Warehouse Operations of Service Wholesale Druggists

Warehouse Benchmarking Results: a Comparison of Wholesale and Manufacturing Warehouses

Warehouses are a substantial component of GDP and a significant contributor to speed and cost in supply chains. An analysis of a cross section of warehouse performance data would provide a better understanding of warehouse technical efficiency, the factors contributing to efficiency and the best practices for improving efficiency. This understanding would improve the practice of warehousing, re...

Efficiency evaluation of data warehouse operations

We present an efficiency model for data warehouse operations and analyze a data set to evaluate the model. The model contains salient variables to evaluate the efficiency of an organization’s data warehouse operations for refresh processing and query production. The variables in the model include resource consumption (labor usage and computing budgets), system usage measures (users and queries)...

Warehouse Operations Revisited - Novel Challenges and Methods

IBM's Analytic Warehouse Cloud Service

Moving data warehousing into the cloud is a major opportunity for enterprises. It is also a challenge for traditional database management technology. Some of the novel requirements for a successful cloud data warehouse include simplicity (no tuning), seamless scalability, security, efficient data movement and integration with third-party tools. IBM addresses these challenges through its analyti...

Sustainability in Service Operations

This paper aims to set the stage for the development of an index that measures progress towards sustainability in the service sector. A review of the academic literature reveals history and theories on the subject, while a look at the trade literature describes what is happening in each of 13 different service sector industries. A framework for the development of a sustainability index for a co...