Professor Vikas Kumar's Outputs (171)

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.

A review and comparative analysis of the Russian Federation Government Quality Award (2015)
Journal Article

© 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

© 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.

Economical impact of RFID implementation in remanufacturing: a Chaos-based Interactive Artificial Bee Colony approach (2015)
Journal Article

© 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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 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

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

© 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.

Special Issue-Applications of reference models for supply-chain integration (2014)
Journal Article

The Special Issue of Production Planning & Control, 2014 reflects the most recent advances on reference models in industrial and supply-chain applications. Liu and co-researchers study the impact of additive manufacturing (AM) in the aircraft spare p... Read More about Special Issue-Applications of reference models for supply-chain integration.

Prioritisation of operations improvement projects in the European manufacturing industry (2014)
Journal Article

To improve their competitive ability, organisations are turning towards implementing improvements into their operations and processes. Whilst operations improvement projects are often identified with relative ease, resource constraints limit the abil... Read More about Prioritisation of operations improvement projects in the European manufacturing industry.