Ebook: Multi-enterprise View Of Business Activities

This e-book looks at many business activities, with a multi-enterprise view. The examples of this include: Information technology is an important component of effective supply chain management. For many firms, selection of true IT provides a competitive advantage. It is a multi-attribute selection problem since IT solution requires changes in organizational structure, employee job descriptions and behavior. Managing human resources is a challenge all business professionals face. Human resource management is a staff function whose primary role is to help the organization achieve its goals. Unlike other resources, human being seeks motivation, satisfaction, and security and need an appropriate climate and culture to achieve high performance. Outsourcing is a flexible management tool of the individual enterprise. It is a self-reinforcing process as the existence of excellent services creates the change for further outsourcing. The causes of outsourcing processes can be counted as market pressure and supply of excellent services.Supplier selection is a multi-attribute decision-making problem. The nature of this decision usually is complex and unstructured. The objective is to identify suppliers with the highest potential for meeting a firm’s needs consistently and an acceptable cost. Previously published in: Facilities, Volume: 18, Number 3, 2005