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2025

The construction market is playing a massive role in the United States Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Among various industries, construction is a significant sector responsible for 4-8 percent of GDP. Like other sectors, construction markets are susceptible to demand fluctuations, which the economic recession can cause, political decisions, natural disasters, or outbursts of pandemics. The ability to predict the demand rate in the construction market could give the contractors and owners a better understanding of what they need in their short-term and long-term programs and make them more competitive by predicting the needs in workforce demand. The research selected Texas employment data as the focal point due to the size of the construction market and its workforce diversity. Furthermore, Texas has been a hotspot for dozens of hurricanes, also affected by many political bills and economic Turmoil, making results more capable of further generalization. This research used three different methods to predict the total construction employment. Univariate models are applied to the datasets to forecast them based on their previous quantities. Three methods such as autoregressive integrated moving average time series models (ARIMA), supervised learning regressors, and the long-term-short-memories (LSTM), were applied to the construction hiring data extracted from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics website. Generally, LSTM models had the most accurate predictions in most cases, except for Austin, where ARIMA models predicted the dataset accurately.

2025, Journal of Engineering, Management and Information Technology

The paper discusses the modern concept of FMC management model intended for education in accordance with the Industry 4.0 strategy. The concept of managing didactic teaching aids should be based on intelligent interconnection of mechanical engineering, electronics and software, which contributes to the responding to the development of new technologies and business models. The integration of dozens of technologies is supported, some of which having been developed decades ago, but new technologies that are included in this concept are being developed almost daily. Mechanical engineers and specialized technicians trained on such or similar teaching aids are qualified to form cyber-physical systems in the fields of design, construction, and manufacturing.

2025, International Journal of Managing Value and Supply Chains

The purpose of this study was to establish the influence of electronic supplier management practices on supply chain performance of sugar processing firms. The target population is 7,584 employees of sugar processing firms in Kenya and Yamane Taro’s formula was applied to come up with a sample size of 379 respondents. Data was gathered by a questionnaire, interviews and observation. Correlation was used to determine the relationship between E-supplier management practices and Supply chain performance while regression analysis tested the hypothesis. The study established that E-supplier management practices enhances supply chain performance. Two kinds of supply chain are proposed; Managerial and demand. Managerial supply chain where as a result of electronic supplier management practice, flow of goods and services from the suppliers are properly managed through information sharing between the buyer-seller thus improved deliveries. Demand supply chain where as a result of electronic s...

2025, Systemy Logistyczne Wojsk

Przedmiotem artykułu jest funkcjonowanie International Humanitarian City (IHC) jako globalnego centrum logistycznego w zarządzaniu łańcuchem dostaw akcji humanitarnych (HSCM) w wybranych latach. Uzasadnieniem podjętego zagadnienia jest jego znaczenie w kontekście odpowiadania na potrzeby humanitarne ludności głównie Azji i Afryki. Świadczenie międzynarodowej pomocy humanitarnej wymaga zapewnienia rozwiązań logistycznych warunkujących rozwój HSCM. W artykule przyjęto cel badawczy w postaci określenia roli International Humanitarian City (IHC), globalnego centrum logistycznego w międzynarodowym łańcuchu dostaw pomocy humanitarnej w latach 2018-2021. W artykule postawiono hipotezę, że zdrowie, logistyka i schronienie były kluczowymi sektorami w podejściu klasterowym reprezentowanym w działaniach humanitarnych IHC w latach 2018-2021. Znaczenie IHC, międzynarodowego centrum logistycznego wzrosło ze względu na duże potrzeby humanitarne ludności dotkniętej kryzysami w latach 2018-2021. Osi...

2025

From a conceptual point of view it is accepted that in order to understand the business environment of companies we have to look beyond ordinary buyer-supplier relationships and into intricate webs of firms forming networks. The existing literature on buyer-supplier relationships rarely makes a connection between a dyadic and a network approach and most empirical studies fail to catch the complexity of business interactions. This paper, by exploring dyadic relationships within a network context attempts to make relevant contributions to the emerging body of knowledge in this important arena. The main objective of the study is to understand the dynamics of the relationships between a major automotive manufacturer with a network form of organisation and its suppliers located in Portugal. More specifically, this study attempts to capture the nature of the dyadic relationships involved and to identify the factors influencing their nature and development. In this paper an inter-disciplinary approach to inter-organisational relationships is followed, based on the combination of several research streams in which Supply Chain Management, Purchasing and Industrial Marketing appear as the major parent disciplines to the specific topics under investigation. A case study is favoured and in-depth interviews with key informants within both parties are undertaken. A conceptual framework, using Partnering as a central construct, is developed as a basis for the fieldwork. A Dyadic Process Model, constructed in the light of the findings of the case study where connections between contextual factors are specified, is presented. 1

