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The Systems Solution, Edward Sweeney
Planned Training Yields Best Results: Training Needs Analysis In Supply Chain Management, Edward Sweeney
Planned Training Yields Best Results: Training Needs Analysis In Supply Chain Management, Edward Sweeney
Practitioner Journals
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The Systems Approach To Analysing Supply Chains And Improving Their Performance, Edward Sweeney
The Systems Approach To Analysing Supply Chains And Improving Their Performance, Edward Sweeney
Conference papers
One critical weakness of traditional company-wide business improvement models, which are often based on systems thinking, is that the focus is largely on a company’s internal operations and business processes. As a result of the increasingly complex global supply chains of which companies are part, improving ones own business is no guarantee of success in today’s business environment. This paper describes an extension of traditional systems approaches beyond the operations of an individual company to the complete supply chain. The result is the
Sole Survivors: How Exceptional Companies Survive And Thrive At The Edge, Anto Kerins
Sole Survivors: How Exceptional Companies Survive And Thrive At The Edge, Anto Kerins
Books / Book chapters
Some companies seem born to fail, while others manage to survive and thrive despite great adversity. What are the secrets of the survivors?. Sole Survivors puts nine such companies under the microscope to discover what sets them apart from their less-successful competitors, what make them "exceptional". But these nine are neither blue-chip multinationals nor high-tech operators. They are small to medium-sized European companies in a traditional section that has been decimated in recent times-footwear manufacturing. This book tells the stories of these companies in detail from their historical development through to their current business strategies, from their organisational structures to …
Airline Overbooking In The Multi-Class Case, Joseph Coughlan
Airline Overbooking In The Multi-Class Case, Joseph Coughlan
Articles
This paper presents an airline overbooking model at a class level for one servcie compartment-cabin. Class level demand data i sused to determine the number of bookings that can be taken for each class. The model is optimised through the use of mulit-dimentsional search routines. The control level model developed is tested with data supplied by Ireland's national airline, Aer Lingus. The model shows a significant improvement over previous methods employed by Aer Lingus and was subsequently adopted by the airline.