Supplier reliability is a critical issue for manufacturing companies. Delivery delays from suppliers create backlog and firefighting on the shop floors. To avoid disruption hedge against supplier lead time uncertainty, companies rely diversification, multi-sourcing, safety times. In buyer might order same product (raw material) different suppliers. The design of robust cost-efficient purchasing...

The paper considers the problems of choosing strategies for diversifying companies. It was revealed that in corporate practice, there is a certain tendency towards moderately diversified companies with related business lines (relational diversification). authors analyzed set four main growth strategies: market penetration; expansion; product innovation, and diversification. Their advantages dis...

A screening experiment focuses on narrowing down the factors that affect experimental results. To deal with increased number of runs due to an increase in caused by product diversification, a was applied two-level supersaturated design.

PURPOSE Surveys of patients' experiences typically show results that are indicative of positive experiences. Unbalanced response scales have reduced positive skew for responses to items within the Universal Patient Centeredness Questionnaire (UPC-Q). The objective of this study was to compare the unbalanced response scale with another unbalanced approach to scaling to assess whether the positiv...

Problem Statement: Interest rate capping has been seen as a threat to the improved profitability of banks in Kenya and hence need for diversify their income sources. However, ratio gross non-performing loans deteriorated from 12.7 percent December 2018 12.5 2019 14.5 2020. Purpose: This study sought establish influence product diversification, functional diversification mergers on financial per...