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The Mexican health system restructuring process that began in 2018 moves forward in two lanes: individual-based healthcare provision and public health services. The latter has two main goals: strengthening the state's public health governing role in a federative nation and providing the country's Ministry of Health with a highly skilled professional task force to accomplish this role. Mexico's Ministry of Health created the National Public Health Service (NPHS), a corporation of public health officers with the single mission to protect people's health by purposefully enforcing and overseeing the Essential Public Health Functions within the Mexican health system. Correspondingly, the NPHS will pursue three key strategies. First, to reshape public health action by organizing the Ministry's work using operational-based criteria (governance, logistics, operations, and intelligence) instead of program-specific vertical structures. Second, to functionally integrate and provide a group identity and a set of standard operational practices to all federal-level public health practitioners. Third, to refocus the Ministry of Health's nature to a more ground-level work, closer to the people and the needs of the state-level health departments instead of a more normative nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The integrated management of solid waste at the household level involves adequate collection logistics for recovery by waste collectors. The objective of this study was to optimize the route for access to waste at strategic points in the city of Manizales (Colombia), in addition to analyzing the qualitative characteristics related to a process of sensitization of the executing personnel. The integration of the numerical inputs and study variables was carried out through the application of the Shortest Route optimization algorithm, while the SWOT matrix was implemented to analyze the operational satisfaction conditions. The results generated a reduction in routes in 62.5% of the cases, obtaining savings of up to 28.61% of kilometers traveled daily by the reclaimers. It was also identified that factors such as topography and climate have a direct impact on collection activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The objective of this article is to analyze strategies aimed at green logistics that some colombian companies such as Organización Corona, Grupo Éxito and Celsia are developing. They are part of different sectors (production, marketing and services), three study variables cited in the environmental issue of ISO26000 (pollution prevention, sustainable use of resources, mitigation of climate change and adaptation to climate change) were used in order to determine if green logistics practices in each logistics processes (purchasing, storage, packing and packaging, transport and reverse logistics) in these companies has contributed or not to the sustainable development, and therefore, to be environmentally responsible. At the end of the investigation, it is determined that the implementation of green logistics points to a reduction in costs in logistics processes due to the efficiency it generates, and to business recognition in the country as they are perceived as benchmarks of sustainability and social responsibility, this generates an intrinsic value in organizations that endures over time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The opinion note analyzes the territorial implications and potential socio-ecological impacts of two cross)border energy and logistics megaprojects being promoted in the state of Baja California, Mexico: a liquefaction plant to export natural gas from Texas to Asia and a mega-port multimodal as an alternative for container transport due to the saturation of the port of Long Beach-Los Angeles. The main characteristics of both megaprojects are examined and how they are part of a dynamic of intensification of maritime flows in the Pacific Basin caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and the geopolitical and geoeconomic disputes between the United States and Russia. It is concluded that these megaprojects intensify the subordination of the Baja California territory to the needs of the United States, by using it as a mere transit territory, externalizing various socio-ecological effects and associated risks, while violating national sovereignty over this strategic space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Distribution networks with transshipment are an important factor for moving of products and inputs, promoting and improving the reduction of transportation costs regarding distribution problems. This paper focuses on answering the following question based on a systematic literature review (SLR): How do transshipment distribution networks influence the reduction of transportation costs in resilient companies? A review and an estimation of preliminary research was carried out for a period of five years, operating the search engines of SciencieDirect, Redalyc, Dialnet, Scielo, and SpringerLink. The studies were selected based on a set of inclusion and exclusion criteria. It was highlighted that distribution networks with transshipment have a direct relationship with companies and aim for their well- being. On the other hand, the importance and theoretical bases of distribution networks were observed. The SLR collected clear and precise data for the study, which contributed to the understanding of the direct relationship between distribution networks and companies. The importance of logistics with transshipment in business resilience was established, which includes three basic aspects (recovery, vulnerability, and adaptation) with respect to the conditions of distribution as a contribution to sustainable development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The greatest changes at a global level have produced various transformations in the different market areas, especially in distribution logistics. Through a bibliographic review on Last Mile Logistics (LML), the changes that have permeated this discipline from 2010 to date were analyzed, and what kind of topics or investigations have been developed around this topic. For this review, the Web of Science (WOS) database was used, analyzing the trend line of published research, taking into account four variables in the LML: year of publication, most cited articles, institutions and geography. The results show that the fourth industrial revolution with its elements of robotics and artificial intelligence, electronic commerce and its boom caused by covid 19, are the main elements that have helped the evolution of the LML in recent years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Today, the success of any organization depends more and more on its business processes being efficient, effective and generating competitive advantages. In this sense, the management of retail distribution, seen with an integrated approach to logistics and marketing, plays an important role. It will allow decision-making with both approaches and adapt to the new demands of the market and society. In the bibliographic study, an insufficient integration is identified in the theory and practice of commercial distribution management with an integrated approach to logistics and marketing. In correspondence