While manufacturing suppliers may occasionally believe that they are constrained by their quality system and their competitiveness seems in question, the quality system is not the root problem.
While obvious on its face, manufacturing buyers want to save money on their custom machined parts without compromising delivery or quality. However, by buying only on the basis of price, they may rule…
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Author : Zhenji Zhang
Genre : Business & Economics
Summary : Information and communication technology has helped to provide a more effective network infrastructure and development platform for logistics and service operations. In order to meet the needs of consumers, and particularly to promote low-carbon development processes, new types of services will also emerge. LISS 2012 is a prime international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of logistics, informatics, service operations and service science. Experts and researchers from related fields will discuss current issues and future development opportunities, discuss and analyze developing trends and exchange the latest research and academic thought. The theme of the conference is Logistics and Service Science based on the Internet of Things.
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Author : Jian Pu
Genre : Business & Economics
Summary : Land reform has been the most challenging social issue for China, which is in transition from an agricultural society to an industrialized country. As the initiator of "common-ownership trust", the author introduces trust theory into China's land reform, trying to settle the issues of land right verification and land circulation. Firstly, this book reflects on land circulation and common ownership theoretically. Then it reviews China's rural land system transition in history as well as its current circumstances and problems. Based on theoretical thinking and practice, this book proposes land trust and expounds on its nature and content. Lastly, it interprets the "cloud trust + land trust" model which combines science, technology, knowledge and capital with land to realize the intensive and overall development of land. This book attempts to solve China's land problems with financial tools, which provide significant implications for not only land reform but also trust theory study.
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Genre : Business & Economics
Summary : Seminar paper from the year 2022 in the subject Business economics - Business Ethics, Corporate Ethics, grade: 1,0, University of Tubingen (Weltethos Institut), language: English, abstract: This paper deals with the burdens and benefits for companies of an upcoming Due Diligence Act on supply chains. The focus is put on the supply chain law in Germany and in Europe. In the first step, fundamental terms and theories concerning the supply chain law are presented referring to the German and European Due Diligence Act putting both in a relationship by illustrating similarities and differences between them. Subsequently, various kinds of burdens and benefits of the supply chain law are assessed from the viewpoint of companies in general. Finally, both up and downsides of impacts on companies are going to be considered in a direct comparison ending in a conclusion. Volkswagen factory near internment camps for Uyghurs in Xingjiang, child labour on toxic cobalt and lithium mining plants, exploitative and polluting fast fashion industry. These are only few of the numerous conditions that companies cause in their environment through supply chains. According to the International Labour Organization, in 2020, almost 1 in 10 children worldwide is in child labour, accounting for 160 million children worldwide. Companies have grown their supply chains internationally while gaining high profits and also exploiting developing countries. At the same time, one of the largest and most effective levers to preserve the environment and to avoid human rights violations are supply chains. Therefore, making supply chains more sustainable is one key task companies are confronted with the upcoming mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence regulations. Although there are several voluntary guidance approaches with the aim of minimizing and avoiding human rights violations and environmental harm such as the United Nations Principles for Business and Human Rights, also referred to as the "Ruggie Principles", current results are disappointing regarding the implementation of this concept. That is why more and more countries are enacting regulations in order to ensure more sustainable supply chains. Following other European countries, the German parliament recently has passed the “Supply Chain Due Diligence Act” or in short, the supply chain law. As highly suggested and expected, the European parliament has drafted a European solution as called European Due Diligence Act. These recent developments imply both, new challenges and opportunities for companies that again have caused a major divergence of views of various stakeholders.
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Author : A. Min Tjoa
Genre : Business & Economics
Summary : The idea for this conference came from a meeting of the IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) Technical Committee for Information Systems (TC8) in Guimares, Portugal in June 2005. Our goal is to build an IFIP forum among the different Information Systems Communities of TC8 dealing with the increasing important area of Enterprise Information Systems. In this particular meeting the committee members intensively discussed the innovative and unique characteristics of Enterprise Information Systems as scientific sub-discipline. Hence, in this meeting it was decided by the TC8 members that the IFIP TC8 First International Conference on Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems (CONFENIS 2006) would be held in April 2006 in Vienna, Austria. Dr. Li Xu (USA) and Dr. A Min Tjoa (IFIP TC8) were assigned to propose a concept for this conference in order to establish an IFIP platform for EIS researchers and practitioners in the field to share experience, and discussing opportunities and challenges. We are very pleased therefore to have this conference organised by the help of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG). OCG supports the idea of this conference due to the urgent need of research and dissemination of new techniques in this key area. We received 180 papers from more than 30 countries for CONFENIS and the Program Committee eventually selected xx papers or extended abstracts, making an acceptance rate of xx% of submitted papers. Each paper was thoroughly reviewed by at least two qualified reviewers.
