Radio frequency identification (RFId) technology promises to offer both a more efficient and accurate tracking and tracing of goods, as well as a reduction in thefts and counterfeiting in the pharmaceutical supply chain. Attracted by this opportunity, numerous companies that are carrying out...

Multi-business corporations are used to face complex decision-making problems. Among these, one of the most complex one is that of managing their Sales Force so as to balance and exploit their multi-business portfolio. The case outlined in this paper explores the cross-selling approach to sales...

The objective of this paper is to bring a new element to the academic (and industrial) debate concerning the optimum level of variety in component design in mass production companies. Many authors have explored the trade-off between functional and variety costs, and this could be considered as a...

Dimensional Analysis (DA) is a well-known methodology in physics, chemistry and other traditional engineering areas. In its simplest form, DA is used to check the meaningfulness of a set of equations (dimensional homogeneity). In the last century, the dimensional theory has been profoundly...