2025

Worldwide, supply chains and markets for food fit f or human consumption recently have faced several safety issues and scandals. This rese arch project thus investigated traceability in meat supply chains. The project stems from current f ar, trading practices and recent legislation. This article reports on investigations using phenomenological paradigm methods to compare literature and empirical observations in bovine meat supply chains. Representative companies of key supply chain stages of bovine prod uct supply and distribution networks were interviewed. Bovine meat supply chains process is ues relating to traceability were identified.

2025, Journal of Cases on Information Technology

Florida began the journey to health information connectivity in 2004 under Governor Jeb Bush. Initially these efforts were funded by grants, but due to the downturn in the economy, the state was unable to support growth in 2008. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 provided funding to further expand health information exchange efforts across the country. As a result, Florida was now able to move forward and make progress in information sharing. Harris Corporation was contracted to provide some basic services to the health care industry in 2011. Since then, the Florida HIE has begun to take shape and information sharing is occurring. The ARRA funding will end in 2014 and the Florida HIE must have a plan to survive into the future. This plan must address challenges such as the recruitment of new users, integration of new services, and ultimately long term sustainability.

2025, Journal of the Textile Institute

To achieve better communication between tbose involved in tbe various aspects of textileapparei distribution (TAD), a general metbodology for the analysis and for tbe management simulation of the logi.stic flows must be implemented by tbe dIfTerent participants. Tbe model derived in tbis paper is based on a bigb-level Petri-net grapbical representation, and several simulations are realised among tbe TAD participants.

2025, Electronics

The COVID-19 pandemic further outlined the importance of global healthcare services provisioning for diagnosing and treating patients who tend to travel and live for large periods away from home and can be anywhere at any given time. Advances in technology enable healthcare practitioners to access critical data regarding a person’s health status to provide better services. Medical data are sensitive in nature, and therefore, a reliable mechanism should ensure that only authorized entities can access data when needed. This paper, through a layered consideration of a Globalized Healthcare Provisioning Ecosystem (GHPE), reveals the interdependencies among its major components and suggests a necessary abstraction to identify requirements for the design of an access control suitable for the ecosystem. These requirements are imposed by the nature of the medical data as well as by the newly introduced potentials of Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) devices. As a result, an attribute-based ...

2025, Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the weaknesses of the U.S. national food system, with grocery store shelves emptied in March and April 2020 and COVID outbreaks reported throughout the summer of 2020 at meat processing plants across the country. Fleetingly, Americans turned to local farms to ensure they could access food safely in a time of uncertainty. This paper examines the economies of community that formed around local farms and how direct engagements between consumers and producers in the face of the pandemic deepened these economic structures that often put community well-being above profits. Within a capitalist system that prioritizes efficient mass production, economies of community illustrate that solidarity can improve local food system resilience. Based on qualitative and quantitative research carried out in the summer of 2020 in New London County in southeastern Connecticut, this research draws on ethnographic interviews with small-scale farmers who developed innovat...

2025, South African Journal of Industrial Engineering

2025

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2025, International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management

Healthcare operations and supply chains are increasingly becoming complex owing to patient's diverse treatment needs along with increased uncertainties in transportation and logistics in healthcare. Hence, healthcare sector requires research attention in ensuring safety and improving ergonomics. To address this issue in this study, we have done an extensive literature review and have identified 79 papers. Furthermore, we have critically reviewed these papers and have classified them according to their contribution in the following sectors in healthcare: healthcare logistics, technology in healthcare, quality in healthcare and waste management in healthcare. We have classified the papers also based on their type of contribution: review, empirical, theoretical framework, case study and simulation/modelling. Lastly, the study identifies several research gaps and develops research questions across each dimension that will be useful for researchers in healthcare for further research.

2025, Proceedings 2004 VLDB Conference

Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) technology enables sensors to efficiently and inexpensively track merchandise and other objects. The vast amount of data resulting from the proliferation of RFID readers and tags poses some interesting challenges for data management. We present a brief introduction to RFID technology and highlight a few of the data management challenges.

