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At a time when there is high demand for logistics/supply-chain education at the undergraduate and master's levels, there is short supply of logistics PhDs to take faculty positions. In this research, the authors used both primary and secondary research to confirm the gap between supply and demand of logistics/supply-chain scholars. Their study draws attention to this salient issue and offers suggestions as to how the discipline can monitor and manage the production of logistics/supply-chain PhDs to bridge the supply and demand gap.Keywords:
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Humanitarian supply chain performance (HSCP) derived supportive actions Ensure the implementation of supply chain strategies that help achieve supply chain management objectives. Despite the frequent occurrence of disasters and their huge impact, humanitarian organizations today are still under constant pressure to improve their performance. Based on this need, this research aims to test humanitarian supply chain practices applicable to humanitarian supply chain performance. By adopting humanitarian supply chain practices, it will enable humanitarian supply chain organizations to evaluate and improve humanitarian supply chain performance. This concept paper will discuss the impact of humanitarian supply chain practices, namely the visibility, agility, and utilization of information technology (IT), which in turn attracts a series of improvements to improve humanitarian supply chain performance. Furthermore, the proposed framework is practical in any setting because it is an integral result of previous literature and research. Quantitative survey methods will be used. Research in these areas will provide insights for humanitarian supply chain organizations facing similar problems in other settings.
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Humanitarian organizations need to respond to large scale disasters with a very short lead time and operate effectively in very disruptive environments. At the same time, these large scale disruptions are emerging as one of the most pressing issues for commercial supply chains. This development has been well publicised after significant events such as the 2011 tsunami in Japan. Consequently, supply chain managers and researchers have strived to develop risk conscious management practices to build better resilience into the supply chain. This paper therefore seeks to compare the characteristics of a humanitarian supply chain with those of commercial organisations, thus preparing for effective large scale disruption risk management. The authors survey the extant literature on humanitarian supply chains to draw out the similarities and differences between the disaster-response supply chains of humanitarian organisations and selected commercial supply chains. Next, the authors apply system dynamics to simulate and understand the causal loops and yield some performance benchmarks in terms of the disruption impact and costs. They posit that the supply chains for the disaster response operations and commercial purposes differ in terms of the management strategies, adaptive capacity, and supplier relations. By adopting some of the humanitarian supply chain’s features, such as Supplier Framework Agreements and Rapid Assessment Processes, the authors demonstrate an enhancement of the disruption handling capabilities of commercial supply chains. The cross-sectional study of the supply chain of humanitarian organisations can help commercial supply chain managers to improve their disruption risk management practices. This is the first study to analyse the potential for improving the disruption risk management of the commercial supply chain community through learning from humanitarian organizations.
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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) outbreak affects not just populations but also global and local economies and supply chains. The outbreak itself has impacted on production lines and manufacturing capacities. In response to the outbreak, policies have been put in place that blocks the movement of people and materials, causing supply chain disruptions. Mainstream supply chain management has been at a loss in responding to these disruptions, mostly due to a dominant focus on minimizing costs for stable operations, while following lean, just‐in‐time, and zero‐inventory approaches. On the other hand, pandemic response supply chains, and their related supply chain disruptions, share many characteristics with disaster response and thereby with humanitarian supply chains. Much can thus be learned from humanitarian supply chains for managing pandemic‐related supply chain disruptions. What is more, facing, and managing, supply chain disruptions can be considered the new norm also in light of other disruptive forces such as climate change, or financial or political crises. This article therefore presents lessons learned from humanitarian supply chains that help mitigate and overcome supply chain disruptions. These lessons not only relate to preparedness and mobilization, but also relate to standardization, innovation, and collaboration. Together, they brace organizations, supply chains, and societies, to manage current and future disruptions.
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Purpose – This paper aims to provide a commentary and an overview of developments in the field of humanitarianism that could impact theoretical understanding of agility in humanitarian aid supply chains over the past decade. Design/methodology/approach – Authors review papers published on agility in humanitarian aid supply chains from 2006 to 2015 in the four leading Emerald-published logistics and supply chain management journals. These are: Supply Chain Management: An International Journal (SCMIJ) ; International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management (IJPDLM) ; International Journal of Operations and Production Management (IJOPM) ; and Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management (JHLSCM) . This paper presents an overview and update of developments that have the potential to influence current thinking and understanding about agility in humanitarian aid supply chains, and humanitarian aid supply chains in general. Findings – Humanitarianism and the environment of Humanitarian organisations are evolving. Such evolution has potential impacts on theoretical discussions and understanding of agility in humanitarian aid supply chains and humanitarian aid supply chains in general. Research limitations/implications – This is not a critical literature review but an overview. The paper is based on four logistics and supply chain management journals only. However, the paper is based on the work published over a decade. Practical implications – Points scholars and practitioners to the impacts of Humanitarian Organisations using the relief-development continuum on supply chain design decisions including the pursuit of agility. Social implications – It may be the time to consider the relief-development continuum in fresh light and its implications for agility in humanitarian aid supply chains. Originality/value – This paper seems to be the first paper that highlights the influence of the relief-development continuum model on humanitarian aid supply chain design strategies.
