Background: Research on Additive Manufacturing [AM] provides few guidelines for successful adoption of the technology in different market environments. This paper seeks to address this gap by developing a framework that suggests market attributes for which the technology will successfully meet a...

Hierarchical time series demands are often associated with products, time frames, or geographic aggregations. Traditionally, these hierarchies have been forecasted using "top-down," "bottom-up," or "middle-out" approaches. This study advocates using child-level forecasts in a hierarchical supply...

Background: The Dynamic Modified Stochastic p-Median Problem (DMS-p-MP) is an important problem in supply chain network design, as it deals with the optimal location of facilities and the allocation of demand in a dynamic and uncertain environment. Methods: In this research paper, we propose a...

While executives emphasize that human resources (HR) are a firm’s biggest asset, the level of research attention devoted to planning talent pipelines for complex global organizational environments does not reflect this emphasis. Numerous challenges exist in establishing human resource...

The purