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The following topics are dealt with: information technology; management engineering; agriculture; image processing; optimisation; electronic commerce; mobile communication; manufacturing systems; textile industry; robot; software engineering; educational institutions; security of data; Web services; neural networks; rough set theory; supply chains; grid computing; and e-learning.
We investigate how private electronic markets can be used as a strategic tool by a large producer to compete with a consortium of smaller producers. We model the competition between a large producer and consortium of producers in a two-tier supply chain as a game and characterize the resulting sub-game perfect Nash equilibrium. Our results demonstrate that as the private electronic market is established,...
Procurement management is one of the most valuable parts in supply chain management (SCM). In e-commerce era, the complexity and levity of procurement management become greatly outstanding because customer demands are changing faster and faster. Modern information technology (IT) plays an increasingly important role in procurement management and brings a global e-procurement/e-purchasing. In this...
This paper describes a real-time tracking system of online logistics [RTSOL] using an information technology [IT] as well as a supply chain and e-commerce. Currently, the Internet Service Provider [ISP] provides the clients with localization of items within station level information [node]. However, the customers do not only require localization of their items as accurate as possible, but also the...
Technology alignment requires recognizing technology is as enabler of the firm's business strategy and a source of value creation only when it is properly used to support the business' goals. This work explores the degree of technology alignment under two strategic contexts: 1) small firms in a backwards integration setting where the firms are suppliers of large retailers, and 2) independent small...
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