Logistics Information Management: Volume 11 Issue 6

Managing a global supply chain partnership

Jaideep Motwani, Lars Larson, Suraj Ahuja

Presents a survey of the global supply chain management (GSCM) literature with specific emphasis on the application of the process, services and products used by organizations to…

Optimization of documentation systems in the electronics industry of Hong Kong

L.H. Wong, K.W. Yeung, Y.S. Lee

Many people believe that good documentation systems are vital for quality performance of a company. However, if the system is not optimized or it does not take the specific…

Logistics management practices and development in Thailand

Mark Goh, Parooj Pinaikul

Many firms are starting to focus on the effective and efficient supply chain management in Asia. This empirical paper reports on the state of existing logistics management…

A framework for the revolutionary planning and evolutionary implementation of a business process and its computing support

David W. Bustard, Zhonglin He

Describes the framework of a methodology (BASE) for systematically planning substantial (revolutionary) business improvement and coherently managing incremental (evolutionary…

The measurement of international inventory systems

J. Andrew Pope, Sameer Prasad

An instrument has been developed to empirically measure the factors (constructs) influencing inventory systems and their effectiveness in international environments. The relevant…

Some key things industrial engineers should know about experimental design

Jiju Antony

Experiments are fundamental to enhancing understanding of the complex industrial processes which we deal with every day. Experimental Design (ED) is a very powerful tool that…