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Background: There is an increasing use of automation, data processing and exchange, cyber-physical systems, Internet of things and cloud technology in industry. Modern factories undergo constant transformation, which has impact not only on the organization of manufacturing activities, but also on the functioning of supply chains. The model of contact with the end customer, who frequently moves into...
Background: The logistics service of e-commerce is usually limited in the literature to the issue of product delivery to customers. However, before goods are sent to the customer, the vendor has to order them from the supplier. Next, they are taken into the warehouse and stored, and after the order has been placed, they are packaged and sent to the customer. These processes are defined in e-commerce...
Background: Costs in the logistics process play an important role. Searching for opportunities to reduce them, leads to improved management and innovative solutions. That is why it is so important to record them and then to analyze them in detail. The aim of this research was to find an answer whether there are common determinants having influence on costs of logistics processes in companies, operating...
Background. Due to random changes in demand, inventory management is still – despite the development of alternative goods flow management concepts – an important issue both in terms of costs of maintenance and replenishment, as well as the level of service measured by inventory availability levels. One of the classical replenishment systems is Reorder Point replenishment, in which orders of fixed...
Background: Based on the concept of Industry 4.0, or the fourth industrial revolution, production processes are optimised by machines connected to each other via intelligent communication systems (machines keep track of the process and adjust their own settings accordingly). Our objective was to achieve more reliable processes with shorter production times and, consequently, lower production costs...
Background: Pharmacotherapy, or treatment using medicinal products is one of the therapies used as a treatment method in hospitals. According to estimates, an average hospital in Poland manages ca. 130 thousand medicinal products and these products make second biggest – after salaries – cost intensive element in operation of a hospital. Taking into consideration the need to ensure an adequate patient...
Background: This study aims to examine the predictive effect of perceived organizational politics on employees’ job satisfaction, and the role of personality (extraversion, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness) in moderating the relationship. Methods: Data were collected using self-report questionnaires from 210 employees working in private organizations in Malaysia. The hypothesized relationships...
Background: The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between the administration of leadership training programs and trainees’ motivation to learn. Self-administered questionnaires were distributed to collect data from junior army leaders in Peninsular Malaysia. Methods: A cross sectional method was employed in this study because it allowed the researchers to integrate the LTP literature,...
Background: Each international producing organization seeks to implement its processes more effectively to minimize its costs and to maximize its profit. The primary purpose is to keep their inventory value at the lowest possible rate to minimize costs. To this end, the investigated organization operates several processes. One of them is the so-called Vendor Managed Inventory [VMI], in which the supplier...
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