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The Five Essential Building Blocks To Becoming A Top Twenty-Five Supply Chain Program, Phillip Necessary

Supply Chain Management Undergraduate Honors Theses

The overall intention of this research is to develop aspiring programs to reevaluate their institutions and begin growing their program with lessons from other leading institutions—the more comprehensive, educated, and driven students in the Supply Chain industry, the better.

The Supply Chain Management sector has grown substantially in the last fifteen to twenty years; the current placement rate of undergraduates is eighty-five to one hundred percent after graduation (Damast, 2015). This phenomenon correlates with international and domestic interest in information technology, economic dynamics, flexibility, and product availability, all of which have grown industry demand (Rob O'Byrne, 2020). In the last …

Consumer Behavior And Coronavirus: How The Pandemic Transformed The American Shopper, Gina L. Riedell

Supply Chain Management Undergraduate Honors Theses

This study examines the changes in consumer shopping behavior resulting from the coronavirus pandemic in the United States as well as the effects on in-store and e-commerce sales and market share within the CPG industry. Most Americans faced some level of disruption throughout developments in the coronavirus outbreak. The study of their ongoing behavior changes in shopping preferences and purchasing decisions is revealed through CPG sales and offers insight into how it has affected the industry long-term. This paper analyzes the consumer behavior shifts in chronological order as new developments in the pandemic affected shopping decisions from January 2020 to …

A Financial And Environmental Impact Analysis On The Implementation Of Electric Vehicles For The Washington County, Arkansas Sheriff's Department, Lauren Chadwick

Supply Chain Management Undergraduate Honors Theses

Since the Biden administration has provided implication that the hope is for state and local governments to adopt net zero emission federal vehicles, it is important to see how this might work for a county in a rural area of Arkansas. Applying this real possibility to the local Sheriff’s department will aim to create a case either for the implementation of electric vehicles or prove to show that it is not a feasible solution.

This research will compare the financial advantages and disadvantages of this order along with the possible environmental impact that this solution can attribute to. Focusing on …

Debiasing A Decision Maker Facing Supply Uncertainties In A Newsvendor Setting, Alan William Zeller

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

Companies must be prepared to manage uncontrollable events that will disrupt their supply chain and add uncertainty to their inventory models.

This thesis first studies the effect of different types of supply disruption risks on the ordering performance of profit-maximizing decision makers in a newsvendor setting.

Then, this thesis aims at extending the literature on the newsvendor model in studying the effect of a Decision Support System and the effect of a Secondary Task on the ordering performance of profit-maximizing decision makers who face supply uncertainties in a newsvendor setting.

Finally, implications for scholars and practitioners are discussed.

Beauty And Lifestyle Subscription Services: A Modern Retailing Format For The Vigilante Collaborative Consumption Consumer, Melisa Spilinek

Department of Textiles, Merchandising and Fashion Design: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Advancements in technology and ease of use of online shopping via phone applications (apps) and subscription services have fundamentally changed how consumers shop. Now more than ever, consumers are turning to time-saving technological tools that are subscription services. Subscription services provide a multitude of benefits to consumers and contribute to collaborative consumption in nearly every product and service category from coffee to apparel. To investigate beauty and lifestyle subscription services and collaborative consumption this study will utilize a mixed methods convergent design to analyze user experience including price sensitivity, subscription service apps and ease of use. Anticipated contributions to the …

Effects Of A Pandemic On Supply Chain Networks, Richard Mankavech

Senior Honors Projects

The outbreak of COVID-19 has had a colossal impact on the lives of people across the globe. Just like the lives of the people who have had to live through this pandemic, supply chains around the world have been disrupted and permanently changed as well. 94% of Fortune 1000 companies have experienced supply chain disruptions as a result of COVID-19. The effects of the pandemic on global supply chains has not gone unnoticed, as many people had to make adjustments in their shopping to account for items that are always expected to be available suddenly not being able to be …

Cross Domain Iw Threats To Sof Maritime Missions: Implications For U.S. Sof, Gary C. Kessler, Diane M. Zorri

Publications

As cyber vulnerabilities proliferate with the expansion of connected devices, wherein security is often forsaken for ease of use, Special Operations Forces (SOF) cannot escape the obvious, massive risk that they are assuming by incorporating emerging technologies into their toolkits. This is especially true in the maritime sector where SOF operates nearshore in littoral zones. As SOF—in support to the U.S. Navy— increasingly operate in these contested maritime environments, they will gradually encounter more hostile actors looking to exploit digital vulnerabilities. As such, this monograph comes at a perfect time as the world becomes more interconnected but also more vulnerable.

