<p dir="ltr">Small and medium enterprises generally employ the use of custom developed quoting programs to bid on goods and services. Custom bid programs (e.g., Microsoft Excel) are used to capture the company-specific costs of production. The inputs of variable costs, such as machine rate and scrap rate, are critical to get correct (Brassington & Pettitt, 2013); however, companies often rely on educated guesses and industry expertise to quote packaging products to end-users. Due to the guesswork involved there can be a financial difference between the quoted costs and actual costs. This variance is often the cause of significant lost dollars. Price, if not determined correctly, could negatively impact both the company’s and the product’s profitability (Helna, 2020). Predictive analytics can be used to support quoting activities by providing a future value based on previous job performance. The purpose of the present study is to identify whether predictive analytics can be used to predict machine rate and scrap rate to give more accuracy to quoting estimation.</p>

Siemens Energy is a global company which is active in energy technology and offers different types of gas turbines and steam turbines among other types of services. This study was conducted at Siemens Energy in Finspång. The importance of the purchasing function within a company and its profitability has increased and it is thereby important for a company to take advantage of it. Siemens Energy strives to have a transparent supply chain that forms a competitive advantage and provides value along every step in order to create value for the company and its customers. To be able to provide a product to the customer, a project group is assigned at Siemens Energy consisting of different types of roles and areas of responsibility. Multiple functions are involved to manage a project from beginning to end. Budget, lead time and different types of specifications are determined at the beginning of a project and follow through the rest of the project. For big and complex flows, good communication between different functions is essential for information regarding, for example, deviations to reach out to the concerned parties. Siemens Energy describes that an overview of how different functions work with the information flow in the purchasing process from construction to goods receiving is missing and requests a flowchart and suggestions for improvements. Therefore, the aim of this study is to create a flowchart over the information flow and to identify and present suggestions for improvements. A theoretical model, Business Process Management, was used to structure the work in this study. The first step in the model is to create a flowchart of the current state regarding the information flow in the different functions. Interviews with 18 people in different roles were conducted to understand the current state. The second step in the model is to identify areas of improvement so that measures can be performed. Activities in the flowchart were divided into value added activities, non-value added activities and non-value added but necessary activities according to the Lean philosophy. Activities which were considered non-value added activities could be categorized into different types of wastes according to the Lean philosophy in order to be addressed using time reduction theory. The third step in the model is to present a new map of the measured activities. Finally, the activities were analysed qualitatively to gain insight into whether the impact on time, cost and quality would be positive, negative, or unchanged. The results from the flowchart and the actions of the measured activities resulted in suggestions for improvements. Further, it was described which of the activities Siemens Energy should focus on improving to increase the quality of the information flow in the purchasing process and decrease cost and time spent. How the implementation should be conducted was not a part of this study which leaves room for further studies in the future that can be carried out at Siemens Energy.

El Terrorismo alimentario ha sido definido por la Organización Mundial de la saludos como "un acto o intento deliberado de contaminación de alimentos para consumo humano con agentes químicos, físicos o microbiológicos para el propósito de causar daño o muerte a poblaciones civiles o para interrumpir la estabilidad social, política o económica"(WHO,2008) La biodiversidad, según la Association of food and drug Officials de los EEUU, abarca los medios para prevenir y eliminar cualquier acción intencional de adulteración de alimentos destinada a provocar consecuencias negativas graves para la salud o la muerte de personas o animales, ocasionar daños a las economías de los paises como consecuencia de retricciones comerciales internacionales derivadas de la aparición de enfermedades y la falta de confianza en los controles sanitarios locales... / Navarrete Reynoso, R. (2013). MODELO DE BIOSEGURIDAD EN LA CADENA DE SUMINISTROS DE PRODUCTOS ALIMENTICIOS, TENIENDO EN CUENTA LA GESTIÓN DE LA CADENA DE SUMINISTROS Y LA VISIÓN DE PROCESOS DE NEGOCIO. APLICACIÓN A LA INDUSTRIA ALIMENTICIA, DE LA ZONA DEL BAJÍO (MÉXICO) [Tesis doctoral]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/19159

