outlets in market areas. This particular mode of transportation is subject to the highest levels of economies of scale. The economies of scale that it enjoys are: Economies of distance Pienaar‚ W J and Vogt J J (2012:356) Chapter 16 in Business Logistics Management: A value chain perspective. 4th (eds). “Economies of distance (also known as long haul economies) are attainted when the total transport cost per ton-kilometre decreases as the trip distance increases. Economies of distance arise when
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HOME DEPOT Financial Analysis The Home Depot at the end of 2000 stands on rock solid financial footing as the World’s largest home improvement Retailer. As they continue to grow in size‚ so has their outcome of success. Home Depot’s net revenues have grown 208% between FY 1995 and FY 2000. Home Depot’s growth in net earnings over the same period has been 284%. The revenue that the firm is retaining as profits is outweighing the total amount being brought into the company. In 1998‚ Home Depot was
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the logistic function. 2. Discuss how the logistic function contribute or can contribute to achieve the corporate objectives. 3. What are the benefit and challenges of outsourcing the logistic function to 3PL 0r 4PL service providers. 1.0. Introduction Today’s business is more global than ever before. Markets are everywhere and new ones are sprouting up every day. Suppliers shift‚ supply chains adapt. Customers are more discerning and demanding. And logistics has
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e e cummings e e cummings (no‚ this is not a typographical error‚ take note to the way he writes his name) was an unusual‚ yet highly acclaimed writer of the 20th century. His style of writing was much different than that of any other contemporary or even 18th and 19th century writers. Although difficult to understand at times‚ e e cummings is a very profound and inventive writer. e e cummings was born Edward Estlin Cummings on October 14‚ 1894 in Cambridge Massachusetts. His parents were
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++ I&S CHALLENGES IN E-GOVERNMENT AND SECURITY OF INFORMATION Min-Shiang HWANG‚ Chun-Ta LI‚ Jau-Ji SHEN‚ and Yen-Ping CHU Abstract: Due to the advances made in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)‚ e-Government users can easily use the available services from places and at time that are convenient to them through WWW browsers. To easily and securely provide the required services through Information Technology (IT) has been an important issue in e-Government. In this article
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Introduction Electronic Commerce or E-commerce is growing extensively on Internet. Although the term of "E-commerce" might sound bizarre‚ in reality it has been familiar activity: buy books online. Whereas some of people take these simple activities every day‚ most of them may not be familiar on how SMEs have applied E-commerce into their business strategies to guarantee their survival in new global marketplace [33]. There are comprehensive literatures in focussing on SMEs and E-commerce [39‚ 46‚ 47‚ 48‚
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E-business E-business (electronic business) is using technology to improve your business processes. This includes managing internal processes such as human resources‚ financial and administration systems‚ as well as external processes such as sales and marketing‚ supply of goods and services‚ and customer relationships. The way in which you manage your business relationships has not changed‚ but the way they are referred to when using e-business tools has. They are becoming more often known as:
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E-learning is currently huge buzzwords in education‚ as the tidal wave of the internet and the digital revolution‚ already firmly ensconced in our homes and businesses‚ marches voraciously on into our classrooms and universities. From class blogs and school e-twinning schemes to scholastic ‘apps’ and online courses‚ education is going electronic. Online learning is on the rise. According to a 2013 report by the Babson Survey Research Group‚ over 6.7 million postsecondary students were enrolled in
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What is E-Commerce? Electronic Commerce‚ commonly known as (electronic marketing) e-commerce or eCommerce‚ consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. Some common applications related to electronic commerce are the following: Email Enterprise content management Instant messaging Newsgroups Online shopping and order tracking Online banking Online office
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also referred to as the new economy‚ and also as the surge economy. The ”e” in E-commerce and E-business means “electronic”. Cyber market refers to all the e-stores or online markets found in the Internet. Product and services offered for sale in the k-economy usually find venues in the e-stores. Thus buyers engage in E-commerce and the manners and means of their transactions are embodied in the whole gamut of processes called E-Business. As of 1995‚ the Philippines had around 500 thousand internet
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