Jose Alejandro Cano

Universidad de Medellín · Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Administrativas

This article proposes a methodology to support decision-making to select an international market. To do so, an output-oriented data envelopment analysis (DEA) model is used. This methodology takes into account multiple variables such as import tariffs, logistics costs, the ease of doing business, cultural gaps, the value of imports, GDP per capita,...

Este artículo establece las principales limitaciones y razones de no uso y apropiación de tecnologías de información y comunicación (TIC) para el proceso de negociación internacional. Para esto, se lleva a cabo en Colombia una investigación en 380 empresas que realizan operaciones de importación y/o exportación, a las cuales se les aplicó una encue...

Resumen El artículo tiene como objetivo describir una metodología de evaluación y selección de provee-dores basada en un sistema de inferencia difusa (FIS) para el sector minería del oro. Con base en una revisión de la literatura, se desarrolla un sistema difuso conformado por la caracterización del proce-so de compras, variables de entrada y salid...

The article aims to use the mixture design to improve palletizing operation in a Distribution Center (CEDI) through the reduction of operation time. To achieve the goal, a simplex-lattice mixture design is applied to characterize and improve the palletizing operation, which can be considered as an innovation in the state of the art. As a result, we...

This article aims to describe the university students’ career intentions from the theory of planned behavior. Data are obtained from GUESSS, an international research that examines students’ career intentions (founders, employees, successors). The main findings show that in Colombia prevails the intention to be an entrepreneur and students’ career...

The framework of stakeholder pressures in sports industries, and in the specific case of football, has been used to identify the reasons why management bodies incorporate interested parties into their business strategy. This is primarily contingent on the pressures that interested parties generate. One of the most influential stakeholders is the fa...

This chapter presents the principles and fundamentals of the Picker Routing Problem (PRP) to improve the understanding of warehouse routing problems and solution algorithms. This study describes the main considerations for the PRP, formulation of distance and time matrices between storage positions for 2D and 3D warehouses, and solution approaches....

This study analyzes the preferences and perceptions of consumers in e-marketplaces to design and guide sustainable business models based on economic, social, environmental, and technological dimensions. The results are based on a sample of 387 respondents to analyze the main reasons and benefits for using e-marketplaces, the preferences, and percep...

This study presents a bibliometric analysis of stakeholder governance and sustainability in football. The PRISMA statement and the main techniques from the existing bibliometric analysis toolbox are applied to guide the research. The analysis includes 127 documents from Scopus and WoS, covering the period from 2007 to mid-2023, to examine the perfo...

This study aims to present a bibliometric analysis and literature review and to identify publications, main topics, and trends in recent years about the sustainability of logistics operations in e-commerce environments. For this, we considered 99 documents from Scopus published in 2021 and 2022 that address logistics, e-commerce, and sustainability...

The current requirements of many manufacturing companies, such as the fashion, textile, and clothing industries, involve the production of multiple products with different processing routes and products with short life cycles, which prevents obtaining deterministic setup and pro- cessing times. Likewise, several industries present restrictions when...

Introduction. Information and communication technologies (ICT) have changed the way firms conduct their international business transactions, as small, medium and large companies are increasingly adopting these tools in order to improve productivity in operational processes, including the internationalization of goods and services. Objective. This...

The settlement of costs and prices in international business is an essential aspect of the competitiveness of internationalized companies. In this way, the "International Commercial Terms" (Incoterms)® as rules for the involved parties to a contract of international sale of goods become strategic, not only to define the conditions of delivery of th...

Most entrepreneurship studies have an urban focus, and it is studied mainly from the perspective of opportunity exploitation. Rural entrepreneurship presents different characteristics, and it requires analysis from a resource-based view since this kind of entrepreneurial behavior takes place in rural communities under resource constraints. The sust...

In recent years, the rise of e-commerce has prompted the emergence of electronic marketplaces, or e-marketplaces, which act as intermediaries in the buying and selling process, bringing together several vendors to offer a wide range of products and services to customers, generating modalities such as business-to-business (B2B), business-to-consumer...

The United Nations announced its 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development worldwide in 2015. Comprehensive assessments of member states’ performance towards achieving the related UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have since become a major challenge for national and subnational governments. This article presents a bibliometric analysis on the a...

