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Materialeffizienz ist für Unternehmen ein wichtiges Thema. Zur Senkung von Kosten und Kostenrisiken, aber auch aus Gründen des Umweltschutzes bemühen sie sich, ihren Materialeinsatz zu verbessern. Sie stoßen dabei auf Hemmnisse beispielsweise finanzieller Art. Unterstützungen der...
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Formulating a model which summarises transportation costs, uncertainty and price, we describe how a switch to ICT procurement can impact more readily procured services rather than materials. Uncertainty represents a catch-all factor describing the dovetailing of operations between two neither...
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First moves towards a real understanding of offshoring date back to very recent times. In particular for Japan, the studies conducted so far focus alone on the productivity effects of offshoring at the firm level. Here I carry out the analysis of both the employment and productivity effects at...
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Collaborative planning deals with aligning the production plans of legally separated companies. This thesis provides an approach for aligning detailed schedules in a scenario where several suppliers are delivering intermediate goods to one manufacturer. For producing the goods in a...
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The economic effects of offshoring have been subject to extensive empirical analysis in the past, but many studies have not accurately distinguished between offshoring, domestic outsourcing, and the substitution of domestic by foreign suppliers. In this study I provide stylized facts on...
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