2025, International Journal of Supply Chain Management

The contribution of the present investigation is also extended to determine the impact of green supply chain practices in influencing organizational performance. Hence, the understanding drive from such comprehensive approach will aid the manufacturing sector of Malaysia to identify the contribution of local and international institutionsâ€™ pressures in affecting the success of Malaysian green supply chain methods. In this current research, we applied of Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) to discover the four factors are extracted by total twenty-nine items in which all items factor loadings are more noteworthy than 0.70. The results of structural equation modelling confirm that internal green supply chain practice and external green supply chain practice have significantly and positively influenced by institutional pressure. Furthermore, the outcomes of structural equation modelling also certify that, institutional pressure has a positive and significant impact on environmental per...

2025, Arab Gulf Journal of Scientific Research

PurposeThis study empirically tests a conceptual framework that shows how integration practices are significantly associated with supply chain (SC) performance. This study also intends to achieve the following purposes: first, how the performance is influenced by the integration practices, i.e. internal and external; second, to measure the mediating effect of organizational antecedents (market orientation, learning orientation) between integration practices and firm’s SC performance.Design/methodology/approachIn a noncontrived study environment, a cross-sectional study design was used with a questionnaire. The study used a stratified proportionate random sample of 205 managers from manufacturing firms in China. Six hypothesized relationships were examined using the structural equation modeling (SEM) technique in AMOS software, and five were shown to be valid. The proposed model was validated through various techniques.FindingsResults of this study indicate that both external and int...

2025, Diid. Disegno industriale industrial design

Using a life-centered packaging design approach in the context of packaging applications for consumer goods, this paper presents a conceptual model for the concurrent development of packaging, product, logistics process, and supply chain (SC). The objective is to enhance the understanding of packaging logistics and logistics management in SCs and to identify current packaging logistics issues in the SC. The four-dimensional concurrent engineering (4DCE) framework, based on the alignment of and interaction between SC, logistics, packaging, and product, is used to increase overall SC efficiency. The model is applied and tested via three case studies within different industries. The results indicate improved understanding and knowledge-sharing between SC actors, with collaborative efforts leading to an increased overall SC performance.

2025

Packaperforma is a tool developed in order to increase the efficiency, effectiveness and differentiation in the future design of packaging systems. The tool is based on the theory Packaging Logistics Performance. Packaperforma is a further development of Packaging Scorecard and it could be utilized by packaging designers and supply chain managers to see the functions of the packaging system in the logistics processes. This means that the gap between packaging decisions and logistics decisions can be mitigated, as it can share the downstream information with the upstream and the designers. Packaperforma is used to conduct comparative studies in multiple Supply-Demand Chains. A study as such increases the quantity of data in the Packaperforma database that could be used to indicate the performances of the packaging, the agent and the Supply Demand Chains. The paper presents a study on Packaging Logistics Performance, how to evaluate packaging performance; how to collect feedback infor...

2025, Packaging Technology and Science

This paper presents the results from qualitative studies done on leading‐edge companies in supply/demand chain management in Sweden. The aim of the study was to create a knowledge base, identify the network integrators and, with reference to previous studies conducted in the packaging industry, analyse the development for packaging suppliers. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

2025, Complexity

Precise inventory prediction is the key to goods inventory and safety management. Accurate inventory prediction improves enterprises' production efciency. It is also essential to control costs and optimize the supply chain's performance. Nevertheless, the complex inventory data are often chaotic and nonlinear; high data complexity raises the accuracy prediction difculty. Tis study simulated inventory records by using the dynamics inventory management system. Four deep neural network models trained the data: short-term memory neural network (LSTM), convolutional neural network-long short-term memory (CNN-LSTM), bidirectional long short-term memory neural network (Bi-LSTM), and deep long-short-term memory neural network (DLSTM). Evaluating the models' performance based on RMSE, MSE, and MAE, bi-LSTM achieved the highest prediction accuracy with the least square error of 0.14%. Te results concluded that the complexity of the model was not directly related to the prediction performance. By contrasting several methods of chaotic nonlinear inventory data and neural network dynamics prediction, this study contributed to the academia. Te research results provided useful advice for companies' planned production and inventory ofcers when they plan for product inventory and minimize the risk of mishaps brought on by excess inventories in warehouses.

