Logistics Information Management: Volume 11 Issue 3

Viewpoint: death of the knowledge worker

Richard Cardinali

One of the many concerns in the information area in the early 1980s was how the implementation of technology would change the way we work. In the 1990s the feeling is will we…

The successful implementation of MRPII via a hierarchical modelling approach

Wai Hung Ip, Richard C.M. Yam

Manufacturing Resources Planning (MRPII) is recognized as being an effective management system that has an excellent planning and scheduling capability which can offer a dramatic…

Research paper: international purchasing strategies of US and Puerto Rico firms: a comparative empirical analysis

Jaideep Motwani, Manu Madan, James Jiang, Luis Otero

Internationalization of the marketplace, global competition, and changes in the business environment have contributed to the noticeable increase in international purchasing. This…

Research paper: distribution channel decisions in import consumer goods markets

Yongkyu Kim

Develops an additional theoretical extension on channel decisions to the basic transaction cost model (TCM) by combining insights from production economy and industrial structure…

Case study: improving industrial competitiveness: a TSP approach

Nelio D. Pizzolato, Alberto G. Canen

This paper describes a case study in a chemical company in which management was concerned with low productivity and the inability to keep pace with demand. A description of the…