Flexible Resource Allocation For Service And Production Systems, Peng Wang

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

Resource flexibility hedges against uncertainty in service and production systems. However, flexibility also brings complexity and difficulty in allocating resources. The thesis mainly studies managing flexible resources in two scenarios. The first scenario is a type of coordination of workers in a production or assembly line – bucket brigade. Specifically, the study shows how to manage a stochastic bucket brigade with discrete work stations. The second scenario is a service system with flexible service resources. The study proposes a distributive decision rule for the allocation of resources under both supply and demand uncertainty.

Chapter 2 studies a J-station, I-worker bucket …

Essays On Management Of Scarce Resources, Qian Luo

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

Efficient management of scarce resources is critical to the improvement of economic, social and/or environmental performances. In this dissertation, I focus on the management of two scarce resources: i) healthcare resources and ii) water, and investigate two important problems: i) the estimation of patients’ health transition to support healthcare resources control under the context of sequential medical treatments, and ii) the urban water system control with a specific focus on the wastewater recycling capacity investment in the presence of climate change and urban water scarcity. The first chapter studies how to estimate patients’ health transition considering the effects of treatment-effect-based …

Resilience As An Organisational Capability: A Study Of How Firms Survive And Outperform In Disruptive Times, Dietmar Kappel

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

An environment, in which volatility and deep uncertainty represent the leading paradigm, pressures firms to focus their attention on adapting to disruptive environmental conditions. Although scholarly attention in the firm-level resilience construct has increased over the years, a number of important issues remain underexplored. To advance progress in the field, research is needed on the dimensions of resilient response formulation and enactment, the dimensions of the disruptive environment and situational factors as well as resilience as a latent outcome variable. Based on an in-depth, systematic review of the received literature, this thesis aims to extend the firm-level resilience literature by …

Behavioural Incentivization In Healthcare Operations, Nicholas Teck Boon Yeo

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

Common across current research in healthcare operations is the conclusion that there exist many inefficiencies in today’s healthcare systems. Governments and healthcare organisations have sought to address these inefficiencies through the introduction of new policies and operational procedures or by relying on incentives to encourage specific behaviour. However, despite these attempts to reduce inefficiencies in the healthcare systems, the problem persists and is further exacerbated by growing medical complexities coupled with a rapidly ageing population. Against this backdrop, this dissertation investigates two issues within healthcare operations: (i) colorectal cancer (CRC) screening adherence, and (ii) blood donor management. A distinguishing feature …

Examining The Real Costs Of Us Manufacturing Decoupling Strategies, Sze Chiang Jonathan Chee

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

Decoupling strategies have been the main focus of supply chain and resource management studies. Increasingly, due to the shift in geopolitical dynamics, the term ‘decoupling’ is now used in finance, accounting, political, and strategic management fields to describe the effect from the fallout of tense international relations. Existing research on this topic includes modeling strategic retaliation theories and evaluating firm effects from an accounting and finance perspective. Yet, there still is little research published on meso-level analysis of the relationship between macro and micro factors that affect organizational decoupling strategies. This study hopes to add to this new body of …

Integrating Systems, Processes, And Human Judgment: Three Essays On Value Creation With Supply Chain Analytics, Rebekah Inez Brau

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Big-data, analytics, automation, and machine learning are changing the role of managers in supply chain and operations functions. Extant research indicates that effective value creation by analytics is achieved through careful attention to three components: technology, people, and processes. As such, the purpose of my dissertation is to improve the integration of people in current supply chain and operations management systems with ever-changing technologies and processes. I focus on one critical function—demand planning—since it is increasingly influenced by predictive analytics yet can still require human judgment. My dissertation is comprised of three essays as follow.

