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A multi-objective integrated optimisation model for facility location and order allocation problem in a two-level supply chain network
(Springer, 2023) Hamzeh Amin-Tahmasbi; Sina Sadafi; Banu Yetkin Yetkin Ekren; Vikas Kumar; Amin-Tahmasbi, Hamzeh; Kumar, Vikas; Sadafi, Sina; Ekren, Banu Y.
This study proposes a mixed-integer multi-objective integrated mathematical model solving facility location and order allocation optimisation problems simultaneously in a two-echelon supply chain network. The proposed problem is motivated by a factoryless concept and by providing a dynamic decision-making solution under a multi-period time horizon. Within the model we also determine the optimal replenishment number of production facilities by the multi-objective functions. The multi-objective functions include minimisation of the total cost rejected and late delivery units and maximisation of the assessment score of the selected suppliers. The studied dynamic decision model is significant for the cost-efficient management of companies’ supply chain networks. The mixed-integer mathematical model is developed by the LP-metric method and it is solved by the GAMS optimisation software. Due to the NP-hard structure of the problem for large-scale instances we utilise the Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimisation (MOPSO) and Multi-Objective Vibration Damping Optimisation (MOVDO) heuristic solution approaches. Numerical results show that for large-scale problems the MOPSO method performs better in Pareto solutions and decreases run times. However the MOVDO method performs better regarding the Mean Ideal Distance and the Number of Solutions Cover surface criterion. The developed solution approach by this paper is a generic model which can be applied for any two-level network for simultaneous optimisation of supplier selection location determination of facilities and their replenishment amounts. © 2023 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Additive manufacturing integration in E-commerce supply chain network to improve resilience and competitiveness
(Elsevier B.V., 2023) Banu Yetkin Yetkin Ekren; Nikolaos D. Stylos; Jeremy Zwiegelaar; Ecem Eroğlu Turhanlar; Vikas Kumar; Stylos, Nikolaos; Turhanlar, Ecem Eroglu; Zwiegelaar, Jeremy; Kumar, Vikas; Ekren, Banu Yetkin
In light of recently increased e-commerce also a result of the COVID-19 pandemic this study examines how additive manufacturing (AM) can contribute to e-commerce supply chain network resilience profitability and competitiveness. With the recent competitive supply chain challenges companies aim to decrease cost performance metrics and increase responsiveness. In this work we aim to establish utilisation policies for AM in a supply chain network so that companies can simultaneously improve their total network cost and response time performance metrics. We propose three different utilisation policies i.e. reactive proactive – both with 3D printing support – and a policy excluding AM usage in the system. A simulation optimisation process for 136 experiments under various input design factors for an (s S) inventory control policy is carried out. We also completed a statistical analysis to identify significant factors (i.e. AM holding cost lead time response time demand amount etc.) affecting the performance of the studied retailer supply chain. Results show that utilising AM in such a network can prove beneficial and where the reactive policy contributes significantly to the network performance metrics. Practically this work has important managerial implications in defining the most appropriate policies to achieve optimisation of supply network operations and resilience with the aid of AM especially in times of turbulence and uncertainty. © 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Adopting Industry 4.0 by leveraging organisational factors
(ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2022) Deepak Kumar Srivastava; Vikas Kumar; Banu Yetkin Ekren; Arvind Upadhyay; Mrinal Tyagi; Archana Kumari; Upadhyay, Arvind; Srivastava, Deepak Kumar; Kumari, Archana; Tyagi, Mrinal; Kumar, Vikas; Ekren, Banu Yetkin
The manufacturing sector needs to focus on social environmental and technological factors to integrate Industry 4.0 in production planning logistics and supply chains. Technical Education Institutes (TEIs) can play a key role in achieving this ambition as they are responsible for the workforce of the digital future. To this end a learning factory is often referred to as a realistic manufacturing environment. However the existing research regarding the successful adoption of a learning factory based on Industry 4.0 is scant in the literature. We therefore aim to address this research gap by examining key factors that affect the decision to adopt Industry 4.0 in technical education institutes. We have adopted the theoretical lens of the Technology-Organisation-Environment (T-O-E) framework to study industry 4.0 adoption in TEIs. The findings based on 134 valid responses from TEIs in India indicate that the organisational dimension is critical in determining whether or not to adopt Industry 4.0. Our study shows that top management support internal resources and the capabilities of the teaching staff are vital for the adoption of Industry 4.0. Additionally our findings indicate that significant differences exist between public and private TEIs concerning the adoption of Industry 4.0.
