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Mason, R.S. - In: European Journal of Marketing 10 (1976) 1, pp. 36-48

Suggests that frequent review of product sales performance is essential to the planning and control process. Investigates those products which have reached maturity or saturation stage of their product life cycle and reviews these in order to decide on their future product strategy. Evaluates...

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Product availability and the management of demand

Schary, Philip B.; Becker, Boris W. - In: European Journal of Marketing 10 (1976) 3, pp. 127-135

Points to a new emphasis on distribution as a result of material shortages or failures of supply. Proposes that this new awareness requires understanding of the nature of distribution efforts through the logistic response function. Focuses on the managerial problems of utilizing distribution...

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A case study of production orientation: Malayan canned pineapple

Jabbar, Syed - In: European Journal of Marketing 6 (1972) 3, pp. 147-154

Analyses reasons underlying the decline in the Malayan share of the UK canned pineapple market and identifies a lack of effective sales and marketing policies. Attempts to explain the factors contributing to reductions in sales as owing to two factors: general decline in the share of the canned...

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Beef traceability: are Greek consumers willing to pay?

Kehagia, Olga; Linardakis, Michalis; Chryssochoidis, George - In: EuroMed Journal of Business 2 (2007) 2, pp. 173-190

Purpose – This paper seeks to explore two issues, namely: whether Greek consumers are interested in information provided to them for beef meat through systems of traceability, and whether they are willing to pay in order to acquire specific information for beef meat....

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A composite framework of supply chain management and enterprise planning for small and medium‐sized manufacturing enterprises

Towers, Neil; Burnes, Bernard - In: Supply Chain Management: An International Journal 13 (2008) 5, pp. 349-355

Purpose – This paper seeks to examine the factors which influence the ability of SMEs to align their enterprise‐planning systems with the requirements and constraints of supply chain relationships in order to meet their own and their customers' strategic and operational requirements. The...

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Constraints to quick response systems in the implosive industries

Lehtonen, Juha‐Matti; Holmström, Jan; Slotte, Jonas - In: Supply Chain Management: An International Journal 4 (1999) 1, pp. 51-57

Studies the problem of producing a product range with high customer service in the implosive industries. In the implosive industries a wide range of end products are manufactured from a limited number of standard materials. The problem of producing a product range with high customer service is...

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Japanese production theory and small business

Rustagi, Narendra - In: International Journal of Commerce and Management 14 (2004) 3/4, pp. 83-91

theory has been questioned in the literature. Zangwill (1992) questioned the limits of the Japanese Production Theory (JPT …) and in a subsequent paper (Zangwill, 1994) held on to his argument about the limits of the Japanese Production Theory. In … this paper, the Japanese Production Theory is first discussed, followed by a discussion of the consistency between the …

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Analysis of the relationships among TOC use, TOC outcomes, and organizational performance

Inman, R. Anthony; Lair Sale, Martha; Green, Kenneth W. - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 29 (2009) 4, pp. 341-356

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine empirically the relationships among the three elements of the theory …

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On the Simulation Run Length: A Step towards Real Time Control in an FMS

Garg, Amit; Wang, Hsu‐Pin (Ben) - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 10 (1990) 9, pp. 74-88

In any real time control system, its scheduling and control policy should be reassessed every time the state of the system changes. In large and complex systems, this could be a self‐defeating goal. Implementing real time control in such systems would require an enormous amount of computation...

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Computer Integrated Flexible Manufacturing: An Implementation Framework

Babbar, Sunil; Rai, Arun - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 10 (1990) 1, pp. 42-50

The concept of flexibility in computer integrated manufacturing is introduced. A production control hierarchy is developed as an evolutionary method towards computer integrated flexible manufacturing (CIFM). A strategically comprehensive implementation model is presented. The components of CIFM...

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