Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 116 Issue 6

Sizing, pricing and common replenishment in a headquarter-managed centralized distribution center

Ting Zhang, Ting Qu, George Q. Huang, Xin Chen, Zongzhong Wang

Commonly shared logistics services help manufacturing companies to cut down redundant logistics investments while enhance the overall service quality. Such service-sharing mode…

A hybrid multi-criteria decision model for supporting customer-focused profitability analysis

Henry Lau, Dilupa Nakandala, Premaratne Samaranayake, Paul Shum

Strategic analysis of customer profitability for assessing market segmentation and reconfiguring customer relationship management (CRM) activities remains the key factor for…

Selection and industrial applications of panel data based demand forecasting models

Shuyun Ren, Tsan-Ming Choi

Panel data-based demand forecasting models have been widely adopted in various industrial settings over the past few decades. Despite being a highly versatile and intuitive…

The business value of cloud computing: the partnering agility perspective

Sen Liu, Yang Yang, Wen Guang Qu, Yuan Liu

The purpose of this paper is to focus on the value creation potential of cloud computing in inter-firm partnerships. It examines how cloud-based IT infrastructure capabilities in…

Insight from the horsemeat scandal: Exploring the consumers’ opinion of tweets toward Tesco

Ying Kei Tse, Minhao Zhang, Bob Doherty, Paul Chappell, Philip Garnett

Social media has become an important part of daily interpersonal communication in contemporary society. The purpose of this paper is to explore the attitudes of UK consumers by…

Environmental management practices and environmental performance: The roles of operations and marketing capabilities

Wantao Yu, Ramakrishnan Ramanathan

The purpose of this paper is to provide an initial analysis of the roles of functional capabilities in adopting environmental management practices (EMP) and improving…

Analysis of the dynamic broadband technology competition: Implications for national information infrastructure development

Sun Me Choi, Siew Fan Wong, Younghoon Chang, Myeong-Cheol Park

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of inter-platform competition on the adoption of different broadband technologies (i.e. among xDSL, fibre-optic…

Thailand tourism forecasting based on a hybrid of discrete wavelet decomposition and NARX neural network

Ratree Kummong, Siriporn Supratid

Accurate forecast of tourist arrivals is crucial for Thailand since the tourism industry is a major economic factor of the country. However, a nonstationarity, normally consisted…

Strategic role of information, knowledge and technology in manufacturing industry performance

Purnendu Mandal, Kallol Bagchi

The purpose of this paper is to study how knowledge management strategy (KMS), technology management strategy (TMS), and information management strategy (IMS) influence an…

Antecedents to effective sales and operations planning

James Anthony Swaim, Michael Maloni, Patrick Bower, John Mello

Sales and Operations Planning (S & OP) serves as the essential cross-functional process for organizations to match supply in the form of production, inventory, and…