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Julian Nanayakkara

Julian Nanayakkara
University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka · Department Of Industrial Management

B.Sc. Eng (Hon) Sri Lanka, Ph.D. (Strath UK)

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Introduction
About 50 years of teaching, research and industrial consultancy experience at the university level I have engaged in the development of curriculum at the Universities, Technical Colleges and schools in the field of Industrial Systems Engineering, technology and engineering.
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September 2001 - February 2018
University of Kelaniya
Position
  • Senior Lecturer Grade I (Retired)
Description
  • Teaching, Research and Consultancy.
February 1975 - August 2001
University of Moratuwa Sri Lanka
Position
  • Senior Lecturer (Grade I)
Description
  • Teaching, Research and Consultancy.

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Publications (43)
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Purpose The suppliers are recognized as important external sources who can significantly contribute by working together with the buyer during the innovation process. Operational capabilities of suppliers can be one of the considerable factors when selecting them to participate in the activities at the front-end of innovation. However, proper unders...
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Sri Lankan apparel industry is the most significant and driving contributor to the country's economy by constituting a large portion of GDP. In the highly competitive apparel world, manufacturers search solutions for problems such as worker inadequacy while minimizing the human impact. Therefore, there is a need for apparel manufacturers to enhance...
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Purpose The main purpose of this paper is to assess the technological view of apparel new product development (NPD) process through a framework for improving the efficiency of NPD process in Sri Lankan apparel industry. Design/methodology/approach The study uses literature review, a survey and in-depth interviews of industry experts for data colle...
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In order to cater to the increasing demand of rice, it is necessary to raise the average yield of paddy and quality of paddy significantly through best practices in planning, sourcing and delivery stages of the rice supply chain activities. The choice of reference processes during the design phase is of utmost importance for a paddy supply chains"...
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The emergence of Health 4.0 has become significant due to the development of technologies worldwide. Hence, the latest technologies have to be attuned and the competencies of employees should be altered to adapt the features of Industry 4.0. An empirical gap has been identified in the field of health 4.0 in a global context with expert reviews base...
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Blood Supply Chain Management is highly critical as ensuring the availability of the right blood type at the right demand point, in the right quantity, at the right time is a matter of life and death. The overall objective of this study is to explore the optimization approaches in inventory management of blood supply chains. A review of literature...
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Sri Lankan apparel industry is the most significant contributor to the country's economy by constituting a large portion of GDP. In the competitive apparel world, manufacturers search solutions for future problems such as worker inadequacy to minimize human intervention to increase productivity. Therefore, there is a need to align value chain opera...
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When cities are growing in both size and complexity, the freight distribution and management make a significant challenge for transportation management. Freight transportation execution is one of the main sectors that is looked into when planning. The concept of city logistics explicitly tries to optimize the urban transport network and many optimi...
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In an airline, fleet-related assignment decisions are crucial to the overall airline profitability and these are being subjected to increasing complexities with time. Aircraft assignments are concerned with the allocation of a profitable aircraft to flights, given the constraints of airline fleet and flights the airline operates; the objective is t...
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Sri Lankan apparel industry is the most significant and driving contributor to the country’s economy by constituting a large portion of GDP. It has achieved rapid growth rates over the past four decades. In the highly competitive apparel world, manufacturers search solutions for future problems such as worker inadequacy and for minimizing the human...
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Blood Supply Chain Management is highly critical, as ensuring the availability of the right blood type, at the right place, in the right quantity, at the right time is a matter of life and death. Unlike other products, there is no substitute to human blood. Therefore, there is an increasing need of wisely managing this invaluable resource. Studies...
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People with Physical Disabilities (PPDs) can effectively contribute towards economic growth by enhancing their employability if their residual physical capabilities are correctly identified. Therefore, the aim of the research was to identify typical manual WAs and RMs of PPDs. The objectives were to identify typical manual WAs in industry and to id...
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Purpose Organization’s core competencies are acknowledged as most valuable assets and skills which contribute to enhance the ability of innovation, the competitive advantage and commercial success of the business. Although several researchers have studied the effects of core competencies on the success of an organization, no enough work has been ca...
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Front-end decisions focus on identifying the best approaches and conceptual ideas for a successful innovation process that would yield greater benefits from proposed financial investments. Hence, they are considered as forming the roots of success of the innovation process. Although scholars have emphasized the importance of front-end decisions for...
