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Three or four-tier cities are the main sales market of FMCG. Currently, grocery stores, mom and pop shops are the main mode of the terminal retailers of FMCG in three or four-tier cities. Their poor management and supplies are mainly from two or three wholesale market. This traditional FMCG sectors circulation patterns have many problems like long links, high transaction costs, low transaction efficiency...
Presently the industry in Poland is more energy consuming than that of the most developed European countries (EU-15). According to the last available data from the European Commission (2010), the intensity ratio for Poland is almost twice as much as average in Europe. Thus, it is inevitable to set up an efficient strategy that will solve that complex problem and will be directly referenced to the...
Infoblu Traffic for Expo is a mobile app for Android and iOS developed by Infoblu. It integrates real-time traffic information directly managed by Infoblu with third-party data: train and airline timetables, car parking etc. Such integration is enabled by the E015 digital ecosystem operating in Italy. This paper presents the innovative characteristics of this mobile app and provides a brief overview...
The deployment of fibre optics poses a huge investment risk, thus telecommunication companies are skeptical about replacing copper given the high cost of doing so. Over recent times, the usage of the internet has changed and led to a need for fibre optics. The decision on whether to deploy or not is made through the use of complex models. However, the problem being that deployment plans are manually...
This paper has the purpose of describing the efforts of a Mexican company with several galvanizing lines, located in Monterrey, Mexico, to diminish setup time. The firm's operations strategy requires a better performance of the plant in terms of line capacity utilization, more productivity and quicker response to market's orders. The setup reduction project set to obtain those goals was organized...
The authors in this paper argue that for cities to meet their smart city goals much more is needed than just top down solutions, or open city data. The authors suggest that a city aiming for future smartness should engage the citizens, the entrepreneurs and innovators of that city, in the creation of smart solutions via the platform that is, for the sake of argument in this paper, called "The...
How can Smart Grids support the development of a new sustainable urban environment? Network infrastructures can play a key role in enabling innovative, sustainable and user-friendly urban services: energy efficiency, low carbon footprint systems and a city ‘more efficient to use’. Smart Grids and Smart metering enable services, for citizens and Public Administration, dedicated to building automation,...
Smart Grids are current stage in power grids evolution. This trend brings increased demands on network management and it results in the need for greater involvement of ICT technologies to power grids. In telecommunications, managing large ICT networks is traditionally handled at high level and has been described by standardized process frameworks. One of the most important process frameworks is Frameworx...
The constantly growing number of websites, web pages, documents and, textual (Big) Data populating the Internet currently represents a massive resource of information and knowledge for various interests and across many different domains. However, the big amount and the complexity of unstructured, natural language textual data implies several issues and difficulties for end users to find a specific,...
One example of the problems that affect many people's lives is urban regional land planning. Required a collaboration mechanism which based on the ability of decision analysis in determining the spatial policy of the use of the land. This paper contains an individual decision model by using Analytical Hierarchical Process-AHP technique. The model is applied to the case of the selection of the best...
A shift towards alternate and renewable energy sources is inevitable in Pakistan's current energy demand scenario. Electricity supply shortfall, exhausting extractable oil and gas resources, extensive reliance on imported crude oil and climate change are major drivers for the shift towards renewable energy alternatives. Since high electricity generation cost of renewable energy technologies remain...
China is improving its patent protection methods and understanding of those methods. The value of patents in China is not widely recognized by the country as a whole. Nevertheless. Patent pledges act as a primary market behavior. For example, the United States has no such pledges for major high-tech companies (such as pharmaceutical companies) and in the investing banking industry. The Chinese government...
Cluster Governance concerns the way of coordination, control, intervention and involvement of actors from local arrangement. Owing to substantial increase of the importance of public policy in clusters, it's important to understand the dynamics of stakeholder participation in these arrangements. Thus, this study aimed to analyze the governance structure at the Ribeirão Preto's Software Industry....
Successful countries provide economy and society with infrastructure needed to maintain growth. Over the last decade, the Government of Vietnam has maintained high level of infrastructure investment. However, the electricity shortage, the natural disasters and the emission of greenhouse gasses still have been challenges that Vietnam has to confront to sustain high economic growth in the long term...
A waybill is a document that accompanies the freight during transportation. The document contains essential information such as, origin and destination of the freight, involved actors, and the type of freight being transported. We believe, the information from a waybill, when presented in an electronic format, can be utilized for building knowledge about the freight movement. The knowledge may be...
With the advance and innovation of Smart city, the acquisition of tourism-related information and tourism product has become more convenient, further pushing forward the development of intelligent tourism and self-service travel. Based on data mining after introducing the development of Smart city in Hebei Province, this paper has also analyzed the tendency of Hebei tourism under this background and...
Brazil is experiencing economic growth, with a strong demand for highly qualified professionals. In the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas, Manaus, the situation is critical. The lack of professionals is considered a major risk, and to prepare students is a real challenge as there are few undergraduate courses, and the typical dropout rate is very high. STEM education is intricately difficult...
The information systems and ERP adopted by small and medium companies are often viewed as key differentiators for their survival in today's competitive and challenging market. However, the integration of information technologies by firms in countries at the development stage is confronted with many barriers that are inherent to their specific cultural, educational and socio-economic environment. Our...
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