All Outputs (17)

Managing maturity of global supply chains: Learning from COVID-19 Pandemic (2022)
Journal Article
Frederico, G., Garza-Reyes, J. A., Martins, R. A., & Kumar, V. (2022). Managing maturity of global supply chains: Learning from COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Global Operations and Strategic Sourcing, 15(4), 505-509. https://doi.org/10.1108/JGOSS-09-2022-0098

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
Shah, B., Frederico, G. F., Kumar, V., Garza-Reyes, J. A., & Kumar, A. (2022). Guest editorial: The COVID-19 impact on humanitarian operations: Lessons for future disrupting events. Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, 12(4), 473-481. https://doi.org/10.1108/JHLSCM-10-2022-132

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
Kumar, V., Ekren, B., Wang, J., Shah, B., & Frederico, G. (2023). Investigating the impact of COVID-19 on sustainable food supply chains. Journal of Modelling in Management, 18(4), 1250-1273. https://doi.org/10.1108/JM2-03-2022-0072

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.

Investigating a citrus fruit supply chain network considering CO2 emissions using Meta-heuristic algorithms (2022)
Journal Article
Goodarzian, F., Kumar, V., & Ghasemi, P. (in press). Investigating a citrus fruit supply chain network considering CO2 emissions using Meta-heuristic algorithms. Annals of Operations Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-022-05005-7

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.

Potentials and challenges for village health volunteers after COVID-19 Outbreak -Thailand (2022)
Journal Article
Wisaeng, K., Kumar, V., & Sa-ngiamwibool, A. (2022). Potentials and challenges for village health volunteers after COVID-19 Outbreak -Thailand. NeuroQuantology, 20(8), 8110-8126. https://doi.org/10.14704/nq.2022.20.8.NQ44835

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.

A comparison of managing COVID-19 health services in and outside Bangkok: Effectiveness, strategies and problems (2022)
Journal Article
Kumar, V., Wisaeng, K., & Sa-ngiamwibool, A. (2022). A comparison of managing COVID-19 health services in and outside Bangkok: Effectiveness, strategies and problems. NeuroQuantology, 20(8), 8078-8093. https://doi.org/10.14704/nq.2022.20.8.NQ44833

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.

A cross-country comparison of village health volunteer’s role in managing COVID-19 in Thailand (2022)
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Wisaeng, K., Kumar, V., & Sa-ngiamwibool, A. (2022). A cross-country comparison of village health volunteer’s role in managing COVID-19 in Thailand. NeuroQuantology, 20(8), 8094-8109. https://doi.org/10.14704/nq.2022.20.8.NQ44834

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.

Enablers of post-COVID-19 customer demand resilience: Evidence from fast- fashion MSMEs (2022)
Journal Article
Fares, N., Lloret, J., Kumar, V., Frederico, G., Kumar, A., & Garza-Reyes, J. (2023). Enablers of post-COVID-19 customer demand resilience: Evidence from fast- fashion MSMEs. Benchmarking, 30(6), 2012-2039. https://doi.org/10.1108/BIJ-11-2021-0693

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
Kumar, S., Soni, G., Bourlakis, M., & Kumar, V. (2022). Editorial: Operational excellence in the supply chain of perishables at the time of the outbreak. International Journal of Logistics Management, The, 33(3), 737-743. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJLM-08-2022-571

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.

Role of information and communication technology in mitigating risks in Indian agricultural supply chains (2022)
Journal Article
Shukla, S., Kapoor, R., Gupta, N., Garza-Reyes, J. A., & Kumar, V. (2023). Role of information and communication technology in mitigating risks in Indian agricultural supply chains. Supply Chain Management, 28(3), 544-558. https://doi.org/10.1108/SCM-08-2021-0386

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
Amin-Tahmasbi, H., Sadafi, S., Ekren, B. Y., & Kumar, V. (2023). A multi-objective integrated optimisation model for facility location and order allocation problem in a two-level supply chain network. Annals of Operations Research, 324, 993–1022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-022-04635-1

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
Ullah, N., Mugahed al-rahmi, W., Alfarraj, O., Alalwan, N., Ibrahim Alzahrani, A., Ramayah, T., & Kumar, V. (2022). Hybridizing cost saving with trust for blockchain technology adoption by financial institutions. Journal of Telematics and Informatics, 6(June 2022), Article 100008. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.teler.2022.100008

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.

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
Oliveira Neto, G. C. D., Leite, R. R., Lucato, W. C., Vanalle, R. M., Amorim, M., Matias, J. C. O., & Kumar, V. (2022). Overcoming barriers to the implementation of cleaner production in small enterprises in the mechanics industry: Exploring economic gains and contributions for sustainable development goals. Sustainability, 14(5), Article 2944. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14052944

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
Goodarzian, F., Ghasemi, P., Kumar, V., & Abraham, A. (2022). A new modified social engineering optimizer algorithm for engineering applications. Soft Computing, 26, 4333–4361. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-022-06837-y

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
Roy, T., Garza-Reyes, J. A., Kumar, V., Kumar, A., & Agrawal, R. (2022). Redesigning traditional linear supply chains into circular supply chains–A study into its challenges. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 31, 113-126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2022.02.004

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.

Supply chain sustainability risk decision support model using integrated Preference Selection Index (PSI) method and prospect theory (2022)
Journal Article
Sutrisno, A., & Kumar, V. (2022). Supply chain sustainability risk decision support model using integrated Preference Selection Index (PSI) method and prospect theory. Journal of Advances in Management Research, 19(2), 316-346. https://doi.org/10.1108/JAMR-06-2021-0193

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to introduce the integrated model of the Preference Selection Index (PSI) and the prospect theory as new means to appraise the impact of supply chain sustainability risks based on five pillars of sustainability.... Read More about Supply chain sustainability risk decision support model using integrated Preference Selection Index (PSI) method and prospect theory.

Supply chain sustainability risk assessment model using integration of the preference selection index (PSI) and the Shannon entropy (2022)
Journal Article
Sutrisno, A., & Kumar, V. (2023). Supply chain sustainability risk assessment model using integration of the preference selection index (PSI) and the Shannon entropy. International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management, 40(3), 674-708. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJQRM-06-2021-0191

Purpose: This study proposes a new model for assessing supply chain sustainability risk integrating subjectivity and objectivity of decision-maker. Research has shown the vacancy of study in dealing with the above issue. To fill this research gap, a... Read More about Supply chain sustainability risk assessment model using integration of the preference selection index (PSI) and the Shannon entropy.