Features of contemporary management systems are analyzed. The special attention is paid to the risks connected with functioning and research of management systems. Measures to increase the efficiency of contemporary management systems research are proposed

The European steel industry is exposed to a very competitive market. Manufacturing high quality flat steel products demands highly skilled personnel, excellent plant technology, suitable plant maintenance, good quality of raw material, suitable automation systems, proper set points for control...

Supply Chain Security Logistics Security Intermodal Transportation Decision Support Goal Programming. - Global supply chains have been challenged by the increased awareness of security risks, including those of terrorism, theft, and damage, and the potential in these risks for significant...

Das Supply Chain Management (SCM) muss heutzutage stark variierenden Kundenanforderungen innerhalb eines Marktes gerecht werden. Darüber hinaus sind Unternehmen meist teil mehrerer Supply Chains (SC), anstatt in nur einer SC einen Beitrag zu leisten. Diese Faktoren führen zu der...

Production planning and control (PPC) systems have to deal with rising complexity and dynamics. The complexity of planning tasks is due to some existing multiple variables and dynamic factors derived from uncertainties surrounding the PPC. Although literatures on exact scheduling algorithms,...

This article discusses how the restructuring linked with broadly defined informatisation program can be used to gain a strategic competitive advantage in business. This problem is illustrated with an example representing the introduction of information technologies in the Municipal Transport...