In Essay 1, I implement …

Food Hubs And Rebuilding Missing Middle Market Structure In Agriculture: The Social In Supply Chain Development, Stephen Luoni

Community Design Center Faculty Publications and Presentations

Tens of millions of Americans became food insecure during the COVID-19 pandemic as independent farmers dumped millions of tons of food due to economic lockdowns. Yet contract growers looped into vertically integrated monopoly supply chains escaped system breakdowns. Food provisioning is often seen as polarized between local scale and continental/ global market scale. Food supply and consumption are functions more of market structure than scale. Farmers reliant on direct sales to local restaurants, schools, universities, and hospitals saw their markets evaporate overnight. This Food Away from Home market constitutes 54 percent of food consumed nationally yet is vulnerable since direct-to-consumer …

Automation And Distribution Center Labor Effectiveness: A Case Study Of Operations Company X, James Rizzitano

Honors Projects in Global Supply Chain Management

Distribution center automation has progressed rapidly in recent times, with substantial improvements in automated systems which improve worker efficiency. These improvements have enabled distribution centers to increase their total throughput, while lowering their labor cost-per-case. However, when a distribution center transitions from manual fulfillment to an automated warehouse execution system, there will be growing pains as the facility adapts. In this exploratory case study of Operations Company X, we observe one such facility that recently transitioned to use an automated warehouse management system. To best explore the happenings of this facility, an archival analysis of pre and post automation data …

The Role Of Digital Technology Adoption In Coping With Sc Disruptions Caused By Covid-19 Pandemic, Nicole Record

Thinking Matters Symposium

Supply chain disruptions in addition to the immediate effect of stopping/ impeding the flows, long term effects can include bankruptcies, reduced business growth and increased business uncertainty. Unlike prior disruption events, the COVID-19 pandemic presents a novel opportunity to study a near-simultaneous global supply chain disruption. We carry out a systematic literature review to understand disruption response in this context.

The Distribution Trends Of Labor Cost In A Government Organization, Robert Carlos

Public Administration ETDs

This study will research growth in the cost of support personnel in a government organization. It will provide a comprehensive, six-year comparison of costs from Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 to 2020. Furthermore, the study will analyze trends, and provide recommendations for best practices and optimum resource allocation.

Significant management concern has arisen due to the recent trend in rising indirect labor costs. A comparison of indirect and overhead to direct labor costs details a growth trend illustrating the uneven development and inefficiencies in the distribution of labor cost in the directorate.

The cost of labor is rising faster than the …

How Exemplary Industrial Production Managers Lead Successfully Through The Turbulence Of The Covid-19 Crisis, Wendi Fast

Dissertations

Purpose: The purpose of this phenomenological study was to discover and describe behaviors that exemplary industrial production managers in organizations practice to lead their organizations through the turbulent times of COVID -19 using the leadership attributes of personal temperament, concern for the collective interest, resilience, and moral purpose.

Methodology: This qualitative study used a phenomenological research design. Data was collected from 10 interviews of industrial production managers and artifacts collected to discover and describe behaviors that industrial production managers in manufacturing organizations practice to lead their organizations through the turbulent times of the COVID-19 crisis.

Findings: The study revealed 27 …

A Systematic Literature Review : Information Technology Capital And Performance, Ilham M, Anis Eliyana, Tri Siwi Agustina

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study aims to conduct a systematic literature review of research in the field of Information Technology Capital and Performance with data from all international research publications. The data obtained in this study amounted to 113 academic documents published from 1994 to 2020 globally. Research has discussed a lot about the causal relationship between information technology capital and company performance, the results of empirical studies vary to some extent with the exception of Information Technology business partnerships which are referred to as Information Technology business and strategic alignment. To that end, strategic alignment has emerged as one of the most …

Decarbonising And Digitalising Shipping, Perlin Chan, Serene Johnson, Aladdy Choo, Lay Lin Tan, Annie Koh

Perspectives@SMU

Targeted regulation and a mindset shift are necessary to transform the maritime industry

Eliminating Forced Labor In American Corporations And Their Supply Chain: Existing Solutions And Failures, Breann Hunt

Brigham Young University Prelaw Review

The author of this article examines current judicial precedent pertaining to human rights violations perpetrated in the supply chains of American companies. The author argues that existing legislation is insufficient to prevent firms from profiting from forced labor. The author demonstrates the effect of forced labor upon the competitive landscape and illustrates the damage done to ethical companies forced to compete with low-priced competitors. By analyzing existing research on competitive injury and Antitrust regulation, the author thus proposes that there be a synthesis of third party research capabilities and legislation that would help prove competitive injury due to forced labor …

Business Responses To A Pandemic In A Global Economy: Case Studies Detailing The Impact Of Covid-19 On Medical Supply Chains, Lowell Hundley Coleman

Senior Theses

This paper details the best practices of three multinational medical supply companies in their efforts to overcome supply chain disruptions stemming from the coronavirus pandemic. Through a series of case studies on the supply chain responses of 3M, Becton Dickinson, and Honeywell between January and December of 2020, this paper highlights the strengths and weaknesses of their respective supply chains, company cultures, and mitigation strategies and provides useful insight into what actions medical supply companies will need to make going forward to prevent and reduce supply chain disruptions amidst future global pandemics.

