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Purpose: The question of resource scarcity and emerging pressure of environmental legislations has brought a new challenge for the manufacturing industry. On the one hand, there is a huge population that demands a large quantity of commodities; on the other hand, these demands have to be met by...
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Today's economy is experiencing serious economic and social problems affecting all world citizens. The earth seems to have become insufficient in meeting the standards of living that societies expect. The classic marketing approach is seen as the cause of many problems. It has contributed to the...
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evaluation of logistics effectiveness and efficiency is gaining increased attention. Logistics performance management (PM) is the …Logistics can be seen as a key competitive factor in the automotive industry due to the rising number of model variants … and options. With the increasing importance of logistics (Gunasekaran et al. in Int J Prod Econ 87(3):333-347, 2004), the …
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Research Question: The essential problem being analyzed in the present paper is the search for methods to assess or rather measure supply chain flexibility. Due to a multi-dimensional characteristic supply chain flexibility is particularly difficult to analyze and to evaluate with adequate...
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What is the connection between Logistics, customer service and customer Satisfaction levels? What are the role and … importance of a Company’s Logistics policies on the overall Customer Experience? What is a generally acceptable response time …
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How can the performance of a logistic service level be measured in a consistent way, and how can the measured service level in one country be compared to another country?
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Coordination and harmony between different departments of a company can be an important factor in achieving competitive advantage if the company corrects alignment between strategies of different departments. This paper presents an integrated decision model based on recent advances of geometric...
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Management of patient records in a hospital is of major importance, for its impact both on the quality of care and on … logistics of medical records in hospitals. The paper is based on a case study conducted aboutthe 2007-2011 period in the Medical … Records Logistics Service atthe Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena in Seville (Spain). From April 2008, a set of actions …
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Purpose: Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning (DDMRP) aims to deal with variability by adjusting inventory levels while maintaining, or even increasing, customer service levels. This approach bridges the push and pull approaches. Even though it first made its appearance in 2011, research...
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The paper concerns research and improvement of production processes in one of the European companies in the rubber industryThe company did not allow the name or country to be given.. The main goal is to improve the production process of the thermo-plastics obtained from polymer materials on the...
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