Bojan Rosi

• Prof. Ph.D.
• Dean at University of Maribor

The sudden emergence of COVID-19 and the declaration of a pandemic in the year 2020 has significantly impacted all factors of the economy, including international trade of goods. International freight transport (road, rail, air, and maritime) was also affected. The research analyses the changes in the implementation of international freight transpo...

At the beginning of the 21st century, smart cities became a favourite concept worldwide. There are many reasons why cities should be redesigned and continuously evolved into smarter ones. Of course, the realization of a smart society requires the cooperation of all stakeholders and various organizations. The concept of smart cities includes tra...

This article addresses a topic that has rarely been addressed in the available scientific literature, according to our knowledge. It comprehensively defines citizens’ trust in the services, identifies the factors influencing this type of trust, and proposes a model for establishing and maintaining holistic trust. The research described in the artic...

One of the key challenges to model condition monitoring is; how to suitable match the level of detail of the model description of the diagnostic requirements. To do so, a counter-current heat exchanger of the tire factory was investigated. Moreover, a two-stage grey-box modelling was deployed. The modelling is deployed in a discrete state space, re...

Electric load forecasting (ELF) is a vital process in the planning of the electricity industry and plays a crucial role in electric capacity scheduling and power systems management and, therefore, it has attracted increasing academic interest. Hence, the accuracy of electric load forecasting has great importance for energy generating capacity sched...

The article deals with an overview of various theories and studies examining the concepts of partnerships, relationships and strategic alliances. We present various perspectives and theories dealing with these concepts, in connection and interdependence with the supply chain and the supply chain management. In conclusion, we try to establish a mode...

This note considers the implications of the presence of low-cost airlines, and particularly their number, on the economic efficiency of tourist oriented, regional airports. Using a combined programming and econometric framework we examine the economic efficiency of twelve airports in North-east Italy, Slovenia, and Croatia over eight years and how...

In cross-border transport, in particular in air-transport, since 2010 there is the notion of a known consignor. This term is used in connection with an airfreight distribution company, which has introduced appropriate safety and security measures into its business process. Hence, its transport units are considered “safe” and can be handled with few...

With adaptive customer-orientation the efficiency of supply chain management is improved substantially. By the introduction of service quality-based decision-making into supply chain management the quality of service (QoS) within supply chains is expected to improve autonomously and continuously up- and downstream. In the paper the main characteris...

This study assesses the effects of manufacturing execution systems (MES) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems integration in the case of a medium-sized enterprise in the automotive supply chain. An embedded interface was developed to provide bidirectional exchange of messages between the two corresponding databases. Data exchange between...

Competitiveness of rail transport compared to road transport has been reducing, especially on regional railway lines. To improve this situation, the EU adopted various directives and regulations to increase efficiency of railway undertakings. In this paper we present an organizational and economic model based on European policies for local railway...

The study reported here focused on finding a charging model for using regional railway lines. Due to geographical and technological characteristics, such lines are neglected and unused yet have great potential, especially for freight transport. The goal of the research was to calculate marginal maintenance costs of regional rail lines using an econ...

The paper addresses an analysis of potential synergies in collaboration between an observed Port in the Mediterranean Sea and Central-European logistic railway-services based company. Both companies have established a strategic partnership. The main motive was cooperation in rail transport, with a particular emphasis on potential synergies that wou...

The article presents an analytical model of evaluating costs of vehicle use in military logistics adapted to specific construction demands and characteristics of military vehicles, profile (conditions and manner) of use and technological procedures of preventive and remedial maintenance of military vehicles. The proposed model of evaluation enables...

In this paper a simulation analysis of an automated single-tray Vertical Lift Module (VLM) system is presented. Compared to other well-known warehouse systems, a VLM system can provide moderate throughput capacity and lower investment cost. The objective of the study is to investigate benefits of a single-tray VLM system design in terms of reducing...

Traffic is the most widespread source of environmental noise. Railway noise has become increasingly common in urban areas in the past few decades. Therefore environmental requirements for railway operations regarding noise are becoming very strict and will become even tighter in future. In the present paper we present actual track-based field test...

The essence of neoliberalism is one-sidedness that might be resolved by market, if the latter worked. A pandemic is a case of consequences of this over-simplified supposition. It is a difficult event for many; hence it requires social responsibility on the individual, organizational, and societal levels. It is also sufficiently complex and nonrouti...

Social responsibility includes government's role modelling in responsibility for one's impacts over society. European Union suggests application of ISO 26000, which includes interdependence and holistic approach linking all contents; thus, European Union requires systemic behavior. This may include the societal care for population's safety. We disc...

Order picking is one of the most time-consuming activities in warehousing. Having appropriate measurements and accurate data about the real time-requests of different operations like travel time, searching and picking time or setup time is inevitable for making the decisions about further logistics process developments. These parameters and the cor...

This paper focuses on presenting the current research findings on the “Vehicle to Grid” concept and proposes theoretical model of F2G integration in energy management of a warehouse. The study is based on an analysis of collected data and on model calculations of the economic value. Analyses of data, calculations of economic value and profitability...

Risks in logistic processes represent one of the major issues in supply chain management nowadays. Every organization strives for success, and uninterrupted operations are the key factors in achieving this goal, which cannot be achieved without efficient risk management. In the scope of supply chain risk research, we identified some key issues in t...

Risks in supply chains represent one of the major business issues today. Since every organizationstrives for success and uninterrupted operations, efficient supply chain risk management is crucial.During supply chain risk research at the Faculty of Logistics in Maribor (Slovenia) some keyissues in the field were identified, the major being the lack...

Interruptions of electricity supply at the national level are due to a lack of production capacity as well as a lack of transmission capacity, and have an immediate and significant impact on industry, households and other sectors. It is therefore necessary to constantly seek new ways of storing electrical energy and thus have a positive effect on t...

By managing risk on the level of the supply chain we gain insight of all potential threats to all organizations involved in the chain as well as to the supply chain itself, especially to the logistics resources: flow of goods, services and information; logistics infrastructure and suprastructure; and people. Supply chain risk management should repr...

In the past few years traffic volume is increasing. As a consequence, negative external traffic effects are increasing too, in particular CO2 emissions, which result in global warming and climate changes. CO2 emissions, a by-product of vehicles are much higher in cities due to traffic density. According to European standards, Celje is not a large c...

Due to its good geographic position on the crossing of the V. and X. corridor, Slovenia is pursuing transport policy requirements towards the establishment of the pan-European network, despite the fact that in the past few years the development has been mainly directed at improving the road traffic infrastructure. However, the infrastructure develo...

Modern complexity of management is associated with important decision making, confronting a great number of useless information. Selection of information - the choice of only quality ones, i. e. essential ones, is a big problem in management decision-making. Implementation of systemic approach i. e. dialectical-network thinking (DNT) can help to de...

In order to ensure a more efficient and successful management of organisational and business systems a vast amount of theoretical and practical instructions, techniques, methods, etc. are being offered nowadays. Without the knowledge and the application of the science of systems thinking we would not be in a position to integrate the theory and pra...

The original publication is available at JAIST Press http://www.jaist.ac.jp/library/jaist-press/index.html IFSR 2005 : Proceedings of the First World Congress of the International Federation for Systems Research : The New Roles of Systems Sciences For a Knowledge-based Society : Nov. 14-17, 2171, Kobe, Japan Symposium 6, Session 8 : Vision of Knowl...