This study aims to minimize the travel time in multi-block high-level storage systems considering height level constraints for picking devices to leave aisles. Considering these operating environments, the formulation of minimum travel times between each pair of storage positions is proposed and the picker routing problem (PRP) is solved by means o...

This article proposes a governance approach for the prioritization of sustainable development goals (SDGs) in the city of Medellín (Colombia, South America). The governance approach proposed in this study stems from the articulation of technical and participatory approaches. The technical approach took as reference the document CONPES 3918, which d...

This article solves the order batching, batch assignment, and sequencing problem (JOBASP) given multiple objectives and heterogeneous picking vehicles in multi-parallel-aisle warehouse systems. A multi-objective grouping genetic algorithm (GGA) is developed to minimize total travel time and total tardiness by implementing an encoding scheme where a...

This article presents an indicator weighting method for constructing composite indices to assess sustainable development at the subnational level. The study uses an analytic hierarchy process (AHP), which is considered relevant, since it establishes links between the indicators that make up the different sustainable development goals (SDG). For thi...

This article aims to improve the secondary distribution process in a mass consumer company implementing technologies, such as transport management system (TMS) to achieve the objectives set by the company. A DMAIC based methodology is proposed to define and solve structured problems related to secondary distribution, following the performance of th...

This article aims to assess the air quality in the Aburrá Valley using a composite air quality index (CAQIAV). A multi-criteria methodology is used for the construction of the index, consisting of a framework for the selection, standardization, weighting, and aggregation of indicators. The proposed methodology generated three monthly and annual val...

The supply chain has become a key element of increasing the productivity and competitiveness of companies. To achieve this, it is essential to implement a strategy based on the use of technologies, which depends on knowledge of the scope and impact of logistics technologies. Therefore, this article aims to identify the main technologies supporting...

This paper introduces a grouped genetic algorithm (GGA) to solve the order batching and sequencing problem with multiple pickers (OBSPMP) with the objective of minimizing total completion time. To the best of our knowledge, for the first time, an OBSPMP is solved by means of GGA considering picking devices with heterogeneous load capacity. For this...

This study aims to minimize the total traveled distance for the picker routing problem (PRP) by assessing 2D multi-block warehouses. The PRP is responsible for planning tours to visit different storage positions to satisfy the requirements of each customer order. Therefore, the minimum distances between each pair of storage locations to visit on a...

This work is focused on target 10.3 of the 2030 Agenda, which seeks to “Ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome, including by eliminating discriminatory laws, policies, and practices and promoting appropriate legislation, policies and action in this regard”. To analyze the economic implications of this target, this study focuses...

This article aims to propose a fuzzy model for closed-loop material requirement planning (MRP) systems considering uncertain parameters like production capacity, on-hand inventory and lead times. For this, a deterministic closed-loop MRP model is proposed, and then fuzzy coefficients in the constraints of the model are used to establish the fuzzy M...

This paper aims to model a consumer goods cross-docking problem, which is solved using metaheuristics to minimize makespan and determine the capacity in terms of inbound and outbound docks. The consumer-goods cross-docking problem is represented through inbound and outbound docks, customer orders (products to be delivered to customers), and metaheu...

Studies related to sustainability have been performed extensively around the world to evaluate the environmental, economic, and social impact of practices that meet the current and future needs of society. Based on the Scopus database, this study presents a bibliometric analysis for the long, medium, and short term to represent the characteristics...

Put-away operations typically consist of moving products from depots to allocated storage locations using either operators or Material Handling Equipment (MHE), accounting for important operative costs in warehouses and impacting operations efficiency. Therefore, this paper aims to formulate and solve a Put-away Routing Problem (PRP) in distributio...

El requisito de fabricar nuevos buques de carga utilizando nuevas tecnologías de reducción de emisiones de azufre es una de las implicaciones del Anexo VI del Convenio Internacional para la Prevención de la Contaminación por los Buques (MARPOL). Por lo tanto, el propósito de este artículo es analizar a través de una búsqueda especializada en la lit...

Este estudio analiza los factores que afectan la configuración y consolidación de los puertos verdes en Colombia. Para este propósito, se realiza un estudio de caso de los puertos de carga marítima de Cartagena, Barranquilla y Santa Marta abordando entrevistas semiestructuradas para identificar los factores que contribuyen a la consolidación de los...