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Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on Sustainable Food Supply Chains
(MDPI, 2022) Yigit Kazancoglu; Melisa Ozbiltekin-Pala; Muruvvet Deniz Sezer; Banu Y. Ekren; Vikas Kumar; Ozbiltekin-Pala, Melisa; Sezer, Muruvvet Deniz; Kazancoglu, Yigit; Kumar, Vikas; Ekren, Banu Y.
Recently it has become an important issue to ensure sustainability especially in food supply chains against the rapidly growing population increasing demand and sudden disruptions caused by uncertain times such as that caused by COVID-19. Since food supply chains has vulnerable products and processes it is critical to understand the sustainability factors of food supply chains especially in uncertain times such during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aims to determine sustainability factors of food supply chains. An Interpretive Structural Modelling method is used to state the relations between sustainability factors of food supply chains. As a result of the study Information Sharing and Managerial Approaches are classified as driving factors, Food Safety and Security Know-How Transfer Logistics Networking Risk Mitigation Employee Commitment Innovation Traceability and Responsiveness are categorized as linkage factors. This article will be beneficial for managers in helping them develop sustainable food supply chains during uncertain times by focusing on traceability information sharing know-how transfer food safety and security.
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Blockchain technology and the circular economy: Implications for sustainability and social responsibility
(ELSEVIER SCI LTD, 2021) Arvind Upadhyay; Sumona Mukhuty; Vikas Kumar; Yigit Kazancoglu; Upadhyay, Arvind; Mukhuty, Sumona; Kumar, Vikas; Kazancoglu, Yigit
Blockchain technology is a revolutionary new protocol for sharing and updating information by linking ledgers or databases in a decentralised peer-to-peer open-access network. Blockchain is designed to ensure the data is stored and updated in a secure tamper-proof and irreversible way. Despite being in its nascent stages the blockchain research is developing rapidly in different fields making it imperative to capture the ethical and sustainability implications of blockchain development and implementation. The circular economy also focuses on enhancing sustainability and social responsibility alongside economic growth. In this article we critically review blockchain technology?s current and potential contribution to the circular economy through the lens of sustainability and social responsibility. This paper contributes to the Industry 4.0 literature by identifying collating and organising the disparate research on blockchain with a critical focus on its positive impact and potential repercussions for the ethics agenda. Within this narrative review we argue and highlight the extant and potential alignment of blockchain with circular economy. Our findings show that blockchain technology can contribute to the circular economy by helping to reduce transaction costs enhance performance and communication along the supply chain ensure human rights protection enhance healthcare patient confidentiality and welfare and reduce carbon footprint. We also evaluate the challenges to blockchain implementation for circular economy in terms of trust illegal activities potential for hacking and the need to address these through suitable legislation and policy development. Furthermore we acknowledge the potential upfront costs involved in implementing blockchain technology although we observe that the benefits are likely to exceed the challenges. We conclude this article with recommendations for future research in this field. ? 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Engineering education towards industry 4.0
(IEOM Society ieom-society@iieom.org, 2020) Banu Yetkin Yetkin Ekren; Vikas Kumar; Kumar, Vikas; Ekren, Banu Y.
