3PL providers with advanced IT are expected to lower logistics costs and integrate the supply chain with increased productivity and growth. Here, a set of criteria for choosing the most suitable provider.
While the adoption and use of e-procurement has been prevalent in supply chain management, there is very little research examining the critical role of quality in this context. e-Procurement promises to cut operational costs all across the supply chain, but it also raises the expectations of buyers posing a challenge for buyer satisfaction and supply chain performance. Using the theoretical lens of Dynamic Capabilities Theory and Resource-Based View, we postulate that online information and process act as resources that result in logistics fulfillment capabilities. These capabilities in turn lead to satisfaction with e-procurement. We estimate our research model using structural equation modeling with survey data collected from 131 purchasing and procurement managers. We empirically examine these linkages by analyzing data collected from procurement managers. Our results indicate strong support for the relationships between information flow process quality, logistics fulfillment quality processes, and eprocurement satisfaction performance. One of the surprising findings of our study is that fulfilled order timeliness has a significantly greater impact on satisfaction than fulfilled order accuracy. This finding points to the increasingly important role that the dimension of time plays in today's competitive environment. #
We describe here the construction and initial characterization of a 3-fold coverage genomic library of the human haploid genome that was prepared using the bacteriophage P1 cloning system. The cloned DNA inserts were produced by size fractionation of a Sau3AI partial digest of high molecular weight genomic DNA isolated from primary cells of human foreskin fibroblasts. former include an ability to clone DNA fragments that are up to 95 kb in size in an Escherichia coli host, an ability easily to use those clones to isolate and manipulate microgram quantities of recombinant DNA, an ability to produce libraries with a minimal effort (compared to YACs), and an ability to produce libraries that faithfully represent the genomic source DNA (9-12). In addition, the P1 cloning vector, pADl0sacBII, contains a positive selection for cloning and the vector is organized such that cloned inserts are flanked by rare-cutting restriction enzymes as well as by T7 and Sp6 promoters (4). To determine how well the P1 system is suited for genome mapping and sequencing it is important to produce and evaluate multicoverage P1 libraries. Toward this end a 3-fold coverage mouse library was constructed from cell line C127
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