Este artículo tiene como objetivo presentar un método de ponderación de indicadores para la construcción de índices compuestos con el fin de evaluar el desarrollo sostenible a nivel subnacional. Para ello, se utiliza un proceso analítico jerárquico (AHP) de comparaciones por pares, que se considera relevante para este tema ya que permite establecer...

Esta investigación tiene como objetivo desarrollar un modelo de planificación de producción agregada para generar estrategias de producción óptimas en el mediano plazo para empresas del sector textil. Para esto se desarrolla un modelo de planificación de producción agregada denominado PLAG, que minimiza los costos de mano de obra, costos de gestión...

This study analyzes the factors affecting the configuration and consolidation of green ports in Colombia. For this purpose a case stady of maritime cargo ports of Cartagena, Barranquilla and Santa Marta is performed addressing semiestructured interviews to identify the factors contributing to the consolidation of green ports and the factors guiding...

This article explores the challenges for the adoption of scrubbers and low sulfur fuels on ship manufacturers and shipping companies. Results show that ship manufacturers, must finance their working capital and operating costs, which implies an increase in the prices of the ships employing these new technologies. On the other hand, shipping compani...

A partir de la apertura económica en Colombia, algunos sectores económicos han tenido que afrontar importantes retos a fin de competir con productos extranjeros, tal y como sucede con el sector lácteo. De este modo, este artículo plantea un análisis general entre la apertura económica y el comportamiento del sector lácteo en Colombia, considerando...

A partir de la apertura económica en Colombia, algunos sectores económicos han tenido que afrontar importantes retos a fin de competir con productos extranjeros, tal y como sucede con el sector lácteo. De este modo, este artículo plantea un análisis general entre la apertura económica y el comportamiento del sector lácteo en Colombia, considerando...

Este artículo analiza la metodología del costeo ABC típica en las etapas de identificación de actividades y recursos, así como en las etapas de definición de inductores primarios y secundarios. La revisión de la literatura en el periodo 2010-2020 no detecta la aplicación del ABC en la logística de la cadena de suministros. Por tanto, se realiza un...

This article introduces several mathematical formulations for the joint order picking problem (JOPP) in low-level picker-to-part warehousing systems. In order to represent real warehousing environments, the proposed models minimize performance measures such as travel distance, travel time and tardiness, considering multi-block warehouses, due dates...

This chapter details the performance evaluation of routing policies and proposes a routing heuristic to determine the minimum traveled distance for different warehouse configurations and pick-list sizes. Numerical experiments are performed considering warehouse configurations used in literature and list sizes are chosen proportional to the number o...

This article describes new minimum travel time formulations for the picker routing problem (PRP) in 3-D warehouses based on real operating conditions, such as height reference levels, to leave aisles and to pick devices with simultaneous and sequential movements. This study validated the proposed formulations through an experimental design, statist...

This article aims to validate the parameters of a genetic algorithm for the order batching problem (OBP) in warehouses by defining the parameter values offering the best solution performance. Thus, a description of the OBP and the solution approaches based on item- oriented and group-oriented genetic algorithms are introduced. Then, the characteris...

This article aims to identify different literature reviews of supplier selection to analyze the topics addressed in these documents, and suggest research opportunities for future literature reviews in issues that have not been addressed in the literature or require a deeper approach. This study states that the majority of existing literature review...

This article presents a genetic algorithm (GA) to solve the picker routing problem in multiple-block warehouses in order to minimize the traveled distance. The GA uses survival, crossover, immigration, and mutation operators, and is complemented by a local search heuristic. The genetic algorithm provides average distance savings of 13.9% when compa...

The textile and clothing industry in Colombia is facing several challenges that have motivated the redesign and optimization of production and logistics processes to remain competitive in global markets. The purpose of this paper is to introduce operations management strategies to create value and address the intense competition in both the nationa...

La explotación sexual comercial de niños, niñas y adolescentes (ESCNNA) es un delito que va en aumento a nivel mundial, y que preocupa a todas las agendas internacionales al ser un tipo de abuso sexual que vulnera altamente los derechos de niños, niñas y adolescentes (NNA). Este estudio tiene como objetivo identificar los conocimientos que los estu...

