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Integrating Closed-loop Supply Chains and Spare Parts Management at IBM
Fleischmann, M.; Nunen, J.A.E.E. van; Graeve, B. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2002
Ever more companies are recognizing the benefits of closed-loop supply chains that integrate product returns into business operations. IBM has been among the pioneers seeking to unlock the value dormant in these resources. We report on a project exploiting product returns as a source of spare...
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The importance of reverse logistics for retail activity
Moise, Mihaela - In: The AMFITEATRU ECONOMIC journal 10 (2008) 24, pp. 192-209
Reverse logistics (RL) refers to a set of programs or competencies aimed at moving products in the reverse direction in the supply chain (i.e., from consumer to producer). It entails more than the mere re-use of containers and the recycling of packaging materials. It is the process of moving a...
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Logistics network structure and design for a closed-loop supply chain in e-commerce
Yao, Weixin - In: International Journal of Business Performance Management 7 (2005) 4, pp. 370-380
Product recovery is increasingly being recognised with the awareness of environment protection and sustainable development. In the past, many researchers paid more attention to reverse logistics only. In e-commerce, a noticeable ratio of product enters the reverse supply chain. It is urgent to...
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Integrating Closed-loop Supply Chains and Spare Parts Management at IBM
Fleischmann, Moritz; van Nunen, van Nunen, J.A.E.E.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2002
Ever more companies are recognizing the benefits of closed-loop supply chains that integrate product returns into business operations. IBM has been among the pioneers seeking to unlock the value dormant in these resources. We report on a project exploiting product returns as a source of spare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011204314
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Neues von der Basarökonomie
Aichele, Rahel; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Heiland, Inga - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 66 (2013) 06, pp. 17-28
Daten zur Produktionsstruktur der Welt, die aus Input-Output-Tabellen entnommen werden, zeigen, dass der ausländische Wertschöpfungsanteil, der in deutschen Exporten steckt, zwischen 1995 und 2008 von 13,5 auf 20% gestiegen ist. Somit ist für Deutschland der langfristige Trend zur...
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Zur wirtschaftlichen Situation georgischer Landwirtschaftsbetriebe
Schulze, Eberhard; Tillack, Peter; Mosashwili, Nodar - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2003
Dieser Forschungsbericht beinhaltet die Ergebnisse einer Untersuchung von 200 Familienbetrieben im Osten Georgiens im Distrikt Sighnagi in der Kakheti-Region Ende 2001/Anfang 2002. Sie dienten dem Ziel, Erkenntnisse über die wirtschaftliche Situation georgischer Familienbetriebe sowie zum Teil...
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Offshoring in the Global Economy: Microeconomic Structure and Macroeconomic Implications
Feenstra, Robert C. - The MIT Press
workers in the middle of the wage distribution. In Offshoring in the Global Economy, noted economist Robert Feenstra offers a … synthesis of fifteen years of research—linking his own work to related research by others—on the globalization of production and … production processes transfer across countries. Feenstra suggests a new calculation of the factor content of trade that …
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Shifts in Production in East Asia
Berger-Thomson, Laura; Doyle, Mary-Alice - In: RBA Bulletin (2013) June, pp. 29-38
Over the past few decades, manufacturing production has shifted from the higher to the lower income economies in east … region. It finds that for most economies, the domestic content of manufacturing production has decreased over time … of the region’s production has been taking place in China, and this trend is expected to continue for some time yet. …
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Working Capital, Trade and Macro Fluctuations
Kim, Se-Jik; Shin, Hyun Song - Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department … - 2013
production and the working capital demands associated with offshoring and vertical specialization of production. We explore a … model of manufacturing production chains with offshoring where firms choose their time profile of production and where …
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The Offshoring of Production Activities in European Manufacturing
Dachs, Bernhard; Borowiecki, Marcin; Kinkel, Steffen; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We investigate production offshoring – the relocation of production activities to locations abroad – of European firms …. The analysis employs data from the European Manufacturing Survey (EMS). Offshoring activity is declining across most … of a longer trend which already started in 2003. Despite the general decrease in offshoring, far-shoring to Asia in …
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