Writing Problem and Hypothesis

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Numerous cellular phone subscription
services and cellular phones with novel functions have led
to fierce competition among domestic and global
manufacturers in the Taiwan market. Besides sound
marketing strategies, efficiently transporting and effectively
managing inventory are essential to enhancing operational
performance. However, manufacturers lack an
objective assessment criterion when selecting the
transportation flow of commodities, with previous research
on inventory control strategies for cellular phones adopting
conventional mathematical approaches. Moreover,
cellular phone manufacturers attempting to effectively
respond to fluctuations in demand in the middle and
downstream markets did not consider the delay between
transportation and ordered quantities in available stock, i.e.
an important factor in operational performance.
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For instance, manufacturers having not
estimated transportation of ordered goods and stock
inventory must rely on the subjective judgment of corporate
management. While only 37% of all Taiwanese enterprises
implement inventory management practices, only 19%
have significantly improved in operational performance.
The stock policy, stock cost, service level and lack of an
effective strategy can be analyzed using a dynamic model.
A criterion to assess the operational performance of
enterprises can be designed based on interviews with
experts n the field. According to Project Periodical (2002),
effective stock inventory control can reduce warehouse
space requirements equivalent to a savings of 17% in
overhead costs. Management Journal (2003) indicated
that effectively managing ordered quantities can enhance
operational performance even more than effectively
controlling inventory and transporting ordered quantities
can.
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The inability to improve the transportation of
orders and inventory control makes it impossible to forecast
estimated orders, the interflow of commodities, storage
management practices, fluctuations in market demand, and
changes in the operational performances of cellular phone
manufacturers in Taiwan. Moreover, cellular phone
manufacturers lack an objective criterion to assess the
transportation of commodities to determine their cost
effectiveness, leading to erroneous decisions involving the
transportation of ordered quantities and inventory control.
Therefore, an AHP-based optimal decision
making model must be developed to strengthen the
transportation of ordered quantities and effectively manage
inventory control by analyzing the transportation of ordered
quantities and inventory control of cellular phone
manufacturers in order to enhance operational
performance.
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An AHP-based optimal decision making model
can be developed to strengthen the transportation of
ordered quantities and effectively manage inventory control
by analyzing the transportation of ordered quantities and
inventory control of cellular phone manufacturers in order
to enhance operational performance. To
do so, the transportation of ordered quantities and
inventory control can be evaluated objectively by AHP. The
transportation of ordered quantities and inventory control
can then be analyzed using a dynamic model. Next, a
criterion to assess the operational performance of
enterprises can be designed based on interviews with
experts in the field.
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As anticipated, in addition to identifying the
most economical production circumstances, transportation
procedure and most effective inventory policy, the
proposed AHP-based optimal decision making model can
adopt the best criterion to assess the performance of
cellular phone manufacturers. Moreover, the
proposed model can be used to establish a set of objective
decision systems not only for cellular phone manufacturers
lacking sufficient time and cost analysis data to select the
most effective means of managing transportation of
ordered quantities and inventory control, but also for
researchers attempting to assess the operational
performance of those manufacturers. (NOTE : Add 2 more
sentences that describe more thoroughly how the proposed
method contributes to a particular field or sector)
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Hospitals highly prioritize customer satisfaction as an
important performance index that can increase customer loyalty and,
ultimately, hospital revenues. However, Taiwanese hospitals
lack a uniform questionnaire on customer satisfaction, making it
impossible to compare satisfaction levels as the questionnaire contents
vary among each hospital. (NOTE : Add 2-4 sentences that describe
characteristics of the problem or statistics that reflect its severity)
For instance, while each hospital conducts an annual
query on customer satisfaction, adopting measures to improve
customer relations has generally yielded a poor outcome.
The inability to create a uniform questionnaire on customer satisfaction
nationwide makes it impossible for academic researchers to fully
understand the overall level of customer satisfaction in Taiwan,
possibly causing hospital administrators to make the wrong policy
decisions. Therefore, a questionnaire on customer
satisfaction must be developed, capable of surveying objectively the
market demand and consumer preferences in hospitals island wide.
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A questionnaire on customer satisfaction can be developed,
capable of surveying objectively the market demand and consumer
preferences in hospitals island wide. To do so, a
questionnaire on customer satisfaction can be designed based on
interviews with hospital administrators and relevant documentation.
Questions deemed inappropriate can then be deleted following item
analysis and factor analysis. Next, the questionnaire can be submitted
to patients at Hsinchu General Hospital, with those results
subsequently analyzed. As anticipated, the proposed
questionnaire on customer satisfaction can provide a uniform standard
for hospitals island wide to assess the current market demand and
customer satisfaction. In addition to providing an objective
means of determining the current market demand and level of customer
satisfaction, the proposed questionnaire can provide a valuable
reference for administrators when devising hospital policies. (NOTE :
Add 2 more sentences that describe more thoroughly how the
proposed method contributes to a particular field or sector)
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