Una de las peores formas de vulnerar los derechos de los niños, niñas y adolescentes (NNA) es a través de la explotación sexual comercial (ESC). Esta violencia sexual afecta doblemente a los menores de edad, ya que además de ser abusados sexualmente, son utilizados con fines lucrativos. Este estudio tiene como objetivo identificar las actitudes y l...

Este artículo tiene como objetivo identificar las diferentes revisiones de literatura de selección de proveedores, con el fin de analizar las temáticas allí abordadas, y sugerir oportunidades de investigación para realizar futuras revisiones de literatura en aspectos que no se han abordado en la literatura, o que requieren de continuidad y ampliaci...

La explotación sexual de niños, niñas y adolescentes (ESCNNA) es un delito que va en aumento a nivle mundial, y que preocupa a todas las agendas internacionales al ser un tipo de abuso sexual que vulnera altamente los derechos de los niños, niñas y adolescentes (NNA). Este estudio tiene como objetivo identificar los conocimientos que los estudiante...

Una de las peores formas de vulnerar los derechos de los niños, niñas y adolescentes (NNA) es a través de la explitación sexual comercial (ESC). Esta violencia sexual afecta doblemente a los menores de edad, ya que además de ser abusados sexualmente, son utilizados con fines lucrativos. Este estudio tiene como objetivo identificar las actitudes y l...

This article aims to present a teaching methodology based on learning-doing and service-learning approaches for logistics training in business managers. This with the aim of responding to the real needs of companies and allowing the appropriation of knowledge and skills offered in undergraduate university courses. Through student surveys, it is det...

This article aims to introduce mathematical programming models for the joint order batching and picker routing problem (JOBPRP) and joint order batching, sequencing and routing problem (JOBSPRP). For this, we present formulations for the traveled distance and travel time between picking positions in low-level and high-level picker-to-part systems (...

This article aims to identify the level of use and the benefits offered by information and communication technologies (ICT) for the international business academic programs in the universities. For this purpose, a perception study in 14 universities of Antioquia, Colombia is carried out. Based on the results, it is concluded that websites and socia...

El propósito de este artículo es ofrecer una metodología cuantitativa para la selección de mercados para pequeñas y medianas em- presas (PYMES), de fácil implementación y comprensión que pondera factores de costo, logística, barreras comerciales, y cultura. En dicha metodología se analizan variables que determinan de un modo objetivo la selección d...

Este artículo tiene como objetivo desarrollar un algoritmo genético para minimizar la distancia recorrida en almacenes y centros de distribución donde se aplica el problema de conformación de lotes para la preparación de pedidos. Para esto, se propone una nueva representación de soluciones, en la cual cada gen de un cromosoma representa una orden d...

Este estudio tiene como objetivo reconocer las ventajas y funcionalidades que brindan las tecnologías de información y comunicación (TIC) a los pregrados de negocios internacionales, así como identificar las TIC más utilizadas en estos. Para esto, se propone una metodología en la cual se efectúa un estudio de campo basado en una encuesta semi-estru...

Este artículo caracteriza la red de datos de las empresas del sector público de Cúcuta-Colombia, por lo cual se realiza una revisión de normas y estándares internacionales para la estructuración de redes de datos empresariales. Se identifican oportunidades de mejora en la implantación de las normas y estándares analizados, y en la integración de la...

This article aims to provide a quantitative methodology of easy implementation and understanding in order to support the international market selection (IMS). The proposed methodology allows weighing factors related to cost, logistics, trade barriers, and culture. In order to validate the proposed methodology, we study the international market sele...

Currently, several lawsuits have been established into the World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement body related with the use of some trade policies where countries block their exports abroad as a sort of protectionism which is not entirely regulated by the multilateral trading system. Therefore, this scenario is pushing states to sign par...

Introduction. Nowadays Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have improved the processes in organizations and enterprises. In this sense, international business negotiations can be optimized with these tools allowing that small, medium and large enterprises also increase their proficiency and performance in this kind of operation. Accord...

This article aims to propose and implement an aggregated production planning model to provide optimal strategies in the medium term for a textile company, for which a linear programming model is proposed to minimise total costs associated with labour and inventory levels. The model proposed takes into account characteristics associated with fabric...

