Operations and Supply Chain Management Commons^™

Pricing Under Uncertainty: Forward And Option Pricing In Sports Markets, Preethika Sainam, Sridhar Balasubramanian, Shantanu Bhattacharya, Lin L. Ong

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Tickets to popular elimination style tournaments (e.g., NFL Super Bowl) are expensive and scarce. Sports organizations sell these tickets well in advance of the final game. Fans hesitate to buy them because they are unsure about whether their favorite team will play in it. We present two alternatives to the current practice: consumer forwards and options. A fan pays a reserve price to secure her team-specific forward ticket. If that team makes it to the final game, the fan must (in the option case, has the choice to) pay an exercise price to purchase the ticket. If the team does …

Maximizing The Benefits Of An On-Demand Workforce: Fill Rate-Based Allocation And Coordination Mechanisms, Tao Lu, Zhichao Zheng, Yuanguang Zhong

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Problem definition: With the rapid growth of the gig economy, on-demand staffing platforms have emerged to help companies manage their temporary workforce. This emerging business-to-business context motivates us to study a new form of supply chain coordination problem. We consider a staffing platform managing an on-demand workforce to serve multiple firms facing stochastic labor demand. Before demand realization, each individual firm can hire permanent employees, whereas the platform determines a compensation rate for potential on-demand workers. After knowing the realized demand, firms in need can request on-demand workers from the platform, and then, the platform operator allocates the available on-demand …

Deploying Business Ecosystems To Cope With Ecological Transformation, Arnoud De Meyer

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

At a time when businesses must innovate quickly and in support of sustainability, "going it alone" is no longer the most effective or efficient model. Business ecosystems – networks of companies, researchers and other stakeholders each involved in a given value chain – offer an effective route to companies seeking not only to find new advantages, but to drive wider systemic change. When innovation takes place through ecosystems, often, the results are faster to diffuse through an industry or value chain. To address needs of the ecological transformation like the transition to clean fuels, this is exactly what is needed; …

Clustering Sustainable Suppliers In The Plastics Industry: A Fuzzy Equivalence Relation Approach, Reza Kiani Mavi, Navid Zarbakhshnia, Neda Kiani Mavi, Sajad Kazemi

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Nowadays, pure economic supply chain management is not commonly contemplated among companies (especially buyers), as recently novel dimensions of supply chains, e.g., environmental, sustainability, and risk, play significant roles. In addition, since companies prefer buying their needs from a group of suppliers, the problem of supplier selection is not solely choosing or qualifying a supplier from among others. Buyers, hence, commonly assemble a portfolio of suppliers by looking at the multi-dimensional pre-determined selection criteria. Since sustainable supplier selection criteria are often assessed by linguistic terms, an appropriate clustering approach is required. This paper presents an innovative way to implement fuzzy …

Supply Chain Simulation Of Manufacturing Shirts Using System Dynamics For Sustainability, Gurinder Kaur, Ron Kander

School of Design and Engineering Papers

In supply chain management (SCM), goods and services flow from the raw materials stage to the end user with complexities and uncertainty at each stage. Computer modeling and simulation is a particularly useful method to examine supply chain operational issues because it can solve operational complexities that are challenging and time consuming to analyze. Manufacturing companies fear losing valuable time and assets during the manufacturing process; the inaccurate estimation of raw materials, human capital, or physical infrastructure not only leads to monetary loss for the manufacturing unit, but also has a detrimental effect on the environment. The purpose of this …

Does Engaging Commercial Customers In A Shared Social Mission Improve Impact Sourcing Service Provider (Issp) Success? A Critically Appraised Topic, Michael F. Corbett

Engaged Management ReView

This topic paper examines whether engaging commercial customers through a shared social mission improves the success of social enterprises. It is based on an examination of a subset of the information technology and business process outsourcing (ITO/BPO) industries, known as impact sourcing service providers (ISSPs). ISSPs are social enterprises – B2R Technologies and Digital Divide Data are two examples – that provide call center, transaction processing, data entry, and other technology-enabled services for commercial customers from remote locations around the globe. What is unique about ISSPs is that they do this with a social mission of creating jobs and economic …

Isscm Newsletter, Fall 2023, Raj Soin College Of Business, Wright State University

ISSCM Newsletters

A ten page newsletter from the Department of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management in the Raj Soin College of Business at Wright State University.

