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Dow Chemical officially takes the opposite view. As a matter of corporate policy, Dow Chemical conducts its business within the f...

organizations again began seeing India as an attractive site of operations. Any of the emerging markets under consideration...

manufacturing environment, the operations manager will have the greatest degree of influence and impact in this arena (Obringer, ...

of services provided (Cutcliffe, 1996). At the same time, the brand that is outsourcing to Solectron does not want the buyer to kn...

While in many situations, rank may be broken--and sometimes people even get ahead by doing so--there are some situations where sma...

power of purchasers and suppliers (Porter, 1980). Porter does not see these external factors as working alone, they act in relati...

same level of centralisation. This is a selective centralisation, combined with decentralisation, usually facilitated by internal ...

to choose a destination, "put a plan in place, and move from where we are to where we need to go. From an IT and an implementation...

In todays highly competitive technological landscape, all electronic business operations must be efficient and effective. For exam...

many competitors in the market in the 1920s, and then again in the 1940s following the Great Depression and World War II. Ford ha...

for consumers (Anonymous, 1999). In one example, when Lands End (a mail order clothing supplier in the U.S.), talked about winter ...

comes to supply management, suppliers in a JIT system need to deliver frequent and small shipments when required, without inventor...

to another. These giant ships can carry far more cargo than those most commonly used, effectively shortening the time that liner ...

the product is pretty much produced from scratch); a different way to market (by selling first, then producing, rather than produc...

Susan shows me my office and instructs me in how to make arrangements for various items and services such as Internet access, and ...

sums up their goal of providing exceptional value for customers: "Our emphasis is on practical, dependable solutions within the we...

airline which was bureaucratic and unfriendly. The main rival was that of All Nippon Airways (ANA) which was perceived in a more p...

brand many only occupy a single place in the marketing mix matrix: a company cannot be seen as bargain basement as well as premium...

is either a Chinese businessman or someone familiar with the system. "Your partners can tell you which airports to avoid, or wheth...

is the greatest single cost. The cost of labor is not only the wages received by the employee, but also the total of wages, payro...

resources will need to be allocated. The aim of this paper is to consider the way in which retailers do, or should, choose locati...

the consumer to use their Online services (Hu and Wu, 2008). At this time, the newest technology is called XML (Extensible Markup ...

an integrated, transportation-based global distribution system from the source to the Combatant Commander" (U.S. Army Transportati...

they may be seen to be enveloped in the issue of to what degree and how to whether globalize or localize strategies across the dif...

into account a variety of criteria including location, nearness to a qualified employment base and access to infrastructure (Chan ...

left frame is dedicated to a list of current discounts such as a Texas Instruments TI-84 graphing calculator, offered in a pink ca...

a smile. Anyone who is capable of lifting and carrying about 15 pounds and who is honest can be a bagger. There are a number of ...

term merely refers to the earliest concepts and the refinements of logistics identified that could enhance one or more aspects of ...

immediate vicinity of the goods Riordan is receiving. There are several problems with this arrangement, not the least of wh...

client as a result of the delays, but could be substantial to the relevant contractors. The current project is one that provides...