Editorial Introduction

This issue of the Independent Journal of Management & Production (IJM&P) is launching another Special Edition in partnership with the Organizing Committee of the 6th International Conference on Logistics and Operations of IFSP- Suzano (IFLOG), held by the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Sao Paulo - Suzano Campus, in December 2020.

The IJM&P and IFLOG partnership, to publish this SPECIAL EDITION, aims to promote the most relevant papers presented during VI IFLOG, showing the results of the best of the research carried out and presented during the event.

We congratulate all the authors for the papers presented during VI IFLOG and that, by merit, had their papers accepted in our journal in english. We would also like to thank the scientific committee of VI IFLOG for its support, from the selection of the best works to the finalization of the publishing process.

                                   In Table 1 we present some information about the event showing its evolution.

Table 1: Evolution information

 

IFLOG

Indicator

1st 

2nd 

3rd 

4th 

5th 

6th 

Submitted articles

89

113

260

302

300

137

Approved articles

65

89

130

113

101

82

Articles approved for IJMP

9

14

10

12

15

13

Number of participants

450

770

3,240

4,000

4,000

200

We hope that our effort in publishing this Special Edition will be useful to all our subscribers, as well as to the international scientific community. In desire that the IJM&P and IFLOG partnership continue to yield positive results for brazilian research in the most diverse areas, we are currently working on the organization of the fast track of 7th edition of the Conference VII IFLOG. We invite researchers to submit their papers and soon we will be releasing more information about the next edition.

We hope that our effort in publishing this Special Edition will be useful to our subscribers, as well as to the international scientific community.

            The following content will be presented with the titles, authors and the pages of all of the articles published in this edition issue.

EDITORIAL VOLUME 12, ISSUE 3 (s960-s962)

Paulo Cesar Chagas Rodrigues, Nataliia Semenyshena

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ ijmp.v12i3.1279

BLOCKCHAIN-ENABLED CAPABILITIES IN TRANSPORT OPERATIONS: AN OVERVIEW OF THE LITERATURE (s728-s740)

Mario Henrique Bueno Moreira Callefi, Thais Moreira Tavares, Gilberto Miller Devós Ganga, Moacir Godinho Filho

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v12i9.1628

STUDY OF FORCES IN A 2T9R ROBOT MECHANISM (s741-s773)

Adriana Comanescu, Alexandra Rotaru, Florian Ion Tiberiu Petrescu

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v12i9.1554

INVERSE MODELING OF THE STEWART FOOT (s774-s793)

Adriana Comanescu, Alexandra Rotaru, Liviu Marian Ungureanu, Florian Ion Tiberiu Petrescu

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v12i9.1557

INTERNATIONALIZATION AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN A PUBLIC INSTITUTION (s794-s811)

Ayla Pereira, Eliana Kobayashi

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v12i9.1574

PRODUCTION BATCH SIZING AND INVENTORY LEVEL CONTROL USING SIMULATION SOFTWARE (s812-s830)

Bruna Christina Battissacco, Walther Azzolini Junior, José Henrique de Andrade, Maicom Sergio Brandão, José Marcelo Barbosa Palma

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v12i9.1592

DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION APPLIED TO SINGLE QUEUE MANAGEMENT: A CASE STUDY AT A BANK AGENCY (s831-s842)

Marcos Aurélio da Rocha Nascimento, Lilian Mendes dos Santos, Adriano Maniçoba da Silva, Regis Cortez Bueno, Sivanilza Teixeira Machado, Wilson Yoshio Tanaka

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v12i9.1632

A SIMULATION-BASED APPROACH TO IDENTIFY BOTTLENECKS IN THE BEARING MANUFACTURING PROCESS (s843-s855)

Larissa Moreira Alves de Souza Souza, Adriano Maniçoba da Silva, Julio Maria de Souza, Regis Cortez Bueno, Sivanilza Teixeira Machado, Wilson Yoshio Tanaka

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v12i9.1635

APPLICATION OF LEAN MANAGEMENT TOOLS IN INDUSTRY 4.0 (s856-s864)

Ingrid Teixeira do Nascimento, Maria Eduarda Alves da Silva, Gabriel Rodrigo de Souza Gama, Ana Carla de Souza Gomes dos Santos, Genildo Nonato Santos

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v12i9.1638

SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF LEAN THINKING IN EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS (s865-s882)

Maria Eduarda Alves da Silva, Ana Carla de Souza Gomes dos Santos, Augusto da Cunha Reis, Genildo Nonato Santos

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v12i9.1637

IMPACT OF SEASONALITY ON THE INBOUND AND OUTBOUND FREIGHT OF A GLOBAL FERTILIZER COMPANY (s883-s901)

Lumila Souza Girioli Camargo, Murilo Silva de Oliveira, Pedro Lopes Garcia, Adalberto Zorzo

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v12i9.1642

POSITIONAL MODELING OF THE 2T6R ROBOT MECHANISM (s902-s921)

Adriana Comanescu, Alexandra Rotaru, Liviu Marian Ungureanu, Florian Ion Tiberiu Petrescu

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v12i9.1563

LOGISTICS AS A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE IN RETAIL ORGANIZATIONS (s922-s939)

Alberto Eduardo Besser Freitag, Fabiano Cunha da Silva

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v12i9.1647

UNDERUTILIZATION OF WORKERS: AN ANALYSIS ACCORDING TO THE LEAN MANAGEMENT PHILOSOPHY IN BASIC EDUCATION (s940-s959)

Alberto Eduardo Besser Freitag, Alexandre Barreto de Oliveira

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v12i9.1652

December 21, 2021

 

Prof. Dr. Paulo Cesar Chagas Rodrigues

Chief Editor


 

Prof. Dr. Adriano Maniçoba da Silva

Chief Editor IFLOG