The Impact of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse and its Impact on the US Supply Chain
Case study - 2 pages - Purchasing & supply chain
A major trade route will be disrupted, and supply networks that are already under strain will become even more tangled due to the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore, which shut off access to a large portion of the city's port. The Port of Baltimore, which ranks 17th in the US in...
Supervised Learning Classification Checkpoint
Tutorials/exercises - 11 pages - Computer science
In this checkpoint, we are going to work on the Titanic data set to predict if a passenger will survive or not using several classification algorithms of supervised learning. We will start by logistic regression, knn, then decision tree and we finalize by random forest.
Air transportation and climate change
Essay - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
A sophisticated transport system has evolved in Europe to move people and frets. The air transport industry is growing at rate above the average growth of the economy of the EU: multiplication of short distance flies, the arrival of the “low cost” market, and increasing of aerial fret...
Environmental issues in the air transport industry
Case study - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
The air transport industry uses air craft to transport people, cargo, and mail. Civil aviation includes two major categories; first one is the scheduled air transport, which includes passenger and cargo flights operating on regularly-scheduled routes; and general aviation, including all other...
Development of Complex Sales: Which Strategy Should Airport Systems Integrators Follow to Develop Their Sales in Saudi Arabia?
Thesis - 79 pages - Business strategy
This subject comes from Automatique & Industrie Company, which is airport sytems integrator for ground, terminal and control tours. The airport market involves exportation of activities for systems integrators companies. The MENA region is full of potential markets. Overall, Saudi Arabia Kingdom,...
Global Logistics: Ikea's global supply chain model
Essay - 17 pages - Logistics
The decisions regarding the supply chain design highly depends of the kind of products or services a company is dealing with. Issues such as the sourcing location or the distribution method will be affected by a whole range of requirements given by the nature of the products. In the first part...
Logistics and Supply Chain Practices
Case study - 8 pages - Computer science
Lean thinking is essential to improve supply chain management. This is because lean thinking ensures things are done just as they should. As an example, Toyota has demonstrated superior results with regard to quality, cost and lead-time compared to most (if not all) of its competitors. This...
Supply Chain and Logistics Managements' evolution
Essay - 4 pages - Management
Globally, supply chain management (SCM) is the whole set of tools and methods that are used by managers in order to improve the supply chain of a company. Indeed, supply chain management is regarded as a process in which planning, implementing and controlling, allow the companies to satisfy the...
Presentation of air transport
Market study - 4 pages - Services marketing
The airline industry is a very important segment of the transport sector. This commercial activity allows passengers to carry a few hours and on routes that are negotiated. It began to be used by the rich businessmen, politicians and by individuals. Air transport is used in other important...
Final Communications Audit Report for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Case study - 7 pages - Communication
The Department of Homeland Security was created after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, with the primary aim of securing the U.S. from terrorism and other threats to national security. DHS is a dynamic agency that has expanded to include a variety of tasks, such as border security,...
Strategic Analysis - Uber
Case study - 23 pages - Services marketing
Uber Technologies Inc. is a global transportation technology company operating in more than 760 cities around the world, and in more than 70 countries. The American giant generated net revenues of $6.5 billion (excluding China) in 2016, simply from its transport business. Uber, where the...
Market Study - Sustainable tourism
Market study - 8 pages - Tourism marketing
The tourist is, according to UNWTO, a traveller who travels away from his usual place of residence for at least one night and a year at most. The tourism market has a significant weight in the world economy, and its influence is not about to end, as it is constantly growing. France is the number...
Public transportation in the Arab World
Thesis - 7 pages - Journalism
The creation and refinement of public transportation in the Arab World are issues that are infrequently brought to the public eye. However, these issues have underlying importance in the institutions of politics and economics in the Arab World. Organizations, such as The World Bank and the...
Constructive and equivalent variable cost heuristics to the multi-period fixed charge transportation problem
Thesis - 7 pages - Computer science
This paper addresses a multi-period fixed charge transportation problem (MPFCTP), which includes transportation, inventories and backlog. The transportation costs are represented in the form of a nonlinear function. The objective is to determine the size of the shipments in...
Slurry transport
Thesis - 8 pages - Physics
In Slurry Transport, the solids are first ground to fine grain size and made into slurry with a liquid medium. The slurry is then pumped through the pipes to a desired destination. Even though the concept of slurry pipelining was known at the turn of the century, it was only in 1957 that it...
