Making Complex Decisions toward Revamping Supply Chains amid COVID-19 Outbreak

Making Complex Decisions toward Revamping Supply Chains amid COVID-19 Outbreak
Author: Dinesh Kumar
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2022-05-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000577864

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted supply chains, hence corporations must devise and realign their policies and strategies accordingly to stay competitive in this dynamic situation. This book provides tools to cope with such a scenario and to make appropriate decisions to come out unscathed. Making Complex Decisions toward Revamping Supply Chains amid COVID-19 Outbreak presents the tools and technologies needed to revamp supply chains challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic. The book presents case studies along with historical perspectives for guidance. It explores the supply chain post-COVID-19, discusses the future scenarios of new and emerging supply chains, and describes various multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) tools used to make complex decisions so companies can stay ahead. The book also offers domain experts’ opinions and views to help organizations formulate real-time strategies. This book is written for researchers, professionals, and undergraduate and postgraduate students to provide an evidence-based cause, effect, and solution after the COVID-19 disaster.

Making Complex Decisions toward Revamping Supply Chains amid COVID-19 Outbreak

Making Complex Decisions toward Revamping Supply Chains amid COVID-19 Outbreak
Author: Dinesh Kumar
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2022-04-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1000577910

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted supply chains, hence corporations must devise and realign their policies and strategies accordingly to stay competitive in this dynamic situation. This book provides tools to cope with such a scenario and to make appropriate decisions to come out unscathed. Making Complex Decisions toward Revamping Supply Chains amid COVID-19 Outbreak presents the tools and technologies needed to revamp supply chains challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic. The book presents case studies along with historical perspectives for guidance. It explores the supply chain post-COVID-19, discusses the future scenarios of new and emerging supply chains, and describes various multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) tools used to make complex decisions so companies can stay ahead. The book also offers domain experts’ opinions and views to help organizations formulate real-time strategies. This book is written for researchers, professionals, and undergraduate and postgraduate students to provide an evidence-based cause, effect, and solution after the COVID-19 disaster.

Managing and Strategising Global Business in Crisis

Managing and Strategising Global Business in Crisis
Author: Ashish Gupta
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2023-03-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000857786

Global business has been affected by several unprecedented and significant problems and threats in the recent past. This book offers comprehensive strategies for managing crises and disruptions to reinvigorate productivity and performance. It discusses themes and issues like crisis management; consumer behaviour during crisis; emerging business models and trends in global business; and risks, impacts and mitigation strategies. The book provides an overview of business processes highlighting the unique challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic and other recent developments have wrought on businesses including disruptions in supply chains, health and safety risks for employees and economic and logistical vulnerabilities, among others. Including case studies from various sectors and industries, the chapters in this book provide solutions and interventions like adopting technological improvements and innovative labour practices for organisations to deal effectively with uncertainty and adapt sustainable and effective models for growth and performance for their businesses. Lucid and topical, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of business management, crisis management, finance and economics, as well as for business and corporate professionals.

Impacts of Technology on Operations Management: Adoption, Adaptation, and Optimization

Impacts of Technology on Operations Management: Adoption, Adaptation, and Optimization
Author: Ullah, Asad
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2024-10-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

The impact of technology on operations management reshapes how organizations approach adoption, adaptation, and optimization of their processes. As businesses integrate advanced technologies such as automation, data analytics, and artificial intelligence, they are revolutionizing operational efficiency. The adoption of these technologies helps streamline workflows while enhancing decision-making capabilities. Adaptation strategically implements these innovations to align with organizational needs, while optimization drives continuous improvement by enabling precise performance tracking and predictive analytics. More exploration into these technological advancements may assist businesses in refining their operations, reducing costs, and achieving greater competitive advantage in today’s market. Impacts of Technology on Operations Management: Adoption, Adaptation, and Optimization examines the impact of technology on operations management within organizations. It explores solutions for business optimization, quality management, and product development using technology like AI, IoT, smart and digital technology, and data algorithms. This book covers topics such as circular economy, digital technology, and supply chains, and is a useful resource for computer engineers, managers, business owners, economists, scientists, academicians, and researchers.

Modeling and Applications in Operations Research

Modeling and Applications in Operations Research
Author: Jyotiranjan Nayak
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2023-11-29
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1003801390

The text envisages novel optimization methods that significantly impact real-life problems, starting from inventory control to economic decision-making. It discusses topics such as inventory control, queueing models, timetable scheduling, fuzzy optimization, and the Knapsack problem. The book’s content encompass the following key aspects: Presents a new model based on an unreliable server, wherein the convergence analysis is done using nature-inspired algorithms Discusses the optimization techniques used in transportation problems, timetable problems, and optimal/dynamic pricing in inventory control Highlights single and multi-objective optimization problems using pentagonal fuzzy numbers Illustrates profit maximization inventory model for non-instantaneous deteriorating items with imprecise costs Showcases nature-inspired algorithms such as particle swarm optimization, genetic algorithm, bat algorithm, and cuckoo search algorithm The text covers multi-disciplinary real-time problems such as fuzzy optimization of transportation problems, inventory control with dynamic pricing, timetable problem with ant colony optimization, knapsack problem, queueing modeling using the nature-inspired algorithm, and multi-objective fuzzy linear programming. It showcases a comparative analysis for studying various combinations of system design parameters and default cost elements. It will serve as an ideal reference text for graduate students and academic researchers in the fields of industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, production engineering, mechanical engineering, and mathematics.