Many countries are now entering the stage of the Fourth Industrial Revolution also referred to as Industry 4.0 in which technological advances enable disruptive changes in the industry. Industry 4.0 development changes the way people work and the work is organized. Currently there is a lack of qualified workers capable of undertaking the jobs of the Industry 4.0 and unfortunately many schools and universities are still training students behind the Industry 4.0. The new industry 4.0 developments have created requirement of new cross-functional roles on the emerging knowledge and skills combining information technology (IT) and production. Therefore it is important to understand the characteristics of knowledge and skills required for the future of jobs and engineering profiles to determine the emerging patterns in the delivery of new education requirements of Industry 4.0. This work aims to address how the future of higher education should be towards Industry 4.0 developments for engineering faculties. We also aim to present what the technological trends in education as well as how the universities are required to integrate the new innovative and multidisciplinary approaches in teaching and how to stimulate entrepreneurial and digital skills in higher education and boost curricula adjustments. © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Evaluation of fuel production technologies by using renewable energy for smart cities
(Elsevier, 2022) Celal Hakan Canbaz; Orhan Ekren; Banu Yetkin Yetkin Ekren; Vikas Kumar; Ekren, Orhan; Canbaz, Celal Hakan; Kumar, Vikas; Ekren, Banu Y.
Fuels that are environment-friendly resources play a vital role in the development of economies. Each fuel resource has intensive however inadequate specifications in terms of security sustainability capacity to compete with other sources. Although oil and gas resources lead the way of fuel production due to their low cost alternative sources such as wind and solar renewable energy and nuclear energy have also gained popularity forcing the technological development of fuel production technologies. Hydrogen is a source for the production of energy by using any energy resource. In this chapter we investigate the latest fuel production technologies providing energy outputs from renewable energy resources for their usage in smart cities. We study the role of renewable resources under the current dynamics of the global energy market situation as well as the effects of fuel production technologies to increase the efficiency and sustainability for the future of smart cities. This review includes a broad spectrum that spans from the technical energy resources literature with very comprehensive research by using SCOPUS database to nontechnical but renowned resources including journals and other publications including raw data as well as forecasts and opinions that respected experts have performed. Specifically solar and wind production technologies as well as future forecasts compared with the conventional fuel resources are reviewed comprehensively. By that we aim to shed a light on the current status of fuel production technologies in renewable energy resources and their usage in smart cities. © 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Exploring the Drivers and Barriers to Green Supply Chain Management Implementation: A study of Independent UK Restaurants
(ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2020) Sophie Meager; Vikas Kumar; Banu Ekren; Daniela Paddeu; Paddeu, Daniela; Meager, Sophie; Kumar, Vikas; Ekren, Banu; GC Vosniakos; M Pellicciari; P Benardos; A Markopoulos
This is an exploratory study into the drivers and barriers faced by independent restaurants when implementing green supply chain management (GSCM) practices. There is a limited evidence in the literature that attempts to explore GSCM implementation practices in the restaurant industry. The study follows a qualitative interviewing and grounded theory approach. Analysis of the results revealed that restaurants experience many of the same drivers and barriers identified in the existing literature with notable exceptions such as the drivers of company ethos and a media focus. Whereas the key barriers emerged from the study are logistics skepticism corporate lying and the owner's financial responsibility. These findings could be indicators of the wider experience of the UK independent restaurant industry. The study contributes to the literature by offering an insight into how the previously unstudied experiences of UK independent restaurants are similar and different to that of the larger restaurant chains and SMEs in other industries. (C) 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Future of Engineering Education: Cyber-Physical Systems Engineering
(SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG, 2022) Banu Yetkin Ekren; Vikas Kumar; Kumar, Vikas; Ekren, Banu Yetkin; F Calisir
Recent Industry 4.0 developments have created disruptive changes in industries. It has also changed the way people work and the required skills of the workforce for the future. This new technological advancement has created a requirement of workforce combining information technology (IT) and production knowledge. Unfortunately many schools and universities have still been training students behind Industry 4.0 developments and requirements. Therefore it is important to understand what characteristics and knowledge as well as skills are required for the future of j obs and engineering profiles to shape the new education requirements. This paper aims to address the future of engineering education specifically by focusing on a promising engineering department that is the cyber-physical systems (CPS) engineering. We also aim to discuss how the curriculum of that novel discipline CPS engineering should be for the future of engineering requirements.
