Abstract: The inventory management of supply chain is concerned with an efficient transportation of materials and products through supply chain members. In this paper, a series of linear models have been presented with lag time uncertainty for improving inventory management. In addition, a fluid analogy has been used for a single-product manufacturing system, or the basic unit of a supply chain. Robust control synthesis, which has been proven to cope with its ability for the system with high uncertainty, is utilised in optimising the inventory management and guaranteeing high performance of complete system. In addition, this control scheme aims to ensure the customer satisfaction by tracking and keeping the actual inventory close to target inventory under the influence of uncertainty. The extensive numerical simulations have been carried out to validate the proposed approach against disturbances. Finally, the simulation results show that the robust control system ensures good ability on keeping the target inventory under uncertainty. Journal: Int. J. of Logistics Economics and Globalisation Pages: 277-291 Issue: 3 Volume: 7 Year: 2018 Keywords: inventory management; supply chain; disturbance and uncertainty; fluid analogy; robust control synthesis; customer satisfaction. File-URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=93770 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:ids:injleg:v:7:y:2018:i:3:p:277-291 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jinghan Cai Author-X-Name-First: Jinghan Author-X-Name-Last: Cai Author-Name: Xiaobing Li Author-X-Name-First: Xiaobing Author-X-Name-Last: Li Title: Logistics and stock market inter-dependence: the case of China Abstract: The inter-dependence between different stock markets around the world has been in the forefront of academic and public interests. In this paper, we study the channel of the stock market inter-dependence between Chinese stock market and other markets around the world. We analyse the daily returns of major stock indices to discover the path of the transmission of shocks from Chinese stock market. We find out that, the difference in logistics from countries plays an important role in explaining the transmission of stock market shocks. Journal: Int. J. of Logistics Economics and Globalisation Pages: 292-306 Issue: 3 Volume: 7 Year: 2018 Keywords: inter-dependence; global stock returns; logistics; China. File-URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=93774 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:ids:injleg:v:7:y:2018:i:3:p:292-306