Traditional outsourcing of logistics services has become an important tool for the Slovenian logistics and business market. It not only brings many benefits mainly in terms of cost reduction and ...focuses on core competencies, but also many shortcomings regarding business flexibility improvement and innovation development. As an increasingly competitive environment increases shipper's expectations, more innovative ways of outsourcing are needed, which would improve their flexibility and level of differentiation in order to capture greater market share. This indeed represents a departure from standard solutions and requires implementation of intelligent logistics solutions. Therefore, Slovenian logistics service providers face new challenges. The aim of this study is to examine the possibility of developing intelligent logistics outsourcing in Slovenia, and propose a method of planning and carrying out outsourcing, which will be advanced, and will bring benefits to both sides. For this reason, a general model of intelligent logistics outsourcing was developed based on a literature review of intelligent logistics outsourcing and a survey of the outsourcing market in Slovenia. According to our survey, Slovenian logistics providers are not mature enough for more intelligent means yet. Therefore, some suggestion that will significantly help and additionally motivate logistics service providers to use an intelligent logistics outsourcing model in order to offer more innovative solutions, as well as capture a greater market share were proposed. Using this model and these suggestions, it would be possible to create solutions in favour of intelligent outsourcing in Slovenia.
The cost savings and efficiencies associated with outsourcing have been a major factor in corporation's ability to control costs and maintain profitability. There is no question, outsourcing has ...worked. But new challenges are emerging and high expectations associated with outsourcing are increasingly hard to meet. How can we move forward? The way forward requires a new approach that goes beyond traditional outsourcing and has matured beyond cost reduction to become a way for organisations to better access talent and capabilities, gain more flexibility, reinvent their business model and drive innovation. Thus, business leaders are presented with a unique opportunity – intelligent logistics outsourcing to recast their organizations for the next wave of growth. This new intelligent outsourcing recognizes that the real power of outsourcing is in the innovations, mutual deeper relationship between a provider and its client, measurement and governance. To implement it, a new operating model must be adopted.
In a recent vibration analysis using CAE, the detailed finite element model which has large number of DOF came to be used. By using the detailed model, the number of mode in unit interval of ...frequency increase, and the large amount of computational cost and time is required to establish effective countermeasures. In this paper, the new analytical method is proposed to raise the efficiency of analysis by classifying the eigenmodes in the frequency range of high mode density into several groups. Almost all of global structures are consist of many substructures, and the eigenmodes of global structure is composed of combination of eigenmodes of these substructures. In this case, it is important for an analyst to understand the relationship between vibration characteristic of global structure and substructures. Therefore, in the proposed method, the types of each group are defined by the similarity of the mutual relationship between the global modes and substructure modes. The proposedmethod is verified to a finite element model that is a simplified automobile body in white. In this validation, 22 modes are set as the target modes. As a result, these modes are classified into 7 groups by proposed method and the validity of classification result was confirmed.
The paper concentrates on deriving non-obvious information about clause structure of complex sentences from the Prague Dependency Treebank. Individual clauses and their mutual relationship are not ...explicitly annotated in the treebank, therefore it was necessary to develop an automatic method transforming the original annotation concentrating on the syntactic role of individual word forms into a scheme describing the relationship between individual clauses. The task is complicated by a certain degree of inconsistency in original annotation with regard to clauses and their structure. The paper describes the method of deriving clause-related information from the existing annotation and its evaluation.
As a part of certain region, agricultural development has inevitable connection with regional urbanization, and they are highly heterogeneous and complementary in space. Their internal relationship ...is manifested as agricultural structure suits demand of urbanization development through adjustment in the process of urbanization, while urbanization is based on development of regional agriculture. From history of world agriculture and urbanization development, agriculture firstly provides primitive accumulation for urbanization development, and drives regional urbanization through promoting agricultural development. When urbanization develops to certain stage, urbanization accumulation increases and reaches the goal of “boosting urbanization through agriculture”. If urbanization develops slowly, agricultural adjustment will lack motive force. On the contrary, weak agricultural development will lead to stagnation of urbanization. Therefore, adjustment of agricultural structure and urbanization development are interconnected, mutually promoted and restricted, and interdependent.
The aim of this study is to provide some suggestions in the architectural planning and design of mursing homes for the elderly. Findings are as follows ; 1) The residents's daily living activities ...are closely influenced by the length of stay at one place,the sphere of activities and the contents of action. 2) The changes of daily living activities are uniqe at each resident.Many factors are participated in the changes and especially the relation between the residents is very important in those factors. 3) To not be influenced by the change of own skill of independence and the changes of others would be effective to maintain the uniqe daily living activities of a resident. After all,the suggestions of this report are ,1) To plan the living units wide open so that the residents would be able to move around between the living units and meet many people,2) To dispose the staff station at the right place so that the staff would be able to confirm the residents are safe when they are moving.
The aim of this study is to provide some suggestions in the architectural planning and design of common space in nursing homes for the elderly. Findings are as follows ; 1) The residents's living ...patterns have a wide range of variation and they come from the relations between others and their use of spaces. (The relations between others and their use of spaces give variety to residents's living patterns.) 2) There is a unique communication group in each common space. 3) Other activities also have important meanings to know the residents's daily livings and many backgrounds have influence in their activities. After all, it is very important not only to understand the diversity of their livings and to reply to each activity but also to consider about the composition of spaces to be able to make the various relation between residents.
This chapter reveals the author's discussion with Adrian Forty about non‐standard biological thinking and his work on the geopolitics of concrete and the politics of the commons. And, while Adrian ...does not personally express himself through these particular vocabularies, the role of the historian in ‘taking care’ of understanding the co‐mutual relationship between the individual and his/her environmental, cultural and technological contexts, and the consequent impact of these for human and non‐human relations are, for the author, vibrant throughout his work. The author also see his work as contributing to the ‘care of the self and others’ that defines those thinkers and practitioners who also, perhaps more explicitly than Adrian, examine their ethical, poetic and ecological architectural relations. The discussion here also follows Alison Stone's helpful identification of Irigaray's later work as ‘realist essentialism’ in which male and female sex differences are real, naturally existing expressions that are independent of a society's particular cultural expression of sexual difference, and which consequently also construct relations between women and men, and their respective environments.
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