基于动态投入产出模型的物流中心运营研究

通过分析物流中心投入产出的特点,研究了物流中心系统的投入要素和产出要素,提出应用动态投入产出模型研究物流中心的投入产出.通过分析物流中心各要素的动态投入产出结构,提出了物流中心“客户培养量”、“各类员工的需求量”、“固定资产需求量”和“费用需求量”的投入预测方法,不仅为物流中心系统的投入产出提供了合理的可操作计量方法,也为物流中心各项资源的高效利用和资源的合理配置提供可行性的建议.     

物流中心选址的两阶段法研究

本文研究物流中心的最优选址问题,提出了重心法和层次分析法相结合的一种两阶段选址方法.提出应用重心法求一组物流中心备选方案的方法及原则,并借助层次分析法对备选方案进行综合因素比较,给出了层次分析模型中的各判断矩阵元素的取值范围.实例计算表明该方法的计算结果综合指标好,可操作性强.     

SLP方法在粮食物流中心内部规划布局中的应用

通过对系统平面布置方法SLP的分析,阐述了SLP方法在粮食物流中心内部规划布局中的应用,证明了SLP方法在粮食物流中心规划设计中的可行性.通过对假设模拟物流中心的分析,最终得出了粮食物流中心的基本布局图,旨在对以后粮食物流中心的规划设计起到指导作用.     

基于数学模型和AHP结合的连锁企业物流中心选址

首先介绍了物流中心选址的一些基本方法和模型,其次结合自己对多种物流中心选址方法的认识以及模型的适用范围,进而综合利用数学模型、层次分析法、Delphi法,通过定量与定性综合分析,建立了一种新的选址模型.并结合连锁商业企业实例分析,提出了连锁商业企业选址和发展中存在的问题和不足,并提出了一些改进的建议.     

物流中心选址的决策支持系统研究

物流中心选址是构建物流系统的关键环节.首先,对物流中心选址决策支持系统进行了系统分析;然后,根据系统的功能需求,对系统模型库中所需包含的模型进行了分析.最后,探讨了系统的实现架构.本系统可以实现定性和定量相结合的选址决策支持,从而为物流中心选址优化提供了一种有效的实现策略.     

医药商业企业物流系统的规划设计

本文主要根据医药商业企业的物流特点,对药品的存储、拣选等物流中心的作业流程进行了分析,并提出了物流系统规划设计时重点考虑的药品分类存储、ABC分拣特性、EIQ分拣策略等的设计思路及解决方案中的设备配置,为医药商业企业在建设医药物流中心时提供了借鉴.     

高效卷烟分拣系统在秦皇岛市卷烟物流中心的实现

秦皇岛市卷烟物流中心规划年销量11万箱,面向全市卷烟零售点进行配送.普天物流技术有限公司作为河北省烟草公司卷烟物流中心的物流系统集成商,承担了秦皇岛市卷烟物流中心工艺设备的建设与集成工作.目前,新建设的秦皇岛市卷烟物流中心已经运行超过半年,实现了全部业务向新物流中心的成功转移,并实现了全市销售卷烟统一分拣到户、统一配送的目标.     

基于粗糙集方法的汽车物流中心选址研究

汽车物流供应链一个重要环节就是物流中心选址,于是选用合适的评价方法来进行物流中心选址就显得尤为重要.首先论述了汽车物流中心选址的重要性及影响因素,然后介绍了粗糙集的相关理论,并且运用实例验证了粗糙集方法在汽车物流中心选址中的应用.     

上海建设多级物流中心的选址与政策建议

针对上海建设国际、国内和长江三角洲区域多级物流中心的条件与要求,对选址进行了分析,提出了上海发展现代物流业、建设多级物流中心的政策建议。     

基于旅游业角度推进旅游商品物流中心建设的战略思考

阐述了旅游业和旅游商品物流中心的关系及建设旅游商品物流中心的意义和我国的建设现状,最后提出了推动旅游商品物流中心建设和旅游业发展的几条措施。     

Options as a Marketing Tool: Pricing a Promotional Scheme for a Product with a Secondary Market

Adding options to durable products allows new opportunities for manufacturers and retailers in markets with a secondary market to create better segmentation schemes, provide creative means to differentiate their products and services, and increase the value they offer consumers. This raises the need for sellers to properly price such options. This work presents a few examples of incentive programs for the car industry, develops models and calculates their cost to the seller, demonstrating the applicability of the proposed methodology. Our numerical results indicate that such options are surprisingly inexpensive for car manufacturers and dealers. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

营销团队建设“三步曲”

“铁打的保险公司，流水的保险代理人”，保险公司各级主管在这边马不停蹄不遗余力地增员，报纸、网站上的代理人招聘广告铺天盖地满天飞扬，不停地面试，然后不停地办理入职手续。业务员却在那边不间断地流失和“阵亡”，好不容易搭建起来的营销团队，一不留神就没有了，主管们又重新变成“光杆司令”了，只好孤军奋战，还有那些“没走”的，也就是处于名存实亡状态的“睡眠代理人”。新面孔不断出现，“不老的面孔”不断地消失，人员的频繁进出构成保险公司营销部门一道独特的行业风景线。请看——[编者按]     

