Journal of Global Operations and Strategic Sourcing

Supplier evaluation and selection in the constrained environment of advance purchasing

Surya Prakash, Anubhav Arora, Nilaish , Chandra Prakash, Ashish Srivastava

The purpose of this study is to address supplier evaluation and selection in a constrained environment of advance purchasing. The study presents the potential solutions to…

An integrated Industry 4.0-Sustainable Lean Six Sigma framework to improve supply chain performance: a decision support study from COVID-19 lessons

Jaypalsinh Ambalal Rana, Suketu Y. Jani

The COVID-19 pandemic era has severely hampered the economy over the globe. However, the manufacturing organizations across all the countries have struggled heavily, as…

The pros and cons of reshoring to address the problems of shortages in global pharmaceutical value chains: the case of antibiotics

Enrico Baraldi, Francesco Ciabuschi, Luciano Fratocchi

Antibiotics shortages have become an increasingly common problem in Europe because of several reasons, including the offshoring of the production of active pharmaceutical…

Intertwining green SCM- and agile SCM-based decision-making framework for sustainability using GIVTFNs

Atul Kumar Sahu, Sri Yogi Kottala, Harendra Kumar Narang, Mridul Singh Rajput

Supply chain management (SCM)-embedded valuable resources, such as capital, raw-materials, products, partners, customers and finished inventories, where the evaluation of…

Competitive priorities and capabilities: high-cost country case survey

Per Hilletofth, Olli-Pekka Hilmola

Globalization and the importance of emerging markets have increased the pressure of high-cost manufacturing locations to sustain operations. However, there are still some…

Sustainable competitiveness practices of SMEs: a strategic framework using integrated DEMATEL-NK model

Nikhil Suryakant Ghag, Padmanav Acharya, Vivekanand Khanapuri

It is critical for small and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) to review and monitor sustainability performance indicators across three dimensions: economic, environmental…

Purchasing challenges in times of COVID-19: resilience practices to mitigate disruptions in the health-care supply chain

Renato Araujo, June Marques Fernandes, Luciana Paula Reis, Martin Beaulieu

This study aims to identify supply chain (SC) management practices applied to purchasing capable of improving the resilience of the health-care SC and mitigating the…

Improving the waste to energy supply chain through increased overall equipment effectiveness

Prashan Bandara Wijesinghe, Prasanna Illankoon

The purpose of this study was to improve the overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) of the production process of the shredder operation of ABC company, an industrial waste…

Analysis of performance of Covid-19 vaccine supply chain in India

Chandrasekaran Nagarajan, Indira A., Ramasubramaniam M.

This study aims to analyse the structure of the Indian vaccine supply chain (SC) during the Covid-19 crisis and explore the underlying challenges at each stage in the…

Can circular healthcare economy be achieved through implementation of sustainable healthcare supply chain practices? Empirical evidence from Indian healthcare sector

Amit Vishwakarma, G.S. Dangayach, M.L. Meena, Sumit Gupta, Deepika Joshi, Sandeep Jagtap

Idea of circular economy defies the classical “make-use-dispose” approach of linear economic model. In the context of health-care industry, it relies heavily on the supply…

Supply chain integration and firm performance in the COVID-19 era: the mediating role of resilience and robustness

Rosa Hendijani, Mahdis Norouzi

In recent years, the COVID-19 pandemic has become one of the most impactful disruptions which has imposed high levels of uncertainty on supply chains around the world…

COVID-19 turbulence and positive shifts in online purchasing by consumers: modeling the enablers using ISM- MICMAC analysis

Meenakshi Sharma, Rupesh Kumar, Pradeep Chauhan

Suppliers and marketers have started planning toward postpandemic scenarios where logistics and retail will happen in a new way with the help of technological advances…

Exploring the application of analytics in supply chain during COVID-19 pandemic: a review and future research agenda

Santosh Kumar Shrivastav

This study aims to comprehend the application of analytics in the supply chain during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and identify the emerging themes.

Capturing cross-border logistics for analysis and improvement

Namal Bandaranayake, Senevi Kiridena, Asela K. Kulatunga

Achieving swift and even flow of cargo through the border, the ultimate objective of cross-border logistics (CBL) requires the close coordination and collaboration of a…

Towards measuring SMEs performance amid the COVID-19 outbreak: exploring the impact of integrated supply chain drivers

Fadi Abdelfattah, Mustafa Malik, Abrar Mohammed Al Alawi, Ramzi Sallem, Anirban Ganguly

This study aims to explore supply chain disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic in the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector in Oman. This study analyzes the impact on…

Modelling the drivers of responsiveness of automotive supply chain using an integrated fuzzy DEMATEL-ISM approach

Rinu Sathyan, Parthiban Palanisamy, Suresh G., Navin M.

The automotive industry appears to overcome much of its obstacles, despite the constant struggle facing COVID-19. The pandemic has resulted in significant improvements in…

Procurement system for resilient supply chain amid the COVID-19 pandemic: systematic literature review

Veer Shivajee, Rajesh Kumar Singh, Sanjay Rastogi

This study aims to provide a rich learning opportunity from COVID-19 crisis for making resilient supply chain by adopting new strategies for the procurement system.

