Recent research indicates that teams are an essential element of most leading organizations (Mohrrnan, Cohen, & Mohrrnan, 1995). With the proliferation of team use comes the need for research to better define the design and management requirements unique to specific types of teams. This research...

The objective of the research was to establish a scientifically-based decision makingprocedure for determining the amount of cash to be held at a cash pointat any time without compromising the customer service level or incurring unduecost. To reach the objective, the problem was divided into the...

In this dissertation, I study two topics in the context of revenue management. The ¯rst topicinvolves building a mathematical model to analyze the competition between many retailerswho can change the price of their respective products in real time. I develop a game-theoreticmodel for the...

This dissertation is concerned with decision making in retail operations management. Specifically, we focus on pricing, variety, and inventory decisions, which are at the interface of the marketing and operations functions of a retail firm. We consider two problems that relate to two major types...

The full text of this thesis/dissertation is not available online. Please <a href="mailto:upetd@up.ac.za">contact us</a> if you need access Economic and productive utilization of natural resources are central to fundamental Industrial Engineering science, whereas capitalistic corporate strategy is aimed at growth of shareholders...

In this thesis the candidate explores the apparent gaps between strategy development and strategy implementation (the strategy alignment question), and between business end-user needs and the suppliers of information technology (IT) related products and services. With business intelligence (BI)...

The proposition of this dissertation is that superior capital budgeting solutions can be attained by not only analyzing projects individually but rather as part of a portfolio of projects that has the objective of maximizing the companys range of multiple objectives, not only the economic...

This research explores the effect of proposed management policies and related structures on the dynamics of value streams, particularly under demand instability. It relies on methods from the systems thinking and modeling literature and was designed to fulfill three main objectives. Objective...

Two important areas of decision-making in distribution system design involve facility loca-tion and inventory policy determination. Facility location analyzes questions such as howmany facilities should be opened, where they should be located, and which customers shouldbe assigned to which DCs....

Lean production prescribes training workers on all tasks within the cell to adapt to changes in customer demand. Multi-skilling of workers can be achieved by cross-training. Cross-training can be improved and reinforced by implementing job rotation. Lean production also prescribes using job...