Why, Where, and How are Organizations Using Blockchain in their Supply Chains? Motivations, Application areas, and Contingency Factors (2022)
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Ahmed, W. A. H., MacCarthy, B. L., & Treiblmaier, H. (2022). Why, Where, and How are Organizations Using Blockchain in their Supply Chains? Motivations, Application areas, and Contingency Factors. International Journal of Operations and Production Management, 42(12), 1995-2028. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOPM-12-2021-0805

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)
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Maccarthy, B. L., Ahmed, W. A. H., & Demirel, G. (2022). Mapping the Supply Chain: Why, What and How?. International Journal of Production Economics, 250, Article 108688. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2022.108688

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)
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Ahmed, W. A. H., & MacCarthy, B. L. (2021). Blockchain-enabled supply chain traceability in the textile and apparel supply chain: A case study of the fiber producer, lenzing. Sustainability, 13(19), Article 10496. https://doi.org/10.3390/su131910496

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)
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Pasley, R. C., & MacCarthy, B. L. (2021). Group decision support for product lifecycle management. International Journal of Production Research, 59(16), 5050-5067. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2020.1779372

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)
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Demirel, G., Maccarthy, B., Ritterskamp, D., Champneys, A. R., & Gross, T. (2019). Identifying dynamical instabilities in supply networks using Generalized Modeling. Journal of Operations Management, 65(2), 136-159. https://doi.org/10.1002/joom.1005

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)
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MacCarthy, B. L., Zhang, L., & Muyldermans, L. (2019). Best Performance Frontiers for Buy-Online-Pickup-in-Store order fulfilment. International Journal of Production Economics, 211, 251-264. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2019.01.037

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)
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Ritterskamp, D., Demirel, G., MacCarthy, B., Rudolf, L., Champneys, A., & Gross, T. (2018). Revealing instabilities in a generalized triadic supply network: a bifurcation analysis. Chaos, 28(7), doi:10.1063/1.5026746. ISSN 1054-1500

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)
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Matthews, R. L., MacCarthy, B. L., & Braziotis, C. (2017). Organisational learning in SMEs: a process improvement perspective. International Journal of Operations and Production Management, 37(7), 970-1006. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOPM-09-2015-0580

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)
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Quigley, J., Walls, L., Demirel, G., MacCarthy, B. L., & Parsa, M. (2018). Supplier quality improvement: the value of information under uncertainty. European Journal of Operational Research, 264(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2017.05.044

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)
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Trautrims, A., MacCarthy, B. L., & Okade, C. (2017). Building an innovation-based supplier portfolio: The use of patent analysis in strategic supplier selection in the automotive sector. International Journal of Production Economics, 194, 228-236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2017.05.008

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.