with the above, this article proposes a critical analysis of commercial distribution management models and other models that in their conception take into account distribution as a variable. Study that provides the theoretical-methodological foundations for the design of a retail distribution management model with an integrated approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The debate around the use of the value chain or supply chain approach has been present for more than a decade in academic and organizational fields, with arguments for and against each of these perspectives. The study supporting the results presented in this paper aims to analyze both approaches and their evolution critically. For this, the authors start from the study of the term logistics as the root of the research, which leads to the subsequent examination of the approaches under analysis. The elements that justify using one or another perspective are presented, and the arguments for why using the value chain approach is considered more successful under current conditions. Finally, it concludes with a conceptualization proposal for the term value chain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The optimization of activities in the supply chain occupies significant importance for logistics operators. One of the links in this supply chain is the warehouse. From what was observed, through interviews with employees and managers of the Sorting Plant, the operation of its temporary warehouse impacts parcel delivery delays to the final customer. So, this work aims to determine the central irregularities and provide automation solutions that help improve its operation. An action plan is proposed to be followed by the entity, which will allow significant improvement steps concerning the current process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Activity-based costing (ABC) can be used in both industrial and service companies. In this paper it is applied to the logistics and distribution service of a small and medium-sized commercial company, in which it is compared with the cost of the service that the company determines in a traditional way. It provides a significant contribution to the generation of relevant information for management and economic decision making, as well as to avoid the undervaluation of the cost of service provision in the case studied, a lower profitability than desired, and also avoids distributing resources that the company has not generated in a genuine way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Introduction: García, Rodríguez, Diaz, and Estrada (1988, p. 70) define the work team as "a highly organized social entity oriented towards the achievement of a common task" who recognize and value their "own functional roles" (Bejarano, 2019, p. 112). For Arrea (2016, p. 97), teamwork "is not an innate quality" and must be learned by applying rules. For Guerrero, Delgado. and Sánchez (2018), researchers and companies agree on the factors that promote teamwork. For their success, organizations need to base their operation on teamwork (Rojas, Jaimes and Valencia, 2018). Beal, Bohlen and Raudabaugh (1964), Shein (1973) and Hersey and Blanchard (1986) define the maturity of a team as the level of development it is in, and it is a function of combining the competencies of its members (Guerrero et al., 2018), measured using a scale to establish the degree of maturity (Guiridkian and Cassanelli, 2010). The S-curve, model functions that grow gradually at the beginning, accelerate in the middle of the period and end slowly, describes and predicts human, animal and product population growth (Aguilar et al., 2012 y Zartha et al., 2017) Method: The present study is quantitative with a descriptive cross-sectional design, which worked with an incidental sample, made up of 32 work teams from 25 manufacturing companies in the city of Chihuahua, whose central inclusion criterion was belonging to the production department. The objective of the study was to graphically develop the development process followed by the work teams, applying the logistic growth curve, with the R(t) equation (Guerrero, 2006), using the group maturity variable (Montanari and Pilatti, 2014), along with over time, relative to the 9 factors established by the Integral and Dynamic Model, applying its measurement instrument (Guerrero, 2013), its justification arises from the fact of having a graphic representation that shows the development of team maturity as a function of the time. Results: S curve was generated using the Group Maturity calculated values, by means of simple linear regression, to determine the time values, at the levels of the maturity scale. The location coefficients were determined, b = 82 and k = 0.26, and the percentages were defined for each development phase of the Integral and Dynamic Model, and their estimated times. Discussion and conclusions: The plotted curve coincides with the curve proposed by Katzenbach and Smith (1995). Using the generated S-curve, percentages were established and limits were defined for each phase of the Integral and Dynamic Model that a work team must go through, as well as the estimated times it may take in each phase. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this research is to determine the efficiency of the international trade logistics network of nineteen of the APEC region by the year 2016. We work towards this goal using the methodology of the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) Network. In the instrumentation of the network, two nodes are considered; in the first one, the inputs are the infrastructure and the transport services, and the outputs are considered to be the logistics services, the costs and the execution time. The outputs of the first node constitute the inputs of the second, while the outputs of the second node are the volume and value of exports. The results show that none of the countries studied were efficient in their international trade logistics network. The six countries with the highest scores during the review period were China with 0.65, Vietnam with 0.56, Peru with 0.35, Russia with 0.35, Republic of Korea with 0.33 and Singapore with 0.32. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The goods offered in the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan came from all corners of the empire. Much has been learned about the meaning of these ritual acts, but little has been written about it from the perspective of the Mexica economy. The market, the gifts, the specific companies that extracted resources, and the tributes, were all factors that interacted simultaneously, promoting the transfer of thousands of products, raw materials, animals and exotic materials, which would later be transformed and offered in lavish ceremonies. Sumptuous godos, such as gold and feathers were taxed and traded throughout the empire, but upon arrival in the capital they were transformed by the specialized hands of artisans associated with the government. For their part, animals, plants, and exotic goods were transported to Tenochtitlan to be used during rituals associated with the Emperor and the bureaucratic and religious apparatus. All these goods inform us about a history of organization and logistics which was rarely seen in Mesoamerica. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]