Ruwan Wickramarachchi

University of Kelaniya · Industrial Management

Artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized demand forecasting within Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, offering a powerful tool to enhance accuracy and efficiency in predicting future demand patterns. This literature review explores the impact of AI-based predictive analytics on demand forecasting in ERP systems by synthesizing and a...

RPA is an emerging digital technology that is automating routine business processes in organizations globally. Within the telecommunications domain, RPA adoption is being driven by the strategic objectives of improving operational efficiency, reducing costs, and enhancing customer experience. However, research on the specific impacts of RPA impleme...

Fundamental adjustments have been made in project creation, planning, and execution over the last few decades. In place of the traditional waterfall project management approach that is frequently used today, this has taken shape by adopting new techniques such as diverse, agile project management methodologies. Agile has been incredibly effective,...

The aim of this study is to identify practices that would enable building construction companies to adopt agile project management methodologies during the design stage of projects that use build-ing information modelling (BIM) solutions for the designing process. Due to the benefits of agile project management methodologies, a considerable amount...

There has been great growing in adopting Learning Management System (LMS) as a mode to connect with students. Almost every university have started developing their own LMS to train and teach students. The objective of this study is to analyze the effect of LMS Characteristics on students' LMS adoption. A survey is conducted among 75 undergraduate s...

Project implementation failures are often seen due to sustainable development problems. Developing countries suffer in terms of successful development projects due to a lack of transparency, poor information communication management, and many more that lead to poor project management. Blockchain applications aim to develop ecosystems that sati...

Many manufacturers and retailers often outsource their logistics functions to logistics service providers (LSPs) to focus more on their core business process. Due to the competitiveness and the popularity of the sustainability concept, those organisations evaluate their prospective LSPs not only based on economic aspects but also social and environ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disastrous impact on organizations and changed most employees' working methods. Since the beginning of the pandemic, researchers have been researching and publishing their studies on the impact on both remote-working and non-remote-working employees. The current study was conducted more than one and a half years afte...

- This study intends to look into the various ways that Industry 4.0 elevates the capabilities of ERP systems. Over recent years, it is evident that the Industry 4.0 concept has been the birthplace of many innovative technologies across various industries, and the practical implementation of Industry 4.0- related technologies is also rapidly ex...

This study looks into the various ways that Industry 4.0 elevates the capabilities of ERP systems. Over recent years, it is evident that the Industry 4.0 concept has been the birthplace of many innovative technologies across various industries, and the practical implementation of Industry 4.0- related technologies is also rapidly expanding acro...

Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, many organizations experienced supply chain disruptions to various degrees. Due to the nature and magnitude of the pandemic, many commonly practiced supply chain practices became impractical, highlighting the importance of building up resilience in the supply chain network to enable them to operate effect...

For many data-driven businesses, the growing volume and complexity of data demand the use of specialized data protection solutions. The use of personal data resulted in a significant impact on privacy and security. Many countries have passed legislation to protect personal information. GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is one of them, and...

Many manufacturers and retailers often outsource their logistics functions to logistics service providers (LSPs) to focus more on their core business process. Due to the competitiveness and the popularity of the sustainability concept, those organisations evaluate their prospective LSPs not only based on economic aspects but also social and enviro...

Decision-making during a crisis impacts the performance of an entire organization. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many organizations had undergone supply chain disruptions due to the forward and backward propagation of disruptions in the global supply chain networks, implying the importance of building up resilience in the supply chain networks. Thi...

Abstract - To be more cost-effective as well as to maintain a sustainable competitive advantage, many enterprises tend to improve their business practices by having a strong relationship with third-party (3PL) logistics service providers. The main objectives of this paper are to determine the key success factors associated with the Sri Lankan...

Decision-making during a crisis impacts the performance of an entire organization. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many organizations had undergone supply chain disruptions due to the forward and backward propagation of disruptions in the global supply chain networks, implying the importance of building up resilience in the supply chain networks. Thi...