網際網路的發展及行動裝置的普及已將電子商務的發展帶往新的競爭環境，傳統企業除須體認技術不斷創新對企業發展的重要性外，舊有的服務必須透過加入更多的附加價值才能夠增加企業的競爭能力，隨著這股電子商務創新風潮演變並延燒到全球，不論是金融業、實體零售業，皆受到這股電子商務創新風潮的影響，而這股創新的風潮甚至可能導致產業革命。企業若要維持市場競爭能力，除了要盡量降低營運成本，提高生產與管理的效率外，還要能夠滿足客戶各種需求，並應隨時檢視傳統營運流程，充份利用科技技術與生產及服務流程整合，來維持企業管理及服務的優勢，然而，電子商務雖有效簡化企業的作業成本，但跨界整合的趨勢卻也對企業發展帶來新的挑戰，因此企業如何透過一套實用的方法來發展或改善及其電子商務流程，並藉由其獨特創新的服務來加強企業的競爭優勢，更是企業當今面臨的重要議題。 然而當今學術界對於流程管理以及電子商務的研究相當多，但把流程管理應用在電子商務流程創新的研究卻相對較少，故本研究探討有關電子商務理論、企業流程管理、企業流程再造、企業流程創新、企業系統規劃、服務品質、關鍵時刻等相關文獻做為基礎，由客戶需求及服務滿意度的觀點，藉由分析及整理相關流程改善的成功關鍵因素，建構一套電子商務流程創新的方法論，以個案來進行行動研究，依據這套方法論的步驟，發掘個案電子商務流程的問題及其可改善的機會，同時藉由內部探討及借鏡外部標竿企業的創新案例，找出個案公司電子商務流程可能的創新機會，並透過理論基礎檢視本方法論的可行性後，證實透過本研究所建構之電子商務流程創新的方法論確實有其參考價值，提供目前正在發展電子商務或即將投入電子商務發展的企業，做為設計其獨特電子商務平台的參考。 / The increasing use of internet and the growing popularity of mobile devices have created a new competitive environment on the Electronic Commerce (EC) platform. Businesses must develop add-on values in services to strengthen the competitiveness. Under the inevitable trend of global EC, not only the retail industry but also financial industry has been highly affected. This Innovative wave may even lead to an industrial revolution. In order to keep the market competitiveness with EC, enterprises would need to shift focus from cost, productivity and operating efficiency to customer needs. Enterprises nowadays are facing the challenges of modifying existing processes and integrated technology to provide customers with most suitable and innovative services. The research objective is to develop a practical methodology to evaluate and redesign the e-business processes of a firm and enhance their competitive advantage. This study investigated concepts and methodologies in e-commerce, business process management, business process reengineering, business process innovation, business systems planning, service quality, and moment of truth. Based on the perspectives of customers’ needs and service satisfaction, the study analyzed and integrated critical success factors of process improvement and process innovation to construct a methodology for e-business process innovation. With an action research process this study tested the proposed methodology on EC processes in a financial institution and discovered e-business process issues and innovation opportunities. The proposed methodology was validated and the feasibility of the methodology was verified by theoretical considerations, and proved to have reference value for enterprises in developing unique innovations in e-business services.

「Ubiquitous」象徵一個概念，意思是「神無所不在」。在資訊科技時代，這個字代表藉由各種資訊產品與網路，可以實現資訊無所不在的理想世界。配合u-Taiwan計畫，我國的U化建設主要是以無線感知、RFID為主的技術來進行。 博物館在數位典藏後所產生的文物底片，目前在管理上大部分還是以人工作業為主，除了耗費人力外，也容易有失誤，若能以RFID技術輔助原本的作業流程，不僅在搜尋或是盤點時都能較準確地找到檔案的位置，在底片進出的控管上也能增進底片檔案管理之準確度，並減低查驗錯誤的可能性。 然而在新科技導入時，若是只考慮科技設備功能，忽略了科技設備與流程整合的話，常常會發生資訊科技不符合實際效用，導致效果不彰的情形。因此，本研究目的在於了解U化實際實施後是否能真正發揮效用，整理出一套評估流程績效之方法，以模式化標準BPMN及作業-單位關係表 (Pool-Lane chart) 等分析評估系統導入後的績效，並嘗試使用於個案N博物館的U化RFID系統之效益評估與分析，以個案結果為基礎來探討RFID為主之U化所帶來的效益。 / The word "Ubiquitous" originated from Latin, which means god is omnipresent. By using various high-tech products and Internet, the concept of ubiquitous world could be realized. In coordination with U-Taiwan project, our government decided to construct the U-infrastructure using Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) and Radio-frequency identification (RFID). Furthermore, RFID has been widely adopted in many fields, including access control management, product tracking management, health care application, museum information and file management, active/passive gallery tours (e.g., optimum guide route, product information). Most museum image archive management is done by hand, including preservation, inventory, loaning and return etc. In addition to consume extra manpower, it's also error-prone. While stocktaking or searching, it's more accurate and easier to locate certain product using RFID. Moreover, by using RFID it also promote the performance and enhance the accuracy of image access control management, and reduce the possibility of error occurrence. However, introducing new technology could also cause other issues because of the impractical lead-in plan. Therefore, through case studies, we want to evaluate the performance of ubiquitous information application using RFID, and choose a museum cultural relics image archive management as our target. Our study analyzes the original operating process using module standardized tools to evaluate the difference in performance after the implementation of RFID.

