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Dual sourcing : with arbitrary stochastic demand and stochastic lead times
Schimpel, Ulrich - 2010
Companies with high-performing supply chains enjoy essential competitive ad- vantages. However, supply chain management faces an environment of rising risk that endangers these competitive advantages. One of the reasons is to outsource parts of their business. This bears the risk of...
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Optimization of stock management
Kaláb, Dalibor; Vaněček, Drahoš - 2012
Inventories occur fast on all places of the logistic chain. The level of inventories influences significantly the efficiency of enterprising and from this reason it is necessary to devote management inventories in the enterprise corresponding attention. The authors deal with management...
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Application of the ABC analysis in management of food inventory
Toušek, Radek - 2012
The article is focused on managing stock inventory with help of the ABC method. The theory is explained on an actual company dealing with retail grocery distribution within the south bohemian region. The ABC method is applied on 4,405 inventory items regarding their 2008 year turnover. Results...
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Auf der Suche nach operativer Exzellenz im Krankenhaus: Logistik als Rationalisierungsinstrument und strategischer Wettbewerbsfaktor in einem dynamischen Marktumfeld
Walther, Markus - 2005
-häusern erschleißen lassen. Konkret soll das „Versprechen“ des betriebswirtschaftlichen Feldes der Logistik für die Lösung der Kosten- und … Ineffizienzen dargestellt und Handlungsempfehlungen abgeleitet. Die Einordnung der Logistik in einen breiteren branchenstrukturellen … will be derived.On a more theoretical level the role of logistics management will be described in a broader research …
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Sustainability – a new dimension in information systems evaluation
Piotrowicz, Wojciech Piotrowicz; Cuthbertson, Richard - 2009
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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Sustainable supply chains – a framework for best practice assessment: results of the pilot study, BestLog project.
Piotrowicz, Wojciech; Cuthbertson, Richard; Islei, Gerd
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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Profiling Best Practices: An Explanatory Analysis of Box-Plant Trucking Logistics in the Paper Industry
Madariaga, Jessica Frances - 2004
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475765
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The development and implementation status of RFID in China
Scavarda, A; O'Neill, P; Scavarda, L; Wang, X - 2009
groups: researchers, logistics experts, RFID technology manufacturers, manufacturers' representatives and government …
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Logistics manager skill requirements: Comparing international practices
Rahman, S; Butcher, T; Yang, L - 2009
-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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