Modelling perceived risk in blockchain enabled supply chain utilizing fuzzy-AHP

Sagar Dua, Mohita Gangwar Sharma, Vinaytosh Mishra, Sourabh Devidas Kulkarni

Blockchain has been considered a disrupting technology that can add value in various supply chains differently. The provenance framework matches the four blockchain…

Post-COVID-19 strategic sourcing decisions for escorting stakeholders’ expectations and supplier performance in construction project works

Atul Kumar Sahu, Prabhu M., K.T. Vigneswara Rao

The occurrence of COVID-19 has impacted the wide-reaching dimensions of manufacturing, materials, procurement, management, etc., and has loaded disruptions in the wide…

Optimizing firm's supply chain resilience in data-driven business environment

Mohammad Osman Gani, Takahashi Yoshi, Muhammad Sabbir Rahman

This study aims to investigate the impact of a firm’s supply chain capabilities on supply chain resilience, and the impact of supply chain resilience on sustainable supply…

Application of AHP and G-TOPSIS for prioritizing capabilities and related practices for a mature and resilient supply chain during disruption

Khadija Echefaj, Abdelkabir Charkaoui, Anass Cherrafi, Anil Kumar, Sunil Luthra

The purpose of this study is to identify and prioritize capabilities and practices to ensure a resilient supply chain during an unexpected disruption. In addition, this…

An appraisal of blockchain technology relevance in the 21st century Nigerian construction industry: perspective from the built environment professionals

Andrew Ebekozien, Clinton Aigbavboa, Mohamad Shaharudin Samsurijan

Studies show that the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) technologies can be used to transform the built environment sector in the 21st century. Blockchain technology has…

Crowdsourced product returns in C2B e-commerce: a post-pandemic no-contact consumer incentive-based model

Chitresh Kumar, Anirban Ganguly

This study aims to investigate the conditions for the financial feasibility of an incentive-based model for self-drop or crowdsourced drop of the product to be returned at…

Supply chain management practices, retail outlets attributes and organisational performance: a case of organised food retailers in India

Anil Kumar, Rohit Kumar Singh

The aim of this study is to examine the impact of supply chain management (SCM) practices and retail outlet attributes on the performance of organised food retailers in…

The production and distribution of face masks to other countries: a strategic approach of Taiwan during COVID-19 outbreak

Vimal Kumar, Ha Thi The Nguyen, Ankesh Mittal, Kuei-Kuei Lai

COVID-19 pandemic has exposed that even the best of the developed nations have surrendered to the devastations imposed on the global supply chains. The purpose of this…

Mapping the key challenges and managing the opportunities in supply chain distribution during COVID-19: a case of Myanmar pharmaceutical company

Vimal Kumar, Kyaw Zay Ya, Kuei-Kuei Lai

This study aims to present a study on the supply chain process of a Myanmar-based pharmaceutical company (named ABC Pvt. Ltd. in this study) that produces pharmaceutical…

Investigating social factors and their impact on value co-creation in supply chain ecosystems

Franziska Goetz, Ismail Türkmen, Christoph Buck, Reinhard Meckl

As coopetition often characterizes relationships in ecosystems, social factors are particularly important to ensure resilient and reliable relationships, therefore…

Analysing the interactions of sustainability practices and financial performance on business-to-business buying behaviour in Indian manufacturing industry: a graph-theoretic approach

Mohit Saxena, Nitin Seth

This study aims to develop a framework for the action hierarchy of sustainability practices and financial performance and their optimal combination for supplier evaluation…

Guidelines for public sector managers on assessing the impact of outsourcing on business continuity strategies: a Brazilian case

João Paulo Santos Aragão, Marcele Elisa Fontana

This paper aims to propose guidelines for public sector managers in assessing the impact of outsourcing on business continuity (BC) strategies. This paper evaluated how…

A qualitative study of improving the operations strategy of logistics using radio frequency identification

John Flanagan, Candice McGovern

This study aims to investigate how radio frequency identification (RFID) is used and opinions about RFID in two world-leading logistics companies and four organisations in…

Comparing outsourcing-outlook of manufacturing firms and logistics service providers in India and DACH countries

Dhanavanth Reddy Maditati, Sebastian Kummer, Ziaul Haque Munim, Hans-Joachim Schramm

According to the logistics performance index, emerging countries such as India are lagging behind developed countries such as Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH…

Selection of strategy for reverse logistics implementation

Himanshu Prajapati, Ravi Kant, Ravi Shankar

Reverse logistics has attracted many industries due to product recalls, enormous waste generation, competitive reasons, vast opportunity in the waste management market…

CEOs’ understanding of blockchain technology and its adoption in export-oriented companies in West Sweden: a survey

Viktor Elliot, Jonas Floden, Conny Overland, Zeeshan Raza, Miroslaw Staron, Johan Woxenius, Abhinayan Basu, Trisha Rajput, Gerardo Schneider, Gunnar Stefansson

The purpose of this paper is to study current practices in adopting blockchain technology amongst export companies in West Sweden and to capture their CEOs’ knowledge of…