Purpose This paper proposes the adoption of Industry 4.0 (I4) technologies and lean techniques for improving operational performance in the healthcare sector. Design/methodology/approach The research adopted a systematic literature review and feedback of healthcare professionals to identify the inefficiencies in the current healthcare system. A qu...

Petroleum is one of the industries that has a massive impact on living conditions of the population. Petroleum distribution network plays an increasingly important function in delivering value to the end user. The objective of this research is to study the current petroleum distribution network in Sri Lanka, identify the inefficiencies and causing...

Digital transformation is enabling the organization to deliver on commitments to customers, partners, shareholders and employees using technology to optimize every organizational interaction. However, organizations cannot be success with only transforming to a digital environment. The success depends on many technologies and success factors. An ana...

Petroleum is one of the industries that has a massive impact on living conditions of the population. Petroleum distribution network plays an increasingly important function in delivering value to the end user. The objective of this research is to study the current petroleum distribution network in Sri Lanka, identify the inefficiencies and causing...

Nowadays, many firms try to delight their customers by reducing the time between customer order and the time of delivery. Due to this reason, cross-docking has become an interesting logistics strategy in supply chains. In this process, arrival and the departure of cargo will be taken place on the same day. This study has been carried out to identif...

To survive in the market and acquire a competitive edge, industries need to invest in advanced technology. However, most companies fail due to poor integration of technology in their supply chain. The concept of Procurement 4.0 has emerged to optimize supply chain performance developing new value propositions and meeting new business needs. It is t...

Warehousing plays an important role in the logistics sector in order to facilitate economic and business benefits for both parties including customer and the service provider. 3PL (third-party logistics) service providers are specialized in providing end-to-end logistics solutions including warehousing, transportation and distribution to their mult...

With the increase in the global population, natural disasters and climatic changes the agricultural supply chain faces lots of challenges due to fluctuations of both supply and demand sides. This is adding pressure on the agriculture supply chain demanding it to be more productive and efficient. Adapting to technology to improve the agriculture sup...

It can be argued that the textiles and clothing industry does not neatly fit into either a lean or agile paradigm, instead, it is a combination of the two, driven by low margins and volatility of demand. A number of authors have indicated that these two concepts alone seem incomplete so that now the global approach is towards a hybrid supply chain...

Over the past decade, the increased global focus on sustainability forced organizations to integrate sustainability aspects into their supply chains. As a result, Green Vehicle Routing Optimization came into action to facilitate the reduction of adverse environmental impacts from distribution networks. This study presents a vehicle routing optimiza...

Market demand changes have led to the emergence of cloud ERP solutions that have become the growing trend nowadays as that they bring new processing capabilities without making significant changes in the existing system. But it alone does not provide businesses with all necessary and best functionalities as different businesses have different requi...

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...

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...

Warehouses enabled with Industry 4.0-driven technologies can be identified as the concept of 'smart warehousing' which will facilitate firms to adapt to the dynamic changes in the business environment. Although, smart warehouse concept has been widely spread across the world, it is still in its infancy in the developing countries. Therefore, there...

An effective combination of highly innovative logistics infrastructure plays a vital role in every business activity as a strategy of achieving competitive advantage. Currently, warehousing has been identified as one of the foremost value adding activities in supply chains. In the warehousing industry, automated intralogistics systems would be an i...

Over the years with the rapid industrialization, the percentage of Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has increased drastically. Among the GHGs in the atmosphere Carbon Dioxide has accounted for the highest percentage. Within the past few decades, the atmospheric Carbon concentration has shown a rapid increase thus grabbing the attention of the world p...

With the rapid industrialization that swarmed across the globe in the past few decades, various environmental issues have emerged due to negligence of humans. Hence, in the recent history people across the globe have joined together in minimizing the environmental impacts from industrial activities. Special concern has been placed on the logistics...

Recent technological advancements have resulted a paradigm shift in the transition from physical world to a virtual world in many industrial scenarios. Thus, the development of the concept of industry 4.0 revolutionize the way of conducting businesses. The applications of industry 4.0 are rapidly growing in the financial sector as well. As modern c...

