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- Inventory Control In A Multi-Supplier System
- An enterprise network is analyzed from the viewpoint of an end-product manufacturer who receives customer orders and organises his production and supply policy so as to minimize the sum of his average holding cost and average stock-out cost. For each main component to be ordered, the producer has several possible...
- White papers 2005-01-06
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- Throw Out Fixed and Variable Cost Thinking—Bring In Activity-Based Costing for Distribution Decisions
- This article suggests a new way of thinking about costs in distribution management. It defines that distributors need cost information, not to track the cost of manufacturing operations, but to make strategic management decision for example decisions on pricing, unbundling value-added services, customer profitability, vendor profitability, and automating processes. This...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- VALIC decision goes against banks. (Variable Annuity Life Insurance Co.) (bank marketing of insurance)
- The US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Variable Annuity Life Insurance Co. VALIC vs. Clarke overturned a decision by the Comptroller of the Currency that held that the National Bank Act allowed the bank marketing of annuities. The 5th CircuiThe US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals...
- Research articles 1993-09-06
- Should You Exchange Your Variable Annuity?
- If you have a life insurance or annuity contract, you may have been approached to exchange it for a new model, one with better or the latest features. You need to know that even though tax law makes the exchange income tax free and the new contract may sound better...
- White papers 2001-02-15
- Industry ponders next move after VALIC setback. (insurance industry reacts to Supreme Court's Variable Annuity Life Insurance Company decision)
- The insurance industry is hoping Congress will intervene to stop banks from selling annuities. The Supreme Court decided that banks could sell annuities in the Variable Annuity Life Insurance Company case, where the court said annuities are investments inThe insurance industry is hoping Congress will intervene to stop banks from...
- Research articles 1995-01-23
- The State Of Practice In Supply Chain Management
- In this paper, the author describes examples of state-of-the-art practice in supply-chain management; e.g., vendor-managed inventory, quick response, and other contemporary systems, such as Wal-Mart's RetailLink. The perspective will be that of what the author call the IDIB Portfolio; i.e., what Information I, Decision-Making D, Implementation I, and Buffer B...
- White papers 2004-02-26
- The Decision to Pay Points when Borrowing
- The article talks about the current low interest rates, many individuals are buying personal residences, refinancing existing mortgages and taking out second mortgages. When evaluating whether your client should pay points in connection with obtaining a mortgage loan, it is important to look beyond simply the lowered payment from the...
- White papers 2003-04-01
- Collaborative Decision-Making and School-Based Management: Challenges, Rhetoric and Reality
- School-based management has increasingly become the agreed-upon model around the world for the operation of schools, particularly those in large public education systems. A critical element of the model is devolving enhanced levels of decision-making from the centre (e.g. the head office) to the schools. While the rhetoric surrounding such...
- White papers 2001-11-09
- A Markov Decision Model To Evaluate Outsourcing In Reverse Logistics
- One of the most important decisions regarding Reverse Logistics RL is whether to outsource such functions or not, due to the fact that RL does not represent a production or distribution firm's core activity. To explore the hypothesis that outsourcing RL functions is more suitable when returns are more variable,...
- White papers 2006-06-30
- Precision Ag break-even.(Moneywise)(decision tool to help farmers)(Brief Article)
- A recent study by University of Kentucky economist Carl Dillon indicates that given the equipment costs and custom rates shown in the table, you'd need to farm almost 43,000 acres for field boundary mapping alone, given its infrequent need. Break-even drops to 4,800 for field mapping...
- Research articles 2002-09-01
- VA mkt. reacts cautiously to 12b-1s. (variable annuities)
- Insurers are reacting cautiously to decisions by mutual funds to adopt 12b-1 plans to pay for distribution-related expenses. The Securities and Exchange Commission, which has traditionally discouraged mutual funds from adopting 12b-1 plans, released an interpretive letter in May 1996 granting Scudder Variable Life Insurance Fund license to consolidate fees...
- Research articles 1996-12-02
- Air Canada/Canadian Airlines pilots receive seniority decision
- AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-C1997-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The Air Canada Pilots Association ACPA stated on 1 April that it had received a final decision from arbitrator Morton Mitchnick about the merger of seniority lists for pilots from Air Canada and Canadian Airlines. Mitchnick's decision employs a 'variable...
- Research articles 2001-04-03
- Does Your Variable Annuity Cost Too Much?
- Your decision to surrender an existing variable annuity in exchange for a new contract must be based on your own unique circumstances, and you should contact your own professional tax advisor prior to taking any action. Once you crunch the numbers, you may find that a section 1035 tax-free exchange...
- White papers 2008-02-11
- Pooled Versus Reserved Inventory In A Two-Echelon Supply Chain
- We consider a two-echelon supply chain with two retailers and one supplier. The retailers are supplied by the supplier who makes all the decisions and bears all the inventory risk. Throughout this paper, we consider two different inventory systems: a reserved inventory system and a pooled inventory system. With the...
- White papers 2006-05-25
- Fuzzy Based Decision Support System For e-Tourism Investment Risk Analysis
- This paper presents a Fuzzy based Decision Support System DSS for E-tourism investment risk analysis. In general term, E-tourism is the use of Information And Communication Technology ICT in tourism which may allow operating tourism in least variable cost, least time and increasing work efficiency. It is worth noting that...
- White papers 2006-10-29
- Economists say latest increase to boost some short-term variable rates.
- By Marc Silvestrini, Waterbury Republican-American, Conn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 22--Keep your credit card in your wallet, but don't stop searching for that dream home. That's the advice of economists representing three of New England's largest banks in...
- Research articles 2004-09-22
- Personal Finance: `If you are still on a variable rate, you should
- A TENNER off the monthly payments of the average mortgage can't be bad news. The decision this week to cut interest rates by a quarter of one per cent by the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee MPC may even be followed by further cuts - but don't hold your...
- Research articles 2001-02-10
- Ameriprise Financial Inc. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. We will now begin the question-and-answer session [Operator Instructions]. Our first question comes from Suneet Kamath from Sanford Bernstein. Please go ahead. Suneet Kamath - Sanford Bernstein Thanks. One quick one and then one little bit more strategic. First, Walter, did...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-25
- BofA: Card rates won't go up ahead of law
- NEW YORK - Bank of America on Tuesday pledged not to hike credit card interest rates or fees before a new law intended to reform industry practices takes effect in February. Since most Bank of America customers have variable rate cards, however, they could still see their interest rates go...
- News items 2009-10-06
- Outsource Your Way Through | BTalk Australia
- Tom Christopoul, CEO of consulting firm Resources Global Professionals, says his Australian clients are seeing the economy starting to bottom out, although he admits that it's difficult to really see the short term future. On todayĂ¢â‚¬â„¢s BTalk Australia he tells Phil Dobbie how his firm has traditionally...
- Blog posts 2009-03-24
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