This paper uses a tailor-made newly available data set for enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany to investigate for the first time the links between export diversification over destination countries and goods on the one hand and the profitability of the exporting firms on the other hand. We find that profits tend to be larger in firms with less diversified export sales over goods...

A common event in the consumer packaged goods industry is the negotiation between a manufacturer and a retailer of the sales promotion calendar. Determining the promotion calendar involves a large number of decisions regarding levels of temporary price reductions, feature ads, and in-store displays, each executed at the level of individual retail accounts and brand SKUs over several months or a...

For firms remanufacturing their products, the total life-cycle costs and revenues from new and remanufactured products determine their profitability. In many firms, manufacturing/sales and remanufacturing/remarketing operations are carried out in different divisions. Each division is responsible for only part of the product’s life cycle. Practices regarding transfer pricing across divisions var...

has presented an intriguing study of psychotropic drug sales in Warrangal during 1993-94; I wish to suggest that his findings and conclusion may need to be reconsidered from at least three viewpoints. First, higher utilization of a drug is a measure of its popularity. Dr. Sarma has commented upon the popularity of different drugs based upon their sales, with sale units expressed in kilogrammes ...

This research paper discusses a manufacturing support system which supports not only maintenance services but also consulting services for manufacturing systems consisting of multi-vendor machine tools. In order to do this system enables inter-enterprise collaboration between engineering companies and machine tool vendors. The system is called "After-Sales Support Interenterprise collaboration ...

With Location Quotient and Shift-Share-Method, this paper evaluated the competitiveness of manufacturing industries in Hubei province post Financial Crisis Era based on the panel data from 2008 to 2011of Output Value of Industrial Products Sales and Delivery Value for Export of Large and Medium Scale Industrial Enterprises. On basis of these, this paper also put forward some countermeasures to ...

Trus Joist has recently consolidated the Corporate Engineering, Systems Development, Manufacturing Support, New Product Development and Research groups under one roof with a new Technology Center in Boise Idaho. This 16,350 m facility will be the home for over 170 associates when it is completed in July 2000. The primary design concept was to provide an environment that would foster information...