2025, Procedia Computer Science

Similar to many construction works on sites, road repairing workers often have higher safety risks as compared to other industries in Hong Kong. Some of the careless drivers hit the workers who were repairing road accidentally. Besides, as workers often work under hot sunshine for a couple of hours, some of them have accidents due to poor health and heat stress. In this article, we propose to use Internet of Things, robot / robotic arm to alleviate the problem. It also provides useful information on global popularity of these tools with the help from big data.

2025, Journal of Multimedia

Knowledge management (KM) in a business-to-business (B2B) network is a different task than intraorganizational KM. Therefore this conceptual paper searches for an answer to the question of what we should re-search in this more demanding KM environment. We suggest that the social media provides a variety of vehicles for performing organizational learning via KM in B2B networks. Since this is relatively novel research area, we have done a literature review and propose a research agenda in this article.

2025

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2025

The manufacture and support of long life cycle products rely on the availability of suitable parts from competent suppliers which, over long periods of time, leaves parts susceptible to a number of possible long-term supply chain... more

2025, Semina: Ciências Agrárias

The state of Pará has the fifth largest cattle herd in Brazil at 20.3 million heads, and beef cattle breeding accounts for 44.32% of the agricultural production value. Using a recursive econometric model estimated by the generalized method of moments, we evaluated the effects of variables that define the supply and demand of slaughtered beef cattle from 1990 to 2015. The results showed that supply and demand were inelastic to prices. Increases in rural salary and calf prices negatively affected supply, and the response to rural credit applications occurred with a four-year lag due to the biological and technological characteristics of production systems. Deforestation tended to increase the supply of cattle and slaughterhouses appropriated the largest share of the economic surplus generated. There were productivity gains since the early 1990s, with the yield of slaughtered animals was 230.55 kg for cattle and 182.25 kg for cows, while currently, it is 276 and 202.5 kg, respectively....

2025, International Journal of Supply Chain Management

The prime objective of the currents study is to examine the role of the risk management committee in managing the supply chain risk and enhancing the supply chain performance. The three risk measures namely supply chain technology risk, supply chain integration risk and supply chain integration risk are used to conceptualize the firm supply chain risk. The risk management committee is one of a feature of the code of corporate governance which during the last couple of years have widely discussed in the literature in the reference of financial risk management. However, little or no attention has been given to explore the issue with the reference of operational risk management, especially in supply chain risk management. This is among the few pioneering studies being carried out to explore the direct role of risk management committee on firm supply performance and its moderating role on firm supply chain risk and firm supply performance. The SEM-PLS is used to achieve the research obj...

2025, International Journal of Supply Chain Management

The prime objective of the current study is to explore the relationship between supply chain operational performance and firm supply chain management in the reference of agency theory. To further explain the role of agency theory, in the supply chain management we have examined the direct and indirect impact of supply chain operational performance on firm supply chain management. The SMART-PLS is used to achieve the objective of the current stud. The data is collected from the operation managers, production managers and finance managers of manufacturing firms listed in Indonesian Stock Exchange. The results of the study have shown a great deal of agreement with our proposed hypothesis. The corporate governance index comprising of board characteristics appears as a moderator in the relationship between supply chain operational performance and firm supply chain management. The results of the current study are also providing support to agency theory and resource base theory. The study ...

2025, International Journal of Supply Chain Management

Budgets are instruments that managers can use to help them in completing their business activities. Now various countries are focusing budget participation to boost supply chain activities. Objective of the current study is to examine the role of budget participation in supply chain operational performance among Indonesia textile industry. Moreover, moderating role of management control system was also examined. Interactive control system and boundary control system taken as moderating variable. For this purpose, data were gathered from textile companies of Indonesia. Employees of these companies were selected as respondents. Total 500 questionnaires were distributed to collect the data. Partial Least Square (PLS) were utilized as statistical tool to analyse the data. Results shows that budget participation increases the supply chain operational performance. Moreover, management control system also has significant role in supply chain operational performance.

2025, Procedia Computer Science

Supply chain is studied all over the world by a number of researchers who propose description models, analyze quantitatively its efficiency and, more recently, create its digital twins. In the last years, according to some unpredictable events which upset the global economy, supply chain showed the capacity to change itself according to the new constraints but, also, the new opportunities raised. Classical models developed to describe supply chain are not powerful enough to model what today I4.0 pillars allow if we use open innovation as an extraordinary amplifier. Thus, the supply chain changes shape and connections. In this perspective, the paper propose and describe a new construct of supply chain called: Liquid Supply Chain (LiSC). It takes into account also the extraordinary effects of pandemic diffusion of Covid-19 virus and its influence on the companies. A critical comparison with other existing models is proposed and discussed.

