A sustainable sourcing competence model for purchasing and supply management professionalsOperations Management Research - Tập 15 - Trang 1418-1444 - 2022
Heike Schulze, Lydia Bals, Jon Warwick
In order to implement sustainability standards in practice, capabilities are needed at the organizational level as well as at the individual level. The presented sustainable purchasing and supply management (SPSM) competence model is based on the combination of a systematic literature review (SLR) and a Delphi study. The competence model outlines specific SPSM competences which are divided into fu...... hiện toàn bộ
A processual analysis of the purchasing and supply organization in transition: the impact of offshoringOperations Management Research - - 2016
Godfrey Mugurusi, Lydia Bals
Many companies have resorted to offshoring in order to reduce costs and grow their global market presence. Yet it remains unclear what impact the offshoring strategy has on the purchasing and supply organization (PSO) of these companies. In this paper the nature and type of changes offshoring organizations make within the PSO are examined, i.e. how new purchasing and supply management (PSM) struct...... hiện toàn bộ
Are we operating effectively? A lean analysis of operating theatre changeoversOperations Management Research - Tập 4 - Trang 89-98 - 2011
James O. Meredith, Amy L. Grove, Paul Walley, Fraser Young, Mairi B. Macintyre
Hospital operating theatres are a critical but costly resource in healthcare processes. Their efficiency and utilisation impact upon hospital finances, clinical effectiveness and patient outcomes. Operations management techniques have now been applied widely to optimise flow. An important challenge is to balance the needs of process flexibility, efficiency and work standardisation with clinical re...... hiện toàn bộ
Enabling technologies influencing the start-up operations 5.0Operations Management Research - - 2024
Aswathy Sreenivasan, M. Suresh
The startup industry is experiencing a dynamic and exciting time called Startup 5.0, where technology is quickly transforming how we conduct business, and startups are at the vanguard of this change. This study aims to model the enabling technologies influencing start-up 5.0. The enabling technologies that impact start-up 5.0 are modelled in this research using TISM and MICMAC analysis. According ...... hiện toàn bộ
Two-echelon electric vehicle routing problem with a developed moth-flame meta-heuristic algorithmOperations Management Research - Tập 15 - Trang 891-912 - 2022
Alireza Goli, Amir-Mohammad Golmohammadi, José-Luis Verdegay
Since the last decade, transportation and distribution systems have experienced significant growth and development. Designing distribution systems utilizing electric vehicles is one of the main issues in this field. Accordingly, this research provides a novel solution method for a two-echelon distribution system using electric vehicles. At the first level, the required products are sent from a cen...... hiện toàn bộ
A Scenario-based optimization model to design a hub network for covid-19 medical equipment managementOperations Management Research - Tập 16 - Trang 2192-2212 - 2023
Amir Rahimi, Amir Hossein Azadnia, Mohammad Molani Aghdam, Fatemeh Harsej
The provision of medical equipment during pandemics is one of the most crucial issues to be dealt with by health managers. This issue has revealed itself in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak in many hospitals and medical centers. Excessive demand for ventilators has led to a shortage of this equipment in several medical centers. Therefore, planning to manage critical hospital equipment and tran...... hiện toàn bộ
Factors affecting repurposing operations in Micro Small and Medium Enterprises during Covid-19 emergencyOperations Management Research - Tập 15 - Trang 1181-1197 - 2022
M. Suguna, Bhavin Shah, B. U. Sivakami, M. Suresh
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector plays a substantial role in the overall economic development and employment generation of a country. The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted adversely, and it is inevitably necessary to consider the influence of the pandemic on MSME, which will assist the policymakers in helping in the repurposing operations of the sector. Because of its size, scale of ...... hiện toàn bộ
A hybrid fuzzy-AHP-TOPSIS model for evaluation of manufacturing relocation decisionsOperations Management Research - Tập 16 - Trang 164-191 - 2022
Movin Sequeira, Anders Adlemo, Per Hilletofth
Manufacturing relocation decisions are complex because they involve combinations of location modes like offshoring or reshoring, and governance modes like insourcing or outsourcing. Furthermore, the uncertainty involved in the decision-making process makes it challenging to reach a right-shoring decision. This study presents a hybrid fuzzy-AHP-TOPSIS model to support generic relocation decisions. ...... hiện toàn bộ