This book enlightens the concepts and challenges of knowledge management for both urban environments and entire regions, enhancing the expertise and knowledge of scholars, researchers, practitioners, managers and urban developers in the development of successful knowledge-based …
This study is timely because several investments are planned for container terminals in Sub-Saharan Africa. From a public policy perspective, disentangling the reasons behind cargo delays in ports is crucial to understanding:a) whether projects by the World Bank and other donors…
by McLinden, Gerard, Doyle, Tom, Fanta, Enrique, Widdowson, David
This book provides border management policymakers and reformers with a broad survey of key developments in and principles for improving trade facilitation through better border management, including practical advice on particular issues. In contrast to the traditional border man…
This publication, which is based on the unique methodology and tools developed for the World Bank Institute/Harvard School of Public Health Flagship Course on Health System Reform and Sustainable Financing, provides a powerful set of resources to help policy makers better naviga…
by Bartels, Tessa, Brand, Michael, MdB, Kampeter, Steffen, Gubisch, Maria, Hermann, Brigitta, Prof. Dr, Villhauer, Bernd, Dr, Sadoun, Britta, Hußendörfer, Andreas, Nothelle-Wildfeuer, Ursula, Prof. Dr, Vasileva, Veselina, Kessler, Wolfgang, Dr, Noé, Elmar, Hauser, Paulina, Czerny, Ilonka, Dr, Naegele, Stefan, Prof. Dr, Diez, Karlheinz, Prof. Dr
Welchen Beitrag können Unternehmen leisten, damit Menschrechte sowie grundlegende Sozial- und Umweltstandards in den Ländern, in denen sie engagiert sind, gestärkt werden? Die Autor*innen diskutieren die Auswirkungen der Globalisierung interdisziplinär und gehen dabei auch auf d…
Welchen Beitrag können Unternehmen leisten, damit Menschrechte sowie grundlegende Sozial- und Umweltstandards in den Ländern, in denen sie engagiert sind, gestärkt werden? Die Autor*innen diskutieren die Auswirkungen der Globalisierung interdisziplinär und gehen dabei auch auf d…
Welchen Beitrag können Unternehmen leisten, damit Menschrechte sowie grundlegende Sozial- und Umweltstandards in den Ländern, in denen sie engagiert sind, gestärkt werden? Die Autor*innen diskutieren die Auswirkungen der Globalisierung interdisziplinär und gehen dabei auch auf d…
Welchen Beitrag können Unternehmen leisten, damit Menschrechte sowie grundlegende Sozial- und Umweltstandards in den Ländern, in denen sie engagiert sind, gestärkt werden? Die Autor*innen diskutieren die Auswirkungen der Globalisierung interdisziplinär und gehen dabei auch auf d…
Welchen Beitrag können Unternehmen leisten, damit Menschrechte sowie grundlegende Sozial- und Umweltstandards in den Ländern, in denen sie engagiert sind, gestärkt werden? Die Autor*innen diskutieren die Auswirkungen der Globalisierung interdisziplinär und gehen dabei auch auf d…
Companies compete more and more as integrated supply chains rather than as individual firms. The success of the entire supply chain determines the economic well-being of the individual company. With management attention shifting to supply chains, the role of management accountin…
This thesis explores Centralised Demand Information Sharing (CDIS) in supply chains. CDIS is an information sharing approach where supply chain members forecast based on the downstream member’s demand. The Bullwhip Effect is a demand variance amplification phenomenon: as the dem…
by IFIP WG 5.7 Working Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, State College, Pa.), Prabhu, Vittal, Taisch, Marco, Kiritsis, Dimitris
fromIFIP advances in information and communication technology
The two volumes IFIP AICT 414 and 415 constitute the refereed proceedings of the International IFIP WG 5.7 Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS 2013, held in University Park, PA, USA, in September 2013. The 133 revised full papers were carefully reviewed…
The manufacturing industry is often plagued with high volume of return of goods, and most organisations are saddled with the problem of what to do with the returns which has led to some of them disposing of them in landfills. Which in recent times, have been stated that the worl…
Afetler, tarihin başından günümüze tüm insanlığı derinden etkilemiş, dönüştürmüş ve gelecekte de dönüştürmeye devam edecek olan; trajik sonuçları ile hafızalarımızda devamlı yer bulacak ve sonu hiç gelmeyecek, insanlığın adeta bir uzvu gibi hayatının doğal bir parçası olan olayl…
More often than not, there are discrepancies between what was planned and what is/can be, or should eventually be executed. For instance, production shortages, missed deadlines, delays in receiving and dispatch of shipments, and order changes are more or less ubiquitous. If serv…
The New York Times explained that the United States increased its dependence on oil from Saudi Arabia by more than 20 percent last year (Krauss 2012). The United States of Energy Information Administration (U.S. EIA) stated that oil from Saudi Arabia was accounted for 14 percent…