Investment in inventory absorbs a large portion of the working capital of a company and often it represents a large portion of the total assets of a business. By improving return on investment by increasing the rate of inventory turnover, management often wants to ensure economic efficiency. Effective inventory management enables a firm to provide lower costs, rapid response and flexibility for...

Cross-company business processes are common in today’s networked economy and are nowadays often supported by process support systems that integrate the information systems of the different partners based on web service technology. In contrast to earlier Workflow Management Systems, which were often deployed in the controlled environment of a single company, the distributed nature of modern solu...

Reading manually annual and quarterly reports helps financial analysts and decision makers to judge companies’ financial performance. Professionals infer from a report not only the current financial performance and strategic outlook of a company but also its prospective financial performance. They have insightful methods to find some intuitive indications of the future financial performance of ...

In the application domain of stock portfolio management, software agents that evaluate the risks associated with the individual companies of a portfolio should be able to read electronic news articles that are written to give investors an indication of the financial outlook of a company. There is a positive correlation between news reports on a company’s financial outlook and the company’s attr...

This article is mainly to analyze and discuss the operation of Pinduoduo through literature research data collection, related background, industry company introduction, marketing, financial analysis, management. The main part this section introduces marketing strategy problems Pinduoduo, analyzes relevant indicators, lists possible risks how manage these risks. SWOT analysis annual statement ar...

I n the 1980s, the personal computer migrated from the hobbyist’s den to the corporate desktop, thus becoming the biggest development of the decade in information technology. Ten years later, that honor fell to the Internet and wireless telephones, which until now have followed separate paths. This decade will see the convergence of wireless communications and the Internet. Although the commerc...

Virtual organizations and knowledge management have been discussed on a very broad scale in literature. However, a holistic view and methods that support implementation of these concepts are rare. Based on the understanding derived from literature and the experience of many action research-based projects, a method is described that addresses these issues for business networks. This includes the...

This paper presents Social Object Labels as an in-gallery commenting platform and reports on a formative evaluation of the concept focusing on visitors' awareness and mental models of the developed prototype. Findings confirm many design assumptions underlying the evaluated prototype but also flag up serious problems resulting in low engagement levels. They suggest a need to de-emphasise optica...