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Impact of New Technology on Sustainability of Supply Chains: Empirical Evidence from Manufacturing SMEs in China
(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2021) Ruibing Shi; Vikas Kumar; Banu Yetkin Yetkin Ekren; Shi, Ruibing; Kumar, Vikas; Ekren, Banu; V. Kumar , J. Rezaei , V. Akberdina , E. Kuzmin
New manufacturing technology can provide useful competitive advantages for enterprises to deal with fierce competition and help them look for a better solution to production and operation management improving the quality of product services. New technology can also promote enterprises to obtain sustained economic social and environmental benefits. This study therefore focuses on investigating the impact of technology on the sustainability of supply chains in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the Pearl River Delta region of China. The findings are based on 100 valid survey responses from SMEs in the region. The study identifies a set of enablers and barriers to new technology implementation in manufacturing SMEs. Our findings show that the economic factors occupy the central position whereas the market pressures from home and abroad, the vision of the enterprise’s development, and the apparent advantages of new technologies were identified as other key enablers. On the contrary the driving force from the government was found to be insufficient whether it is a relatively free market regulatory environment or tax-free welfare policies for small businesses to promote the use of new technologies. The high production cost appears to be the most critical barrier followed by vicious competition among enterprises in the industry and lack of technical personnel. Our findings also show that enablers and barriers of new technology implementations are significantly correlated with sustainability performance measures (economic social and environmental performance). Our study hence adds to the limited empirical literature focused on investigating the new technology and sustainability relationship. © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Inventory Share Policy Designs for a Sustainable Omni-Chanel E-commerce Network
(MDPI, 2020) Damla Izmirli; Banu Yetkin Ekren; Vikas Kumar; Kumar, Vikas; Izmirli, Damla; Ekren, Banu Yetkin
This paper studies inventory share policies for sustainable omni-channel e-commerce supply network design by seeking for a good integration policy of online and offline retailers so that the overall supply network reduce its cost environmental negative impacts by the decreased number of shipments from the main depot and increase its responsiveness. By the recent advancement in information technologies and internet use e-commerce practice gained popularity also to keep up with the competitive environment. The increased competitive supply chain environment has revealed the business-to-business (B2B) concepts enabling business applications between companies. Strategic alliance is a partnership concept realized between two or more organizations ensuring that stages are managed with consideration of the welfare of the others in the whole network. By considering that there are inventory share policies between stages we accept the existence of strategic alliance implementation in the network aiming to increase total network flexibility and profitability as well as sustainability in the network. In the study we research inventory share policies towards strategic alliance concept to have a network design with a decreased negative effect of demand uncertainty and increased profitability in the network. By inventory share policies businesses share their current inventories with the others so that transportation cost and CO2 emission caused by traffic intensity is decreased in the network. We propose six inventory share policy combinations and optimize the (s S) inventory levels under those policies by minimizing total network cost. We utilize the simulation modeling approach for the modeling purpose. We compare the policy results based on the total network cost the total number of shipments completed from the main warehouse and total lost sale cost etc. at the optimal levels and suggest the best policy design.
