Metrics

Supply Chain Resilience: Definitions and quantitative modelling approaches – A literature review

J.P. Ribeiro, A. Barbosa-Póvoa

Computers and Industrial Engineering (Published)

Jan, 2018

Keywords: Supply Chain Resilience Quantitative models Risk Literature review Operations research Metrics

Resilience is currently an increasing concern in supply chain (SC), caused by their globalization, which is subject to diverse types of disturbances. Such disturbances need to be handled in the right way, compelling the use of tools that can support resilient supply chain decisions. To comprehend how…

Strategic Sustainable Assessment of Retrofit Design for Process Performance Evaluation

A. Carvalho

Sustainability in the Design, Synthesis and Analysis of Chemical Engineering Processes (Published)

Jun, 2016

Keywords: Chemical processes Life cycle assessment Metrics Retrofit Social aspects Sustainability

Global markets have been facing an increasing competitiveness, leading to a dramatic intensification of the market pressures in terms of business sustainability. Businesses, through their industrial processes, urgently require retrofit actions for improving their sustainability performance…