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Making decisions require increasingly more sophisticated methods. The Best-Worst method was developed recently to find a good balance between the amount of information required and its consistency. The Fuzzy Best-Worst method was then proposed to integrate the uncertainty and imprecision of evaluations. In this paper, we propose the Calibrated Fuzz...
Objective:
To describe the provision of pharmaceutical services within Ministry of Health hospitals in Mexico and identify the main factors that affect their implementation.
Methods:
Between November 2018 and April 2019, we conducted telephone interviews with the heads of pharmacy departments of 413 state and federal Ministry of Health hospitals...
Background:
The implementation of pharmaceutical services in hospitals contributes to the appropriate use of medicines and patient safety. However, the relationship of implementation with the legal framework and organizational practice has not been studied in depth. The objective of this research is to determine the role of these two factors (the...
Industry 4.0 is the new productive paradigm that is driving the 4th industrial revolution. The specific difficulties in adapting to this new approach pose challenges for Machine Tool (MT) companies, mostly Small and Medium Enterprises (SME). In order to implement a route appropriately, tools such as the Maturity Model (MM) can be very useful, since...
Integrating lean, green and resilient strategies into Supply Chain (SC) decisions is a key success factor for transformation toward sustainability. These strategies are increasingly common in the SC, although their implementation and results are not the same across different SC levels (Tier 1, 2 and 3 suppliers and the focal company). In spite of t...
Logistics in urban areas are currently suffering a radical transformation due to increasing population concentration and the massive use of cars as the preferred transport mode. These issues have resulted in higher pollution levels in urban environments and traffic congestion, impacting the world globally. Facilitating the use of sustainable transp...
Logistics in urban areas are currently suffering a radical transformation due to increasingly population concentration and the massive use of cars as the preferred transport mode. These issues have resulted in higher pollution levels in urban environments and traffic congestion impacting the world globally. Facilitating the use of sustainable trans...
The performance of a company is largely affected by that of its providers as they are a direct factor that determines product prices, flexibility and quality. It is, therefore, important to measure their performance. Several aspects need to be measured but traditional multi-criteria decision methods (MCDM) do not benchmark but only rank providers....
Purpose
In the present work, lean and resilient practices applied to supply chains are studied in order to evaluate their impact on the three dimensions of sustainability. Additionally, the mutual impact of lean and resilient supply chain practices is investigated. The paper aims to discuss these issues.
Design/methodology/approach
The aerospace s...
The relationship between lean management and resilience in the supply chain, whether negative or positive, is still not clear from the existing literature. This paper aims to investigate the relationship and links between lean and resilient supply chain (SC) practices and their impact on SC performance. To achieve this objective, the aerospace manu...
Firms are increasingly more integrating Enterprise Content Management (ECM) into their IT infrastructure in order to manage a growing volume of complex structured and unstructured data. These packages allow capturing, generating and delivering accurate information and contents in real time to support decision making in the whole business process. H...
Companies are increasingly introducing cloud-based ERP systems as a solution for integrating all-in-one business functions into the Internet. To support this decision, this paper proposes the Group Analytic Hierarchy Process Sorting (GAHPSort) method, which extends the classical AHP for sorting problems with a large number of alternatives. Our stud...
The on-going offshore outsourcing processes have resulted in complex, global and more vulnerable supply chain to disruptions. However, a good supplier choice would preserve or even improve supply chain resilience. Despite this critical potential effect, this topic remains relatively underdeveloped in the literature. Accordingly, this study proposes...
This article suggests a scenario-based approach to properly managing risks during the lifetime of a project. Our proposal aims at giving managers a structured process to predicting the impact of the occurrence of multiple risks that can affect project performance. This is a product of combining Cross-Impact Analysis (CIA) and Interpretive Structura...
This paper aims to investigate the relationship and links between lean, green and resilient supply chain (SC) practices and their impact on environmental performance. To achieve this objective, the aerospace sector is chosen as the study sector. A combined methodology of Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA) technique and Interpretive Structural Mo...
p class="Abstract">With growing sustainability concern in mind, firms seek to implement reverse logistic systems in their operations. However, if these practices were not properly implemented, they would be costly and even ineffective. In order to guide company efforts, the present study provide a comprehensive framework based on two dimensions. On...
p class="Abstract">Most companies nowadays have already implemented on-premise or cloud -based ERP systems into their IT infraestrutures. These packages allow firms to integrate, standardize and execute the whole business processes in real time, improving their productivity and operational efficiency. Previous studies highlight their beneficial eff...
Companies work increasingly more on projects as a means of executing organizational decisions. However, too many enterprise projects result in failure. Hence, firms should follow a risk management method that drives their projects toward success. Nevertheless, project managers often deal with risks intuitively. This is partly because they lack the...
Worldwide organizations have made important efforts to replace their legacy information applications by ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) solutions. However, a suitable system implementation does not guarantee the ERP adoption success. This also depends on the modifications carried out in the system during the ERP maintenance. The implementation p...
Enterprises make great efforts to adopt up-to-the-minute technologies and completely new systems. Despite these efforts, software projects outcomes are not successful. Indeed, poor risk management of software projects often leads to failure, which can impact the project outcomes. For this reason, practitioners should follow a risks strategy that dr...
Software maintenance projects have certain features that make them different from other engineering ones. These include increased complexity and higher project failure rates. To increase the chances of software projects to be successful, it is necessary to identify its risks and monitoring them. Different risks are present in the whole project, eve...
Firms adopting Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) have to maintain their applications until the end of the system life span. Proper ERP maintenance is a condition that is necessary to achieve the benefits expected of these packages. However, too many ERP maintenance projects result in failure. Numerous risks affect the development of these projects...
Worldwide, firms have made great efforts to implement Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. Despite these efforts, ERP adoption success is not guaranteed. Successful adoption of an ERP system also depends on proper system maintenance. For this reason, companies should follow a maintenance strategy that drives the ERP system toward success. Ho...
There are many uncertainties that can influence the success of Information Technology (IT) and Information Systems (IS) projects. These are characterized to be highly complex and risky, among other issues. These features explain the high rate of failures in this kind of projects. So, if practitioners want to prevent undesired outcomes in their IT/I...
Successful performance of software, and indeed Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), depends on proper system maintenance. For this reason, firms should follow a maintenance process that drives the ERP system toward success. However, in general terms, ERP maintenance managers do not know what conditions they should target to successfully maintain the...
In recent decades, companies across the world have implemented Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. The proper ERPs implementation has been a much explored issue. In contrast, ERP systems maintenance has been treated with less depth. ERP maintenance is necessary to achieve the system's maximum performance. Nevertheless, these projects are of...
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is one the most common applications implemented by firms around the world. These systems cannot remain static after their implementation, they need maintenance. This process is required by the rapidly-changing business environment and the usual software maintenance needs. However, these projects are highly complex...
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems cannot remain static after their implementation, they need maintenance. ERP maintenance is a key process required by the rapidly changing business environment and the usual software maintenance needs. However, these projects are highly complex and risky. So, the risks management associated with ERP mainten...
La adopción y expansión de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación en el ámbito empresarial se está produciendo a gran velocidad. De la mano de las más innovadoras TIC y de los sistemas informáticos, surgen y se desarrollan los sistemas ERP. Éstos han sido implantados por empresas de todo el mundo. Tras su implantación, comienza su mant...
