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Jun 27, 2025Open Access
Recent years have seen growing scholarly interest in circular economy approaches to procurement. However, a systematic review of this knowledge remains lacking, particularly for developing economies. This review aims to address that gap by examining how Circular Procurement (CP) can support Sierra Leone’s sustainable development objectives and enhance resource efficiency. Following PRISMA 2020 guidelines, we conducted a systematic literature review of publications from 2016-2024, employing rigor...
May 30, 2025Open Access
Live streaming marketing has become a new driving force for economic development. Manufacturers should choose to introduce live streaming channels through reselling mode or agency mode. This paper uses the game method to study the optimal live streaming introduction strategy of the manufacturer under the joint action of spillover effect, streamer effort and streamer influence. The results show that the decrease of negative spillover effect or the increase of positive spillover effect can stimula...
Mar 31, 2025Open Access
Informal scrap picking has grown significantly in Ghana, characterised by men especially scavenging for plastics, metals and others in landfills, communities and streets. While these activities contribute to waste management efforts and circular economy, they also present challenges for residents. This paper presents the adverse effects the phenomenon poses to Ghanaian communities and the way forward. The phenomenon enables unauthorized invasion of people’s properties leading to collection of va...
Mar 20, 2024Open Access
This paper delves into the critical role of modern agricultural machinery and Agri-Food Supply Chain Management (AFSCM) in fostering efficient agricul-tural development in Africa, with Burkina Faso as a focal point. The research aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the contributions of modern agricultural production machinery and strategic supply chain man-agement in the specific context of Burkina Faso. Through an in-depth case study approach, the study analyses the adoption pattern...
Nov 29, 2023Open Access
Due to the various and obsolete nature, fresh agricultural product has enormous unused value. It is significant to design multi-attribution auction for agricultural supply chain trading (ASCT). This paper proposes a novel scoring auction for agricultural supply chain trading. In such a mechanism, poverty alleviation is considered. A second-preferred-score and a Vickrey-Clarke-Groves score (VCG-score) auctions for both single-unit and multi-unit multi-attribute cases are used to realize incentive...
May 25, 2023Open Access
The traditional procurement practices faced some challenges including delays in the acquisition of goods and services in the organization. Following the adoption of e-procurement technology, a lot of expectations emerged from practitioners and other stakeholders in terms of improving efficiency in procurement. This study aims to examine the effect of e-procurement practices on time-saving in procurement. The study employed an explanatory sequential mixed method which involved both quantitative a...
Feb 22, 2021Open Access
In today’s business environment, companies are facing increased pressure from different sources, such as consumers and communities, stricter governmental regulations and scarcity of resources; to enhance their sustainable behavior. This escalating global awareness of the impact of manufacturing and operational processes on the environment has translated into increased managerial action to balance incorporates economic, financial and environmental performance. Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM)...
May 24, 2019Open Access
In a two-echelon “Farmer-Supermarket Direct-Purchase” supply chain composed of a supermarket and a farmer, the dominant supermarket used the Nash equilibrium solution and the Shapley value as the fair reference points. By constructing the Stackelberg game model, this paper analyzed the influence of supermarket’s fairness preference on the operation of supply chains and made a sensitivity analysis. The research indicates that super ...
Feb 27, 2019Open Access
In recent years, the production of fresh agricultural products (FAPs) in our country has been increasing rapidly, but FAPs are badly depleted in circu-lation. Then strengthening the construction of cold chain logistics and im-proving logistics efficiency have become a problem that needs to be solved. This paper studied the decision-making optimization and using the analytical model to the cold chain logistics of FAPs from the pers ...
Nov 26, 2018Open Access
Nowadays auto parts industry supply chain management is becoming a boom-ing industry which is full of opportunities and challenges. As a network node of supply chain, the reasonable optimization of the supplier not only affects the after-sales parts operating costs, operating performance, competitive strategy and the future development, but also affect the entire supply chain logistics cost, logistics strategy and competition stra ...
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