Pennsylvania State University System, University Park, Pa., is being awarded a $25,000,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to support the development and transition of electro-optic technology including fiber optics and photonics f Pennsylvania State University System, University Park, Pa., is being awarded a $25,000,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to...
Benchmarking can help a person: Analyze and improve his processes; Enhance performance; Gather the information the person needs to assess his present and plan his future and identify some better approaches to accomplish his mission, vision, and goals. Benchmarking is not limited to the collection of numbers and comparison of...
The publisher recently conducted a survey on innovation by examining the statements made by chief executives of large public companies in the public press. 1 Most recognized that innovation, although crucial for organic growth, is nevertheless difficult to sustain. Difficulties arise because most organizations tend to view deviations from institutionalized...
Since 1999, announcements have been made for over 1000 electronic online Market places (eB2B eXchanges) in a variety of industries. Most are touted as offering transactions cost savings by reducing search costs, administrative costs and other transaction costs and also promise increased market transparency, liquidity and scale economies of joint...
HTH Worldwide, the leading provider of international health plans and online health and security information to the international education community, announced today that it has been awarded a three-year contract by Penn State University to serve thousands of study abroad students at its 24 campuses. Every year, over 250,000...
Load building is an important step to make the delivery supply chain efficient. This paper presents a family of load makeup algorithms using market control-based strategy, named LoadMarket, in order to build efficient loads where each load consists of a certain number of finished products having destinations. LoadMarket adopts minimum...
The publisher investigates the performance of two commonly-used mechanisms for coordinating the supply chain: the buyback and the revenue-sharing contracts. The simple setting considered is the one with a two-member supply chain in which the retailer faces the newsvendor problem, the supplier has no capacity constraints, and the delivery occurs...
Probably the most visible recent statistics proving a point that's perhaps a surprise to many, B2B and business-to-consumer (B2C) domestic shipments in 2003 each totaled about $8.3 trillion, according to government data. More significant than its relative size, however, B2B marketing is a uniquely complex discipline of activities at the...
The Pennsylvania State University's School of Hospitality Management recently appointed Paul ... The Pennsylvania State University's School of Hospitality Management recently appointed Paul Manley, Cendant Hotel Group director of loyalty marketing, to its Technology Advisory Board.
Steelwedge Software Founder and Senior Vice President, Services, Glen Margolis will present an overview of the latest technology for sales and operations planning (S&OP) at the SMEAL Business School, Center for Supply Chain Research, Penn State University, on February 22-23 (http://www.smeal.psu.edu).
This paper studies monopolistic pricing, with a capacity constraint, of a good that loses its value T periods after it is put on sale for the first time. Buyers only obtain utility just before the good loses its value. Examples of such goods include airline tickets and hotel rooms. This...
Conflict arises from a clash of divergent perspectives and ideas on a particular issue. Several methodologies are available for amicable resolution of conflicts. The same help to minimize the escalation of conflict and, thereby, reduce litigation costs. One of the methodologies of conflict resolution is to let community play a...
According to the DoD., Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa., was awarded on July 15, 2004, a $4,715,000 increment as part of a $13,775,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for research and development for attaining affordable night vision According to the DoD., Pennsylvania State University, University Park,...
In order to be ethical, leaders must first be able to analyze their actions and understand how these actions will affect others both positively and negatively. This quality is known as moral sensitivity and is the first component in Rest and his colleague's model. Then, leaders make a moral judgment,...
In last few years, China's economy has started to develop information and communications industries that are broadly defined as components of the New Economy. Acknowledging that the IT revolution presents China a good opportunity to propel itself into the New Economy, the Chinese government has implemented a series of proactive...
Goat is the most highly consumed meat in the world; and more goat's milk is consumed worldwide than cow's milk. Meat goat production, like any other animal production enterprise, requires that good husbandry practices be followed in the areas of sanitation, health, feed, water, and shelter. This document focuses on...
A $1 million gift has endowed a center devoted to the field of service enterprise engineering. The donation was made by Harold and Inge Marcus of Olympia, Wash. Harold Marcus is a 1949 industrial engineering graduate of Pennsylvania State University. A $1 million gift has endowed...