A logistics chain in the South African sugar industry has been defined as the different agents responsible for growing, hauling and milling sugarcane. Inefficiencies in a logistics chain can be broadly classified into two categories: ! Individual inefficiencies associated with an inappropriate technology and/or the management practices of individual members of a logistics chain. ! Collective in...

Block diagram languages provide an effective approach to developing Digital Signal Processing applications. The tools that support block diagram languages use existing compilation systems to produce code. The inefficiencies of the compilation systems are compounded with inefficiencies interfacing to them. Generation of intermediate code direct from the block diagram bypasses these inefficiencie...

Laboratory experiments employing an induced-values methodology often report on allocative efficiencies observed. That methodology requires experimenters know subjects’ motivations precisely, questionable in labs, impossible in field experiments. Allocative efficiency implies a hypothetical costless aftermarket would be inactive. An allocation mechanism’s outcome is defined to be behaviorally ef...

One of the main priorities of companies involved in supply chains is improving the quality of their products. However, as in other parts of supply chain management, decentralized decision-making in supply quality management is prevalent, which causes inefficiencies such as the well-known double marginalization phenomenon. Coordinating schemes, such as the revenue sharing contract, can contribut...

Implicit auctioning in Europe is about eliminating cross-border trade inefficiencies by internalizing crossborder trade into the day-ahead auction procedures of the Power Exchanges that are already organizing trade nationally. On the Kontek Cable, implicit auctioning has first been implemented with “no coupling” between the relevant Power Exchanges, followed by a “volume coupling” implementatio...