How well production levels match actual demand is an important factor in company performance. If production is too low, the company can't meet demand, has dissatisfied customers and loses sales. If ...

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Experts can argue over whether organics are slightly or substantially less productive, but they are clearly better for soil and the environment. I am a big fan of the Perishable Pundit, Jim Prevor, ...

Secondary production of species in multi-species assemblages can be used to quantify bottom-up linkages with flow webs, top-down linkages with ingestion/production webs and trophic position Secondary ...

Another wave of lockdowns will renew concerns about supply chains and shortages. As a grower of fresh mushrooms, for decades I experienced the difficulties of filling orders during wild fluctuations ...

Lean production is the name given to a group of highly efficient manufacturing techniques developed (mainly by large Japanese companies) in the 1980s and early 1990s. Lean production was seen as the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Europe’s manufacturers seem to find themselves in a perfect storm. Hardly a day goes by without a complaint ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...