Mohd kamarul Irwan Abdul Rahim

Universiti Utara Malaysia | UUM · School of Technology Management & Logistics (STML)

The inventory-routing problem (IRP) is a typical logistics optimisation problem that supply chains, implementing vendor managed inventory (VMI), are confronted with. It combines inventory control and vehicle routing. The main objective of the IRP is to jointly determine optimal quantities of the product to be delivered to the retailers, delivery pe...

This paper considers a two-stage supply chain, consisting of a single warehouse and multiple retailers facing deterministic demands, under a vendor-managed inventory (VMI) policy. It presents a two-phase optimisation approach for coordinating the shipments in this VMI system. The first phase uses direct shipping from the supplier to all retailers t...

In a two-stage supply chain, implementing Vendor Managed Inventory policies (VMI), the supplier assumes, in addition to his own inbound inventory, the responsibility of maintaining inventory at its retailers and ensuring that they will not run out of stock at any moment. This paper discusses an optimization approach, considering the impact of deman...

Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) is an effective policy of integration between the different stages in a supply chain system. In VMI, the supplier takes the responsibility of maintaining inventory at its retailers and ensuring that they will not run out of stock at any moment. The aim of this paper is to optimize the inventory holding costs and the t...

In a two-stage supply chain system, vendor managed inventory (VMI) policies is an integrating decisions between a supplier and his retailers. The supplier assumes the responsibility of maintaining inventory at its retailers and ensuring that they will not run out of stock at any moment. This paper discusses an optimization approach, considering the...

Pressmud is one of the most abundant wastes produced by the sugarcane industry. However, it has received far too little attention as a reactive material for pollutant removal, although its beneficial effect on soil fertility and crop productivity is well established. This paper investigates the potential of pressmud to minimize heavy metal migratio...

Municipal solid waste landfills are major sources of environmental pollution. This study evaluated heavy metal concentrations in soils around Pulau Burung Landfill, Penang, Malaysia, to determine the pollution potential of a landfill. Soil samples were collected at depths of 0–20 cm (top), 20–40 cm (center) and 40–60 cm (bottom) around the landfill...

In Malaysia, there are some accumulation of sugar refinery byproducts with a lot of this material not being utilized in a productive manner, while, these byproducts had the great potential when mixed into agricultural soils as organic fertilizer with many of benefits that can improve soil health, and sustainable agronomic productivity. Pressmud or...

This paper is presented a new design of innovative wheelchair which contributed to health care by using SolidWorks software and 3D printing. The combination function of wheelchair can help the user as a walking aid or the user can control the wheelchair through the wheels in both side of wheelchair. The number of wheelchair design distributed aroun...

Malaysia is currently facing challenges in finding the right mix of energy sources for achieving sustainable energy supply. In term of fuel cell technology development, Malaysia is lacking the economic and infrastructure factors, besides local expertise, public perception, and industrial support. In fact, fuel cell technology at the present time is...

This paper constructs the problem of dealing inventory and the transportation in the supply chain in the agriculture industry, also to investigate the capabilities of the distribution process of perishable products (vegetables) from the distribution centre (DC) to a set of customers to minimize the total operational cost. This research proposed an...

The purpose of this paper is to perform a systematic literature review (SLR) on lean manufacturing (LM) adoption in Malaysia while highlighting research trends and gaps from this literature. The SLR involved analysing 163 scholarly articles from international journals and conference proceedings published between the year 2005 to 2019. The articles...

Toyota Manufacturing Company revival after World War II and its survival during 1973 global oil crisis had inspired many manufacturing organisations around the world to initiate lean transformation. However, due to lack of clear understanding of the lean sustainability concept, many manufacturers are unable to fully transform into a true lean orga...

MOOCs continuance intention is an open question as the completion rates and the overall use of the system were substantially low. This study developed a research model consisting of four contributing factors related to MOOCs features, namely usefulness, enjoyment, interactivity and openness in order to understand how these factors affect MOOCs cont...

Based on previous empirical studies, there has been interesting debate about socio-cultural effects on consumers' housing preferences. As a multi-cultural country with societal polarization, Malaysia's housing market poses an interesting question; do socio-cultural factors affect consumers' housing preferences and purchase priority? If so, which fa...