2025, Journal of Family Business Management

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between technology and efficiency and effectiveness in the performance of family business halal supply chains.Design/methodology/approachMethodology used in this research is a quantitative method. The research's type is explanatory research with multivariate data analysis methods using partial least square (PLS). Samples used in this research are 100 family halal food businesses in Indonesia.FindingsThe result shows that there is a positive and significant relationship between each technology and effectiveness. Technology can be used to ensure that all supply chain processes follow Sharia procedures effectively in the family halal food business, but on other hand the technology does not show a positive effect on family halal food business efficiency.Research limitations/implicationsFurther research can be done by applying the model provided in this study for other industries. And investigating the model in a big...

2025

Purpose: This paper examines how supplier-firm relationship and firm-customer relationship affect the performances of the firm's working capital management of purchasing channels and marketing channels respectively. Design/Methodology/ Approach: The article selects data of listed companies in manufacturing industry from 2016 to 2017 as a sample, and empirically analyzes the mechanism of supply chain management of manufacturing enterprises that affects the performance of operational working capital management. Findings: Our results reveals that working capital turnover in purchasing channels is adversely related to the timeliness of payments (receivables), which shows that overdue loan (undue credit) decreases the efficiency of working capital management in purchasing channels. Our results also describe that the association between working capital conversion cycle in purchasing channels and the supplier concentration is “U-shaped”, which demonstrate that both centralize and diver...

2025, Indian Scientific Journal Of Research In Engineering And Management

In the current worldwide economy, logistics are essential to guaranteeing the smooth movement of commodities among different businesses. The pigment business, which is necessary for colouring a wide range of goods, including paints and cosmetics, has particular difficulties with logistical management. The objective of this research is to assess the logistical risks that are common in the pigment business and provide ways to reduce them. A mixed-methods approach is used in the research, integrating quantitative and qualitative analysis. In order to identify important risk variables in pigment logistics, qualitative data is gathered through surveys and interviews with stakeholders, logistics managers, and industry experts. These elements include supplier connections, inventory management, transportation, warehousing, and regulatory compliance. Moreover, quantitative analysis evaluates the frequency and seriousness of hazards revealed by statistical techniques. This entails the creation of a methodology for evaluating logistics risk that is specific to the pigment sector and incorporates variables including regulatory changes, supply chain interruptions, demand volatility, and shipping delays. The report suggests a thorough risk-reduction plan for the logistics of the pigment sector based on its results. This plan includes preventative actions including expanding the variety of transportation routes, implementing sophisticated inventory control systems, creating backup plans, and improving supplier cooperation. This study's consequences go beyond the pigment business; it provides insights that may be applied to other areas of logistics management. Through the investigation of the particular logistical issues encountered by pigment producers, this study enhances the resilience, efficiency, and overall sustainability of the supply chain.

2025, Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie

German seaports are in a phase of far-reaching structural change. Increasing globalisation of the economy has led to gowing international trade volume and a corresponding increase in transport streams. Economic changes are particularly marked in the Baltic region which affects, above all, the German Baltic seaports. The two large container ports of Hamburg and Bremen/Bremerhaven are primarily faced with economic and technical-organkational changes in intercontinental container transport. Restructuring of the ports is currently governed by an adjustment of port infrastructures to the changed requirements of transport and services, and an extension of hinterland relations. Changes in the institutional and Financial structures of German ports are likely in view of the chronic crisis situations of public budgets and the attempts of the European Commission to apply the principle of spreading costs fairly to all European ports, on the basis of standardised cost recording and accounting. The introduction of containers resulted in spiralling labour productivity, with a consequent loss in jobs in the operative core area of the port economy. In view of this forced logistic structural change ports become 'container floodgates', a 'logistic channel' through which cargo passes. Most port regions are attempting to counteract the job decline in the operative function sector carried out by the seaport through developing the services offered towards "value-added logistics". The functional changes of ports modify economic linkages of ports and regions. The immediate linkages of ports and sea-oriented industries are decreasing and differentiated economic and social networks are emerging in the shape of transport and logistic service centres, although their interlinked relations are no longer one-sidedly port-based.

