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…
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…
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…
This dissertation examines the political basis of agricultural trade and production networks within the global economy. Although such networks have been widely studied outside political science, as global value chains in sociology or supply chains in economics and business, a po…
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 enormous economic impact of diseases has drawn global attention and controlling diseases through a vaccination program is one of the highest priorities in healthcare decision making. However, successful implementation of vaccination programs must also consider distribution n…
Günümüzün rekabetçi ortamında, üretim tesislerinde verimlilik en büyük öncelik haline gelmiştir. Verimlilik, farklı sektörlerde farklı çıktılarla bağlantılı olabilir. Maliyet azaltma ve kontrol, verimli üretim sistemlerinin en belirgin ve istenen sonuçları olsa da, marka güvenil…
There is a strong connection between managing and controlling material flow in a supply chain and its performance. While this is true in all supply chains, it is particularly true in the construction supply chain (CSC) where the total demand for parts is finite, the storage spac…