Black Book's approach is designed as a practical countermeasure. By maintaining year--round validity, applying audit-supported validation, and refining KPI definitions and weightings on a defined ...

Learn how the flow of costs impacts manufacturing firms, covering raw materials, work-in-process, finished goods, and cost of ...

The clinical trial industry is at a critical juncture where traditional methods are proving insufficient for managing today’s ...

A new economic modeling tool is helping Maine kelp farmers identify cost-saving strategies with remarkable precision. By ...

Operations research (OR) and machine learning (ML) techniques, when used in isolation, are often inadequate for addressing complex optimization problems. While OR struggles with combinatorial ...

BALTIMORE, Sept. 19, 2025 – INFORMS, the world’s largest association for professionals and students in operations research (O.R.), AI, analytics and data science, has named 12 distinguished leaders as ...

Driven by the “dual carbon” goals, the new energy vehicle (NEV) industry has seen rapid growth. However, the lack of adequate charging and swapping infrastructure has become a significant bottleneck ...

Introduction: Container relocation in port yards represents a canonical NP-hard problem, characterized by high-dimensional nonlinear constraints and stringent real-time decision-making requirements.

The Corneometer CM® 825 from Courage & Khazaka electronic GmbH is widely utilized in clinical efficacy testing of cosmetics. Assessing methodological variables is crucial for ensuring the reliability ...

Several major retailers in the U.S. use a century-old accounting practice known as “the retail inventory method,” which relies on retail prices to estimate inventory, even though it fails to take full ...