Despite critical research on career choice intentions, we lack understanding of the antecedents to career choice intentions of successors, especially in emerging economy contexts. Building on the theory of planned behavior and with data obtained from GUESSS project, the article aims to analyze university students’ career choice intentions within a...

This article identifies the main characteristics of nascent and active entrepreneurs. We use the information from the GUESSS Colombia 2013/2014 study. Main findings show that the rate of nascent and active entrepreneurs in Colombia is higher than worldwide and that the main industry sector of planned and existing firms are trade and ICT industries....

El problema de programación de los recursos en las líneas de producción es cada vez más complejo debido los continuos cambios en las tendencias del mercado, por lo que es importante desarrollar metodologías que permitan a las empresas alcanzar los objetivos productivos al menor costo. En este artículo se presenta una metodología basada en simulació...

El presente artículo tiene como objetivo revisar y analizar la problemática actual del sector textil - confección, diseño y moda en Colombia, derivada de factores externos relacionados con la situación socioeconómica del país, las políticas de importación y exportación, la competencia desleal, las constantes reformas tributarias, entre muchos otros...

Since GATT and WTO foundation, some disputes have occurred between their full member regarding the adoption of export restrictions, which has generated a neo-protectionism or "reverse protectionism", which is not yet properly regulated within the multilateral trading system. This article aims to present an analysis of the export restrictions in int...

En este artículo se modela el slotting de mínimo costo en centros de distribución, considerando múltiples SKU y sistemas de almacenamiento heterogéneos. Para esto, se implementa un método de optimización, un metaheurístico de búsqueda tabú y una regla empírica. Como resultado de un diseño de experimentos, se obtiene que el tamaño de lista de acomod...

This article aims to identify the effects generated by the economic openness as trade policy in the Colombian dairy industry. Through the analysis of different variables at the national level and in the Latin American-Caribbean region, we found that the Colombian dairy industry have high levels of tariff protectionism reflecting internal problems o...

Since GATT and WTO foundation, some disputes have occurred between their full member regarding the adoption of export restrictions, which has generated a neo-protectionism or "reverse protectionism", which is not yet properly regulated within the multilateral trading system. This article aims to present an analysis of the export restrictions in int...

Este artículo tiene como objetivo solucionar un problema NP-Hard de planificación de producción con variables estocásticas en una planta de confección modular de una gran empresa con el fin de minimizar costos por lote, a través de un modelo de programación mixta, el cual se basa en resultados arrojados por un modelo de simulación de eventos discre...

This article aims to solve a NP-Hard production planning problem with stochastic variables in a modular manufacturing plant of a large company.In order to minimize costs per batch amixed programming model is proposed, which is based on results of a discrete simulation model executed in MSExcel and VBApplications. The simulation model presents varia...

This article aims to develop a methodology for the international market selection (IMS), using fuzzy logic for the uncertainty of the variables in the market evaluation. Therefore, several procedures are proposed, including market pre-selection, criteria definition, criteria weighting, data collection, data variability and a market evaluation model...

This paper evaluates various routing policies (s-shape, largest gap, return and composite policies) and introduces a novel heuristic called Minimum Heuristic (MinH) to solve the picker routing problem. The performance of the routing policies and the MinH heuristic is validated by an experimental design, varying the number of aisles, locations per a...

In this paper, we study the computation time of routing policies for the picker routing problem in order to determine the feasibility of the simultaneous use of these policies in picking problems. For this, programming details of routing policies are shown, and simulations considering different warehouse sizes and pick list sizes are performed. Tak...

En este artículo se diseña una metodología de autoevaluación para la acreditación de programas académicos de pregrado de alta calidad. Se analizan actividades para las etapas de ponderación, recolección de información, emisión de juicios y planes de acción, basadas en los requerimientos del Consejo Nacional de Acreditación (CNA) de Colombia. La met...

This article describes the determining factors of entrepreneurial intention in Colombia university students from GUESSS study data. The determinants of entrepreneurial intention are studied from the theory of planned behavior (TPB) through the variables of perceived desirability, perceived behavioral control and perceived social norms. Thus, the ma...

This article presents the design and implementation of a Balanced Scorecard (BSC) in a medium-sized company in Colombia, providing synthetic indicators for objectives, perspectives, and business strategies through key performance indicators (KPIs) and a hierarchical weighting method. The BSC combines the subjectivity in assigning weights to KPIs, o...