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Strategic benefits by co-locating development and manufacturing: the case of...

Earlier this week I had the pleasure, together with Dr Fabian Sting of RSM Erasmus University, to present the Netherlands Industrial Excellence Award 2015 to Philips Drachten. When I was a student in...

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Stel het opleiden van mensen centraal, niet het behalen van vakken

Eerder vandaag stelden Wirken, Duisenberg Mohandis en Van den Boom in De Volkskrant dat studenten collegegeld per vak zouden moeten kunnen betalen als ze dat willen. Hun idee en het experiment daarmee...

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Sustainable Supply Chains: Our new book has just been published

As firms become progressively more tightly coupled in global supply chains, rather than being large vertically integrated monoliths, risks and opportunities associated with activities upstream or...

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Nanostores – They are here to stay

While the research that Dr Christopher Mejia and I are conducting has not yet fully concluded, we believe that the family-owned and operated nanostores that are so common across most of the developing...

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Alternative for demurrage and detention rates in inland container transport...

Demurrage and detention costs are charged by ocean carriers to ensure that consignees send back their containers as soon as possible. However, sending back an emptied container at an import destination...

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A simple balanced trade-off suffices to secure supply from your manufacturing...

Contract manufacturing is now common in many industries. While this has been common in the electronics industry for a few decades now, we also see many instances of contract manufacturing in other...

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Nanostores in megacities: the first model-based PhD thesis that helps us...

On September 12, my student Jiwen Ge will defend his PhD Thesis “Traditional retail distribution in megacities”. As far as I know, this is the first set of analytical models that helps us better...

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Serve nanostores directly or make use of wholesalers?

A recent study, based on the data from the Swedish alcoholic beverages industry, shows that even in a very developed market like Sweden, gaining access to smaller retail formats increases sales at a...

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Serving nanostores by van-sales or pre-sales?

Guest blog by Professor Youssef Boulaksil (United Arab Emirates University) Many large Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) manufacturers and distributors, such as Unilever, P&G, Nestlé, and Danone,...

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Reaching 50 Million Nanostores: new book for any manager in CPG or retail

Reaching 50 Million Nanostores: Retail Distribution in Emerging Megacities has been published. In more than 400 well-accessible pages, Jan C. Fransoo (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands),...

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