2025, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering

The article focuses on the issues of transformation of labour relations between employers and employees of Russian and Italian enterprises due to the processes of digitization which determine the possibility of introducing new technologies in the organization of labour. One of the objectives of the research presented in the article is to analyse the advantages and shortcomings of the new management philosophy, to assess the impact of its introduction into the organization of work on the employee well-being and the level of social pollution in the sphere of labour relations. The case study method was used in the framework of an integrated approach, and was supplemented with an analysis of the narratives of Italian and Russian employees of enterprises operating in the information services industry. A comparative analysis of the empirical data obtained by the authors revealed the similarities and differences in the conditions and processes related to the introduction of the smart worki...

2025, Pakistan Journal of Scientific Research

Organizations are nowadays focusing on utilizing the latest technologies to reduce the overall manufacturing costs without compromising on the product quality, and getting a competitive advantage. Lean principles are hence the mostly used manufacturing principles to get this objective of increased productivity by lowering the waste. Lean management and implementation is surely a complete teamwork as we can say, but is still majorly dependent on the senior management of any organization. This study goes with the purpose of investigating the criticality of the role of the senior or executive level management in the successful implementation of the lean manufacturing principles and how much difference it’s going to show with the current scenarios. The data has been collected by sending a questionnaire, which has 8 statements, targeting on the critical success factors, to the top management of 50 automotive manufacturing organizations of Karachi. The lean manufacturing trend and the inv...

2025

As the competition among manufacturing organizations is getting tough the only choice left to manufacturers is to have an integration between the customer and the manufacturer at various stages of the product i.e. design, manufacturing, sales and marketing etc. The information which results in this integration can be used to set up modular production facilities. This well informed system which is a smart system right from the design stage to the customer service stage overcomes all limitations which was not possible before and thus helps in the success of agile manufacturing whereas the concept of Industry 4.0 refers to the notion of smart manufacturing works where live data sharing among intelligent machines ends up providing an intelligent manufacturing system. Researchers in this paper examine the similarity of 4 industrial revolution and agile manufacturing concepts. This paper indicates that Small and Medium Enterprises can positively commit into the new concept of industry 4.0...

2025, The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

As the competition among manufacturing organizations is getting tough the only choice left to manufacturers is to have an integration between the customer and the manufacturer at various stages of the product i.e. design, manufacturing, sales and marketing etc. The information which results in this integration can be used to set up modular production facilities. This well informed system which is a smart system right from the design stage to the customer service stage overcomes all limitations which was not possible before and thus helps in the success of agile manufacturing whereas the concept of Industry 4.0 refers to the notion of smart manufacturing works where live data sharing among intelligent machines ends up providing an intelligent manufacturing system. Researchers in this paper examine the similarity of 4 th industrial revolution and agile manufacturing concepts. This paper indicates that Small and Medium Enterprises can positively commit into the new concept of industry 4.0 with the perception that they can become more flexible and responsive. However, there is an increasing need for future research to include and emphasize the importance of flexible manufacturing and mass customization.

2025, International journal of humanities and social sciences

This study, using mixed method, investigates the integrated pattern of human resources development with Focusing on the organizational culture improvement in the Ministry of Justice. The aim of the research is to design an integrated pattern of human resources development with a view to improving organizational culture, identify the dimensions and components and prioritize the factors of the model. The main question of the research asks: what does the integrated pattern of human resource development with a view to improving organizational culture in the Governmental Reprimand Organization look like? In this study, two statistic population were defined; the population of experts for qualitative analysis by using interviews and the population of the organization under the study for quantitative analysis by using questionnaire. In the qualitative analysis management factors, personal factors, employee engagement and career development path, the independence of staff in the performance ...

2025, arXiv (Cornell University)

Integrating on-chain and off-chain data storage for decentralised and distributed information systems, such as blockchain, presents specific challenges for providing transparency of data governance and ensuring data integrity through stakeholder engagement. Current research on blockchain-based supply chains focuses on using on-chain governance rules developed for cryptocurrency blockchains to store some critical data points without designing tailored on-chain governance mechanisms and disclosing off-chain decision-making processes on data governance. In response to this research gap, this paper presents an integrated data governance framework that coordinates supply chain stakeholders with inter-linked on-chain and off-chain governance to disclose on-chain and off-chain rules and decision-making processes for supply chain transparency and integrity. We present a Proof-of-Concept (PoC) of our integrated data governance approach and suggest future research to strengthen scaling up and supply chainbased use cases based on our learnings.