Impact Of Penalty Cost On Customers' Booking Decisions, Jianghua Zhang, Daniel Zhuoyu Long, Rowan Wang, Chi Xie

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

We study a novel newsvendor-type problem where the information on demand quantity is not exogenously given. The customer needs to make the booking decision based on her estimation on demand, which is affected by the value of shortage penalty cost. The problem is motivated by low-cost airline service practices where passengers need to book baggage allowance for their travel. The baggage overweight price affects the accuracy of passengers’ baggage weight estimation and thus their booking quantities. Through stochastic decision models, we analytically characterize the impact of shortage penalty cost on passengers’ booking decisions as well as airline’s profit. We consider …

Urban Consolidation Center Or Peer-To-Peer Platform? The Solution To Urban Last-Mile Delivery, Qiyuan Deng, Xin Fang, Yun Fong Lim

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

The growing population in cities and booming e-commerce activities create huge demand for urban last-mile delivery, exerting intense pressure on the cities' well-being. To keep congestion and pollution under control, a consolidator can operate an urban consolidation center (UCC) to bundle shipments from multiple carriers before the last-mile delivery. Alternatively, the consolidator can operate a peer-to-peer platform for the carriers to share delivery capacity. We provide guidance for the consolidator to choose between these two business models by comparative analysis. We capture the interactions between the consolidator and carriers using a game-theoretical framework. Under each business model, the consolidator first …

Surface Transportation Supply Chain Security: Creating A Blueprint For Future Research, Frances Edwards, Joseph Szyliowicz, Dan Goodrich, William Medigovich, Liz Lange, Autumn Anderton

Mineta Transportation Institute

Ninety percent of the world’s trade goods travel by surface transportation, using maritime, road and rail assets. The security of the goods in transit, the infrastructure supporting the movement, and the vehicles, are required to ensure that international commerce proceeds successfully. Much has been written about the surface supply chain itself, but little has focused on the security of these components. This report provides a guide for those wanting an increased understanding of the security issues that supply chain surface transportation systems confront and a blueprint to guide their future research.

العوامل التنظيمية لهيكل الإدارة المالية في المؤسسات الحكومية واثره على التدفقات النقدية في البيانات المحاسبية, حيدر عباس الجنابي, رضوان الشغري, خولة جحيل زكيم

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

تناولت الدراسة واقع العوامل التنظيمية للإدارة المالية في المؤسسات الحكومية والتي تعد مطلباً مهماً لنجاح المؤسسة الحكومية من خلال تقديم إطار عملي لربط العوامل المنظمة لهيكل الإدارة المالية داخل المؤسسة الحكومية , بغية الوقوف على واقع الإدارة المالية في المؤسسات الحكومية وهو ما انفردت به الدراسة من أجل تأشير عدد من المؤشرات التي من الممكن تكون انطلاقة للتطوير إن الحركية المستمرة لمتغيرات البيئة المالية وتأثيراتها في أنشطة المؤسسات الحكومية مجتمع الدراسة, اذ تبين أهمية العلاقة بين المتغيرات المالية والعوامل التنظيمية متمثلة بالمتغيرات (الداخلية والخارجية) وأثر انعكاسات تلك العلاقة سوف يؤدي إلى تعزيز مكانة المنظمة من الناحية المالية ، ولمحدودية الدراسات …

دور الابداع المحاسبي في تشجيع الاستثمار الاجنبي وتحقيق التنمية المستدامة دراسة تطبيقية في عينة من المصارف العراقية المدرجة في سوق العراق للأوراق المالية, موج عباس جاسم, امجد كريم غضب, عباس هادي كاطع

