The benefit of enterprise resource planning (ERP) system for corporate performance is almost ignored at earlier works. To advance earlier researches, this work employs financial data to explore factors of performance advance by illustrating the association between operation management and ERP installation. A two-stage analysis is made to achieve the aim. Firstly, input-output efficiency of a fi...

The main objective of this research is studying the relationship between working capital management and profitability. Cash conversion cycle is one of the important measuring tools to calculate the efficiency of working capital management. The time realm of the research was 2001-2006 and the studied companies have been the ones accepted in Tehran stock exchange. In general, out of 2628 companie...

This research is motivated by an indication that the net working capital of Cikajang South Garut Breeders Cooperative (KPGS) has fluctuated. and tended to decrease over last 5 years. The purpose this study was determine effect inventory turnover on at Farmers Cikajang. method used descriptive with a quantitative approach. Based analysis data obtained, development tends increase decrease. While ...

The study was undertaken to evaluate (a) the reliability of pedometer data and reactivity of children to wearing a pedometer, (b) the effectiveness of a missing data replacement procedure, and (c) the validity of the Leisure Time Exercise Questionnaire (LTEQ). Six days of pedometer data were collected from 299 middle-school children, followed by administration of the LTEQ. Six days of pedometer...

Background The killing of women by intimate partners (also known as intimate female homicide or intimate femicide) is the most extreme form and consequence of violence against women. Globally, gender differences are found in homicide patterns. Men are at greater risk of being killed than women and this is mainly done by other men. Women, on the other hand, are primarily killed by the opposite g...

The importance of manufacturing strategy (MS) has never been questioned and has been emphasized in many theoretical concepts, frameworks, and models. There are only a few empirical studies, however, which examine whether these theories work in practice. In this paper the hypothesis that the existence of MS contributes to company level competitiveness (ROS, inventory turnover) is tested. The stu...

Using monthly performance data for stores in a retail chain for over six years and new surveys of managers and employees, we investigate the impact of the adoption of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, especially for the time profile of performance changes. Representative findings (depending on specification) are that: (i) sales and inventory turnover initially drop by 7 %, and recov...