Procurement plays a crucial role in every business organisation, yet many local enterprises in Nigeria face significant challenges in implementing efficient procurement strategies. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of strategic procurement on the performance of Lafarge Cement...

Background: the advent of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) innovations has revolutionized supply chain management through technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) integrated into procurement processes. Methods: this study addresses a critical knowledge gap by conducting...

Background: Material Requirements Planning (MRP) is critical in Supply Chain Management (SCM), facilitating effective inventory management and meeting production demands in the manufacturing sector. Despite the potential benefits of automating the MRP tasks to meet the demand for expedited and...

Skills are important qualities that procurement practitioners should have because they are relevant to procurement activities. Given its significance, this study investigates the influence of procurement skills on procurement performance in public organizations in Tanzania. Furthermore, the...

This paper investigates the relationship between supplier development and procurement performance in the public sector. Furthermore, the paper examines the moderating role of contract management difficulty on the relationship between supplier development and procurement performance. Using...

Emerging technologies such as electronic procurement have rapidly become common practice in recent years. With the advent of internet technologies and open innovations, the traditional procurement system is transformed into an electronic procurement system. Technology adoption is influenced by...

Purpose: Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning (DDMRP) aims to deal with variability by adjusting inventory levels while maintaining, or even increasing, customer service levels. This approach bridges the push and pull approaches. Even though it first made its appearance in 2011, research...

Purpose: This paper, devoted to the selection of strategic sourcing options as a part of the supply chain design, aims to provide supply chain designers with guidelines for selecting the best strategic sourcing option for each item (i.e., products, modules, parts and services)....

Transnational labour governance is in urgent need of a new paradigm of democratic participation, with those who are most affected - typically workers - placed at the centre. To achieve this, principles of industrial democracy and transnational governance must come together to inform institutions...

In a world advancing toward Artificial Intelligence (AI), we explore how AI creates and delivers value in procurement. AI has two unique abilities: automation and smartness, which are associated with physical machines or software that enable us to operate more efficiently and effectively. In...

Problem Definition:This paper studies the sourcing of a monopoly firm that procures from multiple unreliable suppliers to meet its deterministic/price-dependent demand. The suppliers' production processes are unreliable and are modeled by correlated proportional random yields. Academic/Practical...

The COVID-19 crisis has identified several weaknesses and shortcomings of global supply chain networks. Due to the rapidly increasing demand of protective healthcare equipment, i.e. goggles, masks or equipment, it is visible that global supply chains have been significantly challenged....

Problem definition: This article investigates the optimal combination of financing schemes (bank finance versus buyer finance) and outsourcing structures (consignment versus turnkey) in a three-tier supply chain composed of a capital-constrained quality-uncertain component supplier (SP), a...

In order to support the European Commission in the preparation of future initiatives fostering the sustainability of strategic supply chains, this study was commissioned to assess bottlenecks in the supply of materials needed for the development of technologies important to Europe's defence and...

"This book of contributed chapters allows researchers and academicians to exchange and share their experiences and results on all features of Logistics and Supply Chain Management, including theoretical and empirical research, case studies of important and fruitful applications in this field,...