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A conceptual framework for the implementation of quality management systems (2015)
Journal Article
Kumar, V., Rocha-Lona, L., Garza-Reyes, J. A., Jose, G., Luis, R., & Vikas, K. (2015). A conceptual framework for the implementation of quality management systems. Total Quality Management and Business Excellence, 26(11-12), 1298-1310. https://doi.org/10.1080/14783363.2014.929254

© 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.

A review and comparative analysis of the Russian Federation Government Quality Award (2015)
Journal Article
Garza-Reyes, J. A., Visnevskis, F., Kumar, V., & Antony, J. (2015). A review and comparative analysis of the Russian Federation Government Quality Award. Measuring Business Excellence, 19(4), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1108/MBE-08-2014-0028

© 2015, Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – The paper aims to present a review and comparison of the Russian Federation Government Quality Award (RFGQA) with the three major business excellence models, Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award... Read More about A review and comparative analysis of the Russian Federation Government Quality Award.

Developing green supply chain management taxonomy-based decision support system (2015)
Journal Article
Kumar, V., Holt, D., Ghobadian, A., & Garza-Reyes, J. A. (2015). Developing green supply chain management taxonomy-based decision support system. International Journal of Production Research, 53(21), 6372-6389. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2014.917215

© 2014 Taylor & Francis. The aim of this paper is to develop a comprehensive taxonomy of green supply chain management (GSCM) practices and develop a structural equation modelling-driven decision support system following GSCM taxonomy for managers... Read More about Developing green supply chain management taxonomy-based decision support system.

Challenges to the transformational role of university in regional innovation system (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Ruan, X., Saad, M., Kumar, V., & Kumari, A. (2015, September). Challenges to the transformational role of university in regional innovation system. Paper presented at BAM 2015, Portsmouth University, UK

A review of literature recognizes that universities play an important role towards regional innovation system and the innovation systems in China differ from the one in advanced marketing economies. Over the past decade, some university mergers took... Read More about Challenges to the transformational role of university in regional innovation system.

Economical impact of RFID implementation in remanufacturing: a Chaos-based Interactive Artificial Bee Colony approach (2015)
Journal Article
Kumar, V. V., Kumar, V. V., Liou, F. W., Balakrishnan, S. N., & Kumar, V. (2015). Economical impact of RFID implementation in remanufacturing: a Chaos-based Interactive Artificial Bee Colony approach. Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 26(4), 815-830. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10845-013-0836-9

© 2013, Springer Science+Business Media New York. In the modern manufacturing arena, environmental and economical concerns draw considerable attention from both practitioners and researchers towards remanufacturing practices. The success of remanufac... Read More about Economical impact of RFID implementation in remanufacturing: a Chaos-based Interactive Artificial Bee Colony approach.

Investigating the impact of short food supply chain on emigration: A study of Valencia community in Spain (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Falguieres, M., Kumar, V., Lim, M. K., Garza-Reyes, J. A., Kumari, A., Lim, M. K., & Rocha-Lona, L. (2015). Investigating the impact of short food supply chain on emigration: A study of Valencia community in Spain. In IFAC-PapersOnLine (2226-2232). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.06.419

© 2015, IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Hosting by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Recent financial crisis had severe impact on many economies around the globe. In Spain, it has resulted in increasing job loss, increasing shor... Read More about Investigating the impact of short food supply chain on emigration: A study of Valencia community in Spain.

Adoption of operations improvement methods in the Greek engineering sector (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Lim, M. K., Garza-Reyes, J. A., Garza-Reyes, J., Zisis, S., Kumar, V., & Rocha-Lona, L. (2015). Adoption of operations improvement methods in the Greek engineering sector. In Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management. , (1-8). https://doi.org/10.1109/IEOM.2015.7093947

© 2015 IEEE. This paper presents an initial research that explores the awareness and adoption of Lean Manufacturing (LM), Lean Six Sigma (LSS), Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM) and Theory Of Constraints (TOC) in the Greek engineering sector. An exp... Read More about Adoption of operations improvement methods in the Greek engineering sector.

Corporate Sustainability and Business Excellence (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Lim, M. K., Rocha-Lona, L., Garza-Reyes, J. A., Kumar, V., & Lim, M. K. (2015). Corporate Sustainability and Business Excellence. In Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management. , (1-7). https://doi.org/10.1109/IEOM.2015.7093844

© 2015 IEEE. This paper discusses the suitability for Business Excellence Models (BEMs) to include Corporate Sustainability on business model criteria. The conceptual paper brings discussion of what sort of measures are required to fit organizations'... Read More about Corporate Sustainability and Business Excellence.

An integrated approach of Six Sigma and QSAM methodologies for a pharmaceutical company: A shipment improvement process (2015)
Journal Article
Rocha-Lona, L., Edith Alvarez-Reyes, E., Garza-Reyes, J. A., & Kumar, V. (2015). An integrated approach of Six Sigma and QSAM methodologies for a pharmaceutical company: A shipment improvement process. International Journal of Lean Enterprise Research, 1(3), 266-283. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJLER.2015.071743

This paper presents a shipment improvement project in a pharmaceutical company to reduce distribution costs of a set of products shipped to Germany. The project consisted in the diagnosis and improvement of the shipment process through the deployment... Read More about An integrated approach of Six Sigma and QSAM methodologies for a pharmaceutical company: A shipment improvement process.

Performance management of suppliers in outsourcing project: Case analysis from the financial services industry (2015)
Journal Article
MacKerron, G., Kumar, M., Benedikt, A., & Kumar, V. (2015). Performance management of suppliers in outsourcing project: Case analysis from the financial services industry. Production Planning and Control, 26(2), 150-165. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2013.869702

© 2014 Taylor & Francis. This study investigates the characteristics of an effective performance management framework for outsourcing projects in a UK-based financial services organisation and how this may contribute to the success of the outsourci... Read More about Performance management of suppliers in outsourcing project: Case analysis from the financial services industry.