disasters place exceptional demands on humanitarian logistics and calls for fast ‚ agile and quick response to alleviate human lives. Deficiencies in the flow of supplies may result in dire consequences. As a result of continuous human and man-made disasters logistics has now become an important factor in humanitarian aid operations‚ to the “extent that logistics efforts account for 80 percent of disaster relief” (Trunick‚ 2005). Humanitarian logistics encompasses a ranges of complicated activities
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Supply Chain Risk Management in Procurement and Logistics Report by iMBA 2015 students: Content 1.Introduction and Summary………………………………………………………………….. 3 2. Types of the risks ………………………………………………………………….…………… 3 2.1 Delay of delivery ……………………………………………………………………. 3 2.2 Force Majeure ……………………………………………………………………….. 4 2.3 Procurement risk ……………………………………………………………………. 5 2.4 Receivables risk ……………………………………………………………………... 5 2.5 Inventory risk …………………………………………………………………………. 6 2.6 Capacity risk
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1. Sinha‚ Vinita‚ K S Subramanian‚ Sonali Bhattacharya‚ and Kaushik Chaudhuri. "Management : Journal of Contemporary Management Issues." THE CONTEMPORARY FRAMEWORK ON SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYTICS AS AN EMERGING TOOL‚ 2012: 65-84. The authors are professors at Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development‚ a constituent of Symbiosis International University in India. This article examines the usage of social media analytics as an assessment tool from behavioural perspectives‚ HR as well
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Logistics is a Diverse and dynamic function. As Rushton (2006) contents that a widely accepted view of logistics shows the following relationship: Logistics = Supply + Materials management + Distribution It is first important that we get a better understanding of the relationship shown above by defining the variables involved. Supply in the above equation can be said to incorporate supply chains while materials management comes into play because it is mainly concerned with the flow of materials
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SMT1004 Logistics Operations/Techniques 1213 Name : SHAO HONGYI Id : u1069593 Data:02/12/2012 content Introduction 3 Background 3 Importance of logistic and supply Chain 4 Importance of cost 4 Importance of logistics customer service 4 Analysis of structure planning 5 The relationship among four factors 5 Analysis of inventory 6 Logistics models 6 The Allocation Models 6 Allocation Models of product
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Lustful Advances What are the seven deadly sins? They are the seven basic human vices that‚ when taken in excess‚ can be perceived as evil‚ and potentially injure or kill the person or people around them while indulging in said vices. Delving further into that topic I am focusing on lust. I doubt that there is a better example than that of the poem “To his Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell. Written between 1650 and 1652 it was first published in 1681 (by his housekeeper!) several years after his
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Prof. Wells English 205 December 8‚ 2010 Technological Advances In Marketing and Advertising Seth Godin‚ former Vice President of Direct Marketing for Yahoo!‚ and a well known business blogger and author‚ once said‚ “You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action” (Godin 25). Godin pinpoints two important marketing concepts‚ the successful placement of ads and the effect of successful advertising
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An essay on ‘What is Management’ Management is both art and science. It is the art of making people more effective than they would have been without you. The science is in how you do that. There are four basic pillars: plan‚ organize‚ direct‚ and monitor. Management is a universal phenomenon. It is a very popular and widely used term. All organizations - business‚ political‚ cultural or social are involved in management because it is the management which helps and directs the various efforts
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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LOGISTICAL MANAGEMENT Table of Contents Introduction 3 The Business Problem 4 Information Technology and Business 6 Reducing Times 8 Conclusion 9 Introduction Throughout the years‚ communication has been a very important part in the development of the United States. Without proper communication‚ the United States would most likely not be the first world potency
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Trends in Global Telecommunications INTRODUCTION Telecommunication exists everywhere‚ -- at home‚ at work‚ at school‚ and even in cars - so it would be extremely difficult for anyone to be unaware of the popular trends in existing and emerging telecommunications technologies. In realizing these trends‚ past and present telecommunications technologies must be examined along with the measures currently being taken to improve them so that future trends can be predicted and developed. WORLD TELECOMMUNICATION
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