Inventory Literature Reviews Samples For Students

Literature Review:

Reverse Logistics has been gaining importance of all sorts of businesses all across the globe. Tremendous research activities are coming up daily, suggesting new frameworks and models suitable for each business type and situation. Warehousing and Reverse Logistics are important to each other as they are in the direct relationship. The major issues in this regard are the lesser dedicated space for the returned items, too much paper work involved in getting the items back to the warehouse and from the warehouse to the production units, too much extensive process for tracking the reasons of return to the warehouse, ...

Exploration Of The Attitudes Of The Pharmacists Towards The Implementation Of A Systematic Inventory Management Method At The TRHA (Hospital Storeroom )
Inventory management is a key aspect of the pharmaceutical supply system. The system in many cases ought to be simplistic. To ensure the viability of the pharmaceutical supply system lies in a healthy and efficient inventory management system. Although inventory management may sound easy, it requires to be done using accurate stock records and performance monitoring so as to reduce the cases of wastage and shortages and also ensure efficient patient care (Harding & Taylor, 2002). Upon the allocation ...

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1.0 Literature Review
1.1 Introduction
Currently, there is a lot of dynamism in the market and businesses need to continually adjust their operations to remain relevant and extend into new markets. Globalization has come with stiff competition, which requires that organizations engage a lot of creativity and flexibility in adapting to the changes in the market arena. Among the most critical areas to observe, outbound logistics and customer service stand central and need to be adequately considered by any all firms aiming at better performance. This paper gives more insights on these critical issues and applies them in the ...

INFORMATION SHARING AND DECISION MAKING IN HUMANITARIAN NGOS SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Information Sharing and Decision Making in Humanitarian NGOs Supply Chain Management
4. Information Sharing
4.1. Concept and importance
Information sharing is one main driver in supply chain management, representing the basis of the entire supply chain management, as it provides the required data for the supply chain management (SCM) to make decisions (Ma, 2011). In a supply chain management, information sharing represents a form of coordination, connecting the members of the supply chain through various available technologies (Choi, 2010). Ma (2011, p. 876) defines information sharing in supply chain as an activity that facilitates the communication among partners ...

Abstract

Cloud computing is one the most accepted and emerging trends and technology across the industry. Cloud computing acceptance and popularity remains in its simplicity of use, ease of access and robust infrastructure. Cloud computing finds application across the industry at all the stages of application development, support and data warehouse management. Cloud computing reduces the cost of operation and provides enhanced flexibility. Cloud computing is a technology that has a promising future. Virtualization which is a base underlying technology that facilitates cloud computing provides numerous benefits for an organization. Virtualization is replacing the hardware inventory for organizations with smart ...

Supply chain management is a term that is used in order to describe the activities associated with logistics, control and planning of the materials and it is also used to describe the flow of the information internally as well as externally between the organizations (Hang and Chau, 2007). It is also used in order to explain the strategic and the organizational issues that are internal to an organization (Sabri, 2015).

It also indicates interconnection of the organizations that are associated with each other via downstream as well as upstream associations between the procedures and processes that help in the ...

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to provide a basic overview of lean supply chain methodology. This will also provide how the concept was evolved over the years. The paper will provide a brief overview of the basic pillars of lean supply chain and then look at the tools used to implement and monitor lean supply chain methodology. This paper also will discuss the limitations of the current lean supply chains methodology. It will then compare lean supply chain concepts with agile supply chains and green supply chains to bring out the similarities and differences. Finally the paper will provide some ...

The operators in the food industry can improve on the profitability with efficient purchasing. The sign of effective and efficient purchasing by the food service industry can be measured by the turnover rate of inventory (Sanders et al. 2008). The relevant equations for measuring effective purchasing are as follows
average value of inventory=opening value of inventory+closing value ofinventory2
turnover=cost of the goods soldaverage value of inventory
For efficient control in the cost of in the food service industry, the storage facilities must be in good condition; the foods must be well arranged and properly located. For example, the ...

Validation Literature on

Literature on the Effect Constructs of
Grandiose Narcissism (GN)
Validation Literature on
Literature on the Effect Constructs of
Grandiose Narcissism (GN)

Introduction

The purpose of the proposed research is to study GN among presidents of public Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). A review of theoretical, research, and analysis of the validation of literature on the effect constructs on GN provides a variety of insights into this psychological condition affecting humans shows taxonomic and phenotypic inconsistencies as are discussed in the following. Analysis of literature on a specific research design in the past five years on this topic ...

Counter Measures to the Bullwhip Effect

Introduction
The bullwhip effect is the unexpected distortion of the supply chain. It refers to the “variability of order rates” (Disney and Lambrecht, 2008, p. 3). This supply chain hazard has its roots in Jay Forrester’s Industrial Dynamics Theory of the late 1950s (Goldsby and Martichenko, 2005). Forrester was the first person to introduce the concept and simulate a model in 1961. There are many solutions to counter the bullwhip effect.
The reason why there are many solutions to the bullwhip effect is because it is triggered by multiple causes. For instance, the most common cause is overreacting ...

