During the production process one should operatively survey pre-established (standard) costs with a view of determining and analyzing deviations as costs are settled at the level of an activity considered to be normal while real activity can display deviations from this. The system of analysis...

The conflicts, linked to the contradictory interests, are intensified in the management of operations. Once they are identified, they become an intervention privileged base for logistics.

The success of business in the contemporary world depends upon many inter related aspects or reasons. One of such reasons or aspects of a successful business relationship is to have and maintain a high corporate image, which is strictly connected to organizational identity. Finding new ways of...

The ways of approaching the logistic problems need the use of some varied techniques and means, and the elaboration of a logistic project – which would aim the entire company – mobilises multiple personnel for a period of a few months and claims the intervention of logisticians within the...

The approach of a new domain of company’s management, the logistical one, imposes the knowledge of own aims and methods of study. But, in order to facilitate the implementation, its main components must be prevalently set forth. Impelled by the change in the structure of potential clients,...

Derived from the orientations of the company’s general strategy, logistics focuses its generic orientations in compliance with the aimed performance level. The levels of services must be especially defined by integrating not only the market expectations, but also the performances of the...

The situation where European regions will fall behind with regard to defined categories of clusters with relation to their equivalents on the scale of the world economy can become a significant factor in the low competitiveness of the regions in a global economy. This particularly refers to the...

Costs are in all aspects of each company. Some of the most noticeable costs of business are the costs associated with storage, transportation and distribution the products of the company. In this case a significant impact on reducing these costs is to use the services of logistics centers,...

This paper explores the long-term partnership benefits of local strategic alliances in the software industry. A structural model of the value continuum is formulated and tested on data from small and midsize enterprises in Germany. Partial Least Squares Analysis is used to investigate the...

Reverse logistics has become an important entity in the world economy. Businesses increasingly have to cope with product returns, mandated environmental regulations and increasing costs associated with product disposal. This study presents a cost-minimization model for a multi-time-step,...