{"title":"Milk Supply Chain Network Design (SCND): A Case of the Milk Industry in Western Region of Odisha","authors":"M. Pattnaik","doi":"10.4018/ijsds.2020070104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijsds.2020070104","url":null,"abstract":"This study is based on a real-life case study of a SCND of a single milk product (premium milk) of a leading milk producing organization in Odisha. This product is highly perishable in nature; SCND implicates decision-making at a strategic level. Network design is the basis for the efficient operation of supply chain, and consequently, one of the most important problems a supply chain manager has to solve. This study conducts a real-life case-based modeling to address the gap in the area of supply chain network design. The author investigates the milk supply chain network design under preservation technology and propose a generic mathematical model for milk supply chain network design encompassing economic objective. A customized mathematical model is also developed for a leading milk producing organization in Odisha. Both of the models are formulated and solved by using piecewise nonlinear optimization.","PeriodicalId":242450,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Strateg. Decis. Sci.","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127424822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Comparative Analysis of CE-Topsis and CE-Maut Methods","authors":"Hakan Altin","doi":"10.4018/ijsds.2020070102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijsds.2020070102","url":null,"abstract":"The key objective of this study is to conduct a comparative analysis of performance ranking results of the two multi-criteria decision-making methods, namely TOPSIS and MAUT. In this study, the CRITIC and ENTROPY methods were utilized as objective weighting techniques. In the application part of this study, three salient findings were attained. The first finding was that of the close relationship between TOPSIS ranking conducted by CRITIC and ENTROPY methods. The second finding was that of the close relationship between the MAUT ranking conducted by the CRITIC and ENTROPY methods. The third finding was that of the mutual and significant relationship in a positive direction between the performance ranking results obtained by TOPSIS and MAUT methods. In other words, TOPSIS and MAUT methods give the same performance ranking results. The results found are statistically significant.","PeriodicalId":242450,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Strateg. Decis. Sci.","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127641490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Quality Amplification Challenge: Throughput Time's Effect on Quality Variability and Quality Loss","authors":"Zhen Li, Pamela Rogers, W. Lau","doi":"10.4018/ijsds.2020040102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijsds.2020040102","url":null,"abstract":"In dynamic production environments, positive business outcomes often require pursuing high quality, shorter throughput time, and low cost simultaneously. This research tries to track the timing effect of having undetected defects continue to progress through the supply chain. The purpose is to demonstrate the influence of throughput time on quality variance amplification and the effect of quality loss on manufacturing performance. A time series model is developed, and numerical analyses are conducted to understand how various parameters affect the quality variance fluctuation and quality loss amplification phenomena. The results show that the variance in quality increases as materials move down a supply chain, away from a supplier. In addition, the quality loss experienced by a manufacturer is greater than that faced by a supplier. Finally, both quality variability and quality loss amplification phenomena are larger when throughput time is longer.","PeriodicalId":242450,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Strateg. Decis. Sci.","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116263017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of Challenges Responsible for the Slow Pace of Industry 4.0 Diffusion","authors":"Chetna Chauhan, Amol Singh","doi":"10.4018/ijsds.2020040104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijsds.2020040104","url":null,"abstract":"The pace of Industry 4.0 adoption in manufacturing industries has been slow as it is accompanied by several barriers, specifically in the emerging economies. The current study intends to identify and understand the landscape of these challenges. Further, this paper prioritizes the challenges on the basis of their relative importance. To achieve this objective, the authors combine the fuzzy delphi approach along with the fuzzy analytical hierarchy process. Additionally, a sensitivity analysis is done to enhance robustness of the findings. The global rankings of the challenges reveal that the most significant factors that hamper the full realization of smart manufacturing include cybersecurity, privacy risks, and enormously high number of technology choices available in the market. The analysis offers insights into the reasons for the slow diffusion of smart manufacturing systems and the results would assist managers, policymakers, and technology providers in the advent of manufacturing digitalization.","PeriodicalId":242450,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Strateg. Decis. Sci.","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121618203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond RoboDebt: The Future of Robotic Process Automation","authors":"Michael D'Rosario, Carlene D'Rosario","doi":"10.4018/ijsds.2020040101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijsds.2020040101","url":null,"abstract":"Automated decision support systems with high stake decision processes are frequently controversial. The Online Compliance Intervention (herewith “OCI” or “RoboDebt”) is a system of compliance implemented with the intention to facilitate automatic issuance of statutory debt notices to individuals, taking a receipt of welfare payments and exceeding their entitlement. The system appears to employ rudimentary data scraping and expert systems to determine whether notices should be validly issued. However, many individuals that take receipt of debt notices assert that they were issued in error. The commentary on the system has resulted in a lot of conflation of the system with other system types and caused many to question the role of decision of support systems in public administration given the potentially deleterious impacts of such systems for the most vulnerable. The authors employ a taxonomy of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) issues, to review the OCI and RPA more generally. This paper identifies potential problems of bias, inconsistency, procedural fairness, and overall systematic error. This research also considers a series of RoboDebt specific issues regarding contractor arrangements and the potential impact of the system for Australia's Indigenous population. The authors offer a set of recommendations based on the observed challenges, emphasizing the importance of moderation, independent algorithmic audits, and ongoing reviews. Most notably, this paper emphasizes the need for greater transparency and a broadening of criteria to determine vulnerability that encompasses, temporal, geographic, and technological considerations.","PeriodicalId":242450,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Strateg. Decis. Sci.","volume":"247 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131676843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sanjiv Narula, Anil Kumar, H. Puppala, Maheshwar Dwivedy, S. Prakash, Rajinder Singh, V. Talwar
