... launched in 2020 to host short contributions grounded in current managerial practices and/or policy development, challenging established operations and supply chain management (OSCM) knowledge and highlighting innovative and relevant research directions. This commentary reflects on the achievements...

... on four types of disruptions that usually occur during health emergencies (direct effect, policy, supply chain strategy, and behaviourally induced disruptions). Second, the authors collected and analysed data from interviews with experts in the PPE supply chain. Based on the interviews data, the authors...

... has made it difficult to financially justify the investments in FMS (Falkner and Benhajla, 1990). Flexible manufacturing systems Flexibility Machine loading Manufacturing strategy Policy Flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs) are state‐of‐the‐art production systems designed to emulate...

...John Bessant; David Francis In developing CI capability, organisations need to move to a level of development in which strategic goals are communicated and deployed and where improvement activity is guided by a process of monitoring and measurement against these strategic objectives. Policy...

...Kathleen L. McFadden In preparation for health care reform, many hospitals are contemplating redesigning their physical facilities and altering patient care policies. Uses a large Texas hospital as the subject of this study which was considering implementing policy changes in obstetric patient care...

... ] and Mehra and Amini[ 1 ] References 1 . Mehra , S. and Amini , M.M. , “ A simulation analysis of ordering policies under inflationary conditions ”, International Journal of Operations & Production Management , Vol. 14 No. 10 , 1994 , pp. 72 ‐ 83 . 2 . Mehra , S...

... makes manufacturing competence so important? Advocates further study to answer these questions and to complete the theory of manufacturing competence. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Operations management Performance measurement Policy Production management Statistics Strategy IJOPM 13,10 4...

... traditional hospital programmes and the community centres. Presents a goalprogramming‐planning model which allows the decision maker to analyse trade‐offs between healthcare objectives as well as to assess the budgetary and staff ramifications of various policy decisions. Illustrates the model through the use...