Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1080/16258312.2023.2171239
Mohammad Reza Rouhani-Tazangi, Mohammad Amin Khoei, D. Pamučar, Benyamin Feghhi
ABSTRACT In this study, essential factors of healthcare supply chain have been investigated. Factors were selected through an integrated approach, in which experts played a pivotal and decisive role in each phase. A novel hybrid methodology comprising Best-Worst-Method (BWM) and Interpretive structural modelling (ISM) is employed. Best-Worst-Method is utilised to determine the different weights of healthcare supply chain agility factors, and ISM and MICMAC analysis are utilising to examine interrelations among final selected factors. A case study in local pharmacies examined the effectiveness of the proposed hybrid model in the real world. The application of the hybrid BWM-ISM method demonstrates that ‘Proper IT infrastructure’ and ‘Strategic planning’ are the most significant factors, respectively. They will facilitate local pharmacies to accomplish agility practices in the healthcare supply chain thus, increasing effectiveness and adaptability to a variety of situations. This research helps public healthcare decision-makers by changing the organisation’s response to critical situations and unexpected events by implementing corrective measures within local pharmacies.
{"title":"Evaluation of key indicators affecting the performance of healthcare supply chain agility","authors":"Mohammad Reza Rouhani-Tazangi, Mohammad Amin Khoei, D. Pamučar, Benyamin Feghhi","doi":"10.1080/16258312.2023.2171239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/16258312.2023.2171239","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this study, essential factors of healthcare supply chain have been investigated. Factors were selected through an integrated approach, in which experts played a pivotal and decisive role in each phase. A novel hybrid methodology comprising Best-Worst-Method (BWM) and Interpretive structural modelling (ISM) is employed. Best-Worst-Method is utilised to determine the different weights of healthcare supply chain agility factors, and ISM and MICMAC analysis are utilising to examine interrelations among final selected factors. A case study in local pharmacies examined the effectiveness of the proposed hybrid model in the real world. The application of the hybrid BWM-ISM method demonstrates that ‘Proper IT infrastructure’ and ‘Strategic planning’ are the most significant factors, respectively. They will facilitate local pharmacies to accomplish agility practices in the healthcare supply chain thus, increasing effectiveness and adaptability to a variety of situations. This research helps public healthcare decision-makers by changing the organisation’s response to critical situations and unexpected events by implementing corrective measures within local pharmacies.","PeriodicalId":22004,"journal":{"name":"Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80195794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-25DOI: 10.1080/16258312.2023.2183709
Listowel Owusu Appiah, Vanessa Queennie Obey
ABSTRACT Extant studies have shown that despite the seemingly beneficial outcomes of social capital, its impact on buyer-supplier relationships could sometimes be detrimental. This study contributes to a scholarly understanding of the mechanism via which the positive outcome of social capital in realised in buyer-supplier relationships. Drawing on the knowledge-based view of the firm, we theorise and provide empirical support for our thesis that joint knowledge creation acts as a conduit through which social capital enhances relationship performance. We used survey data from 113 construction firms in Ghana to test our propositions using the partial least squares structural equations modelling algorithm. Our findings show that social capital, in all its three dimensions contributes to joint knowledge creation in buyer-supplier relationships. Additionally, the relationship between social capital and relationship performance is mediated by joint knowledge creation. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed in the paper.
{"title":"Social capital, joint knowledge creation and relationship performance in buyer-supplier relationships","authors":"Listowel Owusu Appiah, Vanessa Queennie Obey","doi":"10.1080/16258312.2023.2183709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/16258312.2023.2183709","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Extant studies have shown that despite the seemingly beneficial outcomes of social capital, its impact on buyer-supplier relationships could sometimes be detrimental. This study contributes to a scholarly understanding of the mechanism via which the positive outcome of social capital in realised in buyer-supplier relationships. Drawing on the knowledge-based view of the firm, we theorise and provide empirical support for our thesis that joint knowledge creation acts as a conduit through which social capital enhances relationship performance. We used survey data from 113 construction firms in Ghana to test our propositions using the partial least squares structural equations modelling algorithm. Our findings show that social capital, in all its three dimensions contributes to joint knowledge creation in buyer-supplier relationships. Additionally, the relationship between social capital and relationship performance is mediated by joint knowledge creation. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed in the paper.","PeriodicalId":22004,"journal":{"name":"Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78159530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-19DOI: 10.1080/16258312.2023.2178814
Muhammad Ibrahim Shahid, Muhammad Hashim, S. Baig, Umair Manzoor, H. Rehman, Fariha Fatima
{"title":"Managing supply chain risk through supply chain integration and quality management culture","authors":"Muhammad Ibrahim Shahid, Muhammad Hashim, S. Baig, Umair Manzoor, H. Rehman, Fariha Fatima","doi":"10.1080/16258312.2023.2178814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/16258312.2023.2178814","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22004,"journal":{"name":"Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82247515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-09DOI: 10.1080/16258312.2023.2167464
Daniel A. Pellathy, K. Petersen, T. Stank, Chad W. Autry
ABSTRACT Companies continue to report a deep divide between purchasing and logistics, resulting in dysfunctional supply chain operations. This research seeks to add to growing research stream that has begun to look specifically at purchasing-logistics alignment. In particular, this research investigates the impact that both strategic alignment with top management priorities and operational alignment between purchasing and logistics have on the performance of each function. Analysis suggested that purchasing performance was strongly influenced by operational alignment between purchasing and logistics, but that strategic alignment with top management had little appreciable effect. The reverse was found for logistics: strategic alignment had a strong impact on logistics performance while operational alignment between the functions had little impact. While not definitive, the results are thought provoking in that they run counter to established narratives in the literature about which dimension of alignment is expected to be most relevant for driving purchasing and logistics performance, respectively.
