Feel lonely? What about reading books? Book is one of the greatest friends to accompany while in your lonely time. When you have no friends and activities somewhere and sometimes, reading book can be a great choice. This is not only for spending the time, it will increase the knowledge. Of course the b=benefits to take will relate to what kind of book that you are reading. And now, we will conc...

Distribution network design as a strategic decision has long-term effect on tactical and operational supply chain management. In this research, the location– allocation problem is studied under demand uncertainty. The purposes of this study were to specify the optimal number and location of distribution centers and to determine the allocation of customer demands to distribution centers. ...

Customer service is increasingly being recognized as a source of competitive advantage. Determining customer needs accurately, meeting and exceeding them in a consistent manner is the key to the effective customer service. Companies should adapt a strategic, proactive focus on customer service based on understanding logistics process and designing logistics system to meet their needs. This ...

• Development teams are more engaged, empowered and highly supportive of the new development process. • Individual developer and team productivity is up by an estimated 20-50%. • Teamwork between product management and development is significantly improved – giving developers better insight into customer needs. • BMC improved returns by reducing investments and waste associated with unfinished ...

HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEM DESIGN PROBLEM Most organizations do not develop systems from scratch. Instead, to deal with economic constraints, organization demands, and customer needs, they often: a) identify possible problems that represent customer demand [10, 16], b) consider which possible technologies are useful to address these problems, e.g. commercial off-the-shelf software (COTS) [8] or open ...

Businesses around the world are attempting to position themselves to operate in a highly competitive global economy. To compete, producers of products and services must be able to meet rapidly changing customer demands. Drucker (Drucker, 1990; Zachman and Finkelstein, 1992) describes the emergence of a third wave of manufacturing organization. This new production philosophy is referred to as “p...

altered customer demands create a new dynamic and ibility and mobility of enterprises (Camarinha-Matos, 2002). For these reasons, different enterprises have to cooperate in order to meet customer needs effectively, to encounter the contemporary prevalent high competition and innovation pressure as well as to be permanently successful in largely saturated markets. In this respect, the opening of...

studying about the customer segmentation and begetting customer ranking plan diverts more attention in recent years. in this regard, this study tries on providing a methodology for segmenting customers based on their value driver parameters which extracted from transaction data and then ranks customers with regard to their customer lifetime value (clv) score. discovering hidden pattern between ...

The concept of the Service Oriented Infrastructure (SOI) is not just the result of technological advance; it has been stimulated by the needs of organisations. The modern organisation is seeking to efficiently utilise its information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure, while at the same time ensuring that components of the infrastructure can be substituted and augmented dynamica...

Objectives The recent shift, from merely traditional approach providing only financial services to the new trend implying banks can be considered as business partners meeting their whole financial needs and creating a win-win relationship, in customers’ opinion towards banks has made banks try to apply banking marketing strategies to help attract more customers and respond to their needs. Hence...