Recent supply chain reengineering efforts have focused on integrating firms' production, inventory and replenishment activities with the help of communication networks. While communication networks and supply chain integration facilitate optimization of traditional supply chain functions, they...

Swine production has become, in a relatively short time, one of the most competitiveagribusinesses. The increase in international exportation of pork, dynamic changes in the efficiency of hog production, and the increasing preference of consumers for alternative meats has mandated that the swine...

To be successful, in the competitive, global business environment, firms must have a sound understanding of all their operations and the factors which impact upon them, combined with a performance management system which allows them to assess their progress towards achieving the organisation's...

We present a hypothetical model of the change in economic costs and health benefits to society that result from nosocomial infection-control programmes. We include values for costs incurred by the hospital sector, community health services and the private costs to patients. We value health...

As a result to today?s uncertain economy, companies are searching for alternative ways to stay competitive. In which, Company XYZ has been faced with an ineffective forecasting method that has lead to multiple product stock outs. The issue faced has caused sales loss as well as profit loss,...

One from basic problems of every economy is rising of the number of unemployed. State defends this trend by its active or passive employment policy, and after entrance to the EU also by the help of pumping financial resource from ESF. Evaluation of development of the number of unemployed in...