Roberto Cespòn

• Dr. Eng.
• Professor (Full) at Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de las Villas (UCLV)

The procedure developed allows self-assessment according to the level of certification chosen.

El presente artículo propone una metodología para calcular el valor agregado sostenible de los procesos (SVA) que forman una cadena de suministro (CS), mediante un indicador integral. Consta de seis pasos y utiliza como métodos el Análisis del Ciclo de Vida y los métodos de Diakoulaki y Saaty, basados en múltiples criterios. Al aplicarse a una CS d...

Learning curves have beenfrequently applied inproduction/operations management and various logistics processes in many manufacturing and service organizations. However, studies on their integral use in the supply chain are recent. This paper contributes to filling this knowledge gap by measuring the impact of learning on lead time in logistics mana...

This work was carried out in a petroleum refining company, with the objective of improving the management of measurements based on the integration of the systematic evaluation of metrological performance with the risk approach and the six sigma methodology. For its fulfillment, a procedure was designed that allows the improvement of the measurement...

In the research, a wide review of the current literature was carried out, especially of everything related to the storage of products in general, food, international certification of warehouses, warehouses 4.0 and the Cuban resolutions of certification in force. Based on this, a procedure was developed that allows the self-assessment of warehouses...

This research is carried out in the hotel "Las Cuevas", located less than 400 meters from the historic centre of the municipality of Trinidad, Sancti Spíritus, with the objective of applying a procedure that allows the analysis and improvement of the logistics of warehouses in the hotel. For this purpose, information collection and

In the investigation, a broad review of the current literature was carried out, especially of everything related to the storage of products in eneral, food, certification of warehouses at an international level, 4.0 warehouses and current Cuban certification resolutions. Based on this, a procedure was developed that allows their self-evaluation of...

La evaluación del desempeño metrológico es una herramienta que permite la retroalimentación en la gestión de las mediciones y el seguimiento de los resultados alcanzados por las organizaciones que la aplican. En muchas empresas este tipo de evaluación no muestra resultados relevantes, principalmente por las limitaciones en los procedimientos e indi...

The metrological performance evaluation is a tool that allows feedback in the management of measurements and the monitoring of the results achieved by the organizations that apply it. In many companies this type of evaluation does not show relevant results, mainly due to limitations in the procedures and indicators used to carry it out. The objecti...

This paper is a continuation of the study of learning in the supply chain, specifically in its lead-time taking into account the logistics management approaches make to order. To this end, empirical data was collected from one company, which respond to these approaches. In this company, the effect of learning was analyzed and it was modelled to imp...

RESUMEN El objetivo de esta investigación es establecer un procedimiento para extrapolar el concepto de curvas de aprendizaje a la cadena de suministro y, más específicamente, a su ciclo logístico para ajustar el tiempo de entrega al cliente. Para ello, se realiza un estudio de caso en LABIOFAM el cual presenta un enfoque de gestión logística de fa...

The development of the global economy and consumer demands make the manufacture and production of items more reliable and transparent every day, in the case of food, it is essential in today's market to ensure the safety of food and beverages. One of the fundamental tools to guarantee this process is the certification of the areas destined to store...

This article aims to develop a methodological tool to evaluate the performance of the sustainable supply chain by an overall index. The methodology consists of five steps, focused on processes, and using methods such as life cycle analysis and analytical or Saaty hierarchies (based on multiple criteria). The criteria considered were productivity, c...

El presente artículo tiene como objetivo desarrollar una herramienta metodológica para evaluar el desempeño de la cadena de suministro sostenible mediante un índice integral. La metodología consta de cinco pasos, enfocada en procesos, y utiliza métodos como análisis de ciclo de vida y jerarquías analíticas o de Saaty (con base en múltiples criterio...

This paper aims to develop a scenario-based optimization framework to deals with several issues related to redesign sustainable reverse supply chain; focused particularly in the epistemic uncertainty of supply and demand input parameters and their relationship with supply chain performance, both important for the redesign problem. The two-step opti...

This paper is a continuation of the study of learning in the supply chain, specifically in its lead-time taking into account the logistics management approaches offered by the SCOR model: make to order, make to stock and engineer to order. To this end, empirical data was collected from three companies, which respond to these approaches. In these co...

