Algorithmic Decision Making – Usage Algorithms in Decision Making

Algorithms play a significant role in our day-to-day lives. However, what is an “algorithm”? there is a definition of algorithm: a set of steps to accomplish a task. We live in an algorithmic culture, where algorithms are ubiquitous, pervasive and unnoticed. For example, algorithm can help people predicts the spend time from home to school, and then manage the time. And algorithms determine computer operation, stock prices, espionage tactics, social networks, even the movies you watch, it shapes human society in everywhere. The human society ran by algorithms, it helps people to make daily decision and solve problem. Algorithmic culture is a historical process that is used to organize human culture by means of computational process. The humans have more depended on computational processes to entrust cultural work – the classification, sort, order, and rank of people, places, objects and ideas in the past 30 years. It means algorithmic culture is Continue reading

Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI)

Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) is a supply chain practice where the inventory is monitored, planned and managed by the vendor on behalf of the consuming organization, based on the expected demand and on previously agreed minimum and maximum inventory levels. In its simplest form, Vendor Managed Inventory is the process where the vendor assumes the task of generating purchase orders to replenish a customer’s inventory. VMI is a term that is used to describe many types of supply chain initiatives. Traditionally, success in supply chain management derives from understanding and managing the trade off between inventory cost and the service level. The Vendor Managed Inventory Approach Vendor Managed Inventory reduces stock-outs and reduces inventory in the supply chain. Some features of VMI include:- Shortening of the supply chain Centralized forecasting Frequent communication of inventory, stock-outs, and planned promotions. Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) linkages facilitate this communication. No manufacturer promotions Trucks Continue reading

Stress Management: Managing Job Stress

Job stress comes in many different forms and affects your body in various ways. Minor sources of stress may include equipment that won’t work or phones that won’t quit ringing. Major stress comes from having too much work, not having enough work, doing work that is unfulfilling, fearing a job layoff, or not getting along with your boss. Usually it is the major sources of stress that lead to burnout, causing people to become unhappy and less productive in their work. Job stress can affect your health and home life as well. Low levels of stress may not be noticeable; slightly higher levels can be positive and challenge you to act in creative and resourceful ways; and high levels can be harmful, contributing to chronic disease. The major sources of job stress fall into seven categories: Control. This factor is the most closely related to job stress. Studies show that Continue reading

Different Types of Electronic Authentication

Nowadays as we know, technology is improving and businesses corporations, consumers, marketers and governments are moving forward to using it and depend on it. While all these kinds of users have been moved forward to using this technology, so all their transactions work go through it and specially through E-mails to communicate with each other. Even though not only the E-mail that used to communicate, there are so many ways to transfer information or some other things need to be done through this huge technology. But with this huge moved, it’s still not safe to use it without any kind of protection and security such as authentication to recognize if those massages or transfers or requests coming from the right and trusted sides. So they have come out with electronic authentication as the best way to make sure it’s the legible and trusted sides in this process. An authentication is Continue reading

Theories of Learning

Learning is an important psychological process that-determines human behavior. Learning can be defined as “relatively permanent change in behavior that occurs as a result of experience or reinforced practice”. Important theories of learning are: 1. Classical Conditioning The work of the famous Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov demonstrated the classical conditioning process. When Pavlov presented a piece of meat to the dog in the experiment, Pavlov noticed a great deal of salivation. He termed the food an unconditioned stimulus and the salivation an unconditioned response. When the dog saw the meat, it salivated. On the other hand, when Pavlov merely rang a bell, the dog did not salivate. Pavlov subsequently introduced the sound of a bell each time the meat was given to the dog. The dog eventually learned to salivate in response to the ringing of the-bell-even when there was no meat. Pavlov had conditioned the dog to respond to Continue reading

Trading Area Potential in Retail Site Evaluation

Most of the retail site evaluation procedures use the concepts of “trading area adequacy” and the “trading area potential” to predict the total trading area business and the share of business a particular retailer can expect. Read More: Trading Area Adequacy Trading area potential, it is something, which is predicted ability of a trading area to provide acceptable support levels for a retailer in future. The two important concepts in trading area potential are residential support levels and non-residential support levels. Residential Support Levels A retailer is to concentrate on the most important source of business, namely the area’s residents, after sufficiently identifying the gross trading area. To measure a trading area’s potential consumers, the retailer is expected to analyse population or demographic and household or residential variables. Population or Demographic Analysis. A trading areas total capacity to consume is partly a function of the total number of population and Continue reading