Material Flow Cost Accounting (MFCA)

2021 ◽  
pp. 286-303
Author(s):  
Omolola Ayobamidele Arise ◽  
Patricia Maureen Shewell
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Hospitality Industry ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Inaccurate Information ◽  
Green Practices ◽  
Utilization Data

MFCA's potential as a GMT in the hospitality industry has not been well demonstrated. Instead, the manufacturing industry takes the credit for the successful implementation of MFCA. This may be attributed to the industry's inaccurate information on resource consumption and management for strategic internal decision-making. Greening in hotels has predominantly been viewed from customers' perspectives to gain a competitive advantage and improve profits. MFCA is presented in this chapter as a GMT to achieve eco-friendly hotel business practices via informed resource utilization data. Natural resources such as water and energy are gradually becoming scarce commodities with waste generation on the rise and environmental sustainability of the hotel business threatened. Hotels face pressure from the global market to improve their sustainability performance by implementing green practices. In meeting the requirements of sustainable practice, green management's goal focuses on reducing, eliminating, and preventing adverse effects arising from environmental activities.

ISO14001

2015 ◽  
pp. 13-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanafi Hamzah ◽  
Shahrim Karim ◽  
Angelo Camillo ◽  
Svetlana Holt
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Hospitality Industry ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Environmental Management Systems ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Adoption And Implementation ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Conceptual Paper ◽  
Tourism And Hospitality

In the last decades, the tourism and hospitality industries have increased their awareness toward environmental sustainability and the application of Environmental Management Systems (EMS). However, research into EMS application and its challenges in the hospitality industry has been left out of sight. In fact, it appears that most hospitality and tourism organizations have neglected to adopt and implement EMS and have failed to recognize the benefits EMS can offer. Perhaps this may explain mixed findings on EMS success adoption and implementation to date. This conceptual paper investigates the challenges and opportunities within the concept of sustainability and aims to sum the existing knowledge on EMSs and the opportunities for its successful implementation in tourism and hospitality establishments. The findings will raise awareness of the importance of EMS and stimulate changes in the way management puts its effort toward enhancing the value these establishments put on adoption and implementation of EMS.

Green management and environmental sustainability: a case of ITC Green Center

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anjana Singh ◽  
Meghna Rishi ◽  
Rati Shukla
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Customer Service ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Hospitality Industry ◽  
Service Industry ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Green Management ◽  
Content Type

Subject area The built environment Study level/applicability This case can be used for undergraduate and post graduate level business and management studies. The topics identified for this case study would be environmental management applicable to green management, corporate sustainability and financial planning, buildings conservation, sustainable constructions and projects and the hospitality industry. Case overview Mr Niranjan Khatri is one of the people involved in ITC's successful implementation of green management techniques. The key issue causing concern to management is how they initiate this new concept to the already existing and functional hotels in the country. The second key challenge is managing their stakeholders. Being in the service industry, customer service and convenience is of prime importance and at times they may be in conflict with the sustainability agenda of ITC. Expected learning outcomes Students should be able to analyse the importance of environmental management in the hospitality industry; recognize the operational constraints and legal obligations surrounding environmental performance in hospitality and tourism, Interpret environmental theory and work out an implementation plan for implementing environmental management in hotels. Supplementary materials Teaching note.

scholarly journals Competitive Advantage of Green Hospitality Business Practices in 5 Star Hotels in Bali

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 420-431
Author(s):  
I Ketut Budarma ◽  
I Ketut Astawa ◽  
Cokorda Istri Sri Widhari ◽  
Ni Made Rai Erawati
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Green Practices ◽  
Hospitality Business ◽  
Green Hotels

This study gives an advantages account of green hospitality business practices in 5-star hotels in Bali island. The methods used were focus group discussion, case study, direct observation, and questionnaire. The results showed that all the studied hotels have practiced green hospitality, and have successfully integrated local values system pertaining to culture and ecology as green vision to elevate their social and ecological marketing. Furthermore, their green hospitality practices have been locally and internationally certified and recognized, making the hotels known for green products. These made them to be in demand because most clients are looking for green hotels that preserve culture and nature. Also, green practices have changed the image of hotels to be ecologically and socio-culturally friendly, and as agents of local economy development. In addition, the practices have made the hotels capable of producing products and services with lower costs, and higher profit to compete in a global market to sustain their competitive advantages.

