Focuses on schemes to reduce inventory miscounts from theoperational management point of view. An internal audit procedure isdevised for identifying most of the dataāentry errorsā¦
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Focuses on schemes to reduce inventory miscounts from the operational management point of view. An internal audit procedure is devised for identifying most of the dataāentry errors, which are one of the main causes of inventory miscounts during the flow of material through inātransit stations. Inventory miscount errors, which escape the internal audit procedure, are further reduced through cycle counting. Divides stations with a materialāflow network into two categories ā external and internal stations. Further subdivides internal stations into inātransit and stock stations. Identifies and corrects most of the dataāentry errors by monitoring the compliance of certain rules individually at each inātransit station and collectively at all inātransit stations. Optimally determines the frequencies for cycle counting by minimizing the sum of the cycleācounting cost and the penalty cost owing to additional stockouts and overāstocking on account of inventory miscounts. The suggested internal procedure and cycle counting with revised frequencies were implemented in a company dealing with spareāparts distribution; realizing an annual saving of about $1 million just a year after the implementation of the programme.
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A mixed twoālevel system is considered for partsdistribution. Three approaches are studied for thedivision of the total item set S into subsets Sā1 andSā2. The subset Sā1 includesā¦
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A mixed twoālevel system is considered for parts distribution. Three approaches are studied for the division of the total item set S into subsets Sā1 and Sā2. The subset Sā1 includes items directly served by the company to the endāusers and subset Sā2 includes items served through dealers. These approaches are dealer itemābased, company itemābased and systemābased. The systems approach is compared with the two itemābased approaches from the dealerā²s and companyā²s point of view. A market sensitivity model is developed in the systems approach, which considers the effect of customer service (primarily average delivery time and number of items in set Sā2) on the captured market share. Optimisation of total expected profit, based on a systemā²s approach, leads to higher profit levels and to a larger subset Sā2 than obtained from the two itemābased approaches.
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The great majority of academic libraries find themselves in a vast and often unmarked territory between two polar sets of goals and aspirations. These two poles could beā¦
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The great majority of academic libraries find themselves in a vast and often unmarked territory between two polar sets of goals and aspirations. These two poles could be represented by the model of the great research library, on the one hand, and the discount store, on the other. In choosing the first ideal, the library decides to acquire as broad a selection of research materials as possible, including infrequently used primary materials (census records, publications from limited editions, personal manuscripts, and unpublished pamphlets) in order that researchers may, at least in theory, find the collection allā or nearly allāsufficient. Holders of this view point with pride to the contents of the catalog. At the other pole, the library sets out to be as responsive to demand as possible, to provide more and more of the materials which āmove off the shelvesā and, like the discount store, to discontinue stock items which are less popular than something more attractive which might replace them. Advocates of this view point with pride to the swarming circulation desk.
Raunak Pahwa, Sapna Arora and Samandeep Kaur
Purpose: Consumer acceptance is considered the most important factor in functional food success and is given top priority in new product development. This study focussed onā¦
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Purpose: Consumer acceptance is considered the most important factor in functional food success and is given top priority in new product development. This study focussed on finding factors that influence consumer perceptions about active food and the pattern of active food consumption. This chapter aims to provide a deeper understanding of taste trading based on a consumer decision-making framework.
Research Methodology: Cross-sectional consumer data were collected by floating G-Doc containing the questionnaire which was supposed to be answered by people according to their behaviours, preferences, knowledge regarding functional foods etc. It contained questions about their income, gender, preference towards functional foods, factors affecting decision-making while purchasing functional foods etc.
Results of the Study: The findings suggest that the consumers' attitude towards functional foods was mainly influenced by the quality and suitability of the product. Purchase intent was found based on age, literacy of population, income and health benefits of active foods. Awareness of functional foods and their price significantly affected the purchase of functional foods. Most people were willing to spend more on functional foods in the future regardless of the taste and provided high quality and product suitability.
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A historical analysis of Sikhism demonstrates that Sikh thinking on ethical management has long predated academic thinking and research pertaining to this subject. It alsoā¦
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A historical analysis of Sikhism demonstrates that Sikh thinking on ethical management has long predated academic thinking and research pertaining to this subject. It also demonstrates the relationship between good management and peace. Sikhism with its relatively secular orientation promoted both profits by working and the peaceful society that was necessary to obtain these. Hence the concept of āSikh Peace managementā became a reality. Its foundation is the idea that working and management for the common good acts as a spiritual experience and that it interacts with and reinforces a peaceful environment. Despite its similarities with Calvinās work ethics Sikhism did not lead to religious warfare like in 16th and 17th century Europe. It did result however in ādefensiveā characteristics, which, just like work, became part of a new spirituality.
