Visibility plays an important role in supply chain management. Such visibility is not only important for better planning, but especially for real-time execution related with the traceability of goods. In inbound supply chain management, logistics planners need to trace raw materials from their requests in order to properly plan a plant’s production. The iFloW (Inbound Logistics Tracking System) integrates logis...
Conducting research and development (R&D) software projects, in an environment where both industry and university collaborate, is challenging due to many factors. In fact, industrial companies and universities have generally different interests and objectives whenever they collaborate. For this reason, it is not easy to manage and negotiate the industrial companies’ interests, namely schedules and their expecta...
Extreme value theory (EVT) deals with the occurrence of extreme phenomena. The tail index is a very important parameter appearing in the estimation of the probability of rare events. Under a semiparametric framework, inference requires the choice of a number k of upper order statistics to be considered. This is the crux of the matter and there is no definite formula to do it, since a small k leads to high varia...
As constantes mudanças no mercado mundial, a grande competitividade entre as empresas, o novo comportamento dos clientes entre outros fatores, levam com que as organizações possuam inúmeros sistemas de gestão distintos entre si impulsionando uma grande falha de interoperabilidade. A falta de intereoperabilidade obriga as organizações a encontrarem melhores formas para desempenharem suas atividades organizaciona...