GREENING THE VALUE CHAIN: OPERATIONAL ISSUES FACED BY ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN THE UK CAR MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY

AbstractThe UK Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution aims to ban petrol and diesel cars by 2030 and transition to electric vehicles (EVs). Current business models for EV ownership and the transition to net-net zero emissions are not working for households in the lowest income brackets. However, low-income communities bear the brunt of environmental and health illnesses from transport air pollution caused by those living in relatively more affluent areas. Importantly, achieving equitable EV ownership amongst low-and middle-income households and driving policy goals towards environmental injustice of air pollution and net-zero emissions would require responsible and circular business models. Such consumer-focused business models address an EV subscription via low-income household tax rebates, an EV battery value-chain circularity, locally-driven new battery technological development, including EV manufacturing tax rebates and socially innovative mechanisms. This brief communication emphasises that consumer-led business models following net-zero emission vehicles shift and decisions must ensure positive-sum outcomes. And must focus not only on profits and competitiveness but also on people, planet, prosperity and partnership co-benefits.

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Worlds of welfare collide

European Journal of Social Security ◽

10.1177/1388262717699457 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

pp. 21-44

Author(s):

Gráinne McKeever ◽

Mark Simpson

Keyword(s):

Social Insurance ◽

Social Protection ◽

Conservative System ◽

Unemployment Benefit ◽

Unemployment Benefits ◽

Social Democratic ◽

Asymmetric Shocks ◽

The Uk ◽

Operational Issues ◽

The Eu

The post-2007 financial crisis has brought renewed interest in a European Unemployment Benefit Scheme (EUBS) as a manifestation of solidarity between citizens of different Member States and an economic stabiliser in the event of future asymmetric shocks. The EU-wide benefit would operate in tandem with existing national unemployment benefits. This creates challenges of compatibility given the diversity of approaches to social security within the Union, based on at least four philosophies of welfare: liberal, conservative, social democratic and southern European. This article examines potential legal, operational and political difficulties associated with marrying a EUBS that is at heart a conservative system of social insurance to the UK’s liberal welfare state. Few legal obstacles exist and although the addition of a new, earnings-related benefit to an already complex mix of social protection would raise significant operational issues, these need not be insurmountable. However, fundamental ideological differences would have rendered the EUBS as proposed politically ill-matched with the UK even absent the June 2016 vote to leave the EU. A contributory income maintenance benefit is a poor fit with a residual, largely means-tested national system whose role is limited to offering protection against severe poverty while maintaining work incentives and minimising costs.

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Pharmaceutical Data Integrity: issues, challenges and proposed solutions for manufacturers and inspectors

Generics and Biosimilars Initiative Journal ◽

10.5639/gabij.2020.0904.028 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 171-182

Author(s):

Sia Chong Hock ◽

Vernon Tay ◽

Vimal Sachdeva ◽

Chan Lai Wah

Keyword(s):

Manufacturing Industry ◽

Management Practices ◽

Data Integrity ◽

Database Management System ◽

World Health ◽

Record Management ◽

Guidance Documents ◽

Health Organization ◽

Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing ◽

The Uk

Data Integrity, which is data deemed Attributable, Legible, Contemporaneous, Original, Accurate, Complete, Consistent, Enduring, and Available (ALCOA-plus), has been the focus of the pharmaceutical industry in recent years. With the growing use of computerized systems and rising prevalence of outsourcing manufacturing processes, ensuring data integrity is becoming more challenging in an increasingly complex pharmaceutical manufacturing industry. To address this issue, multiple legislation and guidance documents such as ‘Data Integrity and Compliance with CGMP Guidance for Industry’ from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), ‘GxP’ Data Integrity Guidance and Definitions from the UK Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), and ‘Guidance on Good Data and Record Management Practices’ from the World Health Organization (WHO), have been published in recent years. However, with rising data integrity issues observed by FDA, WHO, MHRA and other pharmaceutical inspectors even after these guidance documents have been published, their overall effectiveness is yet to be determined. This paper compares and evaluates the legislation and guidance currently in existence; and discusses some of the potential challenges pharmaceutical manufacturers face in maintaining data integrity with such legislation and guidance in place. It appears that these legislation and guidance are insufficient in maintaining data integrity in the industry when used alone. Last, but not least, this paper also reviews other solutions, such as the need for a company culture of integrity, a good database management system, education and training, robust quality agreements between contract givers and acceptors, and performance of effective audits and inspections, to aid in maintaining data integrity in the manufacturing industry. These proposed solutions, if successfully implemented, can address the issues associated with data integrity, and raise the standard of pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical manufacturing worldwide.

