Governments which have privatised their advisory services still try to influence farmers’ land use and land management decisions in order to achieve policy objectives. At the same time farmers and other managers of rural land need access to increasingly complex and varied information and advice when making land use and business decisions. This paper reviews the range of ways in which advisory s...

Rapid changes and specialization in technology make it increasingly difficult for designers to keep track of the current capabilities of manufacturing processes and choose the appropriate one. Improper process selection leads to higher costs, lower quality and wrong choice of supplier. Currently, there is no software advisory system to help the design/procurement personnel in process and suppli...

This paper proposed a decision model for supplier recommendation in a supply chain management system. The proposed model exploited the use of suppliers’ information and past purchasing history to create a list of potential suppliers of a raw material. The Satake Corporation (Thailand) was selected to be a case study of this research project. To evaluate the proposed model, all purchasing inform...

The service sector, in particular business services, has become increasingly important developed economies. increasing complexity of the supply market combined with customers’ limited knowledge specifying services contributed to a more active role suppliers those processes. Service specifications can go through stabilization and destabilization cycles over time context customer-supplier interac...

a considerable problem in competitive trade world is choosing the best supply chain. as a result in much more serious circumstances of competitions looking for the best supplier for manufacturing, for preparing raw material, is very significant. meantime suppliers have different scenarios to be fulfilled, such as changing selection variables like lead-time, transportation cost and transportatio...