...TOOL KIT Despite ever more demanding retailers and rampant product proliferation, manufacturers have stayed with dangerously indiscriminate production schedules and sourcing strategies. A new approach leaves less money on the table. INVENTORY IN A W O R L D OF LEAN I RETAILING by Frederick H. Abernathy, JohnT Dunlop, Janice H. Hammond, and David Weil |ANUFACTURERS OF CONSUMER GOODS are in the hot seat these days. 1 n the past, retailers would place large orders at the beginning of each selling season, and factories would simply produce to order. But the big chain stores are increasingly adopting lean retailing practices, so they're insisting that manufacturers fill orders to replenish retailers'stock on an ongoing basis. Because factories usually can't produce goods fast enough to meet these orders, manufacturers often hold large inventories for indefinite periods. HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW November-December 2000 And the cost of holding these inventories is only growing. Consumers are demanding greater variety in products, and their preferences are getting harder to predict. As products proliferate and become more susceptible to changing whims,the risk grows that a given product line will have disappointing sales and have to be discounted. But if a manufacturer decides to go lean on inventories, it runs the risk of stockouts, lost sales, and endangered relationships with the chains. TOOL KIT • Control Your Inventory in...
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...Journal of Financial Reporting and Accounting Insurance vs Takaful: identical sides of a coin? Hairul Suhaimi Nahar Downloaded by ZHONGNAN UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND LAW At 10:31 08 December 2015 (PT) Article information: To cite this document: Hairul Suhaimi Nahar , (2015),"Insurance vs Takaful: identical sides of a coin?", Journal of Financial Reporting and Accounting, Vol. 13 Iss 2 pp. 247 - 266 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JFRA-02-2015-0029 Downloaded on: 08 December 2015, At: 10:31 (PT) References: this document contains references to 66 other documents. To copy this document: permissions@emeraldinsight.com The fulltext of this document has been downloaded 248 times since 2015* Users who downloaded this article also downloaded: Mohamed Sherif, Nor Azlina Shaairi, (2013),"Determinants of demand on family Takaful in Malaysia", Journal of Islamic Accounting and Business Research, Vol. 4 Iss 1 pp. 26-50 http:// dx.doi.org/10.1108/17590811311314276 Khalid Al-Amri, (2015),"Takaful insurance efficiency in the GCC countries", Humanomics, Vol. 31 Iss 3 pp. 344-353 http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/H-05-2014-0039 Nor Aziah Abu Kasim, (2012),"Disclosure of Shariah compliance by Malaysian takaful companies", Journal of Islamic Accounting and Business Research, Vol. 3 Iss 1 pp. 20-38 http:// dx.doi.org/10.1108/17590811211216041 Access to this document was granted through an Emerald subscription provided by emeraldsrm:509129 [] For...
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...At ADSD, the database administrator (DBA) is responsible for the performance, integrity and security of the container databases including the root, the PDB seed and the user-developed pluggable databases. The DBAs should also be intrinsically involved in the planning, development, testing and deployment of the database consolidation initiative. 1.4.2.6.1 Responsibilities • Installation, configuration, upgrades, and consolidation: Although system administrators are typically responsible for the hardware and operating system on a given server, installation and configuration of the database software is typically done by the DBA. The DBA should possess knowledge of the hardware prerequisites and requirements for a high-performing database server. The DBA installs the database software and configures it for the purpose it is intended for use. As new releases and patches are developed, the DBA decides on the appropriate patches, tests them on a test server that replicates the production server and...
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