Smartville: An Integrated Supply Chain Case Study (1)
Building the Smart Car The Micro Compact Car (MCC) supply chain demonstrates a strongly developed supplier/manufacturer relationship. The Smartville plant...
Competitive Advantage Through Logistics: An Electronics Case Study in 100 Words
In electronics, Porter’s “Five Forces” are powerful. Logistics represents a means by which economies can be achieved through specific efficiency...
Management Information: Influence and Impact
The first section of this article discusses how management information can influence the direction of a business. The section that...
Logistics and KPIs: A Despatch Case
This article concentrates on despatch, a logistical operation that directly affects commercial performance. A description of the despatch process is...
Analysing Marketing Logistics
Analysis of the Marketability of the Current Logistics Chain The following diagram is an approximate illustration of a consumer electronics...
Identifying and Solving Business Problems
The SWOT is a useful – if sometimes not fully understood – tool for identifying a company’s current and relative...
Using People as a Tool of Business Differentiation
The Human Capital Index, which compares the practices of 2000 companies world-wide, found that superior human resource management correlates positively...
Common Japanese-English Translation Issues: 3. Counting
Quantification is of extreme importance in the field of technical translation. Numbers, in their many and varied guises, are responsible...
Common Japanese-English Translation Issues: 4. Future Continuation
All the following terms express future continuation, but their differences and degrees of appropriateness pose substantial challenges for technical translators:...