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This paper addresses the problem of designing a supply chain (SC) according to sustainability aspects. It identifies a research gap where an optimisation model to address the location, inventory and transportation decision in a sustainable SC applied to a copper mining industry by complementarily using a simulation model to assess SC performance in different scenarios is needed. For this purpose, we propose a simulation model based on system dynamics (SD) to assess SC performance and to support decision making. The basis of the simulation model structure is a multi-objective mixed-integer linear programming model that aims to minimise total economic, emissions and social costs, and to also contemplate social impacts. We consider a real copper mining industry problem to illustrate this. We obtain a solution using a mathematical programming model and a simulation model. The optimisation results show improved SC performance in cost and emission reduction terms, and an improved social impact. The simulation model presents a near-optimal result and allows the possibility of anticipating adverse scenarios. Future research is oriented to other real-world applications, and to: consider alternative inventory policies; contemplate a stochastic approach; add new production and routing decisions; develop a hybrid multi-agent SD model.

The teaching case is shown in the 18th annual International Technology, Education and Development Conference held in Valencia (Spain) on the 4th, 5th and 6th March 2024., Typical organisational goals promoted by knowledge management (KM) are being complemented with resilience-related objectives in many organisations worldwide. The need for resilience goes beyond companies, reaching their supply chains in a concept known as enterprise and supply chain resilience (ESCR). In complex times where organisations must learn to deal with disruptive events (DEs), ranging from internal events like inventory stockouts to external events, such as pandemics and wars, knowledge sharing becomes critical. Presenting a teaching case (TC) developed using instructional design principles, which aims to teach ESCR in real-world scenarios, is the main objective of this work. The proposed TC has clear goals, objectives, and learning outcomes, it intends to engage the students in situations that require problem-solving and decision-making. It is an open problem case with multiple perspectives where solutions can vary since DEs are difficult to predict and manage. The case includes detailed context information for the reader to understand and diagnose the situation and, after that, develop and create an action plan and a logic model to solve the problems related to the critical elements of the case. The TC presents a real-life situation, through the present dataset, where an organisation and its supply chain are facing a critical incident, an impactful DE, which is causing severe problems to the flow of products between customers and suppliers. This case has no unique answer, and the solutions require critical thinking.

[ES] El mercado laboral actual es cada vez más exigente y ello hace que a los profesionales se les exija un mayor nivel de adquisición de competencias en sus tres dimensiones -cognitiva, instrumental y actitudinal- para la resolución de problemas avanzados y la toma de decisiones eficiente. En este contexto, la Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) apuesta por integrar la metodología docente de Aprendizaje Basado en Proyectos (ABP) en sus titulaciones de grado para fomentar el aprendizaje por competencias. Distintos estudios han demostrado que son los métodos activos, entre los que se encuentra el ABP, los más compatibles y coherentes con la formación por competencias. El objetivo del presente artículo es describir el proyecto de incorporación de ABP en las asignaturas de 3º y 4º curso de los seis grados del Campus de Alcoy de la UPV. Para ello, se detalla el contexto en el cual se desarrollará la innovación y mejora educativa, así como los objetivos que se persiguen, en qué consiste dicha innovación y cuáles son los resultados obtenidos hasta el momento así como cuáles son las líneas futuras de trabajo., [EN] The current labour market is increasingly exigent and this means that professionals require more and more skills and competencies in its three dimensions -cognitive, instrumental and attitudinal- for advanced problem solving and efficient decision-making. In this context, the Universitat Politècnica de València is committed to integrating the teaching methodology Project Based Learning (PBL) in its bachelors to promote the competency-based learning. Different studies have corroborated that the active methods, among which the PBL is classified, are the most compatible and coherent with the competency-based learning. The objective of this article is to describe the design for the incorporation of PBL in subjects of 3rd and 4th year courses of six bachelors in Campus de Alcoy of UPV. So, the paper describes the context in which the educational innovation will be developed, as well as the objectives pursued, what such innovation consists of, the relevant data needed for the incorporation of PBL and the future lines of work.

[EN] One of the main problems of the water treatment plants is the high energy consumption they have to face. Therefore, reducing energy consumption is an imperative objective for these facilities. This work proposes a mathematical programming model for the capacity planning and the management of water treatment plants using dilution process that will reduce the energy consumption in the aeration phase. This model presents, as a novelty, the inclusion of the time variable, generating a quasi-stationary model that has been applied to a real case study., [ES] Uno de los principales problemas de las plantas de tratamiento de agua es el elevado consumo energético al que tienen que hacer frente. Por ello, reducir el consumo energético es objetivo prioritario para dichas instalaciones. Este trabajo propone un modelo de programación matemática para la planificación de la capacidad y gestión de instalaciones depuradoras de agua, que mediante dilución, re-duzca el consumo energético en la fase de aireación. Dicho modelo presenta como novedad la inclusión de la variable tiempo, generando un modelo cuasiestacionario, que ha sido aplicado a un caso real de estudio.

