Professor Vikas Kumar's Outputs (33)

Empirical investigation of supply chain 4.0 adoption in Vietnam (2023)
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Purpose
The emergence of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies has transformed traditional supply chains into digital Supply Chain 4.0 (SC4.0). Despite the recognition of I4.0 as a catalyst for sustainable economic development, the implementation of SC4.... Read More about Empirical investigation of supply chain 4.0 adoption in Vietnam.

Empirical investigation of supply chain 4.0 adoption in Vietnam (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Purpose
With the rise of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies, supply chain (SC) has evolved significantly to become digital SC or the so-called Supply chain 4.0 (SC 4.0). Despite Vietnamese government’s priority on I4.0 as a prominent growth driver of... Read More about Empirical investigation of supply chain 4.0 adoption in Vietnam.

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)
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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.

Future of engineering education: Cyber physical systems engineering (2021)
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Recent Industry 4.0 developments have created disruptive changes in industries. It has also changed the way people work and the required skills of work-force for the future. This new technological advancement has created requirement of workforce comb... Read More about Future of engineering education: Cyber physical systems engineering.

Developing A sustainability framework for Industry 4.0 (2021)
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With the development in industrialization, sustainability has emerged as a major issue in the global market. Ignorance of sustainability issues in any organization leads to huge financial losses and market reputation. With the development of new tech... Read More about Developing A sustainability framework for Industry 4.0.

Engineering education towards industry 4.0 (2020)
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Many countries are now entering the stage of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, also referred to as Industry 4.0, in which technological advances enable disruptive changes in the industry. Industry 4.0 development changes the way people work and the w... Read More about Engineering education towards industry 4.0.

A multi-objective linear optimization model for designing sustainable closed-loop agricultural supply chain (2020)
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Demand for agricultural products will grow by nearly 70 percent in 2050 and high volume of chemical pesticides and agricultural fertilizers along with considerable waste in this sector induces serious environmental concerns. Hence it is not a priorit... Read More about A multi-objective linear optimization model for designing sustainable closed-loop agricultural supply chain.

Lean readiness level of the Azerbaijan construction industry (2020)
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This paper identifies and measures the Lean readiness of the Azerbaijan construction industry. A survey questionnaire was utilised to evaluate the Lean readiness of this industry by measuring its quality practices and to test three hypotheses. The Le... Read More about Lean readiness level of the Azerbaijan construction industry.

The impact of culture of quality (COQ) on the organizational performance (2019)
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Culture of Quality (COQ) is regarded as an important component of TQM however this is a relatively new theme, compared to other concepts in the quality management domain. However, literature resources on this topic are relatively scarce and there is... Read More about The impact of culture of quality (COQ) on the organizational performance.

Transport operations optimisation through lean implementation – A case study (2019)
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Lean has benefited industries, however, the research regarding its implementation in the transportation sector is limited. Therefore, there is huge potential for the implementation of Lean in the transportation sector. With the growing population and... Read More about Transport operations optimisation through lean implementation – A case study.

Investigating the motivators, barriers and enablers associated with the implementation of sustainable supply chain in Saudi manufacturing industry (2019)
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Sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) can play a significant role in improving company sustainability performance by addressing the social, environmental and economic issues in the supply chain, including suppliers, in-house operations, distribu... Read More about Investigating the motivators, barriers and enablers associated with the implementation of sustainable supply chain in Saudi manufacturing industry.

Measuring sustainability performance of SMEs in a developing country – A study of Southern Vietnam (2019)
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Over the last decade, measuring sustainability performance has been increasingly important. So far, research about the subject matter has been mostly conducted in developed nations, and for large corporations but SMEs in developing countries has rece... Read More about Measuring sustainability performance of SMEs in a developing country – A study of Southern Vietnam.

Categorization of supply chain sustainability risks in SMEs: A preliminary evidence from a developing country (2019)
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Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are an important contributor to the global economic growth. Nevertheless, owing to their lack of managerial capability to manage the impact of business uncertainty, they are prone to business failures. To prevent t... Read More about Categorization of supply chain sustainability risks in SMEs: A preliminary evidence from a developing country.

A classification and framework for measuring sustainability supply chain risk indices in small and medium enterprises (2019)
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Considering its significant contribution to the global Gross Domestic Product, improving an understanding of
risks affecting the sustainability of operation in small and medium enterprises in a networked economy is undeniably
important. Unfortunate... Read More about A classification and framework for measuring sustainability supply chain risk indices in small and medium enterprises.

Coalescing the lean and circular economy (2019)
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Growing population along with technological advancement to pace the production speed like never before has raised alarming concerns and attracted attention globally. Circular Economy, a fairly new concept has emerged to address such issues by proposi... Read More about Coalescing the lean and circular economy.

Improving the reliability of warehouse operations in the 3PL industry: An Australian 3PL case study (2019)
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Warehouses play an important value-adding role to provide a competitive edge to any organization, and support business growth and efficiency throughout their supply chains. This paper explores warehouse operations (i.e. receiving, put away, picking,... Read More about Improving the reliability of warehouse operations in the 3PL industry: An Australian 3PL case study.

The challenges of GSCM implementation in the UK manufacturing SMEs (2019)
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The importance of green supply chain management has long attracted the interest of both researchers and practitioners in the industry. As environmental concerns are becoming one of the major issues discussed in the 21st century, countries with manufa... Read More about The challenges of GSCM implementation in the UK manufacturing SMEs.

Investigating the benefits and challenges of Total Quality Management implementation in the pharmaceutical companies (2018)
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Pharmaceutical companies in Eastern European region are facing urgent quality tools implementation due to fierce global competition. The aim of this research is to provide current understanding of TQM in this region and provide further guidance on h... Read More about Investigating the benefits and challenges of Total Quality Management implementation in the pharmaceutical companies.

Service innovation and performance in Mexican service SMEs (2017)
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© 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.