Submitted by Léa Simone Friedmann dos Reys (leafried@yahoo.com.br) on 2014-06-17T04:41:33Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese.pdf: 25002900 bytes, checksum: 60392b62f1850ece064cd6b5a73a1acc (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by PAMELA BELTRAN TONSA (pamela.tonsa@fgv.br) on 2014-06-17T09:28:09Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese.pdf: 25002900 bytes, checksum: 60392b62f1850ece064cd6b5a73a1acc (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-17T12:07:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese.pdf: 25002900 bytes, checksum: 60392b62f1850ece064cd6b5a73a1acc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-05-23 / Identifica-se a gestão por processos como uma abordagem eficaz para alavancar os resultados da organização. Para que isso possa ocorrer porem é necessário modificar os processos de negócio existentes. Pessoas são o único elemento comum na gestão por processos e na mudança. Para realizar os benefícios pretendidos, a ação organizacional deve focalizar seus esforços na consecução do apoio das pessoas. A revisão bibliográfica identificou mais de uma centena de fatores de influência na mudança. Esses fatores foram classificados em 4 grupos, a saber: características do indivíduo – Tipo 1, características do indivíduo – Tipo 2, características da organização e fatores de influência. Somente os identificados como fatores de influência exercem um impacto direto sobre o indivíduo. Estes fatores foram reclassificados nos 15 atributos utilizados para realizar o estudo empírico. O primeiro estudo, qualitativo, selecionou dos 15 fatores de influência no indivíduo para a mudança, os 10 mais importantes. Com esses 10 fatores, foi realizada uma pesquisa quantitativa pela internet visando identificar a importância relativa destes. Foram utilizados dois métodos para estimar a importância de cada fator para cada respondente que participou do estudo: Adaptive Conjoint Analysis (ACA) e Ordenação. Utilizando-se o método estatístico Analise de Agrupamento, foram formados, por semelhança, de 2 a 10 grupos com as importâncias relativas resultantes. Esses agrupamentos foram posteriormente confrontados com as variáveis de controle e com o fato da mudança avaliada, ter sido ou não gerada por uma demanda de tecnologia da informação (TI). Nos grupos formados pelo método ACA, há indícios de que as variáveis de controle e o fator gerador da mudança impactam o comportamento dos indivíduos. Nos grupos formados pelo método ordenação, os indícios revelam que não há impacto nem das variáveis de controle (salvo poucas exceções), nem do fator gerador da mudança. No teste não paramétrico de Friedman e nas comparações múltiplas de Dunn-Bonferroni utilizados para priorizar as importâncias calculadas no método ACA, foram encontrados dois grupos distintos. Pelo método de ordenamento, o resultado da amostra mostrou três grupos com priorização distinta dos atributos. / Process Management is identified as an effective strategy to achieve results in the organization. The achievement of desired changes requires changes to existing business processes. People are the only common element in process and change management. The achievement of expected benefits requires a focus on the efforts required to obtain the support of affected people. The literature review revealed over one hundred factors which affect change. These factors were classified in to four distinct groups, namely: Type I individual characteristics, Type II individual characteristics, organizational characteristics and influence factors. Influence factors have a direct impact on the individual. The factors identified were subsequently classified into the 15 factors or attributes used for the empirical study. The first qualitative study selected, from the 15 attributes, the 10 most important factors which influence individual change. These 10 factors were subsequently used for the internet study whose objective was to identify the relative importance of these factors. Two methods were used to estimate the importance of each factor for each individual participating in the study, namely: Adaptive Conjoint Analysis (ACA) and Ordering. The use of Cluster Analysis used similarity analysis to identify 2 to 10 groups together with resulting relative importance scores. These groupings were subsequently contrasted with control variables and whether the change, analyzed by the individual, was the result of a demand from Information Technology. For those groups formed through the use of ACA, there are indications that the control variables and the change driver have an impact on the behavior of the individual. For those groups identified though ordering analysis, the results obtained reveal, with minor exceptions, that neither the control variables nor the change driver have an impact on the behavior of the individual. The application of Friedman non parametric test and multiple comparisons of Dunn-Bonferroni for prioritizing the importance scores calculated through the ACA method, revealed the existence of two distinct groups. Ordering analysis revealed the existence of three groups with differing attribute or factor prioritization.

Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-04T12:36:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009 / Esta dissertação apresenta a proposta de um modelo teórico-conceitual de gestão do processo de desenvolvimento de novos medicamentos, para aplicação na indústria farmacêutica pública, que visa contribuir para o aperfeiçoamento da Gestão Tecnológica e da Inovação doInstituto de Tecnologia em Fármacos (Farmanguinhos) da Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), de forma a possibilitar o alinhamento entre o desenvolvimento de novos medicamentos, o planejamento estratégico e as políticas institucional e de Governo. Inicialmente, é tecida uma abordagem sociológica, considerando as metas e diretrizes das políticas públicas de suporte à inovação e ao desenvolvimento econômico. O emprego do poder do Estado para alavancar o desenvolvimento de novas tecnologias e novas formas de organização da produção é exemplificado a partir da atuação de Farmanguinhos, e de seu papel na regulação do mercado farmacêutico nacional. As principais abordagens teóricas sobre processos de negócio, gestão de processo de desenvolvimento de produtos e gestão da inovação tecnológica na indústria farmacêutica são sistematizadas, o que permite a identificação de conceitos, características relevantes e das melhores práticas da área. Com base na análise empírica das práticas e dos documentos institucionais é apresentado um diagnóstico global do atual cenário da gestão do desenvolvimento de novos produtos, bem como da gestão tecnológica e da inovação em Farmanguinhos. As ações de cunho estratégico e o modelo proposto, se implantados em alguma extensão, poderão contribuir para a consolidação do papel do Instituto de Tecnologia em Fármacos como laboratório farmacêutico oficial e como centro de referência da pesquisa, do desenvolvimento e da produção farmacêutica brasileira. / This dissertation presents the proposal of a conceptual theoretical model of management of new medicines development process, for implementation in public pharmaceutical industry, which aims to contribute to the improvement of management of technology and innovation of the Instituto de Tecnologia em Fármacos (Farmanguinhos) da Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), so as to make possible the alignment between the development of new medicines, strategic planning, and the institutional and governmental policies. Initially, it is presented a sociological approach, considering the political goals and guidelines of public support to innovation and economic development. Employment of power of the State to drive the development of new technologies and new forms of organization of production is exemplified from Farmanguinhos’ work, and its role in national pharmaceutical market adjustment. The main theoretical approaches on business processes, management of product development process and of technological innovation in pharmaceutical industry are systematized, which allows the identification of concepts, relevant characteristics and the best practices in the area. Based on empirical analysis of practices and institutional documents is presented a comprehensive diagnosis of the current scenario in Farmanguinhos regarding new product development, technology and innovation management. The strategic actions and model proposed, if deployed in some extent, may contribute to the consolidation of the paper of the Instituto de Tecnologia em Fármacos as State-owned Pharmaceutical Laboratory, and reference centre of Brazilian research, development and pharmaceutical production.

The final thesis is focused on a process management in praxes. The theoretical part of thesis concludes different techniques of mapping and analysing of a process. The practical part is focused on a practical analyse and mapping of the certain process in international financial institution. On the base of the process analyse are suggested changes to optimize the process.

The diploma thesis called Optimization of processes in a distribution company is focused on a firm, fictionally named ABC Ltd which, however, represents a real distribution company, a holding company to be precise, whose parent company is based in the Czech Republic and its subsidiaries are located in Italy, China and Australia. The overall number of staff of the whole concern is sixteen, so it falls into the category of small companies. The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the company's processes. The greatest benefit of the thesis is saving the company's expenses based on optimization of the company's processes. In the introduction to the paper all the goals and benefits are stated. The next chapter reveals a brief description of skills that are vital for working on the practical part of the paper and meeting all the goals that have been set at the beginning. The introduction to the practical part deals with introducing the company ABC Ltd. The main topic of this part is the analysis of the present state of the firm's enterprise architecture. One of these architectures, the process one, describes the company's processes which are divided into the main and the supporting ones. In the main processes the potential for improvements is identified. The conclusion brings evaluation of the limits which follow from the revealed potential and suggestions for supporting the limits in the form of project solution.

The diploma thesis called "Optimization of processes in procurement departmenf of FMCG company" is focused on the optimization of procurement processes in an unnamed FMCG company. The main goals of this work include the analysis of similar solutions in business process optimization and selection of appropriate methods and procedures. Other objectives are to analyze the current state of processes, their support and maturity and potential improvement identification in selected processes. Last goal is a suggestion of project proposals designed to achieve potential improvement identification in the analyzed procurement processes. Contribution of this thesis is to analyze the purchasing process from the perspective of process maturity, its priorities, support and potential for improvement. Modelling of current processes in a unified methodology and tool is another benefit of this work. The work consists of an introductory section that defines the objectives, benefits and working methods. The following is a description of the research work and basic terms, thus ending the theoretical part. The practical part contains the characteristics of the company, a description of existing processes, potential improvement identification and a proposal of support in identified real potentials.