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This paper studies how the efficiency of an online platform is impacted by the degree to which access of platform participants is open or controlled. The study is motivated by an emerging trend within platforms to impose increasingly finegrained control over the options available to platform participants. While early online platforms allowed open access, e.g., Ebay allows any seller to interact with...
Today's Challenge for many manufacturing companies is how to improve product quality and reduce the production cost of the products offered in the market. Quality improvement must be performed by a company to maintain its product's competitiveness in the market. Quality improvement and cost reduction can be performed by allocating investments to reduce the value of the variance in the component of...
Improving customer satisfaction is important in order to create a good relationship between a company and its customers which will give benefit to both sides. One way to accomplish it is by conducting quality improvement. Quality improvement has a strong relationship with the customer satisfaction, so it is an important issue in manufacturing. This paper discusses an optimization model to allocate...
In the article we consider the implementation of the matrix information management project technology in the form of PRP-system, which is an example of a new class of Project Management systems. The functions, structure and components are described. Also we represented its unique advantages over existing traditional Project Management information systems, e.g. simulation modeling and product planning.
Manufacturing costs and tolerance will affect the price and the quality of a product from every manufacturer company. Companies must produce high-quality products with low manufacturing costs in order to keep their products competitive in the market. However, it is difficult to produce a high-quality product with a low manufacturing cost. Companies have difficulties in determining the components to...
Grid computing supports a host of research areas, but it still lacks successful case studies concerning industrial problems. This paper shows an application developed to profit from grid computing resources to support the product-mix decision making in a plastic company.
This paper discusses the the pricing of carbon emissions trading on the primary and secondary markets respectively under total emissions control. Through the analysis, for the construction of China's cabon emissions trading market, the author proposes five political recommendations such as focusing on the primary market and developing pilot of industry and region actively, establishing carbon emissions...
Under the condition of economic market, in the procedure of fundraising and fund-allocation, an enterprise must pay fund-suppliers a certain amount of fee, thus, capital cost is involved. Capital cost, which is the major basis in the decision of enterprise fundraising and investment, can be used in many aspects. This thesis mainly researches the function mechanism of capital cost in the decision of...
The networking industry as a strategic new industry has attracted academic attentions. This paper conducts a research on the operational efficiency of 46 IoT companies based on the statistical data of 2007–2009 by using DEA method. And it analyzes the regional difference and the development balance from the perspective of industry chain. The empirical results show that: the overall operational effectiveness...
Traditional rural technology management and service system is the resource allocation mode based on the government-oriented. During the urban and rural harmonious development, the rural elements combination has been changing, which provides the conditions for the market allocation of rural technology resources, and also makes new demands on the existing science and technology management and service...
Choosing a target firm in M&A is always challenging, since it greatly affects post-acquiring performance. This paper analyzes three overseas M & A cases presented firms positioned in upstream, midstream and downstream sections of global value chain, the result showed each company have different focus while selecting target firms: technology-based enterprises which positioned in upstream of...
This paper shows a Case Study on the use of Demand Forecasting and Computer Simulation techniques carried out in a manufacturing plant with family administration feature that does not use modern techniques proposed by Supply Chain Management experts or Operational Research practitioners. In this context, a new data treatment methodology was proposed, which resulted in the improvement of the demand...
Based on understanding of troubleshooting issues to be solved during constructing Chinese modern defense companies, a related research idea is provided: in the clear context of national institutions, building research ideas of company's strategy of defense conversion, the approaches of development and mechanisms for efficient allocation of resources, achieving the integration of related strategies.
Labor flexibility is the expression of JIT (just in time) in human resource. In order to realize the lowest resource consumption under supply chain management, organizations not only should pay attention to production planning and controlling and inventory management, but also attach importance to the human resource flexibility management. This paper analyzes the human resource levels and job attributes...
Productivity in labour-intensive manufacturing shopfloors is highly influenced by availability and conditions of skilled workers. As operations intensify, the need for the right people at the right time performing the right job becomes increasingly important in order to respond rapidly to any disturbances caused by changing customer demands or other factors in the manufacturing environment. In this...
The paper illustrates the necessity and development prospect of EP-ERP system application in electricity generating enterprises by analyzing significance of information-based construction. The conception of establishing EP-ERP system model in management of electricity generating enterprises, aiming at the current situation of information-based construction in electricity generating enterprises, is...
The continuing trend towards distributed production in a network of production sites confronts companies with new challenges. Complex logistic interdependencies of networked production lead to an increased need of coordination and planning.Since conventional production planning and control systems are designed for single-site production they lack functionalities to handle requirements arising from...
Systems help the companies maintain the competitiveness by supporting the overall activities of the company including the both direct management activities such as manufacturing and sales and indirect management activities such as planning, finance and so on. However, fragmental increase of the efficiency is worsening the management in the long term. The efficiency in manufacturing and in resources...
A bilevel programming is proposed to research the relation between number and scale of coal mining companies. To optimize resources, the upper level decision maker(social regulation) chooses the number of coal mining companies to minimize social average cost and maximize social average benefit, and the lower level decision makers(coal mining companies) optimize their scales to maximize benefit. According...
With the global economic integration, China's private enterprises have been playing a significant role in the market economy. The performance of the production line workers in the private enterprise is related directly to the advance of the organizational performance. However, the existing performance evaluation indicators are generally less related to the organizational goal. It is difficult for...
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