Professor Vikas Kumar's Outputs (22)

Impact of digital technology on supply chain efficiency in manufacturing industry (2022)
Book Chapter

With the advancement of digital technologies, supply chain management is changing dramatically. However, the practice and application of digital supply chains are complex and challenging. Some studies claim that technology is the core element, while... Read More about Impact of digital technology on supply chain efficiency in manufacturing industry.

Managing maturity of global supply chains: Learning from COVID-19 Pandemic (2022)
Journal Article

The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought huge challenges for global supply chains to keep their continuity amid this impacting and unexpected event. Several industries and services have faced disruptions and losses. This has created high co... Read More about Managing maturity of global supply chains: Learning from COVID-19 Pandemic.

Guest editorial: The COVID-19 impact on humanitarian operations: Lessons for future disrupting events (2022)
Journal Article

During wide spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), it has been recorded that humankind played a responsive role in collaboration with societies, governing authorities and controlling agencies (Haque and Islam, 2018) while managing resources d... Read More about Guest editorial: The COVID-19 impact on humanitarian operations: Lessons for future disrupting events.

Investigating the impact of COVID-19 on sustainable food supply chains (2022)
Journal Article

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 m... Read More about Investigating the impact of COVID-19 on sustainable food supply chains.

Systematic literature review guidelines for supply chain management research (2022)
Book Chapter

This chapter provides guidelines for systematic literature review (SLR) in the supply chain management (SCM) field. By mapping a transparent SLR process that can easily be replicated in practice, the chapter aims to support students and scholars who... Read More about Systematic literature review guidelines for supply chain management research.

Investigating a citrus fruit supply chain network considering CO2 emissions using Meta-heuristic algorithms (2022)
Journal Article

According to the increasing carbon dioxide released through vehicles and the shortage of water resources, decision-makers decided to combine the environmental and economic effects in the Agri-Food Supply Chain Network (AFSCN) in developing countries.... Read More about Investigating a citrus fruit supply chain network considering CO2 emissions using Meta-heuristic algorithms.

A cross-country comparison of village health volunteer’s role in managing COVID-19 in Thailand (2022)
Journal Article

The GHS Index 2021 ranked Thailand first in virus detection and rapid reporting of COVID-19. However, the spread still continues across the country. Although more than 1,040,000 Village Health Volunteers (VHVs) are the key to Thailand’s success, no p... Read More about A cross-country comparison of village health volunteer’s role in managing COVID-19 in Thailand.

A comparison of managing COVID-19 health services in and outside Bangkok: Effectiveness, strategies and problems (2022)
Journal Article

According to the GHS Index 2021, Thailand was ranked 5th out of 195 countries for health security and 1st in virus detection and rapid reporting. However, there are differences between Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, and places outside it. This stu... Read More about A comparison of managing COVID-19 health services in and outside Bangkok: Effectiveness, strategies and problems.

Potentials and challenges for village health volunteers after COVID-19 Outbreak -Thailand (2022)
Journal Article

The GHS Index 2021 ranked Thailand first in virus detection and rapid reporting of COVID-19.
However, the spread still continues across the country. Although more than 1,040,000 Village Health
Volunteers (VHVs) are the key to Thailand’s success, no... Read More about Potentials and challenges for village health volunteers after COVID-19 Outbreak -Thailand.

Enablers of post-COVID-19 customer demand resilience: Evidence from fast- fashion MSMEs (2022)
Journal Article

Purpose: This study aims to analyse the resilience of customer demand management post-coronavirus disease 2019, using fast fashion as an example. The paper provides insights for potential applications to micro-, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs).... Read More about Enablers of post-COVID-19 customer demand resilience: Evidence from fast- fashion MSMEs.

Editorial: Operational excellence in the supply chain of perishables at the time of the outbreak (2022)
Journal Article

The COVID-19 pandemic is causing widespread disruption in the industrial sector and inducing difficult economic and environmental conditions for businesses around the world. It is a tragedy for human civilization and is increasingly affecting the glo... Read More about Editorial: Operational excellence in the supply chain of perishables at the time of the outbreak.

Empirical investigation of supply chain 4.0 adoption in Vietnam (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Purpose
With the rise of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies, supply chains (SC) have evolved significantly to become digital SC or the so-called Supply chain 4.0 (SC4.0). However, despite the priority on I4.0 as a prominent growth driver of sustainabl... Read More about Empirical investigation of supply chain 4.0 adoption in Vietnam.

Understanding the barriers and enablers of the adoption of supply chain 4.0 in large firms (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Purpose
With the rise of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies, supply chains (SC) have evolved significantly to become digital SC or the so-called Supply chain 4.0 (SC4.0). However, despite the priority on I4.0 as a prominent growth driver of sustainabl... Read More about Understanding the barriers and enablers of the adoption of supply chain 4.0 in large firms.

Role of information and communication technology in mitigating risks in Indian agricultural supply chains (2022)
Journal Article

Purpose: Theorising from a resource-based view perspective, the intersection of supply chain management and the use of IT has been investigated in this study. This work aims to investigate supply chain performance as an essential outcome of the use o... Read More about Role of information and communication technology in mitigating risks in Indian agricultural supply chains.

A multi-objective integrated optimisation model for facility location and order allocation problem in a two-level supply chain network (2022)
Journal Article

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 factor... Read More about A multi-objective integrated optimisation model for facility location and order allocation problem in a two-level supply chain network.

Hybridizing cost saving with trust for blockchain technology adoption by financial institutions (2022)
Journal Article

Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is transforming the financial industry and leading to a rise in the modern banking system. Like in developed nations, disruptive technology is necessary to advance the traditional banking system in emerging economi... Read More about Hybridizing cost saving with trust for blockchain technology adoption by financial institutions.

An overview for reducing food loss and food waste in supply chains (2022)
Book Chapter

Creating systems designs by considering a balance between economic, environmental and social effects is significant in today’s sustainability concern. Sustainability has become an emerging topic, growing concerns and attention for companies. Especial... Read More about An overview for reducing food loss and food waste in supply chains.

Overcoming barriers to the implementation of cleaner production in small enterprises in the mechanics industry: Exploring economic gains and contributions for sustainable development goals (2022)
Journal Article

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the economic and environmental gains that result from the implementation of cleaner production in a small enterprise (SE) from the metal and mechanics industry, allowing for overcoming barriers and contributin... Read More about Overcoming barriers to the implementation of cleaner production in small enterprises in the mechanics industry: Exploring economic gains and contributions for sustainable development goals.

A new modified social engineering optimizer algorithm for engineering applications (2022)
Journal Article

Nowadays, a great deal of attention is paid to metaheuristic algorithms to reach the approximate solution in an acceptable computational time. As one of the recent-developed successful metaheuristics, Social Engineering Optimizer (SEO) algorithm is a... Read More about A new modified social engineering optimizer algorithm for engineering applications.

Redesigning traditional linear supply chains into circular supply chains–A study into its challenges (2022)
Journal Article

Transitioning to a Circular Economy (CE) is considered the most promising way to achieve economic and environmental sustainability. However, companies and governments are faced with challenges in redesigning existing linear supply chains (SCs) into c... Read More about Redesigning traditional linear supply chains into circular supply chains–A study into its challenges.