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Last mile logistics is the most time consuming and expensive stage of the delivery process. Facing the competitiveness of E-commerce with the rapidly fluctuating consumer demand is one of the biggest challenges faced by most of the companies. Further, Last mile delivery performance became the most crucial factor of the relationship between E-commer...
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Colombo - the commercial capital of Sri Lanka is gradually being transformed into a Megacity with the urbanization and industrialization. Having experienced the consequences of unplanned and non-systematic nature of freight transportation in Colombo city, authorities have come up with a megacity development strategic plan- The Western Region Megapo...
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No: 234 Sri Lankan apparel industry is the most significant and driving contributor to the country's economy by constituting a large portion of GDP. It has achieved rapid growth rates over the past four decades. In the highly competitive apparel world, manufacturers search solutions for future problems such as worker inadequacy to minimize human in...
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Supplier involvement is considered as one of the best practices and that should be a part of the product development strategy to assure successful product innovation to add value to new products. Though the literature reports various propositions on supplier involvement, in general in product innovation, yet little is known regarding how it works i...
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The objective of this study is to propose a feasible technology transfer and cooperation mechanism in order to overcome the barriers that the country face in developing the renewable energy sector of Sri Lanka. Two cases pertaining to the development of wind power sector in India and China were studied to propose a plausible renewable energy techno...
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People with disabilities (PWDs) account for about 15% of the world population, and they need to be provided with opportunities for comfortable living. There are reported models to categorise PWDs, but none support to identify their capabilities and limitations. This has limited their employability with their residual capabilities depriving them of...
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The product development process is recognised as a key element for ensuring long term success and sustainability of organisations. Constantly reevaluating the strategy and tactics of product development is deemed to be vital to better manage the process of creating more 'on-point' products. Thus, the main focus of this research is to assess how dee...
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Literature states that most successful corporations and nations have used scenarios as a tool to lead the energy sector. Accordingly, the objective of this paper is to develop scenarios of Sri Lankan energy future to picture the Sri Lankan renewable energy sector by year 2030. This study presents a seven step scenario development model to develop s...
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Innovation is recognized as a mandatory requirement to enhance, distinguish and differentiate the products offered to create additional value as perceived by the customer within the fast changing business environment. Though the literature proposes various innovation process models, yet little is known regarding how to maintain the innovation proce...
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The key success factors of the rice supply chain are regarded as a potentially useful resource in structuring the performance of mud-to-mouth supply chain network. Improving the profitability of the farmer requires adoption of best operational practices for improving the performance of the sector throughout the supply chain. This study mainly focus...
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As per the International Energy Agency (IEA) 2009 report, rapidly growing energy demand in developing countries is projected to double by 2030. After ending the three decades of civil war, the Sri Lankan economy has also shown a robust growth; hence the country has shown a continuous growth in energy demand. In 1995 Sri Lanka met 95% of the total e...
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Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) compose a large portion of Sri Lankan economy due to their significant contribution in terms of employment, domestic resource usage, innovation, exports, regional development, and stimulating other economic activities. This sector is believed to be the 'backbone' of both developed and developing economies. Theref...
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Though Sri Lanka has the highest potential to self-sufficient with renewable energy as of year 2012 more than 70% of country's electricity requirements were met with imported fossil fuels. Most of the renewable energy technology options have been analysed based on technical grounds. But studies indicate that numbers of social, technological, econom...
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The agriculture sector will continue to play an important role in the application of strategies targeted towards socio-economic development of Sri Lanka. At present, rice sector in Sri Lanka faces a number of constraints related to production, technical, institutional and natural resource base and socio-economic policy. Need for improving quality o...
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Though Sri Lanka's current carbon footprint is much less than the global vale, the country's existing and planned economic developments which in turn raised the demand for power has resulted an increase in GHG emission. The GHGs are emitted mostly by burning of fossil fuels for energy generation including transport. Thus one of the most effective w...
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In 1995 Sri Lanka produced 95% of the grid electrical energy needs from conventional hydro power plants. But today Sri Lanka's electricity generation sector is largely dominated by fossil fuel sources. Though the Sri Lanka's current carbon foot print is much less than the global average, rising energy demand has resulted in escalated greenhouse gas...
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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a game plan for planning and monitoring all of the resources of a business organization. It has been recognized as an effective management system leading to excellent planning and scheduling capability and significant improvements in productivity. It also provides dramatic increases in customer service, and imp...

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