Migrant Flows: Humanitarian Operational Aspects Of People In Transit, Sameer Prasad, Harish Borra, Jason Woldt, Nezih Altay, Jasmine Tata

School of Business: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Millions of workers in India who migrated to cities for employment have transited back to seek refuge in their home villages, causing disruptions in both cities and villages. This type of mass flow of migrants in transit represents a humanitarian crisis. Understanding migrant flow patterns and ways to ameliorate the conditions for migrants in transit is critical to managing the humanitarian crisis. In this study, we develop a model that examines the influence of migrant networks, inter‐organizational collaboration, and environmental uncertainty on locational advantage, which, in turn, predicts migrant flow patterns. This study contributes to the humanitarian operations management and …

الجامعات الخضراء كآلية لتطوير البنى التحتية المستدامة: دراسة عينة من تجارب جامعات عربية, فضيلة ب بوطورة, حيدر حميد بلاو, فاطمة الزهرة بوطورة, مقداد جاسم عبد مقداد جاسم عبد مقداد جاسم عبد

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

تهدف هذه الدراسة إلى إبراز مدى أهمية تبني مفهوم الجامعة الخضراء كآلية لتطوير البنى التحتية المستدامة من خلال تسليط الضوء إلى عينة من تجارب الجامعات العربية، وبينت الدراسة أن الجامعة تعد أداة أساسية من أجل التوعية وزرع الفكر الإيجابي وترسيخ الاهتمام بالجانب البيئي، وتوصلت الدراسة إلى أن الجامعة الخضراء تعد مؤسسة تعليمية تلبي حاجتها إلى الموارد الطبيعية، مثل الطاقة والمياه والمواد، دون المساس بقدرة الناس في البلدان الأخرى وكذلك الأجيال القادمة على تلبية احتياجاتهم الخاصة، كما تلعب الجامعة دورا محوريا في تحقيق الاستدامة من خلال وضع مبادئ التنمية المستدامة في جميع التخصصات الجامعية، وأيضا عن طريق التكوين الجامعي الذي يسعى …

أبعاد ومتطلبات نجاح العلاقة الإيجابية بين ثلاثية إستخدام التكنولوجيا في التعليم العالي وتمكين الجامعات والجودة لتحقيق التنمية المستدامة, محمد حسن رشم, نوفل سمايلي

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يهدف هذه البحث إلى التعرف على العلاقة الإيجابية بين استخدام التكنولوجيا في التعليم العالي وتمكين الجامعات والحرص على الجودة لتحقيق الاستدامة للتعليم ومن ثم التنمية المستدامة، فالتعليم في تطور مستمر كما أن للتكنولوجيا تأثيرا هائلا على العملية التعليمية ككل حيث أصبحت وسيلة لتحقيق الغاية والهدف بالنهوض بعمليتي التعليم والتعلم، فأصبح لزاما على التعليم الجامعي اليوم بمختلف أنواعه ومستوياته أن يتكيف مع الحقائق الجديدة في إطار أهمية استخدامه للتكنولوجيا المتطورة، والمشاركة في مجمل الجهود المبذولة في مؤسسات المجتمع في التنمية البشرية وإكسابهم الممارسات والمهارات التعليمية، حتى يكون النظام التعليمي قادر على تحقيق التعليم الذاتي المستدام باستخدام مصادر التعلم وتقنية المعلومات الحديثة …

انموذج تدقيق مقترح لتفعيل اجراءات التدقيق وفق المعايير الدولية لتحسين استمرارية النشاط المصرفي: دراسة تطبيقية لعينة من المصارف التجارية, وعد هادي عبد الحساني, نصير ظاهر جابر

