raw material management

Description 'A business has two, and only two, basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs.' In the future, marketing will play an increasingly important role for companies in order to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage and...

Description Marketing is indeed an ancient art; it has been practiced in one form or the other, since the days of Adam and Eve. Today, it has become the most vital function in the world of business. Marketing is the business function that identifies unfulfilled needs and wants, define and...

Description A core belief in independent research, a long-term focus and diverse viewpoints through The Capital SystemSM define our investment process. As active managers, we believe that a comprehensive knowledge of companies and the global context in which they operate is the key to striving...

Description Capital Research and Management Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Capital Group Companies, Inc., is a Delaware corporation that traces its roots to 1931. The Capital Group Companies form one of the most experienced families of investment management firms in the world. Capital...

Description Capital Group is one of the world's largest investment management organizations with assets of around 1.4 trillion USD under management. It comprises a group of investment management companies, including Capital Research and Management, American Funds, Capital Bank and Trust, Capital...

Description This paper offers a critique of conventional approaches to so-called 'reputation management': the business function concerned with influencing, often through diverse communication practices, stakeholders' perceptions and estimation of an organisation's economic and social practices...

Description Representational models of communication behavior have been created in the United States to describe specific communication problems since the early 1940's when communication science was recognized as a separate social science. The three-dimensional model presented here describes the...

Description Progress in corporate sustainability is a venture that needs normative and strategic foundations and must be translated into practice through adequate concepts and instruments which guide managers and entrepreneurs. Additionally, it is also a question of changes of the way a company...

Description Business as the exchange of goods within trade situations can easily associated with basic features of traditional rhetoric. When we look at the exchange situation, we can state that the main objective as described above is the exchange of goods; in the traditional fields of study of...

Description Situations involving change usually are conflicted and confusing, requiring effective business leaders to employ rhetoric to make sense of their preferred course of action in a way that also makes sense "to the led." Internal and external stakeholders (e.g., customers, employees...

Description Internal communication in New Zealand is a relatively new field of research, particularly within the financial sector. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to investigate the internal communication of financial institutions. Three major themes were considered within the field...

Description Development experiences of the last decades have shown that human resources development is essential for food security and market integration. Achieving sustainable agricultural development is less based on material inputs (e.g., seeds and fertilizer) than on the people involved in...

Description Effective communication is essential to sound labour relations. Positive communication can be vital to the survival of aninstitution and reduces the possibility of conflict and labour unrest within the institution. In a country with a diversity of cultures, such as South Africa, the...

Description Completion of every construction project needs not only material labour, which is carried out on communication labour that produces construction commodity byboth skilled and unskilled labour (termed blue collar) on the site, andthe white collar workers in offices.The blue collar...

Description A two way information sharing process which involves one party sending a message that is easily understood by the receiving party. Effective communication by business managers facilitates information sharing between company employees and can substantially contribute to its commercial...

Description Strategic material is any sort of raw material that is important to an individual or organizations strategic plan and to supply chain management. Lack of supply of strategic materials may leave an organization or government vulnerable to disruption of the manufacturing of products...

Description Experience had shown that there is critical operational problem regarding raw material management in manufacturing organisations. This has prompted the desire to embark on a conceptual analysis that will examine the problem and strive to proffer useful suggestions. This paper intends...

Description Dow Chemical's production facilities rely on small-capacity containers that look alike from the outside but hold chemically different materials. If a container is mis-identified and the wrong raw material is added, a process upset occurs, negatively impacting the process, product...

Description Purchasing and inventory control are the key elements for efficient material management. Decisions on how much to buy and when to buy cannot be view in isolation; as is being done in many quarters. The provision of safety stock on the other hand is a kind of insurance and is largely...

Description The use of inventory management system in raw material management practice is imperative today; given the dynamic nature of operations in the frequently changing world of business. Study on Classifcation of Inventory Management System The use of inventory management system in raw...