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The problem of supply chain and logistics risk management by combing supply chain thinking and logistics operation thinking are studied. Firstly, it expounds the sort of supply chain and logistics risk; Secondly, it analyzes supply chain risk prevention measures; At last, supply chain risk management model and supply chain logistics operation model are established.
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SUBTITLE: THE SUPPLY SOUNDS LIKE THE BUSINESS MANAGEMENT VERSION OF UTOPIA: A PERFECT FLOW OF INFORMATION AND MATERIALS FACILITATED BY ALL SUPPLY CHAIN PARTNERS THINKING AND ACTING AS ONE. YET RESEARCH CONDUCTED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF CARDIFF IN WALES SUGGESTS THAT THE SEAMLESS SUPPLY CHAIN IS NOT JUST A THEORETICAL CONCEPT BUT, RATHER, A REALIZABLE GOAL. THIS SUPPLY CHAIN NIRNAVA, HOWEVER, CAN ONLY BE REACHED BY REDUCING SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY THROUGHOUT THE EXTENDED SUPPLY CHAIN.
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The advancements in information technology have enabled the supply chain members to share real-time information, which further facilitates the integration of supply chain members. Since supply chain integration is a prerequisite in achieving superior supply chain performance, the objective of the current study is to determine the relationship between IT-enabled supply chain management (e-supply chain management), supply chain integration, information sharing and the performance of supply chain as a whole. Also, many authors are of the view that e-SCM and information sharing can positively enhance the integration among supply chain members, thus, another objective is to determine whether supply chain integration mediates the relationship between e-SCM and supply chain performance or not. Similar relationship is tested with information sharing as a mediator. For this, samples of 293 respondents are taken from the pharmaceutical manufacturing units and pharmacies in India. Structural equation modelling is applied to test these relationships.
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Despite the increasing popularity of research in supply chain management significant number of research focused on forward supply chain management by neglecting one of the most important part of supply chain that is reverse supply chain management, which complete supply chain management as closed loop. Large numbers of prior research consider only one variable at a time to see performance of forward or reverse supply chain on organizational performance. However, supply chain performance is the function of different combination of variables. Therefore, this paper review the effects of transportation, inventory management, facility location and information sharing in closed loop supply chain practices on organization performance.
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The management of a supply chain is both an offensive and defensive weapon that organisations can use to increase their competitive edge and capture a larger share of the market. In management science and supply chain management, multi-criteria decision making techniques have been used to solve a range of real-world problems. The problem is that many, if not most, companies in South Africa either do not have the required skills to use these decision-making techniques to improve or re-configure their supply chain, or they do not have a complete data set with which to model it effectively. In order to manage supply chains effectively, organisations at the very least need feedback on the performance of their entire supply chain. In this article, generic supply chain performance measures were used and a theoretical or empirical model was developed for the performance measurement of a national egg producer’s supply chain. It focused on a managerial program for the identification and management of their supply chain with recommendations for applying a measurement model. The overall performance of the supply chain as well as the five different performance attributes was presented to management in a dashboard format. This article could be used as a basis for future studies of supply chain performance measurement and the model could be used as a foundation for developing an improved version, not only for the egg industry, but for other industries as well.
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The area of disaster management has become increasingly prominent in a context of frequent political, religious change and conflict, and within it, the field of knowledge on humanitarian logistics and supply chain management (HLSCM) has attracted attention from a variety of stakeholders, such as scholars, practitioners and policy makers. Consequently, humanitarian logistics and supply chain research has seen a significant increase in the quantity of works emerging, particularly journal articles. In this context, we aim to systematize the selected contemporary literature on humanitarian logistics and supply chain management. After identifying the relevant literature on Scopus and Web of Science, we chart a systematization of this body of knowledge by applying a system of codes and classifications to it. Based on research gaps found, we propose an original research agenda for further developing the humanitarian logistics and supply chain management field, as suggested avenues for future research.
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