Technological advancements have created massive changes in the way of performing businesses in this era. Whilst in creating the transition of the physical world to a virtual world, industry 4.0 plays a significant role. Thus, the development of the concept of industry 4.0 revolutionize the way of conducting businesses. This concept was first limite...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is widely used to enhance teaching and learning in modern education. However, it is still difficult in some countries to exploit the full potential of ICT in this regard due to various constraints. The paper explores existing barriers for the effective use of ICT to enhance the performance of secondary...

Manufacturing has been changing from a mainly inhouse effort to a distributed style in order to meet new challenges owing to globalization of markets and worldwide competition. Distributed simulation provides an attractive solution to construct cross enterprise simulations to evaluate the viability of the proposed distributed manufacturing enterpri...

The globalization of markets and world-wide competition forces manufacturing enterprises to enter into alliances leading to the creation of distributed manufacturing enterprises. Before forming a partnership it is essential to evaluate viability of proposed enterprise as well as how a companys operations are affected by the proposed virtual enterpr...

Sustainability is emerging as a main consideration throughout the industrial world due to the environmental pollution and degradation happening in a major scale as a result of industrial wastes while lean management is becoming a popular management tool in minimizing waste. Logistics industry contributes for these issues due to the wastes released...

Healthcare is one of the industries that requires the highest quality services for the wellbeing of the society. Today, the demand for healthcare growing rapidly with increasing aging population, rapid urbanization, changing diets, inactive lifestyles and rising obesity levels. The Industry 4.0 technologies and lean techniques can be used to enhanc...

Web, Mobile and Computer Accessibility: Issues Faced by the Sri Lankan Visually Impaired Community N Wedasinghe1, N Sirisoma2, and A.P.R Wicramarachchi3 1 2General Sir John Kotelawela University, Ratmalana, Sri Lanka 3 University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka 1 niroshaw@hotmail.com, 2ntsirisoma@gmail.com, 3ruwan@kln.ac.lk Abstract—Even though Informat...

In the knowledge era, the adoption of Learning Management System (LMS) has become a requirement at Universities as it is enhancing the teaching and learning environment. Although the success of LMS adoption in Universities can be initiated by lecturer acceptance and use, it survives in the long run because of students' continuous acceptance and use...

Mobile usage around the world including Sri Lanka has been growing rapidley. Statistics show that 428 million mobile devices were sold in first quarter of 2011. In addition to voice based services, mobile service providers are offering services based on WAP, mobile broadband, mobile television etc. (MI) is the main data accessing method which used...

An investigation of WAP based applications in Sri Lanka Mobile usage around the world, including Sri Lanka, has been growing rapidly. Statistics show that 428 million mobile devices were sold in the first quarter of 2011. In addition to voice based services, mobile service providers are offering services based on Wireless Access Protocol (WAP), mob...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has been the phenomenon of the 21st century and its growing advances continue to play a vital role as an ideal tool to acquire, store, disseminate and apply knowledge than ever before. Thus, the integration of ICT in diverse business processes has increased the importance as an imperative source of eco...

The globalization of markets and world-wide competition forces manufacturing enterprises to enter into alliances leading to the creation of distributed manufacturing enterprises. Before forming a partnership it is essential to evaluate viability of proposed enterprise as well as how a company's operations are affected by the proposed virtual enterp...

The globalization of markets and world-wide competition forces manufacturing enterprises to enter into alliances leading to the creation of distributed manufacturing enterprises. Before forming a partnership it is essential to evaluate viability of proposed enterprise as well as how a company 's operations are affected by the proposed virtual enter...

The globalization of markets and world-wide competition forces manufacturing enterprises to enter into alliances leading to the creation of distributed manufacturing enterprises. Before forming a partnership it is essential to evaluate viability of proposed enterprise as well as how a company's operations are affected by the proposed virtual enterp...

Manufacturing has been changing from a mainly in-house effort to a distributed style in order to meet new challenges owing to globalization of markets and world-wide competition. Distributed simulation provides an attractive solution to construct cross enterprise simulations to evaluate the viability of the proposed distributed manufacturing enterp...