{"title":"The impact of organizational alignment at the purchasing & logistics interface","authors":"Daniel A. Pellathy, K. Petersen, T. Stank, Chad W. Autry","doi":"10.1080/16258312.2023.2167464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/16258312.2023.2167464","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Companies continue to report a deep divide between purchasing and logistics, resulting in dysfunctional supply chain operations. This research seeks to add to growing research stream that has begun to look specifically at purchasing-logistics alignment. In particular, this research investigates the impact that both strategic alignment with top management priorities and operational alignment between purchasing and logistics have on the performance of each function. Analysis suggested that purchasing performance was strongly influenced by operational alignment between purchasing and logistics, but that strategic alignment with top management had little appreciable effect. The reverse was found for logistics: strategic alignment had a strong impact on logistics performance while operational alignment between the functions had little impact. While not definitive, the results are thought provoking in that they run counter to established narratives in the literature about which dimension of alignment is expected to be most relevant for driving purchasing and logistics performance, respectively.","PeriodicalId":22004,"journal":{"name":"Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82927253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-07DOI: 10.1080/16258312.2023.2173488
W. Mohammad, Yousef Nazih Diab, Adel Elomri, C. Triki
ABSTRACT In the last decade, e-commerce has been growing consistently. Fostered by the covid pandemic, online retail has grown exponentially, particularly in industries including food, clothing, groceries, and many others. This growth in online retailing activities has raised critical logistic challenges, especially in the last leg of the distribution, commonly referred to as the Last Mile. For instance, traditional truck-based home delivery has reached its limit within metropolitan areas and can no longer be an effective delivery method. Driven by technological progress, several other logistic solutions have been deployed as innovative alternatives to deliver parcels. This includes delivery by drones, smart parcel stations, robots, and crowdsourcing, among others. In this setting, this paper aims to provide a comprehensive review and analysis of the latest trends in last-mile delivery solutions from both industry and academic perspectives (see Figure 1 for overview). We use a content analysis literature review to analyse over 80 relevant publications, derive the necessary features of the latest innovation in the last mile delivery, and point out their different maturity levels and the related theoretical and operational challenges.
{"title":"Innovative solutions in last mile delivery: concepts, practices, challenges, and future directions","authors":"W. Mohammad, Yousef Nazih Diab, Adel Elomri, C. Triki","doi":"10.1080/16258312.2023.2173488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/16258312.2023.2173488","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the last decade, e-commerce has been growing consistently. Fostered by the covid pandemic, online retail has grown exponentially, particularly in industries including food, clothing, groceries, and many others. This growth in online retailing activities has raised critical logistic challenges, especially in the last leg of the distribution, commonly referred to as the Last Mile. For instance, traditional truck-based home delivery has reached its limit within metropolitan areas and can no longer be an effective delivery method. Driven by technological progress, several other logistic solutions have been deployed as innovative alternatives to deliver parcels. This includes delivery by drones, smart parcel stations, robots, and crowdsourcing, among others. In this setting, this paper aims to provide a comprehensive review and analysis of the latest trends in last-mile delivery solutions from both industry and academic perspectives (see Figure 1 for overview). We use a content analysis literature review to analyse over 80 relevant publications, derive the necessary features of the latest innovation in the last mile delivery, and point out their different maturity levels and the related theoretical and operational challenges.","PeriodicalId":22004,"journal":{"name":"Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80005204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-07DOI: 10.1080/16258312.2023.2172956
Ahmed El Maalmi, K. Jenoui, Laila El Abbadi
ABSTRACT Industry in Morocco is facing one of the hardest crises in its history due to the COVID-19 pandemic, companies are managing several changes and reforms in their supply chain based on Industry 4.0 transformation. The objective is to strengthen supply chain resilience and sustainability in front of the environment’s changes and enhance innovation inside the supply chain processes. This paper investigates the main factors empowering this innovation and sustainability. It develops an integrated business model considering six constructs in achieving sustainable supply chain innovation with the mediation of industry 4.0 technological systems. It investigates the COVID-A9 pandemic’s impact on the main factors of the model empowering innovation and sustainability. The evaluation of this model is performed during 2018–2019 and 2020–2021 using the PLS-SEM approach and compared with the CB-SEM approach.