2025, Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent Manufacturing and Automation

Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of five dimensions of green supply chain management (GSCM) practices (i.e. internal environmental management, green purchasing, cooperation with customers, eco-design, and investment recovery) on three dimensions of organizational performance (i.e. environmental, economic and operational performance). Design/methodology/approach -Data were collected based on a cross-sectional survey of managers of 160 manufacturing firms in India. Structural equation modelling was used to test the influence of GSCM practices on each of the organizational performance outcomes. Findings -Except for internal environmental management and green purchasing, all other GSCM dimensions are found to significantly impact at least one of the performance dimensions, either directly or indirectly. The results highlight that investment recovery practice is a key predictor of environmental performance, whereas eco-design is a key predictor of operational performance. The structural equation modeling result also suggests that GSCM do not directly affect economic performance, but can improve it indirectly. Research limitations/implications -Since data was collected from managers of manufacturing firms on the basis of their subjective evaluations, future research studies should employ objective performance indicators for analysis. Also, the study did not consider some dimensions of GSCM practices, which can be included in future studies. Practical implications -Manufacturing firms should implement GSCM practices not just because of the pressure from regulatory bodies but also to elevate their environmental, operational and economic performance. The proposed model in this paper suggests practitioners which GSCM factors are driving these performance changes and supports the building of a roadmap for GSCM implementation in their organization. Originality/value -Manufacturing firms from four different operating sectors, namely automotive, electrical and electronics, process and machinery sectors are the respondents. The originality of the paper lies in testing the influence of GSCM practices on organizational performance in a novel context, where most GSCM initiatives fail for one reason or another. Furthermore, the assessment of the interaction between five constructs of GSCM practices and three constructs of organizational performance in the Indian manufacturing context offers unique conceptual contribution to the researches in the GSCM field.

2025, Sustainability

Management of tire waste is an important aspect of sustainable development due to its environmental, economical and social impacts. Key aspects of Reverse Logistics (RL) and Green Logistics (GL), such as recycling, re-manufacturing and reusable packaging, can improve the management of tire waste and support sustainability. Although these processes have been performed with a high degree of efficiency in other countries such as Japan, Spain and Germany, the application in Mexico and Russia has faced setbacks due to the absence of guidelines regarding legislation, RL processes, and social responsibility. Within this context, the present work aims to develop an integrated RL model to improve on these processes by considering the RL models from Russia and Mexico. For this, a review focused on RL in Mexico, Russia, Japan and the European Union (EU) was performed. Hence, the integrated model considers regulations and policies performed in each country to assign responsibilities regarding R...

2025, Engineering and Technology Journal

Mechanical integrity and risk analysis for power stations are often based on few failure data. The risk issue is to reduce and forecast future failure and corrective actions taken to mitigate down time. The power station has been acquiring equipment failure data for many years. Seldom is the data analyzed in a scientific manner, and rarely the acquired data used to solve their maintenance problem. The objective of this paper is to mine piles of existing data and how age to failure data can be in a thoughtful manner and used for reliability and availability purposes. Weibulll graph is used for the failure data.

2025, Research Paper

The transition from coal to oil unleashed modern capitalism anchored in supplychain(s). Consequently, business organizations were born along with the Management and Chemical Sciences, to commence with. The academic disciplines proliferated to match the rise of the Hydro Carbon Man and oil based global society. Oil went metaphysical. The post-World War II (WWII) world was an American configured supply-chain with Europe and East Asia as the Eurasian centers of gravity. It was a world-order radiating influence across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. America dominated the chain economically and strategically, until, the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) challenged to reconfigure the configuration. The BRI is an ongoing mapping of the Chinese world-order and the concomitant supply-chain. The six-corridors including the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and the three sea-routes are structural frameworks across Eurasia, Mediterranean Sea, Africa and the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It involves the higher, middle and lower ends of the entire supply-chain. China is creating a new map of the world, a new world-order as China perceives it. There is an Orbit. Chinese perception is trans-cultural. It is truly global. The Made in China 2025 concept and the brands symbolize. The strategic-management of a management-chain manifests an intended supplychain. The idea is to organize things in a certain way. The objective is to create a new world economy with China as its pulsating heart. Plus, China is already vital to the global manufacturing value chain. The perception of CPEC is melodious of all melodies. Also, Eurasia is central to the BRI, as it was to the post WWII America. The concepts of Indo-Pacific and Asiatic Mediterranean have also emerged as a supply chain anchored in the Quadrilateral Security Initiative (Quad). The interests are clashing. The unleashing of tariffs and counter-tariffs indicate, not to mention the arms sales and strategic undertakings. Washington and Beijing have embarked upon different paths. Both the initiatives are geopolitical. The context is global politics. Eurasia is the strategic fulcrum. Besides, Russia perceives itself as the Eurasian centre of gravity. The inner core of Eurasia is a challenge. Europe also is a player. Likewise, the Indian perceptual arc stretches from Suez Canal to Malacca Strait. And the Japanese with their history and infrastructure projects are not far behind. The reality is power and influence. The absence of pre-determinism is curious. Uncertainty is an inductive fact. The strategic environment is competitive. A gap exists on the theme in knowledge. This macro-level paper with empiric-analytic reason as a method will add to the perspective to help make decisions.

