Professor Vikas Kumar's Outputs (195)

The effect of supply chain management practices on supply chain and manufacturing firms' performance (2017)
Journal Article

© Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to theorise and develop seven dimensions (strategic supplier partnership, level of information sharing, quality of information sharing, customer service management, internal lean pr... Read More about The effect of supply chain management practices on supply chain and manufacturing firms' performance.

Editorial (2017)
Journal Article

Historically, profitability and efficiency, and more recently, customer satisfaction, quality, and responsiveness, have been the dominant concern for organisations (Green Jr. et al., 2012; Mohanty et al. 1999). In this line, ‘Lean’ and ‘Six Sigma’ ha... Read More about Editorial.

Investigating the green impact of Lean, Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma: A systematic literature review (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, © Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: The academic literature and research lines exploring the effect of quality improvement methods on environmental performance still remain in early stages. The purpose of this paper is therefore to investi... Read More about Investigating the green impact of Lean, Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma: A systematic literature review.

The Impact of Supply Chain Integration on Performance: Evidence from the UK Food Sector (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 The Authors Supply chain Integration has emerged as a major field of interest over the years that involve the strategic alignment of functions and processes within an organization. However, there have been major debates regarding the true desi... Read More about The Impact of Supply Chain Integration on Performance: Evidence from the UK Food Sector.

Service innovation and performance in Mexican service SMEs (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2017, IFIP International Federation for Information Processing. This empirical research investigates the influence of service innovation on the performance of service SMEs, especially within the context of a country with an emerging economy as it i... Read More about Service innovation and performance in Mexican service SMEs.

Barriers to supply chain integration: The case of Vietnamese textile and apparel enterprises (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

To identify the barriers of supply chain integration and propose solutions through empirical study

Low carbon warehouse management under cap-and-trade policy (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd Green warehouse management plays a significant part in developing a carbon efficient supply chain. This research examines the behaviour change in warehouse management decisions under the cap-and-trade emission policy and explores... Read More about Low carbon warehouse management under cap-and-trade policy.

An analysis of managerial factors affecting the implementation and use of overall equipment effectiveness (2016)
Journal Article

© 2015 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. To ensure manufacturing organisations remain competitive, most of them are turning to total productive maintenance (TPM) and lean manufacturing to ensure seamless operations. Overall equ... Read More about An analysis of managerial factors affecting the implementation and use of overall equipment effectiveness.

Knowledge management as intellectual property: Evidence from Mexican manufacturing SMEs (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between knowledge management and creation of intellectual property within the context of small and medium size manufacturing enterprises. De... Read More about Knowledge management as intellectual property: Evidence from Mexican manufacturing SMEs.

Lean and green in the transport and logistics sector – a case study of simultaneous deployment (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The transport and logistics sector is of vital importance for the stimulation of trade and hence the economic development of nations. However, over the last few years, this sector has ta... Read More about Lean and green in the transport and logistics sector – a case study of simultaneous deployment.

Exploring enterprise social systems & organisational change: Implementation in a digital age (2016)
Journal Article

Information systems (IS), since their introduction into organisations over five decades ago, have promised to streamline business processes, integrate disparate systems, increase innovation, and offer greater competitive advantage. Over the past deca... Read More about Exploring enterprise social systems & organisational change: Implementation in a digital age.

A Lean Six Sigma framework for the reduction of ship loading commercial time in the iron ore pelletising industry (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Abstract: Evidence suggests that specifically designed frameworks to implement Lean Six Sigma (LSS) projects to tackle particular problems are more effective than ‘generic’ versions. Thi... Read More about A Lean Six Sigma framework for the reduction of ship loading commercial time in the iron ore pelletising industry.

Resolving forward-reverse logistics multi-period model using evolutionary algorithms (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd In the changing competitive landscape and with growing environmental awareness, reverse logistics issues have become prominent in manufacturing organizations. As a result there is an increasing focus on green aspects of the supply... Read More about Resolving forward-reverse logistics multi-period model using evolutionary algorithms.

A lean thinking and simulation-based approach for the improvement of routing operations (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose - The improvement of routing operations performance has been of great concern for organisations. This has led to the development of alternative lean-based methods, however the literature research on th... Read More about A lean thinking and simulation-based approach for the improvement of routing operations.

Improving road transport operations through lean thinking: a case study (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Traditionally, logistics and transportation problems have been addressed through mathematical modelling, operations research, and simulation, but criticism has emerged about their effect... Read More about Improving road transport operations through lean thinking: a case study.

ICT-based solution approach for collaborative delivery of customised products (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Taylor & Francis. Growing interest on business collaboration motivates todays industries, especially small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to establish and manage dynamic and non-hierarchical business networks to respond to market opportunitie... Read More about ICT-based solution approach for collaborative delivery of customised products.

Lean road transportation – a systematic method for the improvement of road transport operations (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Road transportation has become an important factor in international trade and the management of supply chains. However, this form of product logistics has generally been considered ineff... Read More about Lean road transportation – a systematic method for the improvement of road transport operations.

Managing reverse exchanges in service supply chains (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – This study aims to address the management of reverse flows in the context of service supply chains. The study builds on the characteristics of services production reported in literature to: identi... Read More about Managing reverse exchanges in service supply chains.

A multiple case study analysis of Six Sigma practices in Indian manufacturing companies (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the fundamental barriers/challenges, benefits, commonly used tools and techniques, organisational infrastructure and impact on organisational performance in... Read More about A multiple case study analysis of Six Sigma practices in Indian manufacturing companies.

A conceptual framework for the implementation of quality management systems (2015)
Journal Article

© 2014 Taylor & Francis. Some evidence suggests that Quality Management Systems (QMSs) make a positive contribution towards the competitiveness of organisations. However, evidence also suggests that organisations find their implementation difficult... Read More about A conceptual framework for the implementation of quality management systems.