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Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to find intermodal transportation solutions for COMPANY X’s production in Turkey to different destinations in Europe. Methodology: The analysis is mainly based on quantitative studies. An inductive approach has been used to connect theoretical perspectives and the empirical material. Theory: General theories within transports and environmental effects are ill

Even though Japanese possesses several means of constructing imperatives, such as inflections and different suffixes, it is often through the use of circumlocutions that requests are made. This paper takes a look at the common imperative constructions in Japanese, analyses their usage, and then aims to investigate which of these constructions are actually found in colloquial speech by means of an

This thesis is a submission for the new modern area of law that is intangible, immaterial and immovable. It can be called as virtual property or virtuality as such. Mainly due to globalization, the 21st century could be regarded as the beginning for a new digitalization era. Along with the expansion and generalization of the use of the Internet, digitalization has created a concept known as virtua

Warehouse management is the science of optimizing warehouse activity with the intention of reducing inventory holding costs and increasing material throughput. A warehouse management system (WMS) is an IT system used to support warehouse processes and ensure a smooth ow of material. The main objectives of the WMS are to keep track of inventory levels and distribute tasks to warehouse sta. The syst

Purpose: The purpose of the thesis is to investigate how organizations should be designed in order to work in the best possible way in China. Method: A theoretical background has been studied. The background covered mainly cultural studies, where a comparison between Sweden and China was made, and also design parameters for an organization. An empirical study took place in Shanghai, China, where m

Background In a competitive market place a competing company has to focus on continuous improvements and effectiveness, something that can be achieved by investing in product resources which then generates a need of capital. The need of capital can be financed through direct financing or external financing such as leasing where the leasing company offers the customer capital support. Since 1999, A

This master thesis is a project initiated by the fourth-party logistics company UBQ. They aim to take over the management of the transportation and storage of raw material for Volvo Car Body Components, VCBC, in Olofström. VCBC wants to remove the storage of raw material in the production area. The thesis aims to link the both companies’ requests together by describing the current situation, the s

Background The queues within Swedish healthcare are presently unacceptably long. The demands and costs of healthcare have increased and are expected to rise in the future. This has resulted in a higher stress on all of the healthcares resources, from the financial aspect to the human. As with many other public establishments, Lund University Hospital has suffered from weak finances, which in the l

Agile methods have the recent years gained ground within the software industry by being lean and flexible, and one of the companies having adopted agile methods is the fast‐growing Swedish developer of mobile applications Tactel AB. The company was interested in enhanced knowledge within the agile area, specifically about Scrum, and with one of its development teams – Mobical – in focus, Tactel wa

This master thesis has been performed at Kockums AB, where the elements of the process of placing cables have been studied in find ways to develop the work procedure. The purpose of the master thesis is to investigate the process of placing cables at naval ships and identify elements that can be developed to make the process more effective and to present proposals for development of the process. I

Hope was founded in 2001 by Ann Ringstrand and Stefan Söderberg. Since then the company has grown rapidly. It has won many prestigious design awards and is considered one of the most promising Swedish fashion companies. To gain control of their expansion they needed a sales forecasting tool. The search for a suitable method started with Hope’s sales order history. Due to very short and irregular r

Detta examensarbete handlar om några karakteristika beträffande skeppsköp, framför allt grunderna för skadestånd och hävning och därmed sammanhängande, den punkt när avtalsrättslig bundenhet uppstår. Ett antal engelska fall gås igenom, med vissa utblickar mot nordisk rätt, för att analysera detta. Jag analyserar också hur olika standardavtal löser några av de för skeppsköp karakteristiska problemeThe thesis deals with the remedies in the context of the sale and purchase of ships. The remedies dealt with are are two, rescission and damages, and after a descriptive part which deals with the sale and purchase of ships in general terms the essays goes on to analyze the development in law cases reported in Lloyds Law Reports. I also make some comparisons with Nordic theory and jurisprudence on

I svensk rätt utgörs den yttersta gränsen för ansvar av ett krav på tillräcklig medvetenhet. I denna uppsats utforskas den historiska och teoretiska bakgrunden till begreppet. Här presenteras det medvetenhetsbegrepp som framträder i doktrin och rättspraxis. Här förs också en diskussion om hur väl medvetenhetsbegreppet överensstämmer med de allmänna rättsliga principer som kräver förutsägbarhet, liIn Swedish law, legal liability is limited by a requirement of sufficient awareness (medvetenhet). The subject of this essay is to explore the theoretical and historical background of this legal concept. This is done by a presentation of how the legal term awareness is described in legal literature and case law. The essay also includes a discussion on to what extent the concept of awareness compli

We compare 17 exchange-traded funds (ETF) traded on the New York Stock Exchange benchmarking European indices and Asian indices. Over the five-year period of 2006-04-05 to 2011-04-05, with the additional focus being on the financial crisis stretching from 2007-08-01 to 2009-02-27, we evaluate the ETFs performance and ability in tracking their benchmark indices through extreme volatile periods. Our

Hiroshimadialekten talas av befolkningen i prefekturen Hiroshima i västra Japan. Den här uppsatsen beskriver särdrag och egenskaper i dialekten såsom uttal, grammatik och vokabulär i kontrast till det japanska standardspråket, hyojungo. Fokus ligger på den dialektala partikeln ken som markerar `anledning' i en sats. Partikeln jämförs med standardspråkets partikel kara. En undersökning visar smThe Hiroshima dialect is spoken by the population of the Hiroshima Prefecture in western Japan. This paper describes the features and properties of the dialect in regard to pronounciation, grammar and vocabulary and compares it to standard Japanese, hyojungo. The focus is on the dialectal particle ken that is used to express `cause' in a clause. The particle is compared to the particle kara of

To construct a simulation model of Ruukki's future production. The model will the n be analysed in several aspects which will result in a proposal for how Ruukki is to keep a service level of 99.8%. This thesis is a case study with a quantitative approach which includes interviews and data collection (designed as a statistical survey) as main components. Our thesis has an empirical orientation

In this paper, review and appraisal of twelve quantitative empirical studies in the stream of the Triple Helix model is performed in order to synthetize current knowledge on development of the quantitative Triple Helix indicator as well as to suggest some hypotheses and recommendations for the further research. Studies under consideration represent six approaches towards measuring Triple Helix rel

We investigated what factors are important for Enterprise Architecture. We include factors that have an effect on the outcome of the Enterprise Architecture, the results of Enterprise Architecture, factors concerning the role of the architect and organizational factors. We conducted a review of litterature, interviewed experts and used a ranking tool to rate the importance of these factors. We fou

The economie models of business are eonstantly developing and today il seems as if parts of the service industry are evolving inta a so called experienee economy. Collexium exclusive driver' s club has the intention of delivering experienees to a segment of automobil e enthusiasts in South Florida. As the company started out as late as December 2006, there are parts of the original strategy th