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Supply chain management and hypercompetition
Logistics Research, 2008 Firms nowadays face significant challenges in their operating environments, which have been characterised in two different ways. From a strategic management perspective these environments are in a state of hypercompetition while from a logistics or supply chain perspective these environments require market responsiveness predicated upon agile supply ...
Herbert Kotzab +3 more
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Multi-Dependent Criteria Supplier Selection with Uncertain Performance Evaluation [PDF]
Journal of International Logistics and Trade, 2018 Nowadays businesses tend to compete with rivals by improving capability to meet customer demands. One of the key to improve logistics efficiency of a firm is to select appropriate supplier.
O. Anuchitchanchai +2 more
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The integration of lean, green and best practice business principles
Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management, 2015 Background: Whilst there are separate streams of established research on lean, green and best practice initiatives, the intersection of these three strategic principles has not been addressed extensively in the past.
Annelize Wiese +3 more
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BMC Health Services Research, 2023 This article is a patient-centered comparison of medical ccommodities availability in public and private health care facilities in the Upper East (UER) of Ghana to determine if significant differences existed.
Oswald Atiga +2 more
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Covid-19 customer experiences of self-service technology across pharmacies in South Africa
Cogent Social Sciences, 2023 Using time-series data over a period of twelve months, Atlas.ti was employed to analyse the data extracted from Hello Peter, a South African online customer review and business platform, to assess Covid-19 customer reactions to e-services across South ...
Sebonkile Thaba +2 more
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Logistics outsourcing and performance of manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises in Nairobi
The Southern African Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management, 2018 Background: Logistics outsourcing has been accepted as a strategy through which small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can access the logistics capabilities they lack internally at a lower cost.
Joash Mageto, Gerrie Prinsloo, Rose Luke
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Journal of ICT, 2023 The global trend of student social well-being has steadily declined in recent years. As a result, the need for a personalized recommendation classification model that can accurately assess and identify the individual student’s social well-being has ...
Nur Atiqah Rochin Demong +4 more
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Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management, 2018 Background: Small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (manufacturing SMEs) can facilitate economic growth and development by creating employment and spurring economic activities at low levels of the economy.
Joash Mageto, Gerrie Prinsloo, Rose Luke
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Sustainable freight transport in South Africa:Domestic intermodal solutions
Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management, 2011 Due to the rapid deregulation of freight transport in South Africa two decades ago, and low historical investment in rail (with resultant poor service delivery), an integrated alternative to road and rail competition was never developed.
Jan H. Havenga +3 more
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International Journal of Financial Studies, 2022 In times of crisis, cash and liquidity play an essential role. This paper analyzes the working capital measures over the course of a business cycle. We examine (1) how companies behave in economic downturns regarding their working capital components and (
Erik Hofmann +2 more
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