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Author : James P. Grover
Genre : Science
Summary : As one of the most quantitative of ecological subdisciplines, resource competition is an important, central area of ecology. Recently research into this area has increased dramatically and resource competition models have become more complex. The characterisation of this phenomenon is therefore the aim of this book. Resource Competition seeks to identify the unifying principles emerging from experimental and theoretical approaches as well as the differences between organisms, illustrating that greater knowledge of resource competition will benefit human and environmental welfare. This book will serve as an indispensable guide to ecologists, evolutionary biologists and environmental managers, and all those interested in resource competition as an emerging discipline.
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Author : Paul Nieuwenhuis
Genre : Business & Economics
Summary : This incisive book integrates the academic fields of sustainable consumption and production (SCP) and sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) as a framework for challenging the current economic paradigm and addressing the significant ecological and environmental problems faced by the contemporary business world.
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Author : Zuriati Ahmad Zukarnain
Genre : Computers
Summary : The 2022 International Conference on Information Economy, Data Modeling and Cloud Computing (ICIDC 2022) was successfully held in Qingdao, China from June 17 to 19, 2022. Under the impact of COVID-19, ICIDC 2022 was held adopting a combination of online and offline conference. During this conference, we were greatly honored to have Prof Datuk Dr Hj Kasim Hj Md Mansur from Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia to serve as our Conference Chairman. And there were 260 individuals attending the conference. The conference agenda was composed of keynote speeches, oral presentations, and online Q&A discussion. The proceedings of ICIDC 2022 cover various topics, including Big Data Finance, E-Commerce and Digital Business, Modeling Method, 3D Modeling, Internet of Things, Cloud Computing Platform, etc. All the papers have been checked through rigorous review and processes to meet the requirements of publication. Data modeling allows us to obtain the dynamic change trend of various indicator data, so how to use big data information to model and study the development trend of economic operation plan is of great significance. And that is exactly the purpose of this conference, focusing on the application of big data in the economic field as well as conducting more profound research in combination with cloud computing.
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Author : Management Association, Information Resources
Genre : Business & Economics
Summary : Business practices are constantly evolving in order to meet growing customer demands. Evaluating the role of logistics and supply chain management skills or applications is necessary for the success of any organization or business. As market competition becomes more aggressive, it is crucial to evaluate ways in which a business can maintain a strategic edge over competitors. Supply Chain and Logistics Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a vital reference source that centers on the effective management of risk factors and the implementation of the latest supply management strategies. It also explores the field of digital supply chain optimization and business transformation. Highlighting a range of topics such as inventory management, competitive advantage, and transport management, this multi-volume book is ideally designed for business managers, supply chain managers, business professionals, academicians, researchers, and upper-level students in the field of supply chain management, operations management, logistics, and operations research.
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Author : Natalia Yakovleva
Genre : Science
Summary : This book presents a collection of studies on current best practices for delivering sustainable development policies within supply chains. It critiques the limitations of existing business theory and practice on sustainable supply chain management, and discusses opportunities for new conceptual models for businesses to engage with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It examines how businesses can work towards implementing Sustainable Development Goals in the contexts of entrepreneurial initiative, industry collaboration and regional development. SDGs renew the sustainable development agenda for global communities and ask businesses and organisations to reset their sustainable development policies. A strategy to embed sustainable development principles into business operations along the supply chain operations, which has been a conceptual and, in many instances, practitioner, business and industry achievement of the past decades, is not enough to shift the economic and social conditions of poor populations around the world. How would the global supply chains of the future look like? What social relations does it envisage? How will businesses and organisations engage with societies, environments and complex institutional contexts in emerging markets and developing countries, which are faced with issues of population growth, needed leaps in infrastructure provision, educational and health improvements, cultural and institutional shifts? The books challenges current approaches to sustainable supply chain practices guided by discussion on SDGs. It reviews implementation issues of existing sustainable development approaches, assesses the advancement of sustainable development strategies and examines the opportunities for global value chains to increase their positive social and environmental inputs in regions, communities and organisations. The book collects both conceptual and empirical studies set in a variety of business and organisational contexts, such as manufacturing, retail, procurement, cities and industrial parks. It contests the accepted axioms of sustainable practices in the global supply chains and proposes new models for organisations and production networks to engage with societies and address market and production effects on communities and institutions.
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Author : Carvalho, Luísa
Genre : Business & Economics
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