The Netherlands is the largest export country of cut flowers in the world. Air cargo transport of flowers amounts to 25 percent of the total annual tonnage of goods that go through Schiphol Airport. However, due to uncertainty of the future development in international trade, as well as the increasing …

Earlier quantitative research shows that major life events that mark the transition to adulthood (emerging adulthood) affect sport participation, mostly in a negative way. However, insight regarding the explanatory mechanisms behind these effects, which is needed to better prevent drop out and stimulate …

Distribution structures, as studied in this paper, involve the spatial layout of the freight transport and storage system used to move goods between production and consumption locations. Decisions on this layout are important to companies as they allow them to balance customer service levels and logistics …

The trade-off between high forest and biodiversity loss associated with development of oil palm plantations and their extremely efficient production of vegetable oil supplied the world with cooking oil and biofuel while taking away millions of hectares of forest in Indonesia alone. RSPO certification …

Contents: Introduction by the supervisors | Analysing the Military Supply Chain using Big Data Analytics by Addy Negulescu and Niels C. Nanning | Big Data and Supply Chain Management by Martin Novak and Youri Verduijn | The impact of Cross Chain Control Centre on supply chains by Sebastiaan van Dijk …

De automotive industrie kenmerkt zich door onduidelijke veranderende vraagspecificaties, dit is binnen AWL terug te zien in de geannuleerde reserveringen, wijzigingen tijdens engineering, het opstarten met gebrekkige informatie en de aannames die gedaan worden om tijd te winnen. De organisatie van AWL …

This article proposes the use of agent-based simulation to analyze complex design trade-offs that involve value tensions. This is illustrated by a case study in the domain of train traffic control. In this case, agent-based simulation supported the involvement of stakeholders and increased understanding …

De laatste paar jaren is de bitcoin enorm populair geworden onder criminelen en wordt deze cryptomunt steeds vaker gebruikt om mee wit te wassen. Witwassen is in december 2001 in het Wetboek van Strafrecht opgenomen. In Nederland kennen wij drie verschillende soorten witwassen: opzetwitwassen, gewoontewitwassen …

Het World Trade Center Twente stimuleert, motiveert en brengt bedrijven met elkaar in contact door middel van o.a. handelsmissies, de Business Club en coachingstrajecten. Door een samenwerking met alle 325 World Trade Centers in 90 landen is een wereldwijd netwerk ontstaan. Hierdoor kunnen ondernemers …

Howler monkeys (genus Alouatta) are new world monkeys native to Central and South America. Although the overall population of howler monkeys is declining due to habitat loss and the illegal trade, their status, as categorised by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (2017), ranges from Least Concern …