scholarly journals Business Strategies and Environmental Sustainability

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pinky Rajwani
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Sustainable Manufacturing ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Environmentally Conscious ◽  
Business World

The conceptual paper is based on ethics and social responsibility towards environmental and sustainable development. The great challenge of the twenty-first century is raising people everywhere to a modest standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible. We've reached a point where we have to end the burden we've placed on the Earth. Socially Responsible enterprises are those which operationalize their corporate responsibilities in their strategies and business practices keeping in mind better relationships with their stakeholders and focussing to maximise environmental sustainability. The concentration of the company should not only cover one aspect, but responsibility should also be applied into the core values of the company, in order to enable maximum performance. The main focus of the study is socially responsible enterprises and their responsible marketing strategies. Sustainability has always been an important concern for the manufacturing sector and consumer demand for environmentally conscious products is also increasing. A large number of manufacturers have come up with ideas to get advantage from business practices which are sustainable. Manufacturing through viable techniques will create products with the help of processes which are economical and that curtails negative environmental impacts simultaneously conserving energy and natural resources. Responsible marketing is using eco-friendly materials, using less paper, using more digital technology to save on materials and cost of delivery. Many companies have started taking "sustainability" as a very important factor while making planning and marketing strategies to elevate and increase the global market. Changes in this industry have reached well beyond the boundaries of just going "green," and now it also includes many big business houses across different industries. In today’s business world, these efforts are having significant results.

scholarly journals Global sustainability and responsibility in hotels and cruising industry

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 306-315
Author(s):  
Carmen Vlasceanu ◽  
Iulian Tenie ◽  
Oana Crismariu
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Hospitality Industry ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Landscape Conservation ◽  
Implementation Challenges ◽  
Management Standards ◽  
Geographical Regions ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThe tourism and hospitality industry is one of the largest industries in the world registering exponential growth over the past years. This study was conducted with the aim of highlighting various aspects of sustainable development from the hospitality industry perspective and the impact of tourism growth on the global touristic destinations. Attracting over 12 million passengers a year, the cruising industry alone contributes substantially by introducing every year a large number of mega size ships carrying over 5000 passengers on board. World renowned hotel chains have been expanding their regional presence providing services to millions of tourists and adventure seekers. The rapid development of the hospitality industry brings along undisputable challenges in environmental protection and natural landscape conservation. The methodology involves a review of the existing literature which concludes that around the world the situation is being addressed by the major players within the worlds’ biggest industry at international conferences and various interactive panel discussions in their attempt to tackle the severe issues of tourism growth and creatively find innovative solutions to ensure environmental sustainability. Our research underlines the successful implementation of the environmental management standards within the cruising industry. The objectives of the global management standards are to ensure compliance in regulatory practices intended to preserve the environment through sustainable and responsible tourism. From this perspective, our analysis indicates that the hotel industry is in a formal adoption phase, posing consistency and implementation challenges across the industry and geographical regions. The overall findings of this research are briefly discussed.

A Highly Efficient and Optimised Simulation Based Multi objective Decision-Making for FMS Control

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
Shreyanshu Parhi ◽  
S. C. Srivastava
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Simulation Software ◽  
Shop Floor ◽  
Simulation Tool ◽  
Routing Flexibility ◽  
Decision System ◽  
Multi Objective ◽  
Arena Simulation

Optimized and efficient decision-making systems is the burning topic of research in modern manufacturing industry. The aforesaid statement is validated by the fact that the limitations of traditional decision-making system compresses the length and breadth of multi-objective decision-system application in FMS.  The bright area of FMS with more complexity in control and reduced simpler configuration plays a vital role in decision-making domain. The decision-making process consists of various activities such as collection of data from shop floor; appealing the decision-making activity; evaluation of alternatives and finally execution of best decisions. While studying and identifying a suitable decision-making approach the key critical factors such as decision automation levels, routing flexibility levels and control strategies are also considered. This paper investigates the cordial relation between the system ideality and process response time with various prospective of decision-making approaches responsible for shop-floor control of FMS. These cases are implemented to a real-time FMS problem and it is solved using ARENA simulation tool. ARENA is a simulation software that is used to calculate the industrial problems by creating a virtual shop floor environment. This proposed topology is being validated in real time solution of FMS problems with and without implementation of decision system in ARENA simulation tool. The real-time FMS problem is considered under the case of full routing flexibility. Finally, the comparative analysis of the results is done graphically and conclusion is drawn.

