This article explores the issue of lead-time in response-based supply chains. From a tactical viewpoint of response-based supply chains, the processing time for each stage is assumed to be a random variable since different practices exist in the selection pool of each stage under a specific...

One of the major purposes of implementing vocational education is to offer trained manpower to enterprises that meet the immense challenges of the global economic competition and unprecedented technological changes. Selecting an adequate enterprise, from the school's viewpoint, is a critical...

Analysis of manpower demand is important not only at corporate level for corporate planning in human resource, but also at industry level for policy making in higher education. In this paper a regression model is built to estimate the industrial management (IM) manpower demanded by the...