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Investigating the impact of COVID-19 on sustainable food supply chains
(EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD, 2023) Vikas Kumar; Banu Yetkin Ekren; Jiayan Wang; Bhavin Shah; Guilherme Francisco Frederico; Shah, Bhavin; Yetkin Ekren, Banu; Wang, Jiayan; Kumar, Vikas; Frederico, Guilherme Francisco; Ekren, Banu Yetkin
Purpose The ongoing pandemic has gravely affected different facets of society and economic trades worldwide. During the outbreak most manufacturing and service sectors were closed across the globe except for essential commodities such as food and medicines. Consequently recent literature has focused on studying supply chain resilience and sustainability in different pandemic contexts. This study aims to add to the existing literature by exploring the economic environmental and societal aspects affecting the food supply chain and assessing the impact of COVID-19 on food sustainability. Design/methodology/approach A survey method has been adopted with a questionnaire instrument investigating the role of technology government policies geopolitics and intermediaries on sustainable organisational management. A five-point Likert scale (i.e. 1 = strongly disagree, 5 = strongly agree) is used to evaluate the responses. The findings are based on 131 responses from entry-level workers and senior executives of different food supply chains across Asia and Europe. The data has been analysed to derive insights into the impacts of this pandemic. Findings The survey concludes with the significant impact of COVID-19 on the three pillars of sustainability i.e. economic social and environmental dimensions. The empirical analysis shows digitalisation and its applications help mitigate the negative effect of COVID-19 on sustainability. In addition the supportive government policies and intermediatory interventions were helpful in improving sustainability at each level. Research limitations/implications The findings have implications for businesses and policymakers. Companies can learn from the advantages of digitalisation to counter the challenges imposed by the pandemic or similar situations in the future in maintaining the sustainability of their supply chains. Managers can also learn the importance of effective organisational management in driving sustainability. Finally policymakers can devise policies to support businesses in adopting sustainable practices in their supply chains. Originality/value This study adds to the limited literature exploring the impact of COVID-19 on food supply chain sustainability through the triple bottom line lens. To the best of the authors' knowledge this is also one of the first empirical studies to examine the effect of technology government and organisational management practices on the sustainability of food supply chains.
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Investigating the role of knowledge-based supply chains for supply chain resilience by graph theory matrix approach
(SPRINGER, 2023) Muruvvet Deniz Sezer; Melisa Ozbiltekin-Pala; Yigit Kazancoglu; Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes; Anil Kumar; Vikas Kumar; Ozbiltekin-Pala, Melisa; Sezer, Muruvvet Deniz; Garza-Reyes, Jose Arturo; Kumar, Anil; Kazancoglu, Yigit; Kumar, Vikas
Nowadays providing information flow at every phase of a knowledge-based supply chain with technologies has become a vital issue due to rapid population growth globalisation and increases in demand in the supply chain. Knowledge-based supply chains have a critical role in increasing resilience in supply chain processes with emerging technologies. Thus it is necessary to determine the critical factors that increase SC resilience. Therefore this study aims to determine SC resilience improvement factors in knowledge-based supply chains and investigate the importance level of determining factors using the Graph Theory Matrix Approach. The results suggest that the most important supply chain resilience improvement factor is Adaptive Capacity (F3) followed by Product Prioritization (F9) and Flexibility (F1) respectively. This study is expected to benefit managers and policymakers as it provides a better understanding of critical SC resilience improvement factors that play a role in knowledge-based supply chains. In order to increase resilience in the supply chain system thinking and solutions should be encouraged by businesses to increase collaboration with stakeholders. Businesses and governments should provide collaborative long-term solutions for the uncertain environment to ensure a sustainable and resilient environment.
