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Provides a context and exercise for introducing retail inventory management, including cost optimization, service-level criteria, and forecasting in single and multiproduct settings. The owner of a single-location paper and paper products store considers the implications of expansion for inventory m... More

In the year 2000, the Government of the Autonomous Community of Arag n, Spain, made public a project for the development of a large-scale logistics park in the outskirts of the city of Zaragoza. With an area of nearly 13 square kilometers, PLAZA (an acronym for Zaragoza Logistics Platform) would be... More

Leitax, a young digital camera manufacturer selling its cameras mainly through retailers, experienced poor matching of inventory availability with demand for new and existing products in 2002. Describes the implementation and details of a consensus forecasting approach, a crucial part of a demand an... More

The case focuses on the challenges of Roche maintaining a supply network for a global influenza pandemic response initiative based on its antiviral drug Tamiflu. The Roche group is a 40 billion CHF company consisting of a pharmaceutical division and a diagnostic division. The company's antiviral dru... More

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.... More

Originally published in 1978, Philosophy in Social Work is a collection of papers that invites reflective consideration of the philosophical issues arising out of social work. The work stemmed from a series of meetings at the University of Glasgow, designed to encourage philosophers to look at tradi... More

Originally published in 1976 Talking About Welfare is a collection of essays providing a general survey of the problems facing social welfare. The book introduces a number of philosophers, social workers and social administrators, concentrating on problems in describing a general philosophical orien... More

In the Spring 2012 issue of Southern Cultures…<P><P> Blood rains. Snow falls. Bourbon makes the man. Irish Americans redefine black and white. Camp Wah-Kon-Dah glows in the embers of old memories. The great teacher Arthur Raper opens minds, hearts, and doors. And the creative spaces of geniuses a... More

In the Spring 2012 issue of Southern Cultures...Guest editor Marcie Cohen Ferris brings together some of the best new writing on Southern food for the Summer 2012 issue of Southern Cultures , which features an interview with TREME writer Lolis Elie and Ferris's own retrospective on Southern sociolo... More

In the Fall 2012 issue of Southern Cultures...Guest Editor Ferrel Guillory's special election-year Politics issue features:Five Big Things You Need to Know About the South for this ElectionThe Past, Present, and Future of Southern PoliticsJack Bass on Citizens United, Strom Thurmond, the Southern St... More

In the Spring 2011 issue of Southern Cultures -- The Irish Issue --Front Porch by Harry L. Watson"The authors in this special issue on Ireland and the South argue that the Irish left an outsized imprint on the cultures of the American South and forged a persistent affinity between Ireland and the So... More

The Cruel Radiance of the Obvious, The 2011 Photography IssueTom Rankin, Guest EditorOur second Photography issue features full-color photographs by William Eggleston, William Christenberry, and much more.CONTENTSFront Porchby Harry L. Watson"It requires very special talent to make great photographs... More

The Music Issue enhanced eBook include all the tracks on our special CD and:The tell-all letter from a teenage girl who kissed--and kissed--Elvis Presley How corruption and greed made the Jacksonville music scene Gretchen Wilson, country music's "Redneck Woman" The invaluable social spaces of Afric... More

In the Spring 2010 issue: The Yankee Invasion of the Coastal South, Insiders on Gay Culture & Gender Wars at The Citadel, Remembering Kenny Stabler's Old Redneck Riviera, Full-Color Photographs of What Was Lost (and then Found) Down at the Border, Guts<P><P> Southern Cultures is published quarter... More

In this special Southern Lives issue:* Billy Carter dresses for all occasions.* Virginia Foster Durr opens her home to recently released inmates.* Michael McFee tours the Billy Graham Library.* Septima Poinsette Clark celebrates fellow Civil Rights pioneers.* Albert Murray goes on the record ab... More

The Special Roots Music Issue features:B.B. King on Bukka White's legacy;The Top Ten Folk Singers of All Time;Bob Dylan backstage in '63 and other rare photographic gems; Swamp bluesman Jimmy Anderson's first published interview in the U.S.; Lynyrd Skynyrd vs. the Allman Brothers; Pete, Peggy, & Mi... More

In the Winter 2010 issue of Southern Cultures:<P><P> Hal Crowther takes on H.L. Mencken (and Rush Limbaugh, too);<P> Southerners battle hornets, rattlesnakes, and bears—so they can pick blackberries;<P> Cowboy Troy crosses country music with hip-hop and says his belt buckle is bling;<P> ... More

The Global Southern Music Issue enhanced eBook include all the tracks on Traveling Shoes, our special free CD and:The South meets Senegal as hip-hop goes Trans-Atlantic.Hawaiian steel guitar sways the Southern musical landscape.Poet Allen Ginsberg and bluesman James "Son" Thomas trade verses.Aussie ... More

In the Summer 2013 issue of Southern Cultures:<P><P> Dixie Bohemians and Inner Hillbillies. Poutin’ Houses and Moon Pies. The economics of slavery and the integrity of farming. The Wilmington Insurrection and Wednesday morning miracles. The Summer Issue promises more of what Southern Cultures doe... More

Our Fall 2013 special issue commemorates the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War. Featuring essays on the birth of photojournalism at the Battle of Antietam, the struggle over history and memory in the pages of Confederate Veteran Magazine, a historian's-eye-view of Charleston's Secession Ball, poetry... More

Southern Cultures: The Help Special IssueVolume 20: Number 1 - Spring 2014Table of ContentsFront Porch, by Harry L. Watson"Lauded for her endless gifts and selfless generosity, Mammy is summoned from the kitchen to refute the critics of southern race relations; cruelly circumscribed and taken for g... More

Southern Cultures Volume 20: Number 1 – Summer 2014<P><P> Table of Contents<P><P> Front Porch<P> by Jocelyn R. Neal<P> "One of the challenges—and, simultaneously, deep pleasures—of studying the South is that the disciplinary walls of the academy neither contain nor constrain the work."<P><P>... More

In the Fall 2014 issue of Southern Cultures...From mullet fishing on Brown's Island to shrimping on the Gulf Coast, from recreation on the Great Lakes of the South to coastal tourism in the Sunbelt and tramping in the swampy lowlands of eastern NC, we take a look at tourism's vital role in regional ... More

In the Winter 2012 issue of Southern Cultures…<P><P> The Great Debate: NASCAR vs. College Football<P> Undercover: Inside the World of the Debutante<P> On the Backroads: Country Stores and the Days of Yore<P> A Look at the Numbers: Race and Region in the American South and Beyond<P> Autobiogra... More

In the Winter 2013 issue of Southern Cultures:<P><P> How did we get here? Lebanese in Mississippi, Puerto Ricans in Orlando, Californians at Black Mountain, Tennesseans in Texas, and a bust of a South Carolinian that ended up in the North Carolina Museum of Art. The Winter 2013 issue tells the st... More