Supply chain performance improvement initiatives strive to match supply and demand, thereby driving down costs simultaneously with improving customer satisfaction. However such initiatives require uncertainty within the supply chain to be reduced as much as feasible so as to facilitate a more...

Purpose: Disposal of infectious waste remains one of the most serious problems in the social and environmental domains of almost every nation. Selection of new suitable locations and finding the optimal set of transport routes to transport infectious waste, namely location routing problem for...

Managing risks is of paramount importance for enabling a widespread adoption of cloud computing. Users need to understand the risks associated with the process of migrating applications and data, so that appropriate mechanisms can be taken into consideration. However, risk management in cloud...

5G needs to be viewed as a request for network upgrade driven by demands for innovative services, not only by demands for enhanced mobile networks per se. The R&D plan of the Korean government has been discordant with the vision of 5G, maintaining the tradition of sector- or issue-based R&D...

Improvement of medical quality has become a trend in hospital development. In recent years, environmental protection has become a rising issue in Taiwan, and people have begun to discuss the biomedical waste that comes from hospitals. According to an estimate in "To Err is Human," published by...

Die Transformation des Controllings hin zu einer Business Partner Organisation erfreut sich wachsender Beliebtheit. In der Literatur erscheinen immer häufiger Publikationen, die den Wandel von einem klassischen Finanzleiter zu einem Business Partner beschreiben. Auch Berater propagieren die...