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Lateral inventory share based business model for iot enabled sustainable food supply chain network
(IEOM Society, 2020) Banu Yetkin Yetkin Ekren; Ecem Eroğlu Turhanlar; Yigit Kazancoglu; Vikas Kumar; Eroglu, Ecem; Kazancoglu, Yigit; Kumar, Vikas; Ekren, Banu Yetkin
Recent Industry 4.0 developments have created disruptive changes and forces companies to rethink the way they design their supply chains. To cope with recent Industry 4.0 trends and changed requirements supply chains need to become more connected much faster more granular and much more precise. Digitisation of supply chain enables fast flexible granular accurate transparent efficient and sustainable transformations in supply chains. In this work we study a business model for digitised food supply chain connected with their equivalents under an IoT environment. Specifically we study a connected online grocery network design aiming to minimize food waste in the network and manage a sustainable food supply chain by considering a lateral inventory share-based food inventory management. Minimization of food waste is one of the recent significant concerns for sustainable food supply chain network designers. In an effort to contribute this target we propose a lateral inventory share model for online groceries where one e-grocery can make a commercial transaction with another one. We study a single echelon network with three online groceries and simulate the proposed models to compare their performances. © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Multi-objective Inventory Optimization Problem for a Sustainable Food Supply Network under Lateral Inventory Share Policy
(Elsevier B.V., 2022) Banu Yetkin Yetkin Ekren; Ritwika Chattopadhyay; Vikas Kumar; Chattopadhyay, Ritwika; Kumar, Vikas; Ekren, Banu Y.; A. Bernard , A. Dolgui , H.H. Benderbal , D. Ivanov , D. Lemoine , F. Sgarbossa
This study dives deep into a lateral supply chain network for perishable food products and aims to determine optimal re-order and order up to levels for multiple e-groceries within a common network using a simulation-based optimization technique. The algorithm aims to minimize the average inventory carried within the network while accounting for parameters like reduced wastage improved customer satisfaction level and a limited number of replenishments. © 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Next generation digital engineering education: Moocs
(IEOM Society, 2020) Banu Yetkin Yetkin Ekren; Vikas Kumar; Kumar, Vikas; Ekren, Banu Y.
Recent Industry 4.0 and technological developments have created disruptive changes in industries as well as our lives. Digitalization is one of the innovative results of recent Industry 4.0 developments improving the quality of our life increasing the productivity in industries. Those technological developments have also affected the educational system by transforming it to more digitized environment. For instance according to the 2016 Chronicle of Higher Education report the new “learning economy” of the future is defined on some technological trends. New trends in higher education systems and institutions are: developing innovative curricula searching alternative learning pathways that can be implemented by online distance open and blended-based learnings as well as courses such as Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) and Open Education Resources (OERs). MOOCs is an online learning platform by which higher education gains new paths as well as lifelong learning opportunities. It also provides flexibility in education alternatives for students and cost efficiency for institutional education. In this work we spotlight the digitization in higher education by focusing on digital learning platforms at universities. © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Omni-Chanel Network Design towards Circular Economy under Inventory Share Policies
(MDPI, 2021) Damla Izmirli; Banu Y. Ekren; Vikas Kumar; Siwarit Pongsakornrungsilp; İzmirli, Damla; Kumar, Vikas; Pongsakornrungsilp, Siwarit; Ekren, Banu Y.
In this paper we study inventory share policies in an omni-channel supply network to contribute to the circular economy (CE) concept. Lateral inventory share implementation provides flexibility and profitability in the supply chain by allowing inventory share between the same echelon locations in a network. Total holding costs and transportation costs can be reduced by lateral inventory share applications which also contribute to decreased material usage for production over time as well as reduced CO2 emission released by transportation. Technological and Internet of Things (IoT) developments make it possible for companies to share their real-time information with each other for uninterrupted marketing experiences. With such a connected network companies aim to increase their profitability and responsiveness to their customers. We explore a well-designed inventory share policy towards the CE concept under an (s S) inventory control policy. We simulate several pre-defined share designs by Arena 16.0 commercial software and compare their performances in terms of cost responsiveness transportation frequency inventory held etc. The results show that by the implementation of a well-designed lateral inventory share policy an omni-channel network can benefit from decreased holding cost and transportation cost contributing to the CE concept.
