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A large variety of organisational forms for collaboration have emerged during the last years as a result of the many socio-economic challenges faced by the society and enabled by the new ICT developments. As a result, in both developed and developing count ...
Industrial SME face new challenges in the global market as customers are requiring more complete solutions and reducing the number of their suppliers. Small SME can face these new challenges through cooperation within collaborative networks. Human aspects ...
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The enterprises active in the industrial subcontracting branch are in a very competitive market and support large pressures on their prices and delivery schedules. The arrival on the market of suppliers from low-cost countries like Eastern Europe or the Fa ...
This paper presents a hybrid push and pull production management approach called double speed single production line (DSSPL), developed for industries that produce a large variety of slightly different items subject to highly variable demand. Because of th ...
Nowadays, all product life cycle processes are investigated deeply in order to get an advantage over competitors. To support these processes, several software applications are available. However this wide range of heterogeneous applications leads to a larg ...
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Industrial SMEs face new challenges in global markets with customers requiring more complete solutions and ability to source their procurements anywhere in the world. If large companies have erough resources to gain from the new opportunities provided by t ...
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Emerging countaries like China offer low wages, large production capacities and a huge potential market. Large Western companies already took advantage of these opportunities by opening their own factories ill China to build up local supply chains and addr ...
In order to compete in the global market, companies have to restructure and make use of the infrastructures that allow them to become more agile. The, possibility of rapidly from virtual organizations to respond to a business or collaboration opportunity g ...
In both developed and developing countries, different initiatives are carried out to motivate organisations, mainly companies, to network in new collaborative environments for innovation. In many cases these different initiatives have been promoted by Univ ...
The enterprises active in the industrial subcontracting branch are in a very competitive market and support large pressures on their prices and delivery schedules. The arrival on the market of suppliers from low-cost countries like Eastern Europe or the Fa ...
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