Knowledge is a strategically valuable resource in business management. Activity repetition is known to help learning and improve the ability to do certain job with better quality, lower time consumption and consequently, at lower production cost. This learning ability allowed the development of a prediction technique known as the "learning curve"....

Herramienta para soporte de decisiones relacionada con la logística de combustibles complementarios para bioeléctricas

Palabras Claves: logística, biomasa cañera, cogeneración, optimización Resumen En esta investigación se presenta un modelo matemático para optimizar decisiones estratégicas y tácticas en cadenas de suministro (CS) de biomasa cañera para cogeneración de energía eléctrica en Cuba. El modelo matemático propuesto integra objetivos económicos, soporte v...

The development of the global economy and consumer demands make the manufacture and production of items more reliable and transparent every day, in the case of food, it is essential in today's market to ensure the safety of food and beverages. . One of the fundamental tools to guarantee this process is the certification of the areas destined to sto...

The research was carried out at the Cienfuegos Refinery, with the fundamental objective of evaluating the uncertainty of measurement in the fiscal measurement system and transfer of custody by pipeline. For its fulfillment, interviews, direct observations, review of documents, as well as mathematical statistical techniques of this type of study are...

EVALUATION OF UNCERTAINTY OF MEASUREMENT IN THE SYSTEM OF TRANSFER BY DUCT IN THE REFINERY - THERMOELECTRIC OF CIENFUEGOS

The objective of this research is to extrapolate the concept of learning curves to the supply chain and, more specifically, its logistics cycle to adjust the order of the cycles and reduce the delivery time for the customer. To achieve this, the logistics network of two companies is described, the duration of their order cycle is determined using l...

Resumen: La presente investigación, fue realizada en la Planta de productos químicos, perteneciente a la Empresa LABIOFAM de Villa Clara, entidad encargada de la producción de biofarmacéuticos y químicos para el consumo nacional, específicamente en la cadena de suministros interna de la producción de artículos de higiene y limpieza del hogar. El ob...

La presente investigación, fue realizada en la Planta de productos químicos, perteneciente a la Empresa LABIOFAM de Villa Clara, entidad encargada de la producción de biofarmacéuticos y químicos para el consumo nacional, específicamente en la cadena de suministros interna de la producción de artículos de higiene y limpieza del hogar. El objetivo pr...

La presente investigación, fue realizada en la Planta de productos químicos, perteneciente a la Empresa LABIOFAM de Villa Clara, entidad encargada de la producción de biofarmacéuticos y químicos para el consumo nacional, específicamente en la cadena de suministros interna de la producción de artículos de higiene y limpieza del hogar. El objetivo pr...

This paper presents a Stochastic Multi-Objective Mixed Integer Non-Linear Problem (SMOMINLP) to redesign the sustainable supply chain to recycle certain products. The model integrates economic, environmental and social objectives to support strategic decisions such as facility location, material flow design and transport selection. The environmenta...

Over the past years, an increase of waste generation has been observed in Cuba, recycling plastic waste creates an important logistic problem (Feitó Cespón et al. 2015). The current design of the recycling supply chain shows a great business opportunity, this paper proposes a stochastic multi-objective model for a sustainable reverse supply chain r...

This paper proposes a stochastic multi-objective model for sustainable reverse supply chain redesign, applied to the case study of plastics recycling in Cuba. The model addresses the design issues present in the plastic recovery supply chain through the Recycling Raw Material Company, by including environmental and economic integrated objectives wi...

http://www.ingeniare.cl/index.php?option=com_ingeniare&view=va&aid=474&vid=86&lang=es RESUMEN Este trabajo presenta un modelo multiobjetivo no lineal entero mixto (MINLP) para el diseño sostenible de cadenas de suministro para el reciclaje de varios materiales. En él se integran objetivos económicos y medioambientales para soportar la toma de deci...

This paper presents a multi-objective mixed integer non-linear problem (MINLP) to design the sustainable supply chain for recycling several products. This model integrates economical and ecological objectives to support strategic and tactical decisions such as facility location, material flow design and transport selection. The environmental impact...

The supply chain for recycling plastic in Cuba has been presenting low performance for several years, so the objective of this paper is to perform a strategic diagnosis of its management that integrates the economic and environmental dimensions. To carry out this purpose we have used the thinking processes developed within the theory of constraints...

Manual para estudiantes, académicos y empresarios vinculados al campo de la Logística. Incluye ejemplos resueltos y propuestos.