DELL: Logistics research report
Case study - 21 pages - Services marketing
Dell has revolutionized the industry in the last 20 years, to make computing accessible to customers around the globe, including businesses, institutional organizations and individual consumers. Because of Dell's direct model, and the industry's response to it, information technology is...
Traditional and low cost airlines - marketing strategies
Case study - 11 pages - Tourism marketing
The airline industry has undergone profound changes in the space of a few years. First of all, because of increased digitisation, but also because of other so-called low-cost companies which have emerged and which have disrupted the traditional aviation pattern. This has been a great thing for...
SWOT Analysis - Virgin
Case study - 5 pages - International marketing
The Virgin Group is a world-class British group owned by billionaire Richard Branson and active in countless areas such as transport, telephony, satellites, travel, healthcare and more. Virgin was created by Branson and his associates in the 1970s and initially focused on mail-order record...
The application of an EIB to address environmental challenges in urban Belgium
Thesis - 96 pages - Finance
Cities face increasing environmental challenges including, but not limited to; air pollution, CO2 emissions, energy, transport and waste management. The success of Social Impact Bonds (SIB) by solving social issues in a public-private partnership has been the driver for the development of the...
Logistics, research report: luggage flow issues in airports
Essay - 12 pages - Logistics
An airport terminal building provides all major passenger services, such as ticket sales, passenger check-in, baggage handling, and security. Inside the terminal, airline employees make flight reservations for travelers, issue seat assignments and coordinate aircraft boarding. All these services...
Problem of Practice Gap and Root Cause Analysis - Feeding America
Case study - 7 pages - Management
As the Financial Director at Feeding America, my role is multifaceted and critical to the organization's success in addressing hunger and food insecurity. I oversee all financial aspects of the organization, including budgeting, financial planning, accounting, and reporting. Additionally, I...
Logistics Management- Tesco's Supply Chain
Case study - 6 pages - Logistics
Tesco is one of the most important grocery and general merchandising retail chains in the world, and the largest British retailer. It was founded in 1919 by Jack Cohen in East London. The company had a turnover of 59.4 billion for 2009. During the three last decades, the group has increased its...
Development and performance of the purchasing function within the pharmaceutical industry
Dissertation - 34 pages - Purchasing & supply chain
Since its introduction, the Purchasing function faced major changes and is taking on a more strategic role in many organisations. It was also shown that strategic purchasing leads to positive savings performance. Showing that the purchasing function is at an equal level of importance with other...
PESTEL Analysis - Uber
Case study - 6 pages - Services marketing
- A pioneer in the sharing economy, the Uber brand has brought about several changes in the service industries - The term "Uberisation" was formed - Uber connects a vehicle driver with a passenger wishing to make a journey - The drive takes a percentage of the journey that is usually between 5...
Statistics for Management - Stata Commands
Course material - 3 pages - Management
version 14: specify Stata version clear all: clear working directory cd "directory path": change working directory capture log close: close log file if one is already open log using filename, replace: open a new log file log off: temporarily stop storing log on: start again log close: close the...
Market analysis of KidZania's park
Case study - 7 pages - Business strategy
The Mexican park KidZania created by Xavier López Ancona has expended successfully in numerous countries.. This innovative and educational entertainment venue offers children a unique blend of experiential learning and imaginative play within a simulated city environment. KidZania's growth on...
Negotiation exercise to prepare an interview with the HRD - 10 preparation points template
Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - Business strategy
We will first, define, the relationship table presented in this negotiation round. Fabiessi appears as a well established and successful medium-sized Italian manufacturing company specialized in high-end kitchen equipment, and recently listed on the stock market for ten years, thanks to its...
Technical and Architectural Study - The Market Hall in Rotterdam, a Hybrid Market - The Mixing of Functions at a Building Scale
Case study - 6 pages - Architecture
After five years of work, the city of Rotterdam inaugurated in October 2014, the first covered market of the Netherlands which cost 175 million euros. Located in the city centre and close to Blaak Railway Station, the Market Hall is part of the renovation project of this historic district. Our...
The Multiple Terms in Finance, Business, and Economy
Worksheets - 3 pages - Economy general
This document is a vocabulary worksheet on the different terms used in finance, business, and economy.
Analysis of the operations and supply chain management of Nestlé Company
Case study - 2 pages - Logistics
The Nestlé report for the first half of 2017 tells us that the net profit increased by 19% to 4.9 billion CHF. In the next chapters, we will try to analyze the role of the supply chain strategy in this success. First, we will define supply chain management, and then we will examine the strategy...