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يهدف هذا البحث الى تطبيق انموذج برنامج تدقيق مقترح لتفعيل اجراءات التدقيق وفق المعايير الدولية لتحسين استمرارية النشاط المصرفي، ودوره الفاعل في تقييم المخاطر المصرفية والتنبؤ بنتيجة النشاط المصرفي،وفق ما يتناسب مع بيئة العمل المحلية، ومتطلبات جهات الرقابة المصرفية الدولية، نظرا لاهتمام العديد من الأطراف وارتباط مصالحهم مع المصارف محل الفحص والتدقيق، بالإضافة الى التوجه الدولي والمحلي نحو الاهتمام المتزايد باستمرارية العمل المصرفي، وبما يتماشى مع المعايير الدولية، وقد طبق هذا البحث على عينة مكونة من مصرفين من المصارف التجارية الخاصة المدرجة في سوق العراق للأوراق المالية للمدة ( 2018-2021)، وقد استخدم المنهج الوصفي التحليلي في وصف وتحليل وقياس جميع …

اثر القيادة الابوية في الحد من الانسحاب الوظيفي: دراسة استطلاعية في شركة زين العراق, علي ذنون يونس الجادر, صفاء ادريس عبودي

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

تهدف الدراسة إلى تحديد اثر القيادة الأبوية المتمثلة في (القيادة الخيرية، والقيادة الأخلاقية، والقيادة السلطوية). في الحد من الانسحاب الوظيفي (الانسحاب الجسدي، والانسحاب النفسي) في شركة زين العراق للاتصالات، واعتمدت الدراسة في عملية جمع البيانات على الاستبانة بوصفة أداة رئيسية لتحقيق هدفها. اذ تم توزيع (258) استمارة لتحديد مدى توافر ابعاد القيادة الأبوية والانسحاب الوظيفي، وتم استرجاع (211) استمارة صالحة للتحليل الاحصائي. وعن طريق استعمال مجموعة من الأساليب الإحصائية تتمثل في التوزيع الطبيعي، عامل الثبات (ألفا كرو نباخ). الموثوقية، المتوسط الحسابي، الانحراف المعياري، معامل الانحدار المتعدد، فيما بينت نتائج الدراسة وجود علاقة تأثير ايجابية ذات دلالة إحصائية بين القيادة الأبوية …

أستخدام أسلوب تحليل التمايز في التصنيف والتنبؤ: دراسة تطبيقية في سوق العراق للأوراق المالية, سارة جبر حسين

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يعتبر تحليل التمايز (Discriminant Analysis) واحد من أساليب التحليل الاحصائي متعدد المتغيرات (Multivariate Analysis) المشهورة وله استعمالات كبيرة في مختلف الدراسات الإحصائية خاصة تلك الدراسات التي تهتم بالتصنيف والتنبؤ لما له من قدرة كبيرة على التمييز بين البيانات وتصنيف المشاهدات الجديدة حسب المجموعات التي تنتمي اليها بالاعتماد على دالة خاصة تسمى الدالة التمييزية (Discriminant Function). كانت المشكلة الرئيسية التي واجهت الباحث هو كيفية استخدام تحليل التمايز للتصنيف والتنبؤ في مجال التحليل المالي. ان الهدف الأساسي من الدراسة هو استخدام الدالة التمييزية للتصنيف والتنبؤ بالتعثر المالي لعينة من المصارف العراقية وقياس خطأ التصنيف. كذلك عرض المفاهيم الأساسية لعمليات التصنيف والشروط والافتراضات …

التماثل التنظيمي مدخل لتعزيز الاداء الاستراتيجي: دراسة لآراء عينة من المديرين في جامعة الموصل, شيماء محمد صالح حسن حميد الهاشمي, ايمان بشير محمد مصطفى ابو ردن

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

استهدف البحث تشخيص مستوى التماثل التنظيمي بوصفه مدخل لتعزيز الاداء الاستراتيجي للقيادات الادارية في مؤسسات التعليم العالي وبيان مدى اهمية دمج المفاهيم والقيم الاخلاقية والعادات التي يتصف بها الافراد بثقافة المنظمة واسلوبها بالعمل بغية تحديد هوية المنظمة التي يعمل فيها ومنحها القدرة على تحقيق افضل اداء استراتيجي في ظل المستجدات البيئة والاقتصادية وبالسرعة التي تضاهي منافسيها, وتمحورت مشكلة البحث في اثارة عدة تساؤلات بحثية أهمها: هل تمتلك ادارة الكليات المبحوثة ابعاد التماثل التنظيمي؟ وماهي طبيعة علاقات الارتباط والاثر بين التماثل التنظيمي بدلالة ابعاده والاداء الاستراتيجي لدى الكليات ميدان البحث , اذ استخدم البحث المنهج الوصفي التحليلي لتغطية الاطر النظرية المفاهيمية …

