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Why, Where, and How are Organizations Using Blockchain in their Supply Chains? Motivations, Application areas, and Contingency Factors (2022)
Journal Article

Purpose Blockchain is increasingly being considered for deployment in operations and supply chain management. However, evidence from practice is still scarce on why, where, and how organizations seek to apply the technology in the supply chain acro... Read More about Why, Where, and How are Organizations Using Blockchain in their Supply Chains? Motivations, Application areas, and Contingency Factors.

Mapping the Supply Chain: Why, What and How? (2022)
Journal Article

There is now widespread appreciation of the critical role played by supply chains in the global economy. Supply chains are dominant concerns for many organisations, governments, policy makers, and consumers. A primary requirement in addressing many o... Read More about Mapping the Supply Chain: Why, What and How?.

Blockchain-enabled supply chain traceability in the textile and apparel supply chain: A case study of the fiber producer, lenzing (2021)
Journal Article

Supply chain traceability is a dominant concern for many industries, regulators, and pol-icymakers. In the textile and apparel industries, social, environmental, and sustainability issues are frequent causes for concern, highlighting the need for eff... Read More about Blockchain-enabled supply chain traceability in the textile and apparel supply chain: A case study of the fiber producer, lenzing.

Group decision support for product lifecycle management (2020)
Journal Article

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems support industrial organizations in managing their product portfolios and related data across all phases of the product lifecycle. PLM seeks to enhance an organization's ability to manage its product develop... Read More about Group decision support for product lifecycle management.

Identifying dynamical instabilities in supply networks using Generalized Modeling (2019)
Journal Article

Supply networks need to exhibit stability in order to remain functional. Here, we apply a Generalized Modeling (GM) approach, which has a strong pedigree in dynamical systems, to study the stability of real world supply networks. It goes beyond purel... Read More about Identifying dynamical instabilities in supply networks using Generalized Modeling.

Best Performance Frontiers for Buy-Online-Pickup-in-Store order fulfilment (2019)
Journal Article

With the proliferation of omni-channel retailing, Buy-Online-Pickup-in-Store (BOPS) retail services have gained increasing popularity as they have benefits for both customers and retailers. However, using conventional retail stores to fulfil orders r... Read More about Best Performance Frontiers for Buy-Online-Pickup-in-Store order fulfilment.

Revealing instabilities in a generalized triadic supply network: a bifurcation analysis (2018)
Journal Article

Supply networks are exposed to instabilities and thus a high level of risk. To mitigate this risk, it is necessary to understand how instabilities are formed in supply networks. In this paper, we focus on instabilities in inventory dynamics that deve... Read More about Revealing instabilities in a generalized triadic supply network: a bifurcation analysis.

Organisational learning in SMEs: a process improvement perspective (2017)
Journal Article

We investigate how Organisational Learning (OL) can occur through Process Improvement (PI) activities, leading to sustained improvements over time in the context of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We study PI practices in six engineering-o... Read More about Organisational learning in SMEs: a process improvement perspective.

Supplier quality improvement: the value of information under uncertainty (2017)
Journal Article

We consider supplier development decisions for prime manufacturers with extensive supply bases producing complex, highly engineered products. We propose a novel modelling approach to support supply chain managers decide the optimal level of investmen... Read More about Supplier quality improvement: the value of information under uncertainty.

Building an innovation-based supplier portfolio: The use of patent analysis in strategic supplier selection in the automotive sector (2017)
Journal Article

With an increasing proportion of external spend allocated to a smaller number of suppliers in their supply base, car manufacturers rely more and more on the performance of key supply chain partners outside their own organisational boundaries, particu... Read More about Building an innovation-based supplier portfolio: The use of patent analysis in strategic supplier selection in the automotive sector.

The automotive order to delivery process: how should it be configured for different markets? (2017)
Journal Article

The order-to-delivery (OTD) process in the volume automotive sector is important for automakers, dealers and customers. It affects the customer's experience with regard to receiving a vehicle that matches their requested specification in a reasonable... Read More about The automotive order to delivery process: how should it be configured for different markets?.

Mean-VaR portfolio optimization: a nonparametric approach (2017)
Journal Article

Portfolio optimization involves the optimal assignment of limited capital to different available financial assets to achieve a reasonable trade-off between profit and risk. We consider an alternative Markowitz's mean-variance model, in which the vari... Read More about Mean-VaR portfolio optimization: a nonparametric approach.

The adoption of vendor managed inventory for hospital pharmaceutical supply (2017)
Journal Article

The study investigates Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) for the supply of medicines between distributors and hospitals to identify factors that may affect VMI adoption. Multiple case studies are conducted involving five organizations (three hospitals,... Read More about The adoption of vendor managed inventory for hospital pharmaceutical supply.

Supply chain evolution: theory, concepts and science (2016)
Journal Article

The supply chain landscape is changing. New supply chains emerge and evolve for a variety of reasons. In this paper we examine the nature of new and changing supply chains and their influences, and address the broad question “What makes a supply chai... Read More about Supply chain evolution: theory, concepts and science.

Decisions as Units of Organisational Knowledge to Manage Complexity (2016)
Conference Proceeding

Effective decision making can help organizations to manage complexity. Here we argue that considering decisions as units of organizational knowledge and providing a means for decision storage, retrieval and reuse can facilitate effective decision mak... Read More about Decisions as Units of Organisational Knowledge to Manage Complexity.

Using a central Vehicle Holding Compound (VHC) in an open pipeline automotive order fulfilment system: a simulation study (2015)
Journal Article

Satisfying requests for specific vehicle variants in a timely manner may increase profit margins for the automotive producer and automotive dealers and may reduce the need to incentivise customers financially to make a purchase. Open pipeline order... Read More about Using a central Vehicle Holding Compound (VHC) in an open pipeline automotive order fulfilment system: a simulation study.

Group Decision Support and Social Software Techniques for PLM Decision Making (2013)
Conference Proceeding

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is a common concern in industry. The whole cycle view allows faster product development with more control of risks and processes. Through PLM quality and effectiveness of product development and planning can be impr... Read More about Group Decision Support and Social Software Techniques for PLM Decision Making.

Decision making and decision support within new product development (2013)
Book Chapter

© 2014 by IGI Global. All rights reserved. There is an extensive literature on new product and process development (NPD). However, the analysis of decision-making and decision support requirements in this area is less well researched. The authors dis... Read More about Decision making and decision support within new product development.

Sustainable collaborative supply networks in the international clothing industry: a comparative analysis of two retailers (2012)
Journal Article

Collaborative supply networks in the international clothing industry are of major economic significance in many countries, particularly in developing economies. The sector has gone through substantial changes in the last decade with the abolition of... Read More about Sustainable collaborative supply networks in the international clothing industry: a comparative analysis of two retailers.

Streamlining the formation of virtual enterprises in the aerospace industry (2006)
Conference Proceeding

The virtual enterprise is an ideal solution to the pace of change in modern markets, where increasingly well-informed customers demand high performance, customised products, with continuing downward pressure on prices and lead times. In meeting custo... Read More about Streamlining the formation of virtual enterprises in the aerospace industry.