LCA for assessing environmental benefit of eco-design strategies and forest wood short supply chain: a furniture case study

The National Rural Development Programme for the period 2014-2020 through its priorities and interest domains refers to local products and short supply chains in order to increase the competitiveness of local primary producers and the added value of agro-alimentary and non-alimentary products, and to promote on local markets through short supply chains, producers groups and organizations. Local food can have many benefits for the actors involved in the short supply chain, more precisely producers, middlemen and consumers, but also for the local economy in its all. The local market from Timisoara is provided by many local producers from rural area that are producing and selling a varied number of alimentary and non-alimentary products. The case study is oriented towards the brief analysis of alimentary local products’ consumers and its aim is to realise a profile of local food consumer through underlining the aspects regarding the reasons why they are buying such products, the place from where they buy, but also aspects regarding the implications and benefits the consume can have.

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Emerging supply chain of utilising electrical vehicle retired batteries in distributed energy systems

10.21203/rs.3.rs-41333/v1 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Rui Jing ◽

Junyao Wang ◽

Nilay Shah ◽

Miao Guo

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Value Chain ◽

Energy Systems ◽

Design Strategies ◽

Distributed Energy ◽

Allocation Model ◽

Incentive Policy ◽

Profit Allocation ◽

Electrical Vehicle

Abstract Increasing electric vehicles (EV) penetration leads to significant challenges in EV battery disposal. Reusing retired batteries in distributed energy systems (DES) offers resource-circular solutions. We propose an optimisation framework to model the emerging supply chains and design strategies for reusing the retired EV batteries in DES. Coupling a supply chain profit-allocation model with a DES design optimisation model, the framework maximises the whole chain profit and enables fair profit distribution between three interactive sectors, i.e., EV, DES, dismantling and recycle (D&R) sectors. Our research highlights the system implications of retired batteries on DES design and new modelling insights into incentive policy effectiveness. Our case study suggests significant potential value chain profits (2.65 million US$) achieved by deploying 10.7 MWh of retired batteries in the DES application with optimal retired battery price of 138 US$/kWh. The revenue support on D&R sector is suggested as a promising incentive scheme than tariff support.

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Blockchain in Supply Chain: Case Study of Lottemart Ciputat

ACMIT Proceedings ◽

10.33555/acmit.v5i1.73 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 38-49 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

B. K. Handoyo ◽

M. R. Mashudi ◽

H. P. Ipung

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Supply Chain ◽

Supply Chain Management ◽

Information Asymmetry ◽

New Technology ◽

Business Case ◽

Analysis Method ◽

Chain Management ◽

Production Processes

Current supply chain methods are having difficulties in resolving problems arising from the lack of trust in supply chains. The root reason lies in two challenges brought to the traditional mechanism: self-interests of supply chain members and information asymmetry in production processes. Blockchain is a promising technology to address these problems. The key objective of this paper is to present qualitative analysis for blockchain in supply chain as the decision-making framework to implement this new technology. The analysis method used Val IT business case framework, validated by the expert judgements. The further study needs to be elaborated by either the existing organization that use blockchain or assessment by the organization that will use blockchain to improve their supply chain management.

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