Building Strength Through Collaboration: What Faith Community Nurses Need To Know, Marcia A. Potter

International Journal of Faith Community Nursing

This article is a practical guide and viewpoint narrative that offers definitions, justifications for, process steps, and a how-to checklist for Faith Community Nurses considering collaboration between multiple agencies outside of their own. The author offers simple guidelines and how-to advice on securing success, avoiding risks, and preventing costly misunderstandings between cooperating agencies when combining resources.

Chatgpt Unveiled: Unleashing Ai Magic In Online Shopping And Digital Marketing, Jianping Huang, Mark J. Sciuchetti Dr.

Atlantic Marketing Journal

This research paper explores the use of AI, specifically ChatGPT, in interactive activities within

online shopping and digital marketing. The paper examines the potential of AI-powered chatbots

to enhance customer engagement, personalization, and marketing effectiveness. Through a

literature review, case studies, and user feedback analysis, the research highlights the benefits of

AI chatbots in providing real-time assistance, personalized recommendations, and improved

customer experiences. The paper also addresses ethical and privacy concerns associated with AI

implementation and discusses future research directions. The findings are expected to suggest

that AI-powered chatbots have the potential to revolutionize online shopping and digital

marketing by …

Network Vulnerability Identification For The Material Routing Problem, Carson G. Long

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation considers the importance of identifying spatiotemporal vulnerabilities in ground distribution networks and uses operations research methods to formulate models that allow military logistic planners to implement prevention and mitigation measures regarding the routing of personnel, equipment, and supplies in contested Areas of Responsibility (AOR). For optimization models relating to identifying spatiotemporal network vulnerabilities in distribution networks, this work leverages game theory, mixed-integer programming, multi-objective optimization, and metaheuristics to inform mitigation measures for shipment routing. This research has three related components: the first component develops a multi-objective mathematical program to identify spatiotemporal vulnerabilities via myopic heuristic identification, in combination …

Dynamic Scheduling With Uncertain Job Types, Zuo-Jun Max Shen, Jingui Xie, Zhichao Zheng, Han Zhou

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Uncertain job types can arise as a result of predictive or diagnostic inaccuracy in healthcare or repair service systems and unknown preferences in matching service systems. In this paper, we study systems with multiple types of jobs, in which type information is imperfect and will be updated dynamically. Each job has a prior probability of belonging to a certain type which may be predicted by data, models, or experts. A job can only be processed by the right machine, and a job assigned to the wrong machine must be rescheduled. More information is learned from the mismatch, and job type …

Smu Redefines Lifelong Learning With Innovative Stackable, Applied Industry Practice Master, Singapore Management University

SMU Press Releases and News

Singapore Management University (SMU) will soon introduce a new educational offering – Industry Practice Master programme (行业实践硕士课程) – through its professional training arm, SMU Academy. For a start, SMU Academy will offer the Industry Practice Master of Digital Economy with two track specialisations - Data Protection and Data Governance, and Digital Supply Chain and Intelligence. SMU is the first university in Singapore to launch a stackable postgraduate programme that focuses on practical application. The programme also stands out for its emphasis on flexible learning, personalised learning, integrated SMU-employer partnership, and experiential and work-based learning; furthermore, lifelong learning coaches will also …

Preliminary Evaluation For Lean Implementation In A Small Manufacturing Company, Ronald Lynch

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Lean management and tools have many positive effects on a company including increased profitability, and efficiency. Lean tools can be implemented in any type of company with a proper evaluation through the creation of Value Stream Map. This paper will demonstrate how a Value Stream Map (VSM) will provide an easier transition to a lean environment. A local company of about 100 employees will be analyzed to create a current and a future VSM. The areas of opportunity for improvement in a lean environment includes recommended lean implementations and the future VSM. Functions of the company that will be analyzed …