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The relationship between environmental cost on organisational performance and environmental management system: a structural equation modelling approach

Measuring Business Excellence ◽

10.1108/mbe-03-2021-0039 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Nursyazwani Mohd Fuzi ◽

Nurul Fadly Habidin ◽

Sabrinah Adam ◽

Sharon Yong Yee Ong

Keyword(s):

Environmental Management ◽

Structural Equation Modelling ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Manufacturing Industry ◽

Environmental Management System ◽

Environmental Cost ◽

Organisational Performance ◽

Content Type ◽

Equation Modelling ◽

The Relationship

Purpose This study aims to examine the relationship between environmental cost (EC) on organisational performance (OPM) through an environmental management system (EMS) as the mediating variable. Design/methodology/approach A total of 2,600 manufacturers were identified and consequently selected as the entire study population. Additionally, this study used the structural equation modelling technique to identify the mediator effects of EMS between EC and OPM. Findings The EC and EMS relationship on OPM produced direct and indirect consequences. Hence, it is concluded that manufacturing industry in Malaysia are focused on the OPM when implementing EC and EMS. Originality/value The model would incorporate EC and EMS implementation on OPM in the Malaysian manufacturing industry. This study could also be advantageous to the industry in improving EC, EMS and OPM.

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Suppliers in the privatised UK wastewater market and their possible moves towards integrated solutions

Water Policy ◽

10.2166/wp.2006.056 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 8 (6) ◽

pp. 559-572 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Charlotta Windahl

Keyword(s):

Value Chain ◽

Support Services ◽

System Integration ◽

Business Models ◽

Spare Parts ◽

New Business ◽

Water Companies ◽

The Uk ◽

New Business Models ◽

New Strategies

An increasing number of companies in the capital goods industry are turning towards new strategies where the focus is to add value for customers by providing integrated solutions (combining products and services), instead of selling components, spare parts and support services. These new strategies represent moves in the value chain and create a need for new business models as well as new competencies. In this paper, the fairly new concept of integrated solutions is explored in the context of a privatised industry. The findings are based on empirical case studies carried out at two companies supplying products and services to the UK wastewater industry. In the UK, both water companies and their suppliers are influenced by economic and environmental regulations, an increased focus on cost, and outsourcing. On one hand, the two manufacturers have increased their competence with respect to system integration and operational services – competencies for supplying integrated solutions. On the other hand, a fragmented and vertically structured market with a multitude of different actors increases the distance between the water companies and the manufacturers. In addition, the division of the industry into a capital and operational side complicates the coordination between new sales and services.

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A detailed survey of just-in-time implementation status within Libyan cement industry, and its implication for operations management

Independent Journal of Management & Production ◽

10.14807/ijmp.v10i3.882 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 1081

Author(s):

Rajab Abduallah Hokoma ◽

Hala Mansour Amaigl

Keyword(s):

Value Chain ◽

Operations Management ◽

Manufacturing Industry ◽

Survey Methodology ◽

Cement Industry ◽

Current Status ◽

Just In Time ◽

Successful Implementation ◽

Key Factors ◽

Implementation Status

This paper investigates in detail the current status of the implementation levels of JIT key-factors and their sub-elements within the cement industry within Libya, and its implication for management within the said industry. A survey methodology has been applied in this detailed investigation using an intensive questionnaire and one-to-one interviews of the correspondent organizations. Based on the analysis of the survey findings, the results show that the implementation status of the JIT key-factors and their sub-elements are found to be in the modest levels across all the surveyed organisations, thereby indicating to opportunities for eliminating waste and improving the value chain. This paper has also pointed to crucial areas where the senior management body within this industry need to take immediate actions in order to achieve an effective and successful implementation of JIT systems. The paper also makes a contribution by providing an insight into what extent the JIT key-factors and their sub-elements are understood and implemented within the key Libyan manufacturing industry.

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