Business Process Management

Abstract
The literature review on the topic of enterprise resource planning (ERP) of business process management (BPM) as part of information systems (IS) strategies in South African businesses covers both scholarly and professional management discussions about outsource administration of IT systems operations. The rise of outsource IT in the business sector is predicted to realign business and trade into the future. The trend in emergent market outsource IS data management in and by South African firms is fast becoming a lead topic in a nation formerly characterised as an industrial economy with developing country challenges.
The enactment of South ...

Article Abstracts

Boysen, G.A. & VanBergen, A.

Abstract

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) has long been surrounded by controversy due to disagreement about its etiology and the validity of its associated phenomena. Researchers have conducted studies comparing people diagnosed with DID and people simulating DID in order to better understand the disorder. The current research presents a systematic review of this DID simulation research. The literature consists of 20 studies and contains several replicated findings. Replicated differences between the groups include symptom presentation, identity presentation, and cognitive processing deficits. Replicated similarities between the groups include interidentity transfer of information as shown by measures of ...

Introduction

The production line refers to a set of sequential operations launched in a factory whereby the raw materials are passed via the refining process to produce tissue that is suitable to be used in institutions, households, and industries. The article by Ishakawa and Hirasawa (2012) describes how printing and aqueous lotion chemicals can be applied to improve the quality of tissue papers. Furthermore, the article by Abdulmalek and Rajgopal (2007) look deep on the benefits accrued from lean manufacturing and how they can benefit manufacturing companies. The paper will comprehensively address the production line, its ways, and advantages as ...

Literature Review

Research Questions
Discuss the effectiveness of narcissistic leaderships? Can it deliver positive results to the business in long term?
Discuss the paradox of dark side of leadership? What is the best way to analyze the dark side of leadership?
Charismatic leadership is well-known and propagated by several authors as an effective means for motivating employees and delivering results. In their article, Shamir and Howell have provided evidence to the fact that charismatic leadership emerges as an effective tool in several situations and organizations having an unstable business environment does not allow charismatic leaders to prosper (1999 p. 278). Kodish ( ...

Information Technology Management

Management Concepts and Models
IT portfolio management
IT portfolio management is the efficient management application to deal with the investments, activities and projects of the department of information technology (IT) in the enterprise. It is the application of all the IT resources including planned and current to provide a framework for the planning, analysis and execution of portfolio of IT in the organization (Casco-Arias et al 2012).

Business/IT alignment

Business-IT alignment is a vibrant condition in which the ability of the organization begins to use information technology (IT) for achieving the objectives and purposes of the business. It is the capability ...

Distribution of Power in B2B Networks

Textile retailers have known amazing growth throughout the world doe to their ability to respond and create customer needs. Taking information from various sources, such as consumer behavior, market trends, economic and socio-political or technological and environmental influence upon business, retailers such as Zara and H&M have managed to develop into leading players of the textile industry. Nowadays information means power and it can be used in multiple ways for reaching objectives, in the business environment. In the fashion industry information is the key, along with other components, for negotiating power between retailers and manufacturers. Because they managed operations ...

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Introduction to Burnout

Burnout refers to the condition of exhaustion of physical or emotional strength, or loss of motivation to work. Usually, burnout is caused by prolonged stress or frustration affecting the involvement of employees for meaningful impact on work. Burnout has also been described as extreme fatigue, inefficacy, and loss of idealism and passion for the job. Burnout syndrome can be illustrated by the “feelings of emotional exhaustion, negative attitudes and emotions towards those who are beneficiaries of the service (depersonalization), and sentiments related to professional failure and low accomplishment (lack of personal accomplishment)” (Schaufeli, & Maslach, 1993). Any person with ...

Captive Breeding of Marine Mammals: Challenges and Mitigating Measures

Introduction
The growing demand to sustain the current lifestyle of the human population puts an added strain to the natural resources of the world. The increase in the exploitation of tropical forests and marine communities leads to a series of habitat destruction thereby leaving thousands of species of both terrestrial and marine animal homeless (Soule et al., 1986). Since 1986, there are already about nineteen percent and nine percent of the world’s mammals and birds respectively that are bread by zoos as per the International Zoo Yearbook Census. Based on the International Species Inventory System, there are about ...

Literature Review

Technology

Introduction

Effat University located in Jeddah in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is in need of a Health Clinic Web Page. The correct management application will enhance the usefulness of the health clinic for the students as well as its staff. The use of digital technology in a health clinic has particular characteristics that may not be as important in other environments. The purpose for this web development is to add a management application for one employee and a nurse and it is a management application. Therefore a web based application will be developed using Oracle. The purpose of this literature review is to ...

There has been a lot of research done on the topic of studying abroad, particularly for students who are learning cross-cultural disciplines like language, politics, business, and so on and so forth. Conventional wisdom shows that there are a variety of benefits to studying abroad. However, researchers have examined the different elements of study abroad programs to best weigh them. Examining how students behave in foreign environments is important to maximizing the positive impacts of any study abroad program.
In her paper Multicultural Students in Study Abroad: Their Interests, Their Issues, and Their Constraints, Brux discusses the potential benefits to ...