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يهدف البحث الى معرفة الدور الذي يمارسه الابداع المحاسبي في تحسين صورة القوائم المالية بالشكل الذي يساعد في جذب الاستثمارات الخارجية والذي يؤدي الى زيادة رؤوس الاموال وتحقيق التنمية المستدامة ، ولغرض تحقيق ذلك تم تطبيق البحث على عينة من المصارف العراقية في سوق المال للسنوات المالية (2013-2018) من خلال تحليل مقدار الابداعات المحاسبية ومعرفة نمو رأس المال المستثمر خلال نفس الفترة وتم من خلال ذلك تحقيق اهداف البحث واختبار الفرضية . واهم ما توصل اليه البحث يتمثل بان الابداع المحاسبي يؤدي دورا فاعلا في تغيير نظرة المستخدمين الخارجيين على التقارير المالية المقدمة من قبل المصارف العراقية فضلا عن تحسين …

الشغف الاستراتيجي ودوره في بناء المنظمات الريادية دراسة تطبيقية في المستشفيات الاهلية في محافظة النجف الاشرف, هاشم فوزي العبادي, حوراء رشيد الموسوي

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

الغرض: بدأ الشغف الاستراتيجي في الآونة الأخيرة في جذب عدد متزايد من الباحثين على الرغم من وجود عدد قليل من الدراسات المنهجية، إلا أن ظاهرة الشغف سائدة بين رواد الأعمال وهذه دعوة لإجراء دراسات تجريبية ومنهجية من الشغف الاستراتيجي في ريادة الأعمال لتقديم رؤى للممارسة حيث يهدف البحث إلى تطبيق الشغف الاستراتيجي لبناء منظمات ريادية. التصميم ، المنهجية ، النهج : باستخدام مقاربة نوعية في دراسة تطبيقية المتعمقة، تمت دراسة مستشفيات أهلية تعدُّ من المشاريع المتطورة في القطاع الصحي في محافظة النجف الأشرف. النتائج : تشير النتائج بقوة إلى أن أسس بناء منظمات ريادية على مستوى المؤسسات الصحية تتطلب شغف …

إمكانية تقديم منتجات ثورية من خلال تبني استراتيجية المحيط الازرق دارسة تحليلية لآراء الموزعين في شركة ابل في العراق, عمار عواد عمار عواد محمد, ثامر ثامر حواس, ثامر عكاب حواس

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

تهدف الدراسة الى تحديد اثر تبني استراتيجية المحيط الأزرق في دعم تقديم منتجات ثورية لدى شركة ابل، وتتمحور مشكلة الدراسة بأن المنتجات الثورية بوصفها بديلا عمليا للتخلص من المنافسة المحتدمة بين المنظمات (وان كان في المدى القصير) لا يمكن التوصل اليها الا من خلال صياغة وتبني استراتيجية شاملة ومتكاملة من قبل الإدارة العليا في المنظمة كاستراتيجية المحيط الأزرق، وقد اعتمدت الدراسة مخطط افتراضي حددت من خلاله فرضياتها لبلوغ اهدافها واستخدم المنهج الوصفي والتحليلي من اجل بلوغ النتائج، والاستبانة بوصفها اداة رئيسة في جمع البيانات والمعلومات المتعلقة بالجانب الميداني من الدراسة، وجرى اختيار شركة ابل ميدانياً للدراسة واختبار فروضها، وتم استطلاع …

محددات النمو الاقتصادي في العراق : دراسة قياسية للمدة (1970- 2016), حيدر طالب موسى, كريم سالم حسين

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

أخذ موضوع النمو والتنمية الأقتصادية حيزاً كبيراً من الأهمية في العقود الاخيرة سواء على مستوى التنظير الأقتصادي والبحوث العلمية والأكاديمية أو على مستوى الهيئات والمؤسسات الدولية العالمية أو على مستوى الدول وتوجهاتها الأقتصادية، فالنمو الأقتصادي كظاهرة عامة هو وسيلة لتحقيق مختلف الأغراض لهذا فأن معظم الدول تسعى الى تعظيم معدل النمو أو على الأقل تحسينه بأدخال كل الشروط التي تفرضها التنمية الاقتصادية . فالنمو الأقتصادي يبقى الهاجس الأساسي لمختلف الأنظمة من جهة وللأفراد من جهة أخرى فهو على رأس أهداف السياسات الأقتصادية كونه يمثل الخلاصة المادية للجهود الأقتصادية وغير الأقتصادية المبذولة في المجتمع.