Economic Analysis Development and Provider Elective Decision Model on Auto-ID Technology Investment

In the last few years, the warehousing system use Auto Identification technology to manage the warehouse operation. Auto-ID is often used to obtain the information about amount, location, content, and condition of part or product. However, some industries still use manual warehouse management. Manual warehouse management systems usually cause some problem like inventory shrinkage and stock out. The investment and application of Auto-ID technology on the warehouse system can reduce the effect of the manual system. The use of Auto-ID technology in warehousing systems has a significant effect on the reduction of human error, the reduction of loss of goods, the accuracy of inventory stock, and can handle the product in large quantities, the speed of acceptance, and improve the delivery process. In this research, the cost and benefit analysis was carried out to assess the Auto-ID technology investments. The cost of inventory shrinkage reduction, labor and stock out, and the increase of productivity and maintenance on the spare parts warehouse management system used to analyse the cost benefit. To determine the expected NPV value in Auto-ID technology investments used Monte Carlo analysis. Furthermore, a company’s evaluation for selecting an Auto ID provider is a significant aspect. The evaluation of decision making for selecting Auto ID vendors is based on three criteria. This is referred to as many criteria decision making. Vendor performance, service after installation, and system attributes are the criteria employed in the decision-making model. Evaluation of Auto-ID vendor selection is done by using AHP. Based on the results of AHP analysis for the selection of Auto-ID suppliers, it was found that supplier PT C was the main priority (39.3%) for best suppliers, and the last priority was PT B (13.8%).

Changzhou Sinotype Technology Co., Ltd, Hague Service Convention and Judgment Enforcement in China

Changzhou Sinotype Technology Co, Ltd. v. Rockefeller Technology Investments (Asia) VII is a recent case decided by the Supreme Court of California on April 2,2020. The certiorari to the Supreme Court of the US was denied on 5 October 2020. It is a controversial case concerning the interpretation of the Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extra Judicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters of November 15, 1965 (the “Hague Service Convention”) for service of process in China. This article seeks to discuss this case.

Supplier's cooperation strategy with two competing manufacturers under wholesale price discount contract considering technology investment

Cooperation between upstream suppliers and downstream manufacturers in technology investment is a popular way to improve production technology for reducing suppliers' production costs of key components. Technology investments undertaken by manufacturers and wholesale price discount contract provided by suppliers have an important impact on their cooperation. This paper explores whether a supplier should cooperate with two downstream competing manufacturers to accept their technology investments to reduce the supplier's production cost of a key component. Specifically, we consider the following three cooperation strategies: the supplier does not accept manufacturers' technology investments, only accepts one manufacturer's technology investment and accepts both manufacturers' technology investments. Our results demonstrate that the wholesale price discount contract and the technology investment can enhance the profits of the supplier and two manufacturers when the discount degree is low. Further, we conclude that when the discount degree is relatively low or when the discount degree and the technology investment efficiency are relatively high, the supplier's optimal cooperation strategy with two manufacturers is to accept both manufacturers' technology investments for reducing the supplier's production cost of the key component and both manufacturers are also willing to invest simultaneously. At last, we extend the model to the asymmetric potential market size and show that our theoretical results are robust.

The Detroit of Paper

This chapter covers stories of how workers accommodated and rebelled against their employers, showing how the broader forces of capitalism were at work in changing the character of Maine's companies. It presents an understanding of the nature and ultimate fate of one of U.S. capitalism's lesser-chronicled industries, paper. It also examines profound changes in corporate governance in terms of the institutional forms of ownership and management. The chapter uses Maine companies as examples of the managerial era of corporate governance, where company leaders shared profits with stakeholder constituencies, their workforces, and paper mill communities. It refers to paper mill managers who directed resources into capital and technology investments to sustain the competitive strength of their companies over the longer term.

Internet Adoption by SMEs

Information technology resources are of great importance in making SMEs more effective and efficient. In this sense, SMEs should provide adequate IT training, design their processes according to IT, encourage their employees, search new technologies, compare themselves with their competitors in terms of technology usage, and should continuously plan their technology investments. When investing in new technologies, SMEs should pay attention to adaptability, flexibility, harmonization of IT, and strategies. Therefore, in this chapter, the usage level of IT (hardware, software, internet, communication tools, etc.) in SMEs is emphasized.