Kazi Arif‐Uz‐Zaman, AMM Nazmul Ahsan
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present supply chain metrics and to propose a fuzzy-based performance evaluation method for lean supply chain. Design/methodology/approach – To understand the overall performance of cost competitive supply chain the paper investigates the alignment of market...
Paul A. Griffin, Arnold M. Wright
The commentaries in this forum on Big Data confront one of our profession’s most pressing challenges. How should we respond to Big Data? Big Data and business analytics now permeate almost all aspects of major companies’ decision making and business strategies. A large U.S. company, for example, mig...
M. Ahsan Akhtar Hasin, Roongrat Seeluangsawat, Mahmud Akhter Shareef
While applications of TQM tools and techniques in health care service industry are widely advocated, determination of customer satisfaction and factors of dissatisfaction in the hospitals has become enormously important as the main ingredient of TQM. This paper aims at determining the elements of cu...
Zahirul Hoque, Trevor Hopper
Abstract This paper reports an empirical investigation, based on triangulation methods, of how a set of environmental facts affect budgeting characteristics in the nationalised jute mills of Bangladesh. The key factors were derived from intensive fieldwork. Five external factors (political climate, ...
Subrata Talapatra, Md. Kutub Uddin
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relative importance of different total quality management (TQM) implementation barriers in the context of Readymade Garment (RMG) industries in Bangladesh. Present study has developed a hierarchical framework of several TQM barriers to assess t...
Melissa S. Cardon, Cheryl Mitteness, Richard Sudek
Angel investors often make investment decisions based on motivational cues communicated during pitches—including enthusiasm, preparedness, and commitment—to evaluate potentially important qualities of entrepreneurs. We tested the independent and interaction effects of these cues by having 72 angels ...
Ali Akbar Shaikh, Md. Al‐Amin Khan, Gobinda Chandra Panda, Ioannis Konstantaras
Abstract All‐units discount facilities are one of the attractive features in the competitive business situation. Due to the globalization of the marketing policy, all‐units discount facilities play an important role in the competitive business. Typical economic order quantity (EOQ) models are cloist...
Subrata Talapatra, Md. Kutub Uddin, Jiju Antony, Shivam Gupta et al.
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors that enable total quality management (TQM) implementation in the readymade garment (RMG) sector of Bangladesh. More specifically, the present study is a supplement of the previous call from research to investigate the TQM-enabling facto...
Gobinda Chandra Panda, Md. Al‐Amin Khan, Ali Akbar Shaikh
Advertisement of the product is an important factor in inventory analysis. Also, price and stock have an important role to attract more customers in the competitive business situations. Trade credit policy is another important role in inventory analysis. We have combined these three factors together...
Peter Walton
Md. Al‐Amin Khan, Ali Akbar Shaikh, Gobinda Chandra Panda, Ioannis Konstantaras et al.
Every product has a life cycle i.e., the product has a certain time period for useable conditions for mankind. After the certain time period, the product is not for useable conditions and which is known as expired product. However, price discount is a very much attractive strategy in the present bus...
Syed Mithun Ali, Md. Anwar Hossen, Zuhayer Mahtab, Golam Kabir et al.
Lean six sigma (LSS), a process improvement tool to achieve operational excellence in any industry, has become popular among practitioners over the last few decades. In this study, a framework for identifying barriers to LSS implementation in supply chains has been developed using the interpretive s...
Farhana Ferdousi
The benefits of lean manufacturing are evident in factories across the world. With a view to achieve performance improvement both the developed and developing countries are practicing lean. In this study nine garment manufacturing companies were selected as sample. A field survey with a semi-structu...
M. M. Shahriar, Md. Shohel Parvez, Md Asadul Islam, Subrata Talapatra
Two of the eight wastes included in the lean manufacturing concept are ‘Waiting’ and ‘Motion’. They waste precious operating time and slow down the manufacturing cycle. The major purpose of this study is to use 5S, a lean manufacturing strategy, for reducing these two wastes. The study was conducted...
Khaled Mahmud Sujon, Rohayanti Hassan, Zeba Tusnia Towshi, Manal A. Othman et al.
Optimizing machine learning (ML) model performance relies heavily on appropriate data preprocessing techniques. Despite the widespread use of standardization and normalization, empirical comparisons across different models, dataset sizes, and domains remain sparse. This study bridges this gap by eva...