Sentence examples for shipment strategy from inspiring English sources

An alternative is a drop shipment strategy (3), where customer orders are directly served from the suppliers.

Only a few retailers experiment with drop shipment strategies regardless of article-specific considerations.

Within the e-fulfillment context, Swaminathan and Tayur (2003) further review certain papers presenting drop-shipment strategies (i.e., direct deliveries from suppliers) and see those as a way of improving supply chain and inventory efficiency.

Some analysts have noted a slowdown in handset shipments — last week Strategy Analytics put the number at a four percent decline worldwide — and in general we are reaching a higher penetration in smartphones: these could also be reasons for why ICS is slowing down in its growth trajectory a bit.

The next level is tactical decisions which has mid-term effects (several months or quarters) and include production and distribution planning and resource allocation issues (facility space, fleet size and shipments packaging strategies).

Mr. Ben Bella spent most of the war outside Algeria, organizing clandestine arms shipments and coordinating political strategy.

Google's Android mobile OS is both hugely dominant in marketshare, taking close to 80% of smartphone OS shipments last year according to Strategy Analytics, but is also showing signs of slowing growth, with the analyst saying 2013 saw it grow at its lowest rate yet.

In October, the company became the world's third-largest smartphone vendor by shipment volume, according to both Strategy Analytics and IDC.

The reality was that during the last six years of his presidency, he tolerated it, then prepared the way for the current containment strategy of intercepting shipments from North Korea to customers for its nuclear know-how.

Dondo et al. (2011) have formulated vehicle routing problem with cross-docking as a MILP model that considered a network with cross-docking strategy with direct shipments.

Strategy Analytics predicts shipments of smaller tablets (about 7 to 7.9 inches) will continue to lag as consumers spend their money on phablets instead.