Advertising a product to face a competitor entry: a differential game approach

We analyze a market in which advertising is the dominant marketing tool to create market share. We assume that an incumbent firm dominates the market during an initial stage, and that a new competitor is going to enter the market. In particular, we analyze the different advertising policies that the incumbent firm can adopt, before and after the entry of the rival. We explore three possible behaviours. In the first scenario the firm knows that the competitor will arrive at a given instant. In the second one we assume the original firm to be surprised, in the sense that it does not anticipate the entry of the opponent either because it does not expect the competitor to arrive, or it is not prepared to react before the entry takes place. Finally, in the third scenario, the original firm knows that the competitor will enter at a constant rate. We characterize a differential game model and compare the firms’ behaviours in a strategic perspective.     

Reevaluating waste as a resource under a circular economy approach from a system perspective: Findings from a case study

The circular economy (CE), definable as a system focused on the reorganization of material, information, and energy flows to achieve greater resource efficiency through the reuse, remanufacturing, and recycling of materials, is a concept widely discussed by practitioners and scientists of many disciplines. Waste recycling is integral to the CE, but there are still few articles focused on waste, and only few studies shed light on CE implementation at the company level. This paper focuses on a particular type of waste, that is, absorbent hygiene products (AHPs), which represents a nonnegligible fraction of municipal solid waste, considered an increasingly serious global challenge. We conducted our analysis on FaterSMART, an Italian firm that developed a unique worldwide technology able to totally convert AHP raw material wastes into recyclable materials, under a CE approach. The case study findings are based upon semi-structured interviews, direct observations, and analysis of FaterSMART's archival documents and are analyzed according to a framework developed for the research and focused on the place of waste from a linear economy, in which waste is considered a burden to CE, in which waste is considered a resource. The latter case is what we found that happens at FaterSMART. FaterSMART's findings could contribute to open up new management scenarios and stimulate further research into how this and similar types of technology will help societies to change from the “use-it-once-and-throw-it away” mentality of linear business models to the sustainable CE model that fully conceptualize waste as a resource for the system.     

Between a rock and a hard place: managing diversity in a shareholder society

This study examines whether the appointment of racial/ethnic minorities into top management positions has a different impact on share price than the appointment of Caucasians into equivalent positions. Our dependent variable is the degree of change in share price following the announcement of racial/ethnic minority and Caucasian men into senior management positions. Market reaction to the naming of racial/ethnic minorities into corporate leadership positions is significant and negative, while the market's reaction to the naming of Caucasians is significant and positive. However, the negative market reaction to the appointment of racial/ethnic minorities into top management positions is mitigated in those firms that have explicitly incorporated diversity into their strategic growth plan. Our findings suggest that to successfully introduce diversity into upper management, firm decision makers must first signal the importance of diversity to market actors.     

Simulation of a blood-inventory-bank system in a hospital

A blood-bank inventory system has been analysed viewing it as an inventory-hank system where the demand forecasting forms a part of the inventory model. A simulation model incorporating the “desired-beginning-inventory-level” policy has been used for the analysis of system-performance. Optimal inventory policy-guidelines have been suggested for a hospital blood-bank using blood shortage and blood out-dating as the two important components of the measure of effectiveness. Numerical results have been given.     

一个人和一本杂志的奇迹

曾经接近倒闭的台湾《商业周刊》在俞国定手中奇迹般地成为今天台湾业界发行量、广告额排名第一的杂志。他掌握了媒体成功的秘笈了吗?     

Congestion in a city with a central bottleneck

We consider dynamic congestion in an urban setting where trip origins are spatially distributed. All travelers must pass through a downtown bottleneck in order to reach their destination in the CBD. Each traveler chooses departure time to maximize general concave scheduling utility. We find that, at equilibrium, travelers sort according to their distance to the destination; the queue is always unimodal regardless of the spatial distribution of trip origins. We construct a welfare maximizing tolling regime, which eliminates congestion. All travelers located beyond a critical distance from the CBD gain from tolling, even when toll revenues are not redistributed, while nearby travelers lose. We discuss our results in the context of acceptability of tolling policies.     

Without a vision, a business may perish

The process described is not only viable for a company, but also can be used by any group that is gathered to perform any task. The process serves to explore strengths and weaknesses so the group can use one and shore up the other. It looks at the outside forces that may affect the work and allows the group to place its effort in the areas it can influence. By looking at what is or about to occur, the process may be able to create synergism or prevent disaster. A vision or direction statement that many if not all had some input into is easier to understand and support. Referral to these benchmarks or compass points makes the journey easier.