The BHP Steel has been long recognised as one of the leaders in Australian E-commerce initiatives. This paper examines the E-commerce implementation process within this organisation and draws conclusions about ways in which large companies can optimise their E-commerce implementations. The findings from BHP Steel’s four major E-commerce projects over a significant period from the mid-1980s to t...

Different approaches to predicting the Ms temperatures of steels are reviewed and discussed with the objective of summarising the main characteristics, advantages and difficulties of each method, mostly from a practical point of view. Empirical methods, and methods based on thermodynamics are then assessed against published data.

evaluating of staff’s performance and accessing to optimized performance in an organization will be possible by creating factors such as job satisfaction and organizational commitment. in this paper, data envelope analysis (dea) was used in order to evaluate staffs’ performance in khuzestan oxin steel company. also, a questionnaire was used in order to collect necessary data and information (cr...

The “big idea” with knowledge management is that in a fast-moving and increasingly competitive world, a firm’s only enduring source of advantage is its knowledge – the knowledge of its individual employees, and the knowledge that gets built into its structures and systems. Consulting companies and R&D organisations have known this for years, but increasingly even “old economy” firms in oil, ste...

the present study has objectively investigated and reviewed 164 managers, employees and workers of tuka steel investment holding company (tsih co.) as one of the most successful companies in iran's steel industry. the survey approach has been adopted to serve the following purposes of this study: a) to define the prevailing organizational culture in steel industry; and b) to review alignment do...

cost reduction is one of the methods applied for improving the productivity of organizations. in productivity literature, particularly in nonparametric methods, cost reduction related methods are regarded as input oriented models. this paper presents a supply chain management (scm) model in which purchasing iron ore and coke from different resources, along with production and distribution of st...

in this study, vanadium recovery from the steelmaking converter slag was studied. salt roasting-basic leaching is the process which was applied to separate and extract vanadium from steel making slag. ground slag was roasted after mixing with determined quantities of sodium carbonate. the effect of time and temperature of roasting and sodium carbonate content were studied. the optimum temperatu...