Rising incomes, the spread of personal insurance, lifestyle factors adding to the burden of illness, ageing populations, globalization and skills transfer within the medical community have increased worldwide demand for organ transplantation. The Global Observatory on Donation and Transplantation, which was built in response to World Health Assembly resolution WHA57.18, has conducted ongoing do...

It has been found that the area where one can look for significant reserves in the procurement logistics is a rational management of the stock of raw materials. Currently, the main purpose of projects which increase the efficiency of inventory management is to rationalise all the activities in this area, taking into account and minimising at the same time the total inventory costs. The paper pr...

We study procurement games where each seller supplies multiple units of his item, with a cost per unit known only to him. The buyer can purchase any number of units from each seller, values different combinations of the items differently, and has a budget for his total payment. For a special class of procurement games, the bounded knapsack problem, we show that no universally truthful budget-fe...

To mitigate the loss of timber jobs, the Northwest Forest Plan (the Plan) included a goal to contribute to the wellbeing of rural communities by assisting them with longterm economic development and diversification. The Forest Service (FS) and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) were expected to create new jobs in the woods associated with ecosystem management. The Plan called for restoring late-su...

This article examines the development of the Internet and electronic procurement or e-procurement in American state governments. I am interested in discerning the extent of adoption of e-procurement, especially as it relates to the use of the Internet in the procurement function. Specifically, eprocurement is examined with data from a national survey of state procurement officers. The first par...

W e show simple yet optimal results to update the inventory/capacity levels, expected profit, fill rates, and service levels of substitutable resources in response to an updating of the mean demand forecasts for the resources. We find that a change in the mean demand of one resource does not affect the optimal inventory level of any other resource. The results are obtained for demands with loca...

statistics and reports from the countries have strong film industry shows the impact of film industry growth, activities and services on national economics. development of this industry on the one hand providing dynamic employment and gdp growth and on the other hand influence indirectly on related industries such as the media and television, advertising, hardware and software industries, touri...

The main challenges for industrial companies today are to improve the competitiveness of their products and adapt respond quickly changes in external environment. Ensuring effective functioning an enterprise is largely determined by its procurement activities, including reliability consistency process. Relevance topic conditioned fact that one components increasing efficiency enterprise, as maj...