Supply Chain, LOgistics and Transportation Systems (SLOTS) Research Group comprises a highly skilled research team which works at innovative approaches to cope with complex issues that arise both in industrial and transportation systems. These issues are addressed by developing, studying and applying innovative concepts, methods, decision support models and algorithms, based on an organizational continuous improvement perspective, towards high levels of Excellence. To achieve this, our research is structured around the following domains:
- Supply Chain Management: to develop models and methods which can support the design of sustainable supply chain networks and innovative strategies in order to face increasing dynamic supply and deliver requirements, increasing demand for higher levels of integration both functional and organizational and increasing pressure for cost optimization and total quality management and business excellence approaches implementation. In this context, integrated approaches based on Supply Chain Quality Management and Supply Chain Cost Management will be developed to address supply chain management issues;
- Logistics: research is focused on warehouse and inventory management applications and their contribution to strategic supply chain management;
- Flexible Industries: manufacturing industries worldwide are experiencing increasing demand of products characterized by higher complexity and diversity from existent and new markets, which require continuous and dynamic changes in product design tools, buyer-supplier relationships, sophisticated production planning and control approaches, new and innovative production and business flows;
- Transportations Systems: it considers the development of solutions for urban systems, integrated mobility (intermodality) – people and freight – and the promotion of interoperability of public transport modes and other services.
Modelling and simulation: provide the underlying support to improve both efficiency and flexibility, enhancing existent, new and innovative industrial and transportations systems performance. The development and integration of different modeling approaches, such as heuristics and simulation, is to be pursued.
SLOTS leader: Sameiro Carvalho
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Recent SLOTS Publications:
- Leading quality in the 21<sup>st</sup>century: Profiles of quality and organizational excellence managers
Fonseca, L.M.; Domingues, J.P.; dos Guimar\~aes S\'a, J.
Quality - Access to Success, 2017
- Agent-based simulation to assess the performance of intersections with pre-signals: Comparison with roundabouts
Vieira, A.A.C.; Dias, L.M.S.; Pereira, G.A.B.; Oliveira, J.A.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2017
- Building an agile culture of excellence to address the unstable business environments of the XXI century
Carvalho, A.M.; Sampaio, P.; Rebentisch, E.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, 2017
- Management systems integration: survey results
Domingues, P.; Sampaio, P.; Arezes, P.M.
International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management, 2017
- Bus fleet management optimization using the augmented weighted Tchebycheff method
Emiliano, W.; Costa, L.; do Sameiro Carvalho, M.; Telhada, J.
Springer Proceedings in Mathematics and Statistics, 2018
- Sustainability indicators in the swine industry of the Brazilian State of Santa Catarina
de Camargo, T.F.; Zanin, A.; Mazzioni, S.; de Moura, G.D.; Afonso, P.S.L&peri
Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2018
- Preventive Maintenance Decisions through Maintenance Optimization Models: A Case Study
Vilarinho, S.; Lopes, I.; Oliveira, J.A.
Procedia Manufacturing, 2017
- Simulation model generation for warehouse management: Case study to test different storage strategies
Vieira, A.A.C.; Dias, L.M.S.; Pereira, G.A.B.; Oliveira, J.A.&s
International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling, 2018
- Turning knowledge into business ideas: Insights from the idealab business accelerator
Moura, H.; Catarino, M.; Afonso, P.; Nunes, M.
Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, 2019
- Costing models for capacity optimization in Industry 4.0: Trade-off between used capacity and operational efficiency
Santana, A.; Afonso, P.; Zanin, A.; Wernke, R.
Procedia Manufacturing, 2017
- ISO 9001:2015 edition- management, quality and value
Fonseca, L.; Domingues, J.P.
International Journal for Quality Research, 2017
- The results
Fonseca, L.; Domingues, P.
Quality Progress, 2017
- Collaborative process mapping to improve work instructions and standardized work
Abreu, M.F.; Pereira, A.C.; Silva, A.; Silva, F.; Ferraz, F.; Alves, A&am
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 2017
- Reliable and Flexible Quality Management Systems in the Automotive Industry: Monitor the Context and Change Effectively
Fonseca, L.M.; Domingues, J.P.
Procedia Manufacturing, 2017
- How to succeed in the digital age? Monitor the organizational context, identify risks and opportunities, and manage change effectively
Fonseca, L.M.; Domingues, J.P.
Management and Marketing, 2017
