Shishank Shishank

• PhD Operations Mgmt
• Lecturer at Birmingham City University

Supply chain networks are complex structures which introduce significant challenges regarding transparency in production and traceability of components, making product certification non-trivial. Visibility within quality assurance processes is critical to this and is particularly important for autonomous & driver-less vehicles which rely on correct...

Supply chain networks are complex structures which introduce significant challenges regarding transparency in production and traceability of components, making product certification non-trivial. Visibility within quality assurance processes is critical to this and is particularly important for autonomous & driver-less vehicles which rely on correct...

The purpose of this study is to identify the use of digital twin (DT) in autonomous automotive (AA) supply chain, practical use cases of DT in AA supply chain and the gap between both. And to provide effective solution or framework to improve practically use cases. A Systematic Literature Review has been conducted to collect the paper that containe...

The ever-increasing complexity of manufacturing processes demands maximization of performance powered by higher efficiency, flexibility, and better product quality at low cost (Esmaeilian, et al., 2016). The existing manufacturing system focuses more on the behavioural procedures of systems which includes controllability for determining the optimal...

Having survived one disaster after another, the Readymade Garments (RMG) industry of Bangladesh progressed swiftly, becoming the second-largest exporter of textiles and clothing. Prior to remediation programs launched by Accord-Alliance in the aftermath of the Rana Plaza incident, RMG companies have not been as keen about social compliance as they...

Research to date for decision-making on outsourcing has almost exclusively focussed on strategic and operational levels. Consequently, we know relatively little about decision-making on outsourcing during design and engineering, i.e. the tactical level; that also means that the characteristics of design and engineering – incomplete and inaccurate i...

Decision-making frameworks on outsourcing in literature present outsourcing as being one time decision at strategic level and at operational level mostly for capacity planning and scheduling. Existing frameworks and methods do not cater for decision-making during stages of design and engineering i.e. tactical level and do not incorporate the charac...

This paper proposes a decision making framework for outsourcing when faced with incomplete and inconsummate during the stages of pre-design, design, engineering and manufacturing. The paper starts off by establishing the importance of managing capacity for industrial companies and how this is linked with the total primary process within the context...

The decision to outsource an activity or a part of an activity is one of the most complex decisions facing today's managers. It is characteristic of the stages of design; engineering and manufacturing that these stages encircle different levels of details at different levels of aggregation and reliability. Several models have been developed to assi...

Decision-making on outsourcing takes place at different levels of strategic, tactical and operations within a company. Distinguishing these levels will help assigning specific frameworks and requirements for each of these three processes and simultaneously assist in free and continuous flow of information from one framework to another. During the s...