Data warehouse projects are notoriously difficult to manage and many of them end in failure. One explanation for the high failure rate is that managers are not taking prudent measures to assess and manage the risks involved in the data warehouse project. In this paper we introduce the goaldriven risk management approach of the easyREMOTE framework. We classify the risks of a data warehouse syst...

Warehouse Control System (WCS) aims to manage a broad range of facilities in the warehouse. WCS is different from warehouse management system (WMS). It manages and controls facilities (e.g. equipment) in the warehouse while WMS manages orders in the warehouse. A WCS controls a number of equipment simultaneously while an equipment control system (ECS) controls individual machine. We analysed key...

Data warehouses collect data from multiple remote sources and integrate the information as materialized views in a local database. The materialized views are used to answer queries that analyze the collected data for patterns, anomalies, and trends. This type of query processing is often called on-line analytical processing (OLAP). So that OLAP queries can be posed and answered easily, the data...

Data warehousing is an essential element of decision support systems. It aims at enabling the user knowledge to make better and faster daily business decisions. To improve this decision support system and to give more and more relevant information to the user, the need to integrate user's profiles into the data warehouse process becomes crucial. In this paper, we propose to exploit users' prefe...

The World Wide Web contains a huge and increasing volume of information. The web warehouse is an efficient and effective means to facilitate utilization of information on the Web, not only to individual users but also to business organizations, especially for decision-making purposes. On the other hand, XML has recently become the new standard for representation and exchange of data on the Web....

Distribution network design as a strategic decision has long-term effect on tactical and operational supply chain management. In this research, a supply chain design problem based on a two level capacity location allocation problem (TLCLAP) is presented. A product must be transported from a set of seaport to meet stores demands, passing out by intermediate warehouses. The objective is to locate...

As a matter of fact, the capacity of any warehouse is limited, so a firm has to hire a warehouse called rented warehouse (RW) for storing the excess units over the fixed capacity W (say) of the own warehouse (OW). Practically the RW is assumed to offer better storing facilities than the OW, which results in a lower rate of deterioration and is supposed to charge higher holding cost than the OW....

In the supply chain, a warehouse is an essential component for linking the chain partners. It is necessary to allocate warehouse resources efficiently and effectively to enhance the productivity and reduce the operation costs of the warehouse. Therefore, warehouse management systems (WMSs) have been developed for handling warehouse resources and monitoring warehouse operations. However, it is d...