scholarly journals Data-Driven Dispatching Rules Mining and Real-Time Decision-Making Methodology in Intelligent Manufacturing Shop Floor with Uncertainty

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (14) ◽  
pp. 4836
Author(s):  
Liping Zhang ◽  
Yifan Hu ◽  
Qiuhua Tang ◽  
Jie Li ◽  
Zhixiong Li
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Data Base ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Job Shop ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Dispatching Rules ◽  
Shop Floor ◽  
Production Data ◽  
Online Decision Making

In modern manufacturing industry, the methods supporting real-time decision-making are the urgent requirement to response the uncertainty and complexity in intelligent production process. In this paper, a novel closed-loop scheduling framework is proposed to achieve real-time decision making by calling the appropriate data-driven dispatching rules at each rescheduling point. This framework contains four parts: offline training, online decision-making, data base and rules base. In the offline training part, the potential and appropriate dispatching rules with managers’ expectations are explored successfully by an improved gene expression program (IGEP) from the historical production data, not just the available or predictable information of the shop floor. In the online decision-making part, the intelligent shop floor will implement the scheduling scheme which is scheduled by the appropriate dispatching rules from rules base and store the production data into the data base. This approach is evaluated in a scenario of the intelligent job shop with random jobs arrival. Numerical experiments demonstrate that the proposed method outperformed the existing well-known single and combination dispatching rules or the discovered dispatching rules via metaheuristic algorithm in term of makespan, total flow time and tardiness.

scholarly journals Children’s ability to edit their memories when learning about the environment from credible and noncredible websites

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim P. Roberts ◽  
Katherine R. Wood ◽  
Breanne E. Wylie
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Choice Test ◽  
Multiple Choice Test ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Inaccurate Information ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Many Sources ◽  
Website Content

AbstractOne of the many sources of information easily available to children is the internet and the millions of websites providing accurate, and sometimes inaccurate, information. In the current investigation, we examined children’s ability to use credibility information about websites when learning about environmental sustainability. In two studies, children studied two different websites and were tested on what they had learned a week later using a multiple-choice test containing both website items and new distracters. Children were given either no information about the websites or were told that one of the websites (the noncredible website) contained errors and they should not use any information from that website to answer the test. In both studies, children aged 7- to 9-years reported information from the noncredible website even when instructed not to, whereas the 10- to 12-year-olds used the credibility warning to ‘edit out’ information that they had learned from the noncredible website. In Study 2, there was an indication that the older children spontaneously assessed the credibility of the website if credibility markers were made explicit. A plausible explanation is that, although children remembered information from the websites, they needed explicit instruction to bind the website content with the relevant source (the individual websites). The results have implications for children’s learning in an open-access, digital age where information comes from many sources, credible and noncredible. Education in credibility evaluation may enable children to be critical consumers of information thereby resisting misinformation provided through public sources.

scholarly journals Distributing ethics: Filtering images of death at three news photo desks

Journalism ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 146488492199630
Author(s):  
Jenni Mäenpää
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Ethical Reasoning ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Journalism Ethics ◽  
News Magazine ◽  
A Chain ◽  
Visual Coverage

This article explores the practices of selecting news images that depict death at a global picture agency, national picture agency and a news magazine. The study is based on ethnographic observations and interviews ( N = 30) from three Western-based news organisations, each representing a link in the complex international news-image circulation process. Further, the organisations form an example of a chain of filters through which most of the news images produced for the global market have to pass before publication. These filters are scrutinised by the empirical case studies that examine the professionals’ ethical reasoning regarding images of violence and death. This research contributes to an understanding of the differences and similarities between media organisations as filters and sheds light on their role in shaping visual coverage. This study concludes that photojournalism professionals’ ethical decision-making is discursively constructed around three frames: (1) shared ethics, (2) relative ethics and (3) distributed ethics. All the organisations share certain similar conceptions of journalism ethics at the level of ideals. On the level of workplace practices and routines, a mixture of practical preconditions, journalism’s self-regulation, business logic and national legislation lead to differences in the image selection practices. It is argued that the ethical decision-making is distributed between – and sometimes even outsourced to – colleagues working in different parts of the filtering chain. Finally, this study suggests that dead or suffering bodies are often invisible in the images of the studied media organisations.

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