this paper discusses the performance evaluation and availability analysis of ammonia synthesis unit of a fertilizer plant. the fertilizer plant is a complex and repairable engineering system comprises of various units viz. shell gasification and carbon recovery, desulphurization, co-shift conversion, decarbonation, nitrogen wash and ammonia synthesis etc. one of the most important functionaries...

the impact of the management performance evaluation methods on the information quality in accounting will be studied in this paper. the information plays two roles in the market-oriented economies; first, it allows the investors to evaluate the potential opportunities of the investment (prospective role) and, secondly, it enables the investors to monitor how to allocate and use their capital by...

To save the cost for customers and distribution center is the key issue to survive for distribution centers. The low service efficiency will certainly lead to increased distribution cost. It is a universal concern problem for distribution industry even for logistics industry to improve distribution service efficiency. On the basis of analyzing the characteristics of customer needs and the chara...

School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China. ___________________________________________________________________________ Abstract Employee performance evaluation is an important task for performance management, thus efficient employee performance evaluation method is a necessity. This paper proposes to combine Workforce Scorecard and DEA method to evaluate ...

Supplier evaluation is an important process in supply chain. To our best knowledge, we firstly report a study on supplier classification problem for efficiency and performance in the meanwhile, which is to aim at reducing the risk of enterprises and finding the suppliers with both high efficiency and performance. This paper proposed an integrated model, which hybridized data envelopment analysi...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is an efficient tool for evaluating mutual fund performance. It is important for investors to select the best funds for investment. In evaluation of mutual fund performance, besides quantitative elements, there are many qualitative elements that are of importance to the investors. In this paper, value efficiency analysis (VEA) was used in mutual funds performance...

Allocative inefficiencies in online auction markets can result in the loss of revenues for sellers. It can also cause frustration for buyers who fail to win an item despite placing bids higher than other winners. The main contention of this work is that allocative inefficiencies present arbitrage opportunities, though not strictly in the traditional financial market sense, where risk-free profi...

performance evaluation is one of the important components of each organization, and educational organizations are not the exceptions. teachers are believed by many researchers as the single most important factor influencing student academic success or failure. therefore, they need to be at the center of attempts to improve or reform the educational system of any country. considering the pivotal...