- The following articles contain the tag:
- logistics & information systems
29 results on Discovery
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Green labels can steer shoppers toward more sustainable delivery optionsSteering customer behaviour can help to reduce the vehicles’ miles and associated emissions
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Professor's Opinion - Suez Canal blockageRob Zuidwijk on global supply chains
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Blog: Vaccination logistics can reduce waste and delaysThe logistics of the vaccination programme will be a huge undertaking. But there’s already a lot of expertise in the logistics community
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A drive for safe and productive trucking in IndiaResearch has uncovered how truck drivers – and truck fleet managers – can reduce the terrible toll of driving on lives and on business.
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Ending up with misaligned management control systemsFor supply chain partners to realise existing potentials, effective controls are necessary to serve as the underlying basis of relationship management. Why do misaligned control structures happen?
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Do we really understand the numbers we receive?People have less understanding of numbers than companies often think. It would be easier to understand the amount of sugar in a product in discretizing units, like cubes, than in grams.
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Improving the supply chain in humanitarian logisticsHow RSM researchers help Doctors Without Borders to organise their humanitarian aid logistics.
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How high-performing companies design their digital workplacesDigital workplaces are more successful when managers trust employees and dare to learn from their mistakes.
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What drives firms to report transparently?Transparency in financial reporting – PhD candidate Henry van Beusichem investigated what makes a difference.
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Understanding what drives people improves safety and productivity in logisticsSafer and more productive workplaces - what motivates logistics managers and employees? New PhD research from Jelle de Vries
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From viral video to pandemic: how information spreads through networksPhD researcher WouterVermeer explains how knowledge spreading through businesses can be better managed.
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The value of big data to big portsThe Port of Rotterdam is sitting on a goldmine of data. But is this gold being effectively mined?
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Positives and negatives of electricity generation systemsThe supply of electricity is shifting to sustainable and decentralised production from renewable sources; it’s a big change from the 20th century model of central large-scale generation.
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Why business credit information sharing leads to better lending decisionsBad loans are made in boom times. Good loans are made in recessionary times. Lenders such as suppliers who provide trade credit or banks would be well advised to remember this.