Pooja B. Vijayakumar, Michael J. Morley, Noreen Heraty, Mark E. Mendenhall and Joyce S. Osland
In this contribution, we systematically review the extant global leadership literature to identify important bibliometric and thematic patterns in evidence in this evolving fieldā¦
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In this contribution, we systematically review the extant global leadership literature to identify important bibliometric and thematic patterns in evidence in this evolving field of scholarship. Conceptualizing the phenomenon to include leaders/managers/supervisors who hold global, expatriate, or international positions, we draw out insights accumulated from a total of 327 published articles in key management and organizational behavior journals listed in Scopus. Our analysis proceeds in two sequential phases. Our bibliometric analysis first identifies the most cited articles, most published first authors, country bases of first authors, and frequently publishing journals in this field. This characterizes both the diversity and innovative nature of scholarship in the field. Our thematic content analysis, generated through Nvivo 11, isolates two dominant overarching themes that represent the wellspring for the body of literature, namely global leader development and global leader effectiveness. These themes of development and effectiveness are further explicated through six distinct lenses namely cultural, cognitive, learning, personality trait, social/relational, and political. These lenses are underpinned by a suite of theoretical perspectives encompassing individual, system, and contextual considerations. In combination, these sets of analyses bring added systematics to the field and serve as a point of departure for future inquiry.
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Leopoldo Trieste, Andrea Bazzani, Alessia Amato, Ugo Faraguna and Giuseppe Turchetti
The purpose of this paper is to explore the associations between food literacy, consumer profiling and purchasing behaviour in a sample of Italian consumers.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore the associations between food literacy, consumer profiling and purchasing behaviour in a sample of Italian consumers.
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Participants (N = 194) completed an online survey including personal data, two questionnaires on purchase behaviour and food consumption, the General Trust Scale (GTS), a questionnaire assessing individual chronotype and two scales about food literacy: one investigating nutritional knowledge (short food literacy questionnaire, SFLQ) and the other focussing on procedural skills (self-perceived food literacy scale, SPFL). Associations between food literacy, consumer profiling and purchase behaviour were analysed with linear regression models.
Findings
Participants with specific education in nutrition reported higher scores in food literacy. The final score of food literacy was predicted by a greater attention to nutritional content and nutritional properties of products. Women paid more attention to nutritional properties than men, and they obtained higher scores in SFLQ. Evening types obtained lower scores in SFPL compared to intermediate and morning chronotypes. Body mass index (BMI) was negatively correlated to SPFL score, while it was associated with the easy availability of a product, so that obese (BMI ā„ 30) subjects considered the easy availability of a product more important compared to non-obese ones (BMI < 30).
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This study investigates the influence of personal and psychometric variables of consumer profiling on food literacy and consequently on purchase behaviour, paving the way for implementing healthier food consumption policies. These findings reinforce the primacy of specific education in building healthy eating habits.
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Vikas Modgil, S.K. Sharma and Jagtar Singh
The purpose of this paper is to make a performance model of a shoe upper manufacturing unit of a shoe manufacturing industry by computing both the availabilities, i.e. timeā¦
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to make a performance model of a shoe upper manufacturing unit of a shoe manufacturing industry by computing both the availabilities, i.e. time dependent system availability (TDSA) and the longāterm availability.
Design/methodology/approach
The present work is carried out by developing performance model based on Markov birthādeath process. The unit consists of four subsystems. The first order governing differential equations are derived using the mnemonic rule and further solved by adaptive stepāsize control RungeāKutta method to calculate the TDSA, while the longāterm availability is calculated using normalizing condition, initial boundary conditions and recursive method. Both the availabilities are considered for system's performance criterion.
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The subsystem A, i.e. sewing machine is the most critical from maintenance point of view, which has more impact on the system's performance as compare to other subsystems. The repair priorities of other subsystems have also been proposed.
Practical implications
These methods can also be used to find out the performance of other manufacturing industries.
Originality/value
The results of the present work are very useful for finding the critical subsystem and its effect on the system performance in terms of availability. Further, based on findings the maintenance priorities of various subsystems can be decided.
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Ana LuĆsa Rodrigues and Carolina Pereira
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools, namely ChatGPT, Copilot (Bing) or Gemini (Bard) chatbots, have brought very rapid repercussions at education level in general, especially inā¦
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Artificial intelligence (AI) tools, namely ChatGPT, Copilot (Bing) or Gemini (Bard) chatbots, have brought very rapid repercussions at education level in general, especially in higher education. Several challenges are being presented to institutions, teachers and students, highlighting the way teachers teach and students learn, and significant transformations are expected in the short term due to the availability of this type of tools. This chapter aims to analyse and discuss how the new generative AI tools, which are accessible to all, can influence teachers' instructional methods and transform the format and the ways students learn. What are the main challenges, limitations and changes that we can foresee, considering the dangers and constraints of these new tools, regarding the teaching and learning processes of young adults in higher education. A case study was selected, using an exploratory questionnaire survey of undergraduate students, which was analysed using descriptive statistics. This study demonstrated that teachers, in student perspectives, are still far integrating IA in their pedagogical strategies, mainly focussing in the dangers and limitations and little in the potential. The aim was to contribute to assess how these new working tools can be an instrument that enhances critical thinking and active and transformative learning of young adults, when used with the minimisation of risks and errors. Furthermore, it is intended to reflect on appropriate AI educational policies as well as on the development of competences and digital literacy in the training of higher education students as global citizens.