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Economic Aspects of Supply Chains

American Global Logistics

Understanding the Economic Impact of Supply Chains In a report titled "Understanding the Economic Impact of North Carolina's Supply Chain: Conduit for Prosperity and Economic Development," researchers Dana Magliola, Lindsay Schilleman, and John Elliott shed light on the economic impact of supply chains in North Carolina.

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SCRC Innovation and Social Responsibility Supply Index: A Critical Input to “Drucker Management Top 250 List”

NC State SCRC

This required a comparison unigram and bigram feature settings, three text summarization techniques (full text, paragraph extraction and sentence extraction), and two different support vector machine approaches (one-against-one and one-against-all) on balanced and imbalanced datasets.

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Bio-based Products Future is Promising, but Hurdles Exist

Supply Chain View from the Field

We were surprised to find that many states with the highest Location Quotients were not states that are typically associated with the biofuels economy, including Oregon, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Maine, and others. So many stories of failure were due to the lack of this experience.

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“Culture eats strategy for breakfast”: The argument for creating an analytics culture

NC State SCRC

This study may be useful to all analytics-driven managers because studies comparing companies against each other often fail to find suitable metrics that provide an apple-to-apple comparison. True, 10-K ’s andother standard financial filings provide metrics that are often used when comparing performance between companies.

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Procurement Digitization: The Key To Price Transparency And Healthcare Transformation

ivalua

As a result, price comparison – a cornerstone of the market economy – is simply unavailable for those seeking healthcare. It is not just that prices vary significantly, but also the bundling of services included in specific items varies, which can make side by side price comparisons deceptive. Source: Health IT Outcomes.

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Procurement Digitization: The Key To Price Transparency And Healthcare Transformation

ivalua

As a result, price comparison – a cornerstone of the market economy – is simply unavailable for those seeking healthcare. It is not just that prices vary significantly, but also the bundling of services included in specific items varies, which can make side by side price comparisons deceptive.