Roland Hellberg

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Ass. Professor at Swedish Defence University

Purpose The defense industry strives to balance the conflicting demands of its customers by ensuring reliability and cost-effective efficiency during peacetime while remaining adaptable to sudden shifts in product demand during conflict and war. This dual nature of supply chains—requiring both efficiency in peacetime and agility in wartime—creates...

This article outlines the experiences gained from the re-establishment of the Gotland Regiment and the Dal Regiment, focusing on the logistical implications. The empirical data was collected through interviews conducted between 2022 and 2023. The responses from these interviews were subjected to a targeted thematic content analysis, organized accor...

Purpose Management and risk techniques within industries have been studied from various disciplines in nondefense-affiliated industries. Given the assumption that these techniques, strategies and mitigations used in one industry apply to other similar industries, this paper examines the defense industry for risk assessment. We characterize interact...

Purpose A deteriorating security situation and an increased need for defence equipment calls for new forms of collaboration between Armed Forces and the defence industry. This paper aims to investigate the ways in which the accelerating demand for increased security of supply of equipment and supplies to the Armed Forces requires adaptability in th...

Purpose The total defence (TD) concept constitutes a joint endeavour between the military forces and civil defence structures within a TD state. Logistics is essential for such joint collaboration to work; however, the mismatch between military and civil defence logistics structures poses challenges for such joint collaboration. The purpose of this...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate how professionals who are continuing their education rate a higher education quality management course with an emphasis on reflective learning and real problem-solving. The audited course consists of module-based teaching, while students work on an improvement project at their workplace between co...

Experience of successful improvements in organizations based on lean methods shows that participation and involvement are the keys. Based on this, a university-level continuing course has been created that focuses on quality improvements. Students gain knowledge of various lean and quality tools, as well as of implementation processes. The students...

This paper describes a case study of the design and evaluation of a terminal based transportation system for groupage with a high customer service level, performed by Linjegods A.S. in Norway. The project has been supported by a tailor-made decision aid tool (TERMLOC) that provides the best location of terminals under time-restrictions with respect...

An increasing number of industrial companies are forced to reorganize their capacity planning as today's competitive environment renders traditional methods obsolete. Capacity planning plays a key-role, e.g. in improving due date observance and shortening delivery times, and is a precondition when rapid and cost efficient adjustments of capacity to...

Thesis (doctoral)--Universitetet i Linköping, 1992.

In this paper we describe a Norwegian information system for customs clearance, TVINN, developed by the Norwegian customs services. We have examined three freight forwarders using the system to declare import orders and discuss the influence on time, costs, flexibility, service level, and industry competition. The direct effects for the freight for...

Based on principles developed early in this century traditional cost accounting systems still constitute an unchallenged context for both short term and long term product-mix decisions in most manufacturing companies. This is valid in spite of fundamental changes in the structure of manufacturing companies rendering the models increasingly irreleva...

The aim of this paper is to present some basic theoretical ideas for achieving a more effective materials supply and a summary of the experiences gained from a research study which focused on achieving synchronization between production requirements and materials replenishment from suppliers. Today's markets demand short delivery times and more cus...

Just-In-Time (JIT) administration based on the Japanese model is being used by an increasing number of companies in Scandinavia. The objective is to eliminate unnecessary stock and increase the quality standard for both manufacturing and assembly processes. These changes could not have taken place in isolation. They have, for example, made new dema...