Handbook of Ripple Effects in the Supply Chain

Handbook of Ripple Effects in the Supply Chain
Author: Dmitry Ivanov
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2019-04-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030143023

This book offers an introduction to the ripple effect in the supply chain for a broad audience comprising recent developments. The chapters of this handbook are written by leading experts in supply chain risk management and resilience. For the first time, the chapters present in their synergy a multiple-faceted view of the ripple effect in supply chains, while considering organization, optimization, and informatics perspectives. Ripple effect describes the impact of a disruption propagation on supply chain performance, structural designs and operational parameters. The ripple effect manifests when the impact of a disruption cannot be localized and cascades along the supply chain. The resulting structural dynamics can lead to capacity and demand fulfilment downscaling and negatively influence the firm’s financial and operational performance. The book delineates major features of the ripple effect and methodologies to mitigate the adverse impact of supply chain disruption propagation and to recover in case of severe disruptions. The book provides fresh insights for supply chain management and engineering regarding the following questions: - In what circumstance does one failure cause other failures? - Which structures of the supply chain are especially susceptible to the ripple effect? - What are the typical ripple effect scenarios and what are the most efficient ways to respond them? Distinctive Features: • It considers ripple effect in the supply chain from an multi-disciplinary perspective• It offers an introduction to ripple effect mitigation and recovery policies in the framework of disruption risk management in supply chains for a broad audience• It integrates management and engineering perspectives on disruption risk management in the supply chain• It presents innovative optimization and simulation models for real-life management problems• It considers examples from both industrial and service supply chains• It reveals decision-making recommendations for tackling disruption risks in the supply chain in proactive and reactive domains.

Science-Based Approaches to Respond to COVID and Other Public Health Threats

Science-Based Approaches to Respond to COVID and Other Public Health Threats
Author: Erick Guerrero
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2021-12-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1839691433

COVID-19 and other public health threats have contributed to more than six million deaths globally in a short amount of time. As such, there is an urgent need to respond to these threats in a way that improves global health and wellbeing. Written by a diverse group of exemplary scientists, the thirteen chapters in this volume provide unique, comprehensive, and science-based approaches to respond to macro-structural, human process, and micro issues affecting public health threats.

Introduction to Supply Chain Resilience

Introduction to Supply Chain Resilience
Author: Dmitry Ivanov
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2021-04-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030704904

This book offers a concise yet comprehensive introduction to supply chain resilience, covering management, modeling and technology perspectives. Designed to accompany the textbook “Global Supply Chain and Operations Management” it addresses the topics of supply chain risks and resilience in more depth, describing the major features of supply chain resilience and explaining methodologies to mitigate supply chain disruptions and recover. Numerous practical examples and short case studies are provided to illustrate theoretical concepts. Without relying heavily on mathematical derivations, the book explains major concepts and methods to build and improve supply chain resilience and tackle supply chain disruption risks in a simple, uniform format to make it easy to understand for students and professionals with both management and engineering backgrounds. Graduate/PhD students and supply chain professionals alike will benefit from the structured, didactically oriented and concise presentation of the concepts, principles and methods of supply chain resilience management, modeling, and technological implementation.

Artificial Intelligence for COVID-19

Artificial Intelligence for COVID-19
Author: Diego Oliva
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 594
Release: 2021-07-19
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030697444

This book presents a compilation of the most recent implementation of artificial intelligence methods for solving different problems generated by the COVID-19. The problems addressed came from different fields and not only from medicine. The information contained in the book explores different areas of machine and deep learning, advanced image processing, computational intelligence, IoT, robotics and automation, optimization, mathematical modeling, neural networks, information technology, big data, data processing, data mining, and likewise. Moreover, the chapters include the theory and methodologies used to provide an overview of applying these tools to the useful contribution to help to face the emerging disaster. The book is primarily intended for researchers, decision makers, practitioners, and readers interested in these subject matters. The book is useful also as rich case studies and project proposals for postgraduate courses in those specializations.

Global Supply Chain

Global Supply Chain
Author: Adedeji B. Badiru
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2022-02-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000534421

Global Supply Chain: Using Systems Engineering Strategies to Respond to Disruptions uses a systems-based approach of the tools and techniques of industrial engineering applied to the global supply chain. The specific application addressed in this book is the supply chain, which has been disrupted due to COVID-19 and the closure of several plants in the chain. The book presents the basic tools of industrial engineering applicable to a dynamic supply chain system. It recognizes the nuances of human factors in any commerce and industry and covers the basic elements of a supply chain from a systems perspective. It highlights the global impacts of disruption caused by COVID-19 and leverages the Triple C Model of system communication, cooperation, and coordination. It also illustrates the applicability of the DEJI systems model for supply chain design, evaluation, justification, and integration. Supply chain modeling optimization examples are offered, and the introduction of a newly developed learning curve model, applied to the global supply chain, is presented. The contents of the book are applicable not only to the food supply chain but also to the supply of other commodities, including physical products, services, and desired end results. The book is written for engineers working in production, civil, mechanical, and other industries. It will be of interest to engineering managers, consultants as well as those involved with business management. University students and instructors will also find this book useful as a general reference.