Using quantile regression and a rich cross section data set for German manufacturing plants this paper documents that the impact of plant characteristics on export activities varies along the conditional size distribution of the export/sales ratio. For example, firm size is statistically significant at a conventional level for the 0.25 quantile only; branch plant status matters at the upper tai...

A method is proposed for obtaining a final list of raw material requirements, which must be available in the warehouse of automotive companies that produce rubber and rubber-metal parts for manufacturing engines, gearboxes, shock absorbers, etc. This method determines the critical materials considering the historical sales records. For each critical item, a distribution model of sales is determ...

In this paper we present a canonical setting that illustrates the need for explicitly modeling interactions between manufacturing and marketing/sales decisions in a firm. We consider a firm that sells an innovative product with a given market potential. The firm may not be able to meet demand due to capacity constraints. For such firms, we present a new model of demand, modified from the origin...

This paper examines introducing Economic Value Added as a performance measure for small manufacturing companies. Advantages and disadvantages of using Economic Value Added as a primary measure of performance as compared to sales, revenues, earnings, operating profit, profit after tax, and profit margin are investigated. The Economic Value Added calculation using data from a small company’s inco...

modern manufacturing is under ever increasing pressure to develop solutions for highly complextasks. in order to maintain the business survival in a highly competitive environment, it is vital toobtain customer satisfaction, which requires developing products with shorter lifecycles and higherquality meanwhile to reduce the production costs. in order to achieve such objectives a paradigmhas bee...

Order promising in make-to-order manufacturing often has a strong focus on resource oriented factors. Economic aspects are, if at all, only implicitly taken into account. In this paper we develop a revenue management approach to improve order promising for short-term sales in the iron and steel industry as an example of make-to-order manufacturing. We formulate a multi-dimensional knapsack prob...

Industries are one of the main sources of pollution in the world. Besides, the levels of energy resources consumption including water, electricity, and fossil fuel are very different among industries. On the other hand, Iranian government pays a large amount of energy subsidy to manufacturing units. Because of it, the government wants to know which of manufacturing industries are efficient, pro...

1 Centre for Product Modelling, www.productmodels.org Department of Manufacturing and Management, Technical University of Denmark, Building 423, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark. ABSTRACT This article presents a procedure for building product models to support the specification processes dealing with sales, design of product variants and production preparation in manufacturing companies. The procedure i...

As Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. [4, 5] and others have shown, the scale of manufacturing was transformed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The enormous increases in manufacturing throughput also motivated many firms to internalize the marketing function in order to effect comparable increases in sales. These developments would not have been profitable, however, without corresponding changes...

Data from the US population-based Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, conducted from 1988 to 1994, were used to estimate the population prevalence, prevalence odds ratios, and attributable fractions for the association of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with employment by industry and occupation. The aim was to identify industries and occupations at increased ri...