Practices and strategies for global sourcing and supply chain management: a Pareto analysis and MOORA a mixed method approach

Rohit Raj is currently pursuing a Master Degree at Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung, Taiwan, in the Department of Information Management. His research interests are in the area of text mining, data analysis, bibliometric analysis, technological innovation and patent analysis, total quality management, manufacturing strategy, supply chain management, strategic management and operation management.

Vimal Kumar is an Assistant Professor at Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung, Taiwan (R.O.C.) in the Department of Information Management. He completed his Postdoctoral Research at Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung, Taiwan (R.O.C.) in the Department of Business Administration in the domain of Technological Innovation and Patent Analysis. He has served as an Assistant Professor under TEQIP III, an initiative of MHRD, Govt. of India at AEC Guwahati in the Department of Industrial and Production Engineering. Prior to joining AEC, he served as Assistant Professor at MANIT, Bhopal in the Department of Management Studies and also served as Visiting Faculty at IMT Nagpur. He obtained his PhD in the domain of TQM and Manufacturing Strategy in the year 2017 and Masters in Supply Chain Management from the Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, IIT Kanpur in the year 2012. He graduated (B.Tech) in Manufacturing Technology from JSS Academy of Technical Education Noida, in the year 2010. He has published 81 articles in reputable international journals, nine book chapters and presented 25 papers at international conferences. His research paper entitled Time Table Scheduling for Educational Sector on an E-Governance Platform: A Solution from an Analytics Company has been selected for best paper award at the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM) held in Bandung, Indonesia, March 6–8, 2018. He was also invited to serve as session chair of session on “Energy Related Awareness” held on September 19, 2018 at iCAST 2018, IEEE International Conference on Awareness Science and Technology and “Lean Six Sigma” at the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM-2018) at Bandung, Indonesia and “Quality Control and Management” at the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM-2016) at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He has been appointed as an editorial board member in the IEEE-TEMS Journal from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024. He is a contributing author in international journals including Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Informetrics, Technology in Society, CLSCN, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, IJOA, JEEE, BSE, TFSC, JKM, CSREM, IJPPM, IJQRM, IJPMB, IJPQM, IJBIS, AJOR, The TQM Journal and Benchmarking: An International Journal, etc., and also a guest reviewer of a reputable journal like IEEE-TEMS, JOI, IJPPM, IJQRM, TQM & Business Excellence, The TQM Journal, Benchmarking: An International Journal, Journal of Asia Business Studies and JSIT.

Ankesh Mittal is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department of Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Punjab, India. He received his B.Tech and M.Tech degrees from Chitkara University, Punjab, India, and Thapar University, Patiala, India in 2013 and 2015, respectively, and a PhD degree from Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology Longowal, Punjab, in 2021. His areas of research are total quality management and production engineering. He has published various national and international journals of reputed and conference proceedings.

Priyanka Verma is currently pursuing a PhD degree at Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung, Taiwan in the Department of Information Management. Her research interests are in the area of data analysis, bibliometric analysis, technological innovation and patent analysis, total quality management, manufacturing strategy, supply chain management, strategic management and operation management.

Kuei-Kuei Lai is the Vice President and a professor of Department of Business Administration, Chaoyang University of Technology Taichung, Taiwan. He has served as a professor and the chairman in the Department of Business Administration, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. He received his PhD degree in Graduate Institute of Management Sciences from Tamkang University in Taiwan. His research interest focuses on management of technology in patent citation analysis, patent portfolio and patent family and technological forecasting.

Arpit Singh is Lecturer of Information Systems and Analytics at Jindal Global Business School (JGBS) at O. P. Jindal Global University (Institute of Eminence), India. He has rich industrial experience in the investment banking and private equity research sectors. He holds a PhD in industrial and management engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh and an MTech in Operations Research (Gold Medalist) from National Institute of Technology (NIT) Durgapur, West Bengal and a B.Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (First Class) from Dr K.N.Modi Foundation, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. Arpit’s research interest is in the areas of decision-making under uncertainty, big data analytics, statistical applications in business problems and adoption of new technologies in the business domain. His work on these research areas has been published in multiple international peer reviewed (ABDC/ABS ranked) journals and top international conferences on advanced computing and intelligent engineering including Safety Science (Elsevier), International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management (Emerald) and Behaviour and Information Technology (Taylor & Francis).