Understanding the environmental impact of product returns in the fashion industry: The development of a Composite Indicator to provide insights into the environmental and economic performance of product returns for fashion companies

Purpose - With the ongoing rise of product returns in the fashion industry, exacerbating its GHG footprint when it should be lowered, this paper aims to provide a measurement tool for companies to improve the environmental impact of product returns while considering the economic costs. Companies do not have an understanding of the impact of...

Measuring the environmental performance of the feed production of the livestock industry: Constructing an environmental performance index from an economic perspective

Abstract<br/>Purpose - The aim of this paper is to propose a method for performance measurement of the livestock feed industry from an environmental and economic perspective. There is a knowledge gap both in the literature and society in the field of performance measurement of the livestock feed industry with environmental concerns. Livestock...

Designing a process performance measurement system for zero-defects logistics: a case study at the Dutch Flower Auction

This report details the design process of a process performance measurement system for zero-defects logistics, with a focus on process quality. The system is the result of a combination of theoretical sources and best practices found in various industries. The final design is applied on the distribution process of cut flowers at Royal...

A performance indicator framework for providing data-driven services to European truckload carriers: From identification of performance indicators to framework development

The past decade has seen a rise in ability to collect, store and manage large amounts of data. With data becoming increasingly available to businesses, organizations are looking to new ways to gain insight into their activities. Acquired information can help transportation companies to cope with industry trends of expanded competition, the...

Measuring Strategic Design Performance: a KPI for the fuzzy front end

This thesis describes my Master graduation project in which I attempt to design a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) for Strategic Designers, to enable us to justify and explain our efforts in a quantitatively oriented context, such as a corporate setting.<br/>In the end, this project provides multiple novel perspectives to knowledge about...

Assessing circularity in the end of life phase of public assets and identifying essential requirements for performance measurement

Policymakers and literature have expressed the need for a visual and tangible manner of mapping circular value, the progress towards a fully circular economy and the presence of materials (material passport) in public space. Several initiatives exist for the measurement of circular progress. However, none have explicitly aimed towards the urban...

The line of sight: an asset management framework to align stakeholder values with assets and the day-to-day activities

Benchmarking municipal sport policy: The design and execution of a benchmark for municipal policy-makers to evaluate the portfolio sport facilities

This thesis is focused on benchmarking municipal sport policy. Physical activity is used by the Dutch government as a policy tool to create a healthy society. The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport stimulate people to adopt active life styles in order to combat the prosperity diseases: overweight, diabetes and depression. In benchmarking...

Quantifying the Performance Age of Highway Bridges

Infuences on real estate benchmarking practice: Understanding the challenges and opportunities in the real estate benchmarking process

According to current theory, corporate real estate departments should choose a limited set of personalized Key Performance Indicators that are based on their own strategy and context. In general, organizations are often found to lack an objective assessment and rationale for the selection of these KPIs. Although previous studies have made an...

Navigating for new traffic solutions: The use of probe data from consumer GPS navigation devices for the analysis of controlled intersections

Probe data from consumer GPS navigation devices provides a network-wide and cost-efficient data source for measuring vehicle movements. The measurement of traffic volume, route choice and delay on intersections is needed for efficient intersection control. Data collection from road-side sensors can provide this information but is expensive and...