‘So What If Chatgpt Wrote It?’ Multidisciplinary Perspectives On Opportunities, Challenges, And Implications Of Generative Conversational Ai For Research, Practice, And Policy, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Nir Kshetri, Laurie Hughes, Emma Louise Slade, Anand Jeyaraj, Arpan Kumar Kar, Abdullah M. Baabdullah, Alex Koohang, Vishnupriya Raghavan, Manju Ahuja, Hanaa Albanna, Mousa Ahmad Albashrawi, Adil S. Al-Busaidi, Janarthanan Balakrishnan, Yves Barlette, Sriparna Basu, Indranil Bose, Laurence Brooks, Dimitrios Buhalis, Lemuria Carter, Soumyadeb Chowdhury, Tom Crick, Scott W. Cunningham, Gareth H. Davies, Robert M. Davison, Rahul Dé, Denis Dennehy, Yanqing Duan, Rameshwar Dubey, Rohita Dwivedi, John S. Edwards, Carlos Flavián, Robin Gauld, Varun Grover, Mei-Chih Hu, Marjin Janssen, Paul Jones, Iris Junglas, Sangeeta Khorana, Sascha Kraus, Kai R. Larsen, Paul Latreille, Sven Laumer, F. Tegwen Malik, Abbas Mardani, Marcello Mariani, Sunil Mithas, Emmanuel Mogaji, Jeretta Horn Nord, Siobhan O'Connor, Fevzi Okumus, Margherita Pagani, Neeraj Pandey, Savvas Papagiannidis, Ilias O. Pappas, Nishith Pathak, Jan Pries-Heje, Ramakrishnan Raman, Nripendra P. Rana, Sven-Volker Rehm, Samuel Riberiro-Navarrete, Alexander Richter, Frantz Rowe, Suprateek Sarker, Bernd Carsten Stahl, Manoj Kumar Tiwari, Wil Van Der Aalst, Viswanath Venkatesh, Giampaolo Viglia, Michael Wade, Paul Walton, Jochen Wirtz, Ryan Wright

Management Information Systems Faculty Publications

Transformative artificially intelligent tools, such as ChatGPT, designed to generate sophisticated text indistinguishable from that produced by a human, are applicable across a wide range of contexts. The technology presents opportunities as well as, often ethical and legal, challenges, and has the potential for both positive and negative impacts for organizations, society, and individuals. Offering multi-disciplinary insight into some of these, this article brings together 43 contributions from experts in fields such as computer science, marketing, information systems, education, policy, hospitality and tourism, management, publishing, and nursing. The contributors acknowledge ChatGPT’s capabilities to enhance productivity and suggest that it is …

Application Of Business Analytics Approaches To Address Climate-Change-Related Challenges, Donald J. Jenkins

Graduate Doctoral Dissertations

Climate change is an existential threat facing humanity, civilization, and the natural world. It poses many multi-layered challenges that call for enhanced data-driven decision support methods to help inform society of ways to address the deep uncertainty and incomplete knowledge on climate change issues. This research primarily aims to apply management, decision, information, and data science theories and techniques to propose, build, and evaluate novel data-driven methodologies to improve understanding of climate-change-related challenges. Given that we pursue this work in the College of Management, each essay applies one or more of the three distinct business analytics approaches (i.e., descriptive, prescriptive, …

Sharing Economy Last Mile Delivery: Three Essays Addressing Operational Challenges, Customer Expectations, And Supply Uncertainty, Nicolò Masorgo

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Last mile delivery has become a critical competitive dimension facing retail supply chains. At the same time, the emergence of sharing economy platforms has introduced unique operational challenges and benefits that enable and inhibit retailers’ last mile delivery goals. This dissertation investigates key challenges faced by crowdshipping platforms used in last mile delivery related to crowdsourced delivery drivers, driver-customer interaction, and customer expectations. We investigate the research questions of this dissertation through a multi-method design approach, complementing a rich archival dataset comprised of several million orders retrieved from a Fortune 100 retail crowdshipping platform, with scenario-based experiments. Specifically, the first …