Vendor managed inventory (VMI) is an illustration of effective partnering and collaboration practices between upstream and downstream points in a supply chain. VMI policy is an integrating decision between a supplier and the customers in which the supplier takes the accountability of sustaining the customers’ inventory while confirming that no stoc...

AHP is one of important technology management tools for decision making that is used during technology selection process, and applied prior to acquisition of a new technology. In the last decade, AHP was discussed by numerous studies, covering wide-variety of areas, focusing on many criteria and sub-criteria, for the purposes of selecting, allocati...

This article is a review of definitions and terminologies used in existing literature related to application of Lean System in manufacturing environment. The article is made to provide clear insight and comparisons on various terms used in contemporary academic journals, books and published theses on the subject of Lean System. This review realises...

This articleis a review of definitions and terminologies used in existing literatures related to application of Lean Systemin manufacturing environment. The article is made to provide clear insight and comparisons on various terms used incontemporary academicjournals, booksand published theseson the subject of Lean System.This review realizes that...

This article seeks to provide research opportunities in supply chain networks. For manufacturing industries, materials supply is an essential input to the production process for a sustainability value creation for firms and stakeholders. However, due to several reasons have caused issues to material short supplies in the production process that cau...

The aim of this conceptual paper is to examine the inventory performance focusing on days of supply. Problem focal towards the context of inventory performance further narrow down to the capability of the relevant corporate governance mechanisms in managing inventory. Basically as far as concern to corporate governance study mainly focus on financi...

The demand for quality product has encouraged organizations to adopt the criteria of sustainable product development that can affect organizational performance. The objectives of developing sustainable product are to satisfy customers, achieve sustainability in business and meet stakeholders' demand on the industry. Nevertheless, adopting the crite...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have been playing a pivotal role among the latest e-learning initiative and obtain widespread popularity in many universities including Malaysian Universities. The perceived usefulness of MOOCs can be described as the extent to which a person believes that MOOCs can be driving force towards achieving learning goa...

Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) is well-known as the second generation of multivariate statistical analysis to correlate the relationship between multiple variables namely the latent construct. Lately, the popularity using PLS-SEM is growing within the Variance-Based (VB) SEM community. There is still a great number of...

Previous researches have validated that students' intention to continue use MOOCs was mainly determined by Usefulness and Enjoyment. This paper takes a different approach from previous studies and postulates that relationship between Usefulness and Enjoyment on MOOCs Continuance Intention are moderated by Internet Self-efficacy. Partial Least Squar...

A worldwide market inventory is one of the biggest and most significant resources of a manufacturing industry. ABC analysis is one of the techniques used comprehensively in manufacturing industries for inventory classification. The ABC inventory classification technique has an efficient control on a huge amount of inventory items. The ABC inventory...

The implementation of the Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) in the Malaysian manufacturing sector can be viewed as a solution to mitigate the increment of operational costs and low performance in customer services. Many factors contributed to the performance of the VMI programme, but only a few attempts was made to determine the contribution of the VM...

MOOC is a new extension of e-learning that allow a massive amount of learners to learn on an open and online learning environment. The effectiveness of MOOCs however, is an open question as the completion rates and the overall use of the system are substantially low. This situation leads to raising the question of the long term usage of the technol...

This study aims to investigate the role of Interactivity and Enjoyment has towards the continuance intention to use MOOCs. A sample of 112 participants in Malaysia that have already used Malaysia MOOCs program took part in this study. Correlation and multiple regression analyses were conducted to test the research hypotheses. The findings from the...

This paper considers the problem of managing inventory and routing problems in a two-stage supply chain system under a Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) policy. VMI policy is an integrating decisions between a supplier and the customers. Thus, we assumed that the demand at each customer is stationary and the warehouse is implementing a VMI. The focus...

Quality management practices are important agenda to be implemented by the manufacturing for their survival. Different sector of industries has different element of quality management practices, this study it concern varying constructs of quality practices are required to be implemented according to their field. This study also is to examine the re...

In the contemporary world, innovation has become the hype in the manufacturing industry in achieving competitive advantage. As an intriguing concept, technology scanning capability has attracted many researchers from a variety of disciplines. However, a specific context of the scanning concept, a firm's scanning capability on technology-related inf...

The association between the corporate governance and the inventory performance been discussed in this paper. Corporate governance mechanisms include board size and managerial ownership with the inventory performance that include days of supply. Best practices in corporate world are being the utmost distinct and important for stakeholders and shareh...

This paper considers the problem of managing inventory and routing problems in a two- stage supply chain system under a Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) policy. VMI is an inventory management policy in which the supplier assumes the responsibility of maintaining the inventory at the customers while ensuring that they will not run out of stock. The de...

The primary purpose of this study is to empirically examine the relationships between lean production and business performance in Malaysian manufacturing industries. Grounded by the Sociotechnical System Theory and the Program Theory, this study formulates and examines a conceptual model that links socially-oriented lean production, technically-ori...

Vendor managed inventory (VMI) is a management policy in which the supplier implements the responsibility of maintaining the inventory at the retailers to confirm that they will not run out of stock. Under the VMI policy, the supplier takes responsibility for managing the retailers. Moreover, delivery times to the retailers are no longer set by res...

Sewage system which is considered as a way of managing and transporting wastewater from its unhealthy and unhygienic state, treated and recycled to be used for the daily water source activities. It has always been considered that sewer pipe blockage, being a serious problem when it comes to sewage system therefore creating series of backdrop in the...

This paper contribute towards factors of delay as a whole in Malaysian construction sector by application of Industrialized Building System (IBS). Similarly to other developed countries, Malaysia getting benefits through returns from construction industry, as identified through Gross Domestic Product (GDP). However, there are still some issues in t...

In a two-stage supply chain system, vendor managed inventory policies (VMI) is an integrating decisions between a supplier and his customers. The supplier assumes the responsibility of maintaining inventory at its customers and ensuring that they will not run out of stock at any moment. The objective of this paper is to optimize the inventory and t...

This paper discusses the problem of efficiently managing inventory and routing problems in a two-level supply chain system. Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) policy is an integrating decisions between a supplier and his customers. We assumed that the demand at each customer is stationary and the warehouse is implementing a VMI. The objective of this p...

Global competition in the automotive industry has encouraged companies to implement quality management practices in all managerial aspects to ensure customer satisfaction in products and reduce costs. Therefore, guaranteeing only product quality is insufficient without considering product sustainability, which involves economic, environment, and so...

Most of the construction stakeholders around the world especially in developing countries are not really aware of the Resource Recovery approaches in contemporary construction projects. Previous studies reported that Resource Recovery issues received less attention from the construction industry stakeholders compared to construction costs and time...

Competition among the automotive industry has encouraged companies to implement quality management practices in all managerial aspects to ensure customer and stakeholder satisfactions. Therefore, guaranteeing only product quality is insufficient without considering sustainable product development, which involves economic, environment, and social el...

Graphical abstract Abstract This study is discussing about the usage and ownership of technology by SMEs. Technoware is one of the four components of technology that has been highlighted by the researchers. The other components are Humanware, Infoware and Orgaware. Technoware has its elements of its own. A total of 51 Bumiputera SMEs in manufacturi...

The Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) has long been implemented by many corporations due to its various positive effects it has towards the company’s performance. At the same time, a number of success stories of VMI program have also been discussed by numerous authors. However, until now, there is no concrete conclusion on VMI has been clarified. Ther...

One of the most significant paradigm shifts of present business management is that individual businesses no longer participate as solely independent entities, but rather as supply chains (Lambert and Cooper, 2000). Therefore, the management of multiple relationships across the supply chain such as flow of materials, information, and finances is bei...

Nawi, M.N.M (2008) kajian perspektif di kalangan pemaju perumahan tentang system binaan banggunan berindustri (IBS) di negeri kedah dan perlis. Abstrak Sektor pembinaan berasaskan industri atau 'Industrialised Building System' merupakan salah satu daripada inovasi di dalam teknologi pembinaan bangunan. Sistem ini diyakini dapat membantu di dalam me...