{"title":"Restarting Manufacturing Industries Post Covid-19: A Mind Map-Based Empirical Investigation of the Associated Challenges in Business Continuity","authors":"Sanjiv Narula, Anil Kumar, H. Puppala, Maheshwar Dwivedy, S. Prakash, Rajinder Singh, V. Talwar","doi":"10.4018/ijsds.2020040103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijsds.2020040103","url":null,"abstract":"This research aims to identify the critical challenges associated with restarting manufacturing organizations post-coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The authors conducted an expert-based survey among various industry leaders of manufacturing organizations to capture a holistic view of business continuity plans and the associated challenges. The selected individuals are responsible for making business continuity policies and plans at their respective organizations. They were asked to reflect on their experience of the present-day challenges in managing business continuity in their organizations. Expert interviews were reflective and provided candid inputs. Consequently, the keywords of the experts' feedback were synthesized by using the mind map qualitative approach, which helps in the visualization of the critical challenges at an abstract level. Further, the interrelation between them and the significance of each critical challenge is evaluated using fuzzy theory with the decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) technique. The findings of these evaluations will help to assess the existing policies/practices and to strengthen business continuity plans post-COVID-19. This study is a pioneering work that will help organizations to prepare action plans for kick-starting their broken-down economic engines.","PeriodicalId":242450,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Strateg. Decis. Sci.","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121967075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Product Line Design Problem in Two Markets With Dependent Demand and Its Implications","authors":"Deepika Jain","doi":"10.4018/ijsds.2019100105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijsds.2019100105","url":null,"abstract":"The paper considers the product positioning problem faced by the hospitals in an emerging economy like India. The paper considers both non-profit as well as for-profit organizations. The paper considers two segments: one where there is high potential, but customers have low ability to pay; and the other where there is low market potential, but customers have high willingness to pay. The model suggests the product positioning along with the corresponding price. The authors characterize conditions for providing subsidy to low end segment.","PeriodicalId":242450,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Strateg. Decis. Sci.","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130643621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Linking Website Attributes of User-Generated Content to E-Behavioral Loyalty: International Tourists' Perspectives","authors":"Mamoun N. Akroush, Bushra K. Mahadin, Hani Bata","doi":"10.4018/ijsds.2019100102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijsds.2019100102","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to examine the impact of user-generated content UGC website attributes (accessibility, product offering, information quality, user friendliness, and entertainment) on e-behavioral loyalty by testing the mediating effect of e-satisfaction and e-attitudinal loyalty on these relationships, in an emerging market (Jordan) from a US tourists' perspectives. The sample consisted of 258 tourists who visited Jordan for leisure tourism. Structural path analysis was used to test the hypothesized relationships between the constructs of the research model. The results show that website attributes (accessibility, product offering, information quality, user friendliness, and entertainment) have a positive effect on e-satisfaction. Tourists' e-satisfaction fully mediates the relationships between accessibility, product offering, entertainment, and e-attitudinal loyalty. E-attitudinal loyalty fully mediates the relationship between tourists' e-satisfaction and e-behavioral loyalty. Theoretical and practical implications of the results are also provided.","PeriodicalId":242450,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Strateg. Decis. Sci.","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116828296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Management in the Context of Turbulence and Complexity","authors":"J. Rascão","doi":"10.4018/ijsds.2019100101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijsds.2019100101","url":null,"abstract":"The growth of the economy is no longer a result of more people working or of consumer demand but of a very sharp and continuous rise in labor productivity and knowledge workers. There will not be a single dominant economic power because no developed country has a population base to support this role because the competitive advantages of countries come from the qualification and competence of human resources. This means that countries must invest in the continuous and systematic work of knowledge and knowledge workers.","PeriodicalId":242450,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Strateg. Decis. Sci.","volume":"165 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123086107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modeling M Warehouse N Manpower-Team Allocation Problem Using Dynamic Programming Approach","authors":"Mohit Goswami","doi":"10.4018/ijsds.2019100106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijsds.2019100106","url":null,"abstract":"In this research, a dynamic programming-based approach is deployed to model and solve the manpower allocation problem for warehouses. The authors specifically evolve the detailed model for M warehouses and N teams (available for allocation to these warehouses). Profitability is considered as a performance measure for the allocation problem. The warehouses and manpower-team are modelled as stages and states respectively within the dynamic programming problem structure. Owing to the rather abstract nature of such allocation problems possessing Markovian properties and having similarities with stage-gate type of a problem, dynamic programming approach is deployed. The study results in recommending key decisions in workforce allocation for organizations such as retailers operating multiple warehouses.","PeriodicalId":242450,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Strateg. Decis. Sci.","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125151811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}