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The effect of green supply chain management practices on carbon-neutral supply chain performance: the mediating role of logistics eco-centricity
(EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD, 2024) Farheen Naz; Ashutosh Samadhiya; Anil Kumar; Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes; Yigit Kazancoglu; Vikas Kumar; Arvind Upadhyay; Upadhyay, Arvind; Garza-Reyes, Jose Arturo; Naz, Farheen; Samadhiya, Ashutosh; Kazancoglu, Yigit; Kumar, Anil; Kumar, Vikas
PurposeUsing the lens of the natural resource-based view (NRBV) theory this study investigates the effect of green supply chain management (GSCM) practices such as green manufacturing (GM) eco-design (ED) green purchasing (GP) and investment recovery (IR) on the carbon-neutral supply chain (CNSC) performance of firms through the mediating influence of logistics eco-centricity (LE).Design/methodology/approachA conceptual framework that hypothesizes the relationship between GSCM practices LE and the CNSC performance of firms is developed. Key GSCM practices are then identified using experts' opinions. Furthermore we collected responses from logistics companies to validate the conceptual framework using the partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) method.FindingsThrough this study we found that GSCM practices significantly improve a firm's CNSC performance and the relationships between GSCM practices and CNSC performance are positively mediated by LE.Practical implicationsThe implications of the study suggest that logistics managers can benefit from the findings of this study to comprehend the impact of various GSCM techniques on LE and CNSC from the viewpoint of the NRBV paradigm.Originality/valueThis research provides valuable perspectives for managers and supply chain (SC) practitioners in their quest for sustainable and environmentally responsible SC operations through an extensive and novel analysis of the connection between GSCM practices LE and CNSC performance.
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The effects of globalization on supply chain resilience: outsourcing techniques as interventionism protectionism and regionalization strategies
(Springer, 2024) Yigit Kazancoglu; Çisem Lafci; Yalcin Berberoglu; Arvind Upadhyay; Luis Rocha-Lona; Vikas Kumar; Upadhyay, Arvind; Rocha-Lona, Luis; Lafci, Cisem; Berberoglu, Yalcin; Kazancoglu, Yigit; Kumar, Vikas
Globalization may cause companies to broaden their customer bases operate internationally and serve more customers. However it also entails dangers including shifting circumstances disruptions and elevated prices. To address these issues outsourcing has evolved lowering outputs and service costs. To mitigate these risks businesses employ strategies such as interventionism protectionism and regionalization. By investigating and simulating the interplay of outsourcing approaches to equip businesses with supply chain resilience (SCRES) this study aims to close the knowledge gap between the existing knowledge and global supply chain (GSC) risk management practices. To choose the best alternative for our case study company we analyzed four distinct outsourcing techniques namely offshoring reshoring nearshoring and farshoring, furthermore we investigated the outsourcing elements typically taken into account to achieve resilience. The results indicated that the reshoring method would be the most promising one for this company under specific circumstances in terms of attaining resilience in the manufacturing industry. © 2025 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Understanding the Role of Digital Technologies in Supply Chain Risks Management
(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2021) Jiayan Yang; Vikas Kumar; Banu Yetkin Yetkin Ekren; Evgeny A. Kuzmin; Yang, Jiayan; Kumar, Vikas; Ekren, Banu; Kuzmin, Evgeny; V. Kumar , J. Rezaei , V. Akberdina , E. Kuzmin
Supply chain risks have been regarded as one of the most significant threats to business continuity. Digital technology is considered to reform human production and manufacturing methods. In the recent wake of COVID-19 disruptive digital technologies have emerged as a key tool to manage supply chain risks. Therefore exploring the impact of digital technology on supply chain risks is considered an important topic in the supply chain management domain. The paper reviews different digital technologies such as 3D printing IoT Blockchains RFID and Big Data Analytics used in supply chains. This exploratory study is based on a survey response from 176 supply chain professionals in China. The findings show the role of digital technologies in managing supply chain risks. The study highlights the current level of implementation of digital technologies in supply chain functions and emphasizes the importance of training. Moreover the study underlines the significance of supply chain data analysis capabilities for supply chain risk management. The study adds to the limited literature exploring the importance of digital technologies in supply chain risk management. © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.