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A METHODOLOGY TO STABILIZE THE SUPPLY CHAIN
Sarmiento, Alfonso - 2010
In today s world, supply chains are facing market dynamics dominated by strong global competition, high labor costs, shorter product life cycles, and environmental regulations. Supply chains have evolved to keep pace with the rapid growth in these business dynamics, becoming longer and more...
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Empirical analysis of the solar incentive policy for Tennessee solar value chain
Sawhney, Rapinder; Thakur, Kaveri; Venkatesan, Bharadwaj; … - In: Applied Energy 131 (2014) C, pp. 368-376
The market for solar energy in the US has grown exponentially due to increased consumer demand resulting from price reduction via economies of scale, technological progress, and a variety of incentives from federal and state governments as well as utility companies. The installation of solar...
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MODELING SUPPLY CHAIN WITH SIMULATION
Benkõ, János - In: Advanced Logistic systems 4 (2010) 1, pp. 93-103
Supply Chain Management faces a lot of challenging issues involving difficult decisions which can be company-oriented and customer-oriented issues. In this study we deal with customeroriented issues. For example, a customer’s demand may not be fully satisfied from stock on hand and the...
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Forecasting method selection in a global supply chain
Acar, Yavuz; Gardner, Everette S. - In: International Journal of Forecasting 28 (2012) 4, pp. 842-848
chain using actual demand data and both optimization and simulation techniques. The optimization, a mixed integer program …
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A hierarchical approach for evaluating energy trade-offs in supply chains
Jain, Sanjay; Lindskog, Erik; Andersson, Jon; … - In: International Journal of Production Economics 146 (2013) 2, pp. 411-422
and operational decisions on the energy consumption along the supply chain. This paper presents a hierarchical simulation … simulation is used at a high abstraction level to understand the major factors that may affect the energy consumption. Discrete … event simulation is then used to delve down in detail for evaluating the critical stages in the supply chain. A case study …
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A simulation model for the design and analysis of wood pellet supply chains
Mobini, Mahdi; Sowlati, Taraneh; Sokhansanj, Shahab - In: Applied Energy 111 (2013) C, pp. 1239-1249
consumption. In this paper, a simulation model is developed to enhance and facilitate the studies concerning the design and …
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Information and Communication Technologies for Health Systems Strengthening
Otto, Kate; Shekar, Meera; Herbst, Christopher H.; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015
Information and communication technologies (ICT) for health or eHealth solutions hold great potential for generating systemic efficiencies by strengthening five critical pillars of a health system: human resources for health, supply chain management, health care financing, governance and service...
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Study into key problems in forecasting export containers in a region of China
Han, B.M.; Zhu, X.N.; Wong, Wing-gun; Ferreira, Luis; … - 2002
, back-propagation (BP) algorithm, is given. In addition necessary estimation and validation processes are designed to ensure …
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Tsunami risk for Western Canada and numerical modelling of the Cascadia fault tsunami
Xie, Jinsong; Nistor, Ioan; Murty, Tad - In: Natural Hazards 60 (2012) 1, pp. 149-159
numerical simulation are included. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012 …
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Inflation Targeting in Western Europe
Moreno, Antonio; Rey, Luis - In: Topics in Macroeconomics 6 (2006) 2, pp. 1455-1455
Several European countries adopted inflation targeting as a monetary policy strategy during the 1990s. This article evaluates the impact of the establishment of this policy framework on the dynamics of inflation for three countries: United Kingdom, Spain and Finland. While smaller shocks...
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