In traditional study of supply chain management, people mainly consider the decisions from perspective of the operations management, such as, capacity, inventory, ordering level, pricing, etc., and often ignore to consider the impact of financial flow within the supply chain. However, the key function of supply chain management is concerned with the coordination of material flows, information f...

Recently attention has been directed to Machine to Machine (M2M) wireless communications by a number of stakeholders which include device manufacturers, applications developers and mobile network operators across the globe. As voice revenues for most mobile operators enter a decline due to the new data oriented networks and services being availed into the market, there is growing need to adopt ...

There is a gap between competence theory and value chain processes frameworks. While individually considered as core elements in contemporary management thinking, the integration of the two concepts is still lacking. We claim that this integration would allow for the development of more robust business models by structuring value chain activities around aspects such as capabilities and skills, ...

With the switch from analog to digital technology the entire process of production, distribution, and archival of a film and tv program large amounts of data are created. Besides recorded and processed audiovisual information, in each single step of the production process and furthermore throughout the entire media value chain new metadata is created, administrated, and put into relation with a...

Requirement elicitation is an analysis, abstraction, synthesis, extracted process which obtains real and correct software requirements from users' demands, thoughts and expectations. The accuracy and integrity of software requirements is crucial to the success of the software. Although many software engineering techniques have been applied, incomplete, inaccurate or inconsistent requirements st...

This paper describes the changes in the value chain from taking the picture to displaying it. In the days of analogue imaging, there was only one option for displaying images after they had been taken; developing the film and prints. Nowadays the consumer has various display possibilities that do not necessarily include tangible products. Possible integrations and real data of consumers’ behavi...

“Food production and distribution in South Africa, as in most other countries, is undergoing major structural changes caused by changing and diverse consumer demands, new technologies (e.g. bioand information technologies), new product characteristics, changing firm sizes and more exposure to world markets... the structural realignment in agriculture and the formation of new supply chains are p...

Cybersecurity has become a top priority for policymakers these days, but as the engineering saying goes: “if you don’t know what you want, it’s hard to do it right.” This paper finds considerable shortcomings in current conceptual and legal frameworks for communications security policymaking. The misleading concept of cybersecurity incorporates a wide range of social issues under its umbrella, ...

The opportunities offered by the Internet have already fuelled immense growth of E-commerce. In recent years, due to the rapid evolution of wireless and mobile communication technologies, mobile commerce becomes another crucial application. In china, the 3G telecommunication era is coming. As to the brilliant prospect for m-commerce, many industries expect to join this arena. The mobile commerc...