{"title":"Sustainable supply chain innovation: model validity and resilience study in the Moroccan context","authors":"Ahmed El Maalmi, K. Jenoui, Laila El Abbadi","doi":"10.1080/16258312.2023.2172956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/16258312.2023.2172956","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Industry in Morocco is facing one of the hardest crises in its history due to the COVID-19 pandemic, companies are managing several changes and reforms in their supply chain based on Industry 4.0 transformation. The objective is to strengthen supply chain resilience and sustainability in front of the environment’s changes and enhance innovation inside the supply chain processes. This paper investigates the main factors empowering this innovation and sustainability. It develops an integrated business model considering six constructs in achieving sustainable supply chain innovation with the mediation of industry 4.0 technological systems. It investigates the COVID-A9 pandemic’s impact on the main factors of the model empowering innovation and sustainability. The evaluation of this model is performed during 2018–2019 and 2020–2021 using the PLS-SEM approach and compared with the CB-SEM approach.","PeriodicalId":22004,"journal":{"name":"Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89178516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-24DOI: 10.1080/16258312.2022.2159277
N. Tran, Thi Kim Anh Tran
ABSTRACT This article investigates emissions from a container ship fleet’s worldwide operation regarding spatial distribution and negative externality on regional ports. It is the first to study the adverse effects of a mega operator’s transport activities. A bottom-up model is developed to compute emissions using ships’ voyage data and applied in the service network of Maersk Line, the world’s biggest carrier. The fleet of 653 units (3.52 m TEUs) serves a global network with a weekly travelling distance of 1,043,845 miles. Such large-scale activities result in weekly emissions of 683,428 tonnes of CO2 and other pollutants, equivalent to an external cost of €202.3 m. Emissions are primarily released on the focal East-West shipping network to connect East Asia, Europe, and North America. The fleet serves 353 ports in all continents, but focuses mainly on a few strategic spots, leading to most in-port emissions in East Asia, Europe, and the Mediterranean Sea.
{"title":"Environmental effects of Maersk Line’s global container shipping operation","authors":"N. Tran, Thi Kim Anh Tran","doi":"10.1080/16258312.2022.2159277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/16258312.2022.2159277","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article investigates emissions from a container ship fleet’s worldwide operation regarding spatial distribution and negative externality on regional ports. It is the first to study the adverse effects of a mega operator’s transport activities. A bottom-up model is developed to compute emissions using ships’ voyage data and applied in the service network of Maersk Line, the world’s biggest carrier. The fleet of 653 units (3.52 m TEUs) serves a global network with a weekly travelling distance of 1,043,845 miles. Such large-scale activities result in weekly emissions of 683,428 tonnes of CO2 and other pollutants, equivalent to an external cost of €202.3 m. Emissions are primarily released on the focal East-West shipping network to connect East Asia, Europe, and North America. The fleet serves 353 ports in all continents, but focuses mainly on a few strategic spots, leading to most in-port emissions in East Asia, Europe, and the Mediterranean Sea.","PeriodicalId":22004,"journal":{"name":"Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81073825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-24DOI: 10.1080/16258312.2023.2167465
Ahmet Çetindaş, İbrahim Akben, Can Özcan, İlhan Kanuşağı, Oya Öztürk
ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of supply chain agility on firm performance and the role of demand stability in this relationship. Within the scope of the research, by establishing a SEM (structural equation modelling), effects of supply chain agility and demand stability on firm performance were investigated. In addition, the effect of supply chain agility on demand stability is also observed. Analyzes have shown that during COVID-19 pandemic period, supply chain agility positively affects demand stability and firm performance. In addition, demand stability has positively affected firm performances. The mediating role of demand stability was analysed with the Process Macro method and its moderating effect was analysed with multiple regression. Analysis results showed that demand stability has a mediating role in the effect of supply chain agility on firm performance, but it doesn’t have a moderating role.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-20DOI: 10.1080/16258312.2022.2164165
A. Rouquet, Sophie Claye Puaux, Jennifer Lazzeri, Béatrice M. K Meurier
ABSTRACT The idea that a company should integrate its supply chain has dominated logistics and SCM research since the 1980s. While this perspective has advanced our understanding of external integration, the community is increasingly calling to go past it. Building on extant criticism, this conceptual article aims to introduce a new perspective for the study of external integration. Using the problematisation method, we take the alternative stance of organisation theory and meta-organisations to formalise a new, multiple supply chain orchestration perspective. This perspective relies on three assumptions about external integration: 1) differentiation, which states that integration is mostly promoted in supply chains by orchestrators (leader firms and Lead Logistics Service Providers) and meta-orchestrators (standards associations and clusters); 2) interdependence, which states that the integrative actions in supply chains of organisations and meta-organisations are interdependent; 3) embeddedness, which states that integration should be analysed in embedded supply chains. Finally, the paper introduces a research agenda that identifies research questions on external integration.
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