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Manufacturing Strategy – Plans and Business Performance
Claes TunälvBased on an empirical study of 184 Swedish manufacturers. Providesan operationalization of manufacturing strategy. Bases the definition ofa manufacturing strategy on the…
Customer Prioritization Strategies for Distribution Management
Ricardo Ernst, Morris A. CohenAnalyses the operational implications of marketing strategies thattry to distinguish between high‐ and low‐priority customers. For ahigh‐priority customer, the distributor is…
Activity‐based Costing in Non‐standard Route Manufacturing
Lizhang Zhuang, George BurnsLooks at how Activity‐Based Costing (ABC) may be implemented insectors consisting of Non‐Standard Route Manufacturers (NSRM). Followinga brief summary of ABC, introduces the…
Development of Internal Audit and Cycle‐counting Procedures for Reducing Inventory Miscounts
Sameer Kumar, Sant AroraFocuses on schemes to reduce inventory miscounts from theoperational management point of view. An internal audit procedure isdevised for identifying most of the data‐entry errors…
Vehicle Routeing in Large Organizations: A Case Study
C. Sateesh, Pradip K. RayLogistics may be defined as the provision of goods and servicesfrom a supply point to a demand point. In recent times the cost oftransport has become a major expense for…
Technical Paper: The Single‐period Inventory Problem with Uniform Demand
John WalkerPresents a simple method for determining an optimum ordering policyfor the single‐period inventory problem with a set‐up cost of orderingand the uncertain total demand over the…
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- Dr Tobias Schoenherr
- Prof. Constantin Blome
- Robert D. Klassen