Business Excellence and Management

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Authors: Sanjay RODE

Child malnutrition affects on the learning abilities, physical growth and future work capacity. The incidence of child malnutrition is higher in urban slums of Mumbai city. This study finds that the incidence of underweight among male and female is high in Sathe Nagar of Mankhurd. The stunting incidence among male in Maharashtra Nagar and Sathe Nagar is high of Mankhurd. The incidence of stunting among female is high in Chheda Nagar and Baiganwadi of Govandi suburb. The stunting and underweight incidence is high in one to two age groups in both suburbs. The household assets, knowledge of women, contraceptive use and health care access is low among women of slums. The child care, supplementary food and treatment are not available in slums. The logistic regression shows that underweight is positively co-related to sex of child and home delivery. It is negatively corelated to age of child, pills taken by women and normal delivery. The stunting is positively co-related to domestic violence and it is negatively co-related to age of child, supplementary food and child care at work. Therefore more supplementary food at anganwadi is recommended in these slums. Government must start the child day care centers at slums as well as at work places. The health services must be provided in kuttcha slums of city. Government must appoint more health staff to visit slums and provide health treatment. Health staff must provide treatment to women and children, counseling, encourage pre and postnatal care, institutional deliveries. Government must change policies towards slums and provide them good infrastructural facilities. It will help to reduce the child malnutrition at significant level in city.

36-43

Authors: Alexandra Ioana FLOREA

In a world where companies’ revenues strive not to decrease and market shares are under constant pressure, managers try to find ways to deliver the value demanded by clients. Supply chain seems to be lately the field where they can find space to act and to deliver performance. This paper intends to discover the challenges that the supply chain practitioners must face in order to implement a good supply chain strategy and which strategy will fit best the needs of each company.

54-62

Authors: Gabriel MIREA, Cătălin Cristian BABALÂC

In the machine building industry, both the choosing products and their life are uncertainly, because the diversity of the machines models and equipment and faster and faster changes of the customer wishes prevents any prediction of demand. Thus, the production of the machines must adapt to the actual demand of each buyer and to have the flexibility for this goal, under acceptable economic conditions. The first part of this article was dedicated for defining the concept of flexibility and the connection between this and other concepts, then I tried to point out that under the increasing pressures of the consumers that request increased quality, a faster development of the product and better post-selling services, the companies are forced to adopt a high strategic flexibility, to which contributes all functions of the production systems.

72-81

Authors: Vlad BĂLĂNESCU, Mihaela MAŞCU

Business Process Management (BPM) is considered to be the third wave in business process theory. Appearing as a response to the critique formulated regarding Business Process Reengineering, BPM tries to be a more holistic and integrated approach to management and processes. In a time where complex solutions are needed solution that incorporates elements from various concepts, Business Process Management can be, in my opinion, a link between these ideas. After a short introduction presenting general background information pertinent to the subject, the second chapter focuses on the theoretical concept of Business Process Management, its origins, definitions and key characteristics. Finally, the third chapter present a Business Process Management implementation methodology alongside with a list of key elements that should be taken into consideration when implementing BPM and a strategy oriented strategy and model in general.