Large Corporate and Small and Medium Enterprises are still going through deep innovation and re-engineering processes. Organisation should became leaner and more efficient. Even planning and scheduling should be integrated in order to yield feasible and robust plan in an automatic way by continuous planning, from forecasting to daily line load. We present a framework for weekly plan validation ...

Understanding and measuring determinants of bid-ask spreads is decisive to clarifying the efficiency of the microstructure of any exchange and general market liquidity. This paper examines the market microstructure of a low liquidity, market maker driven option market, the relations to the underlying securities’ market and the challenges of pricing liquidity. Comparing empirical results with pr...

Business to Business (B2B) relationships in Ecommerce are becoming increasingly important. However, there is little guidance available for managers about how relationships should be formulated or managed. Further, requirements analysis for information technology support of B2B interorganisational relationships (IORs) depends on the business model of the relationship, and needs a predictive basi...

Based on uncertainty theory, multiproduct aggregate production planning model is presented, where the market demand, production cost, subcontracting cost, etc., are all characterized as uncertain variables. The objective is to maximize the belief degree of obtaining the profit more than the predetermined profit over the whole planning horizon. When these uncertain variables are linear, the obje...

The objective of this article is to analyze the effect of both target market and product complexity on the production activities in an industrial goods company of Brazil. Nine projects developed and manufactured by the company were monitored and their pertaining data collected, according to the planning of a factorial experiment involving two independent variables (target market and product com...

Nowadays, the service industries play an essential role in the economic development of countries, and among the various fields of insurance, life insurance is of particular importance because it covers its cover directly to humans. Increased competition in the insurance industry has led managers to seek marketing strategies that, in addition to increasing insurance sales, reduce costs and gain ...

This paper proposes and demonstrates a new interactive framework for sensitivity-informed de Novo planning to confront the deep uncertainty within water management problems. The framework couples global sensitivity analysis using Sobol’ variance decomposition with multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) to generate planning alternatives and test their robustness to new modeling assumptio...

With an aim to resolve the problem of the increasing costs of supply chain in Manufacture Company, an integrated supply chain management model, driven by market demand, is brought forward in this paper, based on the analysis of existing integrated models of supply chain. The management model integrates purchase, production and sale plans with logistics plans used JIT. In order to build an integ...

2 Three new books on the "market process" approach to economics are reviewed. Each uses Hayek's famous 1945 article to criticize aspects of modern economics and to further develop Hayek's own insights, particularly along the lines of Kirzner's theory of entrepreneurship. The topics considered are central economic planning, the economics of information and complexity, welfare economics and the e...