2025, International Journal of Progressive Sciences and Technologies

The Purpose of this literature review is to provide a taxonomy of value stream mapping research and, based on that, to develop a research agenda for this field of study in relation to study population and research design. The proposed value stream mapping research classification framework is based on a comprehensive literature review, which concentrates on peer-reviewed journal papers published within the period 2002-2020. A total of 83 academic sources have been retrieved and analyzed interms of research purpose and nature, methodology employed, theoretical approach and level of analysis. The review reveals that value stream mapping research is empirical-descriptive in nature and that it generally lacks a sampling design foundation and a tin study population. It identifies certain knowledge gaps and develops sixe propositions for future research. It suggests that focus should be directed towards more conceptual model, mathematical model, interviews, empirical triangulation (mixed m...

2025, International Journal of Progressive Sciences and Technologies

2025

I wish to acknowledge and give special thanks Dr. Juliana M. Namada for her guidance, patience and professionalism throughout my project, my parents, siblings and fellow classmates for their support. I would like to thank the almighty God for his support and providence during this study. My sincerest appreciation also goes to my research lecturer Dr. Kiriri for his time and valuable skills shared that were crucial to undertake theproject. vi DEDICATION I would like to dedicate this project to my parents , Harriet Nadunga and Benjamin Osuga, and my fellow classmates who have walked with me in the long journey for the thirst for knowledge during the whole duration of my study at USIU -Africa, and specially for their support and motivating me as I worked on myproject.

2025, Omega

Newsvendor models are widely used in the literature, and usually based upon the assumption of risk neutrality. This paper uses loss aversion to model manager's decision-making behavior in the single-period newsvendor problem. We find that if shortage cost is not negligible, then a loss-averse newsvendor may order more than a risk-neutral newsvendor. We also find that the loss-averse newsvendor's optimal order quantity may increase in wholesale price and decrease in retail price, which can never occur in the risk-neutral newsvendor model.

2025, Decision Sciences

ABSTRACTThis articles considers a decentralized supply chain in which a single manufacturer is selling a perishable product to a single retailer facing uncertain demand. It differs from traditional supply chain contract models in two ways. First, while traditional supply chain models are based on risk neutrality, this article takes the viewpoint of behavioral principal–agency theory and assumes the manufacturer is risk neutral and the retailer is loss averse. Second, while gain/loss (GL) sharing is common in practice, there is a lack of analysis of GL‐sharing contracts in the supply chain contract literature. This article investigates the role of a GL‐sharing provision for mitigating the loss‐aversion effect, which drives down the retailer order quantity and total supply chain profit. We analyze contracts that include GL‐sharing‐and‐buyback (GLB) credit provisions as well as the special cases of GL contracts and buyback contracts. Our analytical and numerical results lend insight in...

2025, IFIP advances in information and communication technology

Life cycle assessment (LCA) can help enterprises evaluate their product's environmental impacts through the entire product life cycle (PLC). On the basis of the evaluation result, phases which need to take activities to reduce the environmental impacts can be found out. However, the activities taken in a phase may influence the environmental impacts in other phases, so the effect of the activities should be re-evaluated. Under the pressure from the market, enterprises need to assess the effect of these activities quickly. Nevertheless, re-evaluate by using conventional LCA is a time-consuming work. This paper proposes a novel approach to re-evaluate the environmental impacts of product based on LCA and Pareto rule which can reduce the time of assessment. A printed circuit board (PCB) case study is conducted using this approach. The outcome shows that the new approach can re-evaluate the environmental impacts more efficiently without influence the validity.