[ES] En este trabajo se idea y preproduce una webserie de animación en clave de humor, creando alrededor de su trama un universo transmedia y trazando unos planes para su distribución. La serie ideada consta de 12 capítulos, cuyo piloto pilotos se ha realizado principalmente con ilustraciones digitales y stopmotion. Se han creado los guiones de los 12 capítulos, planificando que su duración se aproxime a los 4 minutos, ajustándose así a las características del formato webserie. La trama principal, de todos esto, gira entorno a las anécdotas surgidas de las experiencias de la autora durante su tiempo como Erasmus. Se ha creado una página web y unos perfiles en las redes sociales Twitter y Instagram para dar a conocer la serie y crear, a través de la difusión de contenido escrito y audiovisual, un universo transmedia. El objetivo fundamental de este trabajo reside en explorar los procesos narrativos mediante la creación de los guiones, conocer bien todos los pasos de la preproducción de una serie de animación y coordinar los distinto medios para la difusión del proyecto. Trabajando complementariamente el storytelling, la dirección artística y el marketing. Los principales referentes audiovisuales de la obra presentada son otras series como: Enjuto Mojamuto, El fantástico mundo de Gumball, La niña repelente, Lizzie McGuire, The Simpsons o Friends. Esta memoria contextualiza la obra presentada y analiza la relación que guarda con sus referentes, después de haber hecho una breve enumeración y descripción de las principales claves, aspectos, conceptos, recursos y el tema de la misma., [EN] This work is a transmedia audiovisual project, in which a humour animation series is conceived. Along with this, its plans for being issued. The project consists in the creation of 12 chapters. From those I have created a pilot, mainly, with digital illustration and stop-motion. 12 scripts have been created planning their duration to approach 4 minutes, thus adjusting to the characteristics of the web series format. The main plot shows, anecdotally, the author's experiences while being an Erasmus student. A web page and profiles on social networks Twitter and Instagram have also been created to publicize the series through written and audiovisual content and also to create a transmedia universe. The purposes of this creation are to explore the narrative process through the creation of scripts, getting to know all the steps you need to follow while pre-producing and to coordinate the different media platforms for launching the project. Being the storytelling, the artistic direction and the marketing the aspects developed during the process. The referents for the audiovisual pieces are other series such as Enjuto Mojamuto, The Amazing World of Gumball, La Niña Repelente, Lizzie McGuire, The Simpsons or Friends. This report memory aims to contextualize the work and analyses the relationship between the project and its referents, after having enumerated and describe the principal keys, aspects, concepts, resources and its theme.

[EN] The upcoming logistic environment is about to modify deeply the way we supply products. In fact, some new trends are going to require more and more agility between a large number of stakeholders in open and dynamic networks. This should be possible to achieve thanks to new data collection and treatment abilities. Considering this moving technological and logistic environment, it appears necessary to define and categorize more specifically the main disruptive events that can affect a supply chain. In fact, amount of data are collected on the field and must be helpful to make relevant decisions in case of disruption. In order to understand automatically what these data mean, it is necessary to detect and classify the disruptive events in order to find the best adaptation. This paper focuses on the sensitive products’ supply chains, that are facing with agility high requirements, based on their ability to detect disruptive events. We take as an example the blood supply chain.

[EN] The goal of C2NET European H2020 Funded Project is the creation of cloud-enabled tools for supporting the SMEs supply network optimization of manufacturing and logistic assets based on collaborative demand, production and delivery plans. In the scope of C2NET Project, and particularly in the Optimisation module (C2NET OPT), this paper proposes a novel holistic mixed integer linear programing (MILP) model to optimise the injection sequencing in a multi-machine case. The results of the MILP will support the production planner decision-making process in the calculation of (i) moulds setup in certain machines, and (ii) the amount of products to produce in order to minimise the setup, inventory, and backorders costs. The designed MILP takes part of the algorithms repository created in C2NET European Funded Project to solve realistic industry planning problems. The MILP is verified in realistic data considering three data sets with different sizes, in order to test it’s the computation efficiency.

[EN] Collaboration is a trend in supply networks management, based on the jointly planning, coordination and integration of processes, participating all network entities. Due to the current characteristics of uncertainty in the markets and economic crisis, there is a need to encourage collaboration tools to reduce costs and increase trust and accountability to market requirements. This study presents an overview of the research carried out in the H2020 European Project: Cloud Collaborative Manufacturing Networks (C2NET), which is directed towards the development a cloud platform that consist of, optimization tools, collaboration tools to support and agile management of the network. The collaborative cloud platform allows to collect real time information coming from real-world resources and considering all the actors involved in the process. The collaborative cloud provides real time data gathered from the entire network partners in order to improve their decision-making processes.

[ES] En este artículo se presenta una herramienta de software AnyLogic, para el modelado y simulación de la Cadena de Suministro (CS) proporcionando ayuda a la toma de decisiones a través de la simulación de escenarios de un mismo modelo de CS. AnyLogic da soporte a las metodologías de simulación más conocidas: sistemas de eventos discretos, dinámica de sistemas y modelado de agentes. Este artículo se centra en el contexto de dinámica de sistemas permitiendo la simulación de dos tipos de CS: colaborativa y no-colaborativa. Finalmente, se presenta un ejemplo ilustrativo en AnyLogic que permite comparar los dos modelos de CS (i) no-colaborativa vs. (ii) colaborativa, caracterizada por un modelo de Inventario Administrado por el Proveedor (en inglés Supplier Managed Inventory, SMI), en la que existe colaboración entre el proveedor y el fabricante de la CS., [EN] This paper proposes a simulation tool named AnyLogic for modelling and simulating of the Supply Chain(SC) in order to support the decision-making process through simulating scenarios of the same SC model.AnyLogic supports the most popular simulation methodologies: discrete events, system dynamics andmodelling agents. This article focuses on the context of system dynamics allowing carrying out thesimulation of two types of SC: collaborative and non-collaborative. Finally, an illustrative example isproposed in AnyLogic in order to compare two SC models (i) non-collaborative one vs. (ii) collaborativeone, characterised by applying the Supplier Managed Inventory (SMI), where there is collaboration betweenthe supplier and the manufacturer of the SC.