The objective of this study is to explore the challenges faced by Indian apparel supply chain in wake COVID-19 identify factors that are being affected and build a multilevel hierarchy model prioritize understand their inter-relationships. An intensive literature review was conducted many experts from were consulted. help survey sent these different echelons industry. data then analysed using T...

This paper reports initial research findings from on-going longitudinal participatory design studies within a national (Danish) funded project to realize a gesture-controlled ‘Online shopping-for-apparel’ system – A Virtual Dressing Room (VDR). A product that reduces customer purchase returns, reportedly up to 40%, which is a huge burden to the clothing industries as shopping percentile of sale...

Objectives: This research aims to sneak into the retailer\'s perception about that customer segment and plan a product mix accordingly. The focus is on small players in towns not having deep pockets synergize decisions effectively. Methods: data used this paper from Hatchers, medium-sized enterprise with zero budget for software decisions. was collected through face-to-face interviews ten repre...

OBJECTIVE Intensive follow-up post surgery for colorectal cancer (CRC) is thought to improve long-term survival principally through the earlier detection of recurrent disease. This paper aims to calculate the additional resource and cost implications of intensive follow up post-CRC resection, examine the possibility of risk-stratifying this follow up to those at highest risk of recurrence and i...

This paper proposes a new integrative view of manufacturing cell formation and both inter-cell and intra-cell layout problems. Cells formation and their popular bi-directional linear layout are determined simultaneously through a Dynamic Programming algorithm (with the objective of minimizing the inter-cell flow cost under a cell size constraint). This Dynamic Programming algorithm is implement...

The layout problem for trees with weighted edges is motivated by the design of very large scale integrated circuits. Some of the nodes are xed and the object is to position the remainder so that the total weighted edge cost is minimized. The cost of each edge is the product of its weight and its length under some appropriate norm. Optimization for planar layouts is shown to be NP-hard. If cross...

UNLABELLED Severe infections with multiresistant bacteria (MRB) are a medical challenge and a financial burden for hospitals. The adequate antibiotic therapy is a key issue in multiresistant bacteria management. Several major cost drivers have been identified. Remarkably drug acquisition costs are not necessarily included. Most significant are the length of stay in hospital, the hours of mechan...

In this paper, a novel methodology is proposed to solve a cooperative multi-depot vehicle routing problem. We establish a mathematical model for multi-owner VRP in which each owner (i.e. player) manages single or multiple depots. The basic idea consists of offering an option that owners cooperatively manage the VRP to save their costs. We present cooperative game theory techniques for cost savi...

Introduction Specialty store retailers of private label apparel (SPAs) operate large scaled stores that present a different atmosphere than conventional department stores. Large apparel shops located in city centers offer consumers the comfort and pleasure of shopping, with layout design changing as swiftly as the inventory turnover, which includes a wide variety of products. The shopping envir...