Bayesian Optimization With Switching Cost: Regret Analysis And Lookahead Variants, Peng Liu, Haowei Wang, Wei Qiyu

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Bayesian Optimization (BO) has recently received increasing attention due to its efficiency in optimizing expensive-to-evaluate functions. For some practical problems, it is essential to consider the path-dependent switching cost between consecutive sampling locations given a total traveling budget. For example, when using a drone to locate cracks in a building wall or search for lost survivors in the wild, the search path needs to be efficiently planned given the limited battery power of the drone. Tackling such problems requires a careful cost-benefit analysis of candidate locations and balancing exploration and exploitation. In this work, we formulate such a problem as …

Subcontracting And Rework Cost Sharing In Engineering-Procurement-Construction Projects, Zhenzhen Chen, Wanshan Zhu, Pascale Crama

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Infrastructure development projects are overwhelmingly managed through engineering–procurement–construction (EPC) contracts, which allow a project end user to shift all project risks to a contractor. Accordingly, the International Federation of Consulting Engineers recommended a contract template based on a lump-sum contract between the end user and main contractor. However, EPC projects often suffer from quality issues due to moral hazard, which is aggravated by the involvement of subcontractors hired by the main contractor to perform parts of the project. Besides, costly rework is frequently needed to achieve the contractually mandated quality. When the main contractor must share some of the subcontractor’s …

Lean Manufacturing Approach To Increase Packaging Efficiency, Lina Gozali, Irsandy Kurniawan, Aldo Salim, Iveline Anne Marie, Benny Tjahjono, Yun Chia Liang, Aldy Gunawan, Nnovia Hardjo Sie, Yuliani Suseno

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The company upon which this paper is based engages in flexible packaging production, especially pharmaceutical products with guaranteed quality, trusted by consumers. Its production process includes printing, laminating, and assembling processes. Production activities are done manually and automatically using machines, so various types of waste are often found in these processes, making the level of plant efficiency nonoptimal. This study aims to identify wastes occurring in the production process, especially the production of pollycelonium with three colour variants as the highest demand product, by applying lean manufacturing concepts. The Current Value Stream Mapping (CVSM) used to map the production process …

The Effect Of Sustainability Information Disclosure On The Cost Of Equity Capital: An Empirical Analysis Based On Gartner Top 50 Supply Chain Rankings, Lingyu Li, Xianrong Zheng, Shuxi Wang

Information Technology & Decision Sciences Faculty Publications

While disclosing financial information has been widely proved to reduce the financing cost of a company, the impact of non-financial information, such as sustainability information, disclosing on the financing cost of the company is still in debate. The goal of this paper is to explore the impact of disclosing sustainability-related information on the cost of equity for firms. The paper first introduces the concept of sustainability information disclosure, and then exhibits its benefit through exploring its impact on reducing a firm’s financing cost. It uses the Gartner supply chain top 50 rankings to construct the experiment environment to test for …

Making Manufacturing Strategic For The 21st Century, Arnoud De Meyer, Kasra Ferdows, Ann Vereecke

Asian Management Insights

The role of the manufacturing executive must be upgraded too.

Rebuilding Supply Chains In Apec, Rebecca Sta Maria

Asian Management Insights

This calls for greater collaboration.

Inventory-Responsive Donor-Management Policy: A Tandem Queueing Network Model, Taozeng Zhu, Nicholas Teck Boon Yeo, Sarah Yini Gao, Gar Goei Loke

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Problem definition: In the blood-donor-management problem, the blood bank incentivizes donors to donate, given blood inventory levels. We propose a model to optimize such incentivization schemes under the context of random demand, blood perishability, observation period between donations, and variability in donor arrivals and dropouts. Methodology/results: We propose an optimization model that simultaneously accounts for the dynamics in the blood inventory and the donor’s donation process, as a coupled queueing network. We adopt the Pipeline Queue paradigm, which leads us to a tractable convex reformulation. The coupled setting requires new methodologies to be developed upon the existing Pipeline Queue framework. …