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Dr. Reza Kiani Mavi is a senior lecturer of Supply Chain and Project Management in the School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University (ECU), Australia. His research interests include eco-innovation analysis, and supply chain performance evaluation using multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques, and data envelopment analysis (DEA). He has published over 60 refereed papers in many prestigious journals such as Supply Chain Management: an International Journal, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of the Operational Research Society, among others. In addition to serving as the editorial board member of Technological Forecasting and Social Change, and Management Decision, Reza is an associate editor for the Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems. Dr. Kiani Mavi has secured research grants from the Australian Institute of Project Management and iMOVE Collaborative Research Centre as the chief and participating investigator.
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Circular economy (CE), as a smart managerial tool, aims at sustainable development of societies by focusing on renewable sources of energy and precise management of waste to i) ensure fair access to scarce resources, ii) mitigate the negative impacts of manufacturing processes on climate change and global warming. Centring on CE, governments can formulate practical strategies at micro and macro levels for more efficient use of energy, water, and natural materials, and restricting waste disposal into the environment. Analysing the efficiency of CE-related endeavours of countries help them benchmark best practices and improve their processes to be more efficient. Since circular economy emphasizes the economic development with the least amount of undesirable environmental impacts, this research implements data envelopment analysis (DEA) to evaluate the environmental performance of the organization for economic cooperation and development (OECD) countries.
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Dr. Yildizbasi is currently work as an Assistant Professor at the Industrial Engineering Department, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University. He received his MSc (Engineering Management) from Syracuse University and his PhD (Industrial Engineering) from Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkey. His major research interests are Circular Economy, Blockchain, Risk Management, Green Supply Chain Management, Multi-Criteria Decision Making, Energy, Optimization, and Manufacturing. His work has been published in high-impact journals such as Renewable Energy, Soft Computing, Journal of Cleaner Production, Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, Journal of Energy Storage among others. He is a reviewer for reputable journals.
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When we look at the many consumption habits that exist today, it is not difficult to see how unnecessary they are. Before the industrial revolution, there was a society that made its own production and tried to make the cycle sustainable in order to survive as there was no alternative. However, in parallel with the industrial revolution and economic development, producers turned to practices and strategies that would encourage more consumption. This marketing strategy, which focuses on increasing income by increasing consumption, has led people to buy many products that they do not need, to produce poor quality and unsustainable products in production systems, and to produce non-renewable products. However, the environmental disasters that our world has faced in the last century have shown customer awareness and in this case, the existing production systems can no longer continue in this way. This situation brought forward different quests and the concept of circular economy in these quests. A circular economy is not new, it's only new for the current economic system. Circular principles can help drive an economy so that economic activity is no longer unnecessarily overstretched. For this reason, many institutions and organizations, especially the United Nations, have defined various targets and actions to prevent this waste and ensure sustainability. Especially when the sustainable development goals (SDG) published by the United Nations are examined; How important is the circular economy to the achievement of SDG 12 Responsible consumption and production, SDG 2 End hunger (via sustainable food production), SDG 6 Clean water, SDG 7 Affordable and clean energy, SDG 13 Climate action, and SDG 15 Life on land proved to be at one point. Within the scope of this workshop, what the circular economy is, its place in production, the actions to be taken for a sustainable environment and the barriers to implementing the circular economy will be discussed in all its dimensions by the participants and academicians.
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Chefi Triki is a Senior Lecturer of Operations Research and Logistics Systems. He holds a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering and Informatics from the University of Calabria (Italy). His major research interests lie in the field of optimization mainly in the context of logistics and resources management. He has published in top scientific journals and served as keynote speaker in a variety of international conferences. His research portfolio includes also several research grants that he led with success in Italy, Oman and Qatar. Along his carrier he was awarded several teaching, research and service recognitions for his academic commitment. Dr. Triki has a strong background in developing optimization tools for the network design with application to the transportation procurement, freight distribution, waste collection, groundwater management, manufacturing, etc. His teaching activities consists in a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses on logistics, simulation, informatics and optimization for engineering, mathematics, computer science, business and management science students.
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The work consists in developing a logistics platform that allows the carriers to exchange transportation commitments in order to achieve a global efficiency measured as empty movements reduction. The logistics platform will use the combinatorial auctions as a trading mechanism, which are known to be fair, rapid and efficient. Moreover, a special attention will be devoted to the implementation of environmentally friendly solutions that ensure a sustainable growth of the logistics sector. This work will discuss the optimization tools proposed to ensure an adequate implementation of the collaborative framework and will identify the gaps that still needed to be addressed in order to support the practitioners worldwide with state-of-the-art tools and technologies.
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Sadia Samar Ali (Ph. D. in Operations Research ) is an Associate Professor with Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering ,King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia . She has extensive experience in engineering and management teaching, training, research, mentor and specializes in Sustainable practices in Supply Chain Management, Technology and Innovation related to developing countries by using Optimization and Quantitative Analysis. She is associated with EURO and IFORS groups as part of the working team in promoting ' Sustainable and Optimization practices' . She offers courses related to supply chain management & logistics, industrial quality control, probability distribution, optimization, design of experiments, and decision making. She is associated with EURO and IFORS groups as part of the working team in promoting ' Sustainable and Optimization practices' and ' Smart Technologies practices of developing countries’. She has authored many research articles, papers, reports, and books in ISI, SCI/SSCI, SCOPUS and SCIRUS indexed journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, International Journal of Production Research , International Journal of Production Economics, Annals of Operations Research, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Central European Journal of Operations Research, International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management , Mathematics , Benchmarking: An International Journal , Optimization : A Journal of Mathematical Programming and Operations Research . Her recent titles for the book contributed are ‘Best Practices of Green Supply Chain Management: A Developing Countries Perspectives; Emerald Global Publications’ and ‘Logistics 4.0: Digital Transformation of Supply Chain Management’ CRC Press| Taylor & Francis Group. She has been a keynote speaker at international conferences , editorial board member and guest editor for the topics based on data analytics, optimization and industrial engineering.
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The field of sustainable supply chain management has been abundantly explored from an environmental perspective however the growing focus on holistic sustainable development demands critical perspective on social dimensions also. Consequently, organizations under national and global pressures tend to implement social sustainability measures in their supply chains. While existing research suggests that social sustainability measures are prevalent in developed countries, the developing nations nonetheless require elaborate efforts. This study aims to explore the initiatives and practices adopted by logistics, specifically warehousing operations organizations. Social sustainability practices identified and finalized using Best Worst Method are prioritized for their impact on improving social sustainability footprint of organizations. Considering the importance of Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR) of organization, these practices are explored for measuring the CSR performance. Using survey-based approach data collected from organizations is statistically analyzed by binary logistic regression. The hybrid approach results indicate the importance of contenders for improving social sustainability performance. Contrary to theoretical predictions, ‘training education and development’ is to be checked for improving social footprints of organizations indicating deeper and rigorous approaches. Additionally, ‘corporate ethical responsibility commitment’ towards social reforms and ‘environmental sensitization of labor’ are to be considered serious for corporates and requires further exploring.