Successfully managing the supply chain, which has become complex with many factors such as changes in customer demands, social perception, ease of access to information, advances technology, increasing needs, and changing environmental conditions, provides great convenience businesses. Effective chain all operations management this importance for retailers, play a key role distribution products...

INTRODUCTION Rates of unrecognized HIV infection are significantly higher among Latino and Black men who have sex with men (MSM). Policy makers have proposed that HIV self-testing kits and new methods for delivering self-testing could improve testing uptake among minority MSM. This study sought to conduct qualitative assessments with MSM of color to determine the acceptability of using electron...

BACKGROUND Sodas are widely sold in vending machines and other school venues in the United States, particularly in high school. Research suggests that policy changes have reduced soda access, but the impact of reduced access on consumption is unclear. This study was designed to identify student, environmental, or policy characteristics that modify the associations between school vending machine...

BACKGROUND The present research describes a measure of the worksite environment for food, physical activity and weight management. The worksite environment measure (WEM instrument) was developed for the Route H Study, a worksite environmental intervention for weight gain prevention in four metro transit bus garages in Minneapolis-St. Paul. METHODS Two trained raters visited each of the four b...

The vending machines in your d o r m , in the campus center, pod ium, and tunnels are and have been opera ted in violation of the S ta t e University con t rac t with SUNY-A's Facul ty S tudent Associat ion. According t o New York State Audi tors , Article 3 of the contract be tween State University and FSA provides tha t " F S A may operate vending machines . This does not mean that FSA may su...

Consider the following scenario. At 8:30 a.m. on an ordinary day at Central Headquarters facility, a vending machine service technician arrives. He shows his contractor badge to security, opens his toolbox for inspection, and walks though the metal detector. He is waved through and proceeds on his rounds. At his second vending machine cluster, he opens the machine, adjusts the coin mechanism , ...