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by information sharing and technology in achieving such a goal. Supply chain management and agility have both been …
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The paper introduces new dimensions of Information Systems evaluation. Sustainability issues have increasing importance and their influence is compared with the Internet revolution. Customers, policymakers and business partners increasingly require the monitoring and reporting of the impact of...
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This paper presents results of a pilot study completed as part of the BestLog (Best Practices in Logistics) project … Programme. One of the project goals is to identify and promote best sustainable practices in logistics and supply chain … section reviews EC policies on sustainability in transport and logistics. The main part of the analysis concentrates on the …
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innovation in trucking logistics. Transportation usually represents the single most important component in trucking logistics … container industry is how improvements in the trucking logistics impacts a firms overall operating rate. The literature contains … term contracts, and private carrier. This research seeks to identify practices in trucking logistics that box plants might …
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groups: researchers, logistics experts, RFID technology manufacturers, manufacturers' representatives and government … world and has begun devoting resources to local RFID technology development. This paper's goal is to analyse the development …
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-compressed and volatile. Yet many logistics supply chains span continents. This creates complexity for the people who manage them …. Hence logistics operations require managers with a broad range of skills to cope with the challenges these supply chains … bring [1]. As such the area of logistics management skills has recently received some attention from the academic community …
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topics were developed in accordance with the model proposed in Logistics, Strategy and Structure: A Conceptual Framework … the selected sample. Section II of the survey posed questions directly dealing with logistics costs, competitive advantage …, strategy and performance.With regard to logistics costs, the research sought to determine the most significant costs, as …
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The study of complex systems should be based on a systems-theoretic framework which requires both self-organizing and symbolic dimensions. An inclusive framework based on the notion of semiotics is advanced to build models capable of representing, as well as evolving in their environments, with...
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We identify a general framework for weak planning called bootstrap planning, which is defined as global planning using only a local planner along with some memory for learning intermediate subgoals. We present a family of algorithms for bootstrap planning, and provide some initial theory on...
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