Academic Articles & Research Papers

Innovations in Healthcare Management

Supply chain management encompasses the planning and management of all activities involved in sourcing, procurement, conversion, and logistics. Importantly, it also includes coordination and collaboration with channel partners, which can be...

A Blockchain-Based Smart Contract System for Healthcare Management

Blockchain is evolving to be a secure and reliable platform for secure data sharing in application areas such as the financial sector, supply chain management, food industry, energy sector, internet of things and healthcare. In this paper, ...

THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY IMPACT OF COVID-19 AND THE IMPLICATION TO INDONESIA

The Novel Coronavirus has stressed and pressed a great number countries from a great number of sectors. This has impacted on travelling ban, supply chain, and even oil prices. The role of China in combating Covid-19 has considerably become ...

The Value Chains of High-Technology Products as Factor of formation the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership

This article analyzes the value chain of high-tech products in Asia and the role of this phenomenon in the further consolidation of trade blocs and alliances in the region. The presence of these chains and their gradual transition from a ve...

Addressing Stakeholder Concerns Regarding the Effective Use of Bio-Based and Biodegradable Plastics

Bio-based and biodegradable materials have the potential to replace traditional petroleum-based plastics across a range of products and contribute to a more circular economy. However, the uptake of these materials will not succeed unless co...

Evaluation of a distribution model for a new beer company production site

Ambev dominates the beer market in Brazil with a 70% share. The group formed in the 1990s by the merger of the two largest companies in the industry at the time, Brahma and Antarctica. Even with new entrants in the market AmBev kept growi...

Connectedness of cryptocurrency markets to crude oil and gold: an analysis of the effect of COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract The notion that investors shift to gold during economic market crises remains unverified for many cryptocurrency markets. This paper investigates the connectedness between the 10 most traded cryptocurrencies and gold as well as cru...

2013 Awards for Excellence

Risk Assessment of Digital Technologies in Sustainable Supply Chain Management: A Fuzzy VIKOR Method

In recent years, digital technologies have emerged as a key driver of intelligence and visibility in supply chain management, offering companies a competitive edge to enhance sustainability. Despite the various benefits, digitalization intr...

FUTURE MARKETING DRIVERS FOR THE FOREST PRODUCTS INDUSTRY

The forest products industry in North America is increasingly losing its share in its domestic markets. The pressure of low cost manufacturing combined with a slowing economy has painfully caused many mills to close and many workers to lose...

A Resilience Engineering Approach for the Risk Assessment of IT Services

Nowadays, services related to IT technologies have assumed paramount importance in most sectors, creating complex systems involving different stakeholders. Such systems are subject to unpredictable risks that differ from what is usually exp...

Cost Optimisation of Supply Chains in the Food Industry: Cost Function Modelling

The food industry faces complex challenges in managing supply chains, significantly affecting operational performance and costs. This paper explores the critical factors influencing the efficiency of food supply chains, such as product pe...

An integrated vehicle routing model to optimize agricultural products distribution in retail chains

The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) represents a thoroughly investigated domain within operations research, yielding substantial cost savings in global transportation. The fundamental objective of the VRP is to determine the optimal route pla...

ENHANCING LEAN SUPPLY CHAIN MATURITY WITH BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT

In today’s global market the main focus of competition is not only between different companies but also between supply chains. Technological changes and organizational improvements are important for effective supply chain management (SCM), ...

Presenting the Sustainable Development Model of the Saderat Bank of Iran Based on Professional Ethics

This research has been done with the aim of providing a sustainable development model for the Saderat Bank of Iran based on professional ethics. The current research is of the type of mixed exploratory research projects; based on this, firs...

Structural Modeling Based on Supply Chain Integration in Relation to Supply Chain Risk, Product Quality and Innovation Capability

This study aims to investigate the unique features of the food supply chain, examining the impact of food supply chain integration, consisting of internal integration, supplier and customer, the quality of food products and product innovati...

An exploratory examination of the barriers to innovation and change as perceived by senior management

The banking industry has undergone significant shifts as innovations have enabled new banking services and created new customer requirements. While banks strive to incorporate innovation and change systems, they also face various obstacles....

Mpox as Two Global Health Emergencies: Altered Transmission, Genomics, Clinical Manifestation and Public Health Impact

Mpox virus (MPXV) is the only pathogen that triggered two Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) declarations, first in July 2022 and then again in August 2024. The 2022 outbreak was attributed primarily to clade IIb MPXV,...

Boosting precision crop protection towards agriculture 5.0 via machine learning and emerging technologies: A contextual review

Crop protection is a key activity for the sustainability and feasibility of agriculture in a current context of climate change, which is causing the destabilization of agricultural practices and an increase in the incidence of current or in...

Review of Deployable Endogenous Security Technologies for Smart Grids

The smart grid is a critical infrastructure in the modern energy system that couples cyberspace with physical operation processes, and it has become a key pillar of national energy security. With the widespread use of massive heterogeneous ...