(2007) 2475–2486 www.elsevier.com/locate/apm Analytic network process in supplier selection: A case study in an electronic firm Cevriye Gencer *‚ Didem Gurpinar ¨ Gazi University‚ Faculty of Engineering and Architecture‚ Department of Industrial Engineering‚ 06570 Maltepe/Ankara‚ Turkey Received 1 November 2005; received in revised form 1 August 2006; accepted 9 October 2006 Available online 8 December 2006 Abstract Supplier selection‚ which is the first step of the activities in the product realization
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SUPPLY CHAIN: INNOVATION Increasing Suppl ’ierDriven Innovation When customers collaborate with suppliers they can build trust‚ reduce relational stress‚ and increase innovation-related activities. BY JOHNW. HENKE JR. AND CHUN ZHANG MORE THAN 50 YEARS AGO‚ management guru Peter Drucker identified innovation as one of the basic ways in which a business builds and maintains a competitive position in the marketplace.I It wasn ’t until recently‚ however‚ that companies not only established internal
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Viktoria Garcia 1st period Deep Brain Stimulation Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) is considered a surgical treatment alternative for patients who are affected by long term complications of Parkinson disease. Parkinson’s disease is a chronic disease of the brain characterized by gradually worsening tremor‚ muscle rigidity and difficulties with starting and stopping movements. The complications of Parkinson’s disease can include those such as trouble with motor functions and losing the ability
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i i Dedication This report is dedicated to the 11 men who lost their lives on the Deepwater Horizon rig on April 20‚ 2010 and to their families‚ in hope that this report will help minimize the chance of another such disaster ever happening again. Jason Anderson Aaron Dale Burkeen Donald Clark Stephen Curtis Gordon Jones Roy Wyatt Kemp Karl Dale Kleppinger‚ Jr. Blair Manuel Dewey Revette Shane Roshto Adam Weise ii Acknowledgements We wish to acknowledge the many individuals and
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The National Commission on the BP Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling released a report in January 2011 to the President of the United States indicating that the April 20th‚ 2011 Deep Water Horizon’s explosion and the resulting oil spill at the Macondo well was a foreseeable and preventable disaster. The Commission’s report indicated that a number of easily identifiable mistakes by British Petroleum‚ Transocean‚ and Halliburton ultimately led to the devastating oil spill which lasted
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|Deep Vein Thrombosis | | | |Anatomy and Physiology 11 | | | |4/13/2010
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Deep Economy‚ Chapter Two: The Year of Eating Locally Darlene Chan-Arias‚ Krystle Kaye‚ Cammie Lawson Salvador Pacheco‚ Madison Quiroga‚ English 301 Professor Kathleen Patterson California State University Fullerton Chapter two of Deep Economy‚ written by Bill McKibben‚ starts out by the author trying to eat food only in season and locally. The point of his experiment was to give him insight on what it was to truly eat locally. Vermont during the winter is not
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CASE APPLICATION: FOUNDATIONS OF CONTROL Deepwater in Deep Trouble When all is said and done‚ which may not be for many years‚ it’s likely to be one of the worst environmental disasters‚ if not the worst‚ in U.S. history.61 When British Petroleum’s (BP) Deepwater Horizon off-shore rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded in a ball of flames on April 20‚ 2010‚ killing 11 employees‚ it set in motion frantic efforts to stop the flow of oil and to initiate the long and arduous cleanup process. Although
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A Supplier Alliance at Quaker Oats Summary Quaker Oats Company of Chicago‚ IL formed an alliance with Graham Packaging of York‚ PA. Graham is a leading global manufacturer of custom blow molded plastic containers. Plastic bottles are the largest single quantity and cost item purchased by Quaker Oats. Gatorade had captured over 82% of the global market share in the sports beverage industry. The purchasing department established a goal of lowering the bottling cost $10 million to $15 million per
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Chain Challenges and its Potential impacts 14 Even stronger focus on freshness and quality 14 On-going product innovations 15 Strong customer demand fluctuations based on promotions 16 Order- and inventory management restaurant – DC – supplier - raw material supplier 18 Bull Whip effect 19 Change Management in a de- centralized structure 20 Methods for Solve Problems 20 Build the quality supervised system 20 Build the detailed R&D process 22 Improve the level of marketing promotion and forecast
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