The study evaluates whether and to what extent supply chain management (SCM) practices in local municipalities are implemented. A case study was undertaken in the Central District Municipality and its local municipalities, North West Province, Republic of South Africa. Purposive sampling was used through which thirty (30) respondents were identified and interviewed within the six municipalities...

OBJECTIVE To determine the cost-effectiveness of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) in comparison to Standard Case Management (SCM) for persons with severe mental illness and substance use disorders. DATA SOURCES AND STUDY SETTING Original data on the effectiveness and social costs of ACT and SCM that were collected between 1989 and 1995. Seven community mental health centers in New Hampshir...

This paper proposes a reasoned taxonomy of the models for supply chain management (SCM). The aim is to help managers select the SCM models most appropriate to their problems and objectives. The taxonomy is based on two dimensions, namely the type of SCM problem and the modeling approach. SCM problems are classified into two main classes, namely configuration and coordination. Four different mod...

Supply Chain Management (SCM) environments demand intelligent solutions, which can perceive variations and achieve maximum revenue. This highlights the importance of a commonly accepted design methodology, since most current implementations are application-specific. In this work, we present a methodology for building an intelligent trading agent and evaluating its performance at the Trading Age...

In the 21 century, competition between companies has been turned into the competition between their supply chains. To satisfy the rapidly changing demands in global market, agile capability and flexibility have been the new requirements in today’s Supply Chain Management (SCM). Some intelligent activities, such as negotiation, decision and collaboration, have become the “bottleneck” to improve ...

Software configuration management (SCM) is the discipline of controlling the evolution of large and complex software systems. Current SCM systems are themselves large and complex. Usually, their underlying models are hard-wired into the program code, which is written manually. In contrast, we present a modular and modeldriven approach to software configuration management which (a) reduces devel...

We present a new approach for the construction of lower bounds for the inf-sup stability constants required in a posteriori error analysis of reduced basis approximations to affinely parametrized partial differential equations. We combine the “linearized” inf-sup statement of the natural–norm approach with the approximation procedure of the Successive Constraint Method (SCM): the former (natura...

In recent years Supply Chain Management (SCM) in general and SCM information systems in particular have raised growing interest among researchers from several knowledge areas, such as Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Simulation, Telecommunications, Economics and Business Management, among others. Based upon a recent survey that we have undertaken, and which updates a prior one, in ...

In this work we experimentally investigate the improved intra-channel fiber nonlinearity tolerance of digital subcarrier multiplexed (SCM) signals in a single-channel coherent optical transmission system. The digital signal processing (DSP) for the generation and reception of the SCM signals is described. We show experimentally that the SCM signal with a nearly-optimum number of subcarriers can...

It has been reported that wild Brassica and related species are widely distributed across Xinjiang, China, and there has been an argument for species identification. Seed coat microsculpturing (SCM) is known to be an excellent character for taxonomic and evolutionary studies. By identifying collections from Xinjiang, China, and combining SCM pattern, flow cytometry, and genome-specific DNA mark...