MANAGING VENDOR INVENTORY IN A DUAL LEVEL DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM

Collaborative arrangements among members of the supply chain have received a great deal of interest in recent years as a means of reducing costs. One such arrangement is vendor managed inventory (VMI). VMI allows the vendor to make decisions concerning the quantity and timing of deliveries to the retailer. Such an arrangement offers the potential of a more efficient supply chain by removing the negative effects of retail ordering policies. A thorough review of the literature was conducted to identify factors likely to impact the performance of a VMI partnership. Computer simulation was used to study the effects of these factors from both the vendor's and retailer's perspectives. The results lend insight into the performance of VMI and guidance for managers as to the environments in which VMI is most effective.     

对高等院校知识管理的几点思考

知识管理越来越受企业重视,在高校教育中实施知识管理虽有很多困难,但已成为必然趋势。只有做好充足的先前准备,掌握实施知识管理的重点步骤和方法,高等院校知识管理才能迈向一个新台阶。     

浅析多媒体技术在车辆工程教学中的应用

随着教育的发展 ,传统的教学方法已不能满足时代的需要 ,亟待运用现代教育技术手段 ,特别是多媒体的教学形式进入课堂 ,以发挥其特有的功能来提高学习效率。本文浅淡了如何在车辆工程教学中运用计算机多媒体的图、文、声、像并茂的特点 ,有效的激发学生的学习兴趣。     

ARXAN,Just Beyond Your Imagination

Tired of the hustle and bustle in the crowded city? Don't worry; we always have some other options to please ourselves. Sited in the north-east of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China, neighboring on Mongolia, and also nearby Russian, there is a paradise on earth. Named "Saint Spring & Snowy City", Arxan is everything more than your expectation.     

Ownership and production efficiency: Evidence from Taiwanese banks

In the early 1990s, Taiwan began her deregulation trend in order to enhance competition and economic efficiency across all industries. We derive a theoretical framework to predict possible rankings in technical efficiencies of public, mixed, and private banks. A panel data set with 43 Taiwanese banks during 1997–1999 is used for empirical analysis. We then apply a translog distance function to estimate technical efficiencies. The relationship between technical efficiency and government shareholding is also examined. Empirical results show that a public bank in Taiwan can improve its technical efficiency by mixed ownership at a diminishing rate. Moreover, banks in Taiwan on average performed worse after the 1997 Asian financial crisis.     

Twitter Presence and Experience Improve Corporate Social Responsibility Outcomes

Journal of Business Ethics - We investigate the role of social-media-triggered public pressure on corporate social responsibility (CSR) that includes expectations of transparency and accountability...     

航道整治建筑物冬季开冰槽筑坝施工方法

介绍季节性冰冻河流航道整治建筑物冬季开冰槽筑坝法的施工组织方式、施工机械设备的选择及施工安全、质量保证措施.     

How Do Real Estate Firms Expand Nationwide？

China's real estate industry is undergoing rapid growth, and the market is becoming even more centralized with the new macro-control measures passed by the government. The battle among real estate companies is stiffening and big companies are swallowing up their smaller rivals. These days, real estate developers have been forced to expand inter-regionally due to rapid growth in the industry and bitter competition in the market.     

Managing uncertainty in on-demand air travel

Fractional management companies (FMCs) that provide on-demand air travel services experience frequent changes in aircraft availability and flight requests. We propose scheduling heuristics which are both cost-effective and persistent (i.e., close to the original schedule) to address the uncertainty. The heuristics include pro-actively enforcing idleness of aircraft in creating the original schedule, strategically repositioning aircraft to serve yet-unknown demand and dense scheduling. Computational experiments are conducted in a simulator that mimics FMCs’ daily operations. Simulation results quantify the value of each heuristic, which can be easily incorporated into existing computational methods used in FMCs for static scheduling problems.