Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 103 Issue 7

Key issues of accounting information quality management: Australian case studies

Hongjiang Xu, Jeretta Horn Nord, G. Daryl Nord, Binshan Lin

This paper discusses the results of Australian case studies illustrating the key issues that need to be addressed for accounting information quality management. In previous…

Public sector enterprise resource planning

Thomas R. Gulledge, Rainer A. Sommer

The management of the US Department of Defense (DoD) enterprise must change. Years of under‐funding have led to a wide gap between enterprise support requirements and resources…

The role of critical information in enterprise knowledge management

Fawzy Soliman, Mohamed Youssef

The role of quality of information in decision making has been highlighted in the literature. However, little attention has been given to the importance of critical information…

Information flow in automotive supply chains – identifying and learning to overcome barriers to change

Paul Childerhouse, Ramzi Hermiz, Rachel Mason‐Jones, Andrew Popp, Denis R. Towill

Improving competitive advantage to the first‐tier echelon of automotive supply chains is enabled via the requirement for transparent information flows in both the order‐generating…

Integrating transport systems in supply chain management software tools

Antonio C. Caputo, Pacifico M. Pelagagge, Federica Scacchia

Logistic strategies represent a key factor to increase supply chain (SC) effectiveness, as the optimization of logistics networks enables transport and storage costs reduction as…

A study on industry and synthetic standard benchmarks in relational and object databases

Jia‐Lang Seng

Benchmarks are the vital tools in the performance measurement and evaluation of database management systems (DBMS), including the relational database management systems (RDBMS…

An automated system for motor carrier selection

Ching‐Chung Kuo, Frank Soflarsky

This paper deals with the development of an automated procedure for selecting motor carriers to minimize transportation cost prepaid by a shipper. To test the effectiveness of the…