Logística directa en el corte, alza y transporte de la caña de azúcar, aplicando optimización multicriterio

The Reverse Logistics (RL) activities are gaining importance in Brazilian companies. However, a relevant problem is to select RL activities using criteria of immediate and long-term effects for the organization. These situations can be treated as being Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM). In this work we adopted the Analytic Network Process (ANP)...

In the last few years Reverse Logistics (RL) activities are gaining importance in Brazilian companies. However, a relevant problem is to identify how different Reverse Logistics programs can affect corporate performance indicators. These situations can be treated as being Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM). In this work we adopted the Analytic N...

RESUMEN Actividades de Logística Inversa son practicadas por empresas brasileñas. Sin embargo, un problema relevante es identificar cómo los diferentes programas de Logística Inversa pueden afectar los indicadores de desempeño empresarial. El ANP (Analytic Network Process) es uno de los métodos de análisis, que puede ser usado para la toma de decis...

The increased number of items with a shorter useful life, the massive use of e-commerce, and increased environmental awareness with increasingly demanding laws on disposal of products, have created a large amount of returns increasing the importance of Reverse Logistics for society and companies, in general. However, according to the literature, Re...

The main aim of a disassembly process is to reuse components and reduce the negative impact it has on the environment. Reaching an efficient and effective sequence of disassembly has become one of the major concerns in this field. This article refers to the use of iterative deepening A* search (artificial intelligence), in the design of the disasse...

span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Times New Roman;"> La situación actual en que se encuentra la economía cubana hace necesario que se eleve su eficacia a fin de contribuir a su recuperación. Al ser esta una de las ramas principales, es imprescindible aplicar técnicas que permitan asegurar un funcionamiento óptimo de cada una de sus etapa...

The growing need of correct implementation of reverse logistic strategies in the modern company, along with the ignorance of their tendency and behavior in the manufacturing sector in the central area of Cuba, make possible the develop of this study. The main objective is to identify a generic configuration on reverse logistic strategies in manufac...

El presente artículo contiene los principales resultados obtenidos de un estudio empírico sobre logística inversa en el sector industrial de la provincia de Villa Clara. En el mismo se parte de la hipótesis de que es posible identificar una taxonomía de estrategias de logística inversa que se subdivide en tres grandes tipos: Comercial, de Recuperac...

span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;"> El estudio del aprendizaje en las organizaciones ha cobrado especial interés tanto a nivel nacional como internacional. La forma en que las organizaciones logran un aprovechamiento máximo de sus recursos intangibles, en especial del conocimiento de sus miembros, para lo...

The change that occurred in the last years in the manufacturing environment of the clothing industry has motivated the redesign, in many cases, of its organizational and productive structures. For the companies in this sector, every time it becomes more necessary to reach satisfactory levels of competitiveness, as it is the only way of remaining in...

Lograr la competitividad empresarial, requiere de la adopción de diferentes estrategias, relacionadas o no, que actúan sobre toda la cadena de suministro de una empresa. En este artículo, se hace mención a las ventajas que proporciona la filosofía justo a tiempo y más específicamente la fabricación modular, demostrándose su superioridad sobre la tr...

Dentro de los propósitos de las organizaciones de tipo industrial para mejorar su capacidad competitiva ante los nuevos retos del mercado, una de las primeras acciones apunta al perfeccionamiento de su sistema de producción de tal forma que se puedan lograr ventajas sustanciales en términos de costos, calidad, velocidad y flexibilidad. No obstante,...

RESUMO El trabajo expone algunas aplicaciones del método CLUSTER a la solución de problemas que se presentan en los talleres y secciones de tratamiento térmico, enfatizándose en las cuestiones relaciona-das con el agrupam iento de piezas y la formación de células flexibles de fabricación, lo cual constituye la base para la introducción de todo un c...

The following work is aimed lo describe a modern approach for quality assurance of industrial plants design by means of a methodological contribution that can be taken as a basis for design improvement. Key questions whose answers are the basis for a proper quality assurance approach oriented to this complex process are described. Main quality spec...

Resumen El presente trabajo, contiene el desarrollo de dos procedimientos que permiten a los directivos y profesionales de empresas manufactureras, seleccionar el tipo de sistema de gestión de la producción que más se ajusta a sus características específicas y a las condiciones en que las mismas operan. Se incluyen los resultados obtenidos como con...