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Corporate Library: A Digital Aspect
-- Puja Walia Mann and Nidhi
In today's dynamic environment, people want rapid information. `Digital Libraries' are the
source to facilitate businesses, communities, customers, suppliers and other departments in the
areas of interest where they can store and retrieve relevant and desired information. A digital
library is a library in which collections are stored in digital formats. A digital library is a type of
information retrieval system. Every organization in today's scenario maintains a digital library to keep
record of the customers and for retrieval and storage for a longer period. Corporate repositories
are maintained by corporate organizations where they maintain electronic documents for fast
and efficient e-commerce transactions. In this study, the authors have thrown light on the evolving
topic of corporate digital library as a medium to assist organizations through its functioning
and advantages.
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Goal Programming and Its Applications
in Management Science
-- Shantanu Shankar Bagchi
The underlying philosophy of goal programming deals with multiobjective scenario which
occurs in day-to-day life. As management is a field which is closely related to
everyday life, it faces the similar problem of optimization of multiple objectives. Hence, in this field, there are
several applications of goal programming. This paper
touches upon the fundamentals of goal programming, and
its main objective is to find out its applications in different
management fields, such as accounting, marketing, finance, operations, etc.
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The State of Six-Sigma in Service Processes: A
Literature Review
-- Jighyasu Gaur
Since its inception during the 1980s by Motorola, six-sigma has become a well-known
quality improvement program in manufacturing processes but is less popular in the service
setting. Although it has been proved to be effective in financial services and the healthcare
industry, it is not effective for all industries. This paper reviews the existing literature on the use
and implementation of the six-sigma methodology and draws key benefits that firms derive
after its successful implementation.
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A Model-Based Decision Support
to Manage Outbound Logistics
-- M Raja
The logistics involved as a part of Supply Chain Management (SCM) demand the
development of appropriate models to support decision making. In real life large business environment,
the situation demands handling large-scale data and rapid development of models to process
the same. These data may emerge from online transaction systems and the same need to
be prepared or consolidated to input to the optimization models. The widespread
implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems provides ample opportunity to access
transactional databases for the integration of supply chain activities (Jeremy, 2008). In this paper, a
prototype was developed to implement a decision support system for outbound logistics by a large
cement manufacturing organization with multiple plants and distribution channels. While the dataflow
from the transaction system to the optimization model was developed smoothly and
transparently, the output of the model is integrated to the decision support system to manage outbound
logistics. The approach adopted to integrate the transaction processing application with the
decision support system is aimed at strengthening the existing scalable Supply Chain Infrastructure (SCI).
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Management of Technology
in the Pharmaceutical Industry: A Case Study of
Select Companies in Iran
-- M Mahboudi and B R Ananthan
This paper identifies the key factors of effectiveness of Management of Technology (MOT).
This study focuses on the recognition and grade of progressive factors of effectiveness of MOT
in Iran's pharmaceutical companies. The research was to investigate positive relationship
between organizational structure, participative management, training and planning, support
and participation of top management, investment and MOT effectiveness. The results of the
data analysis revealed sufficient evidence to establish a correlation between these variables and
MOT effectiveness. In addition, the findings reveal that factors of support, participation of
top management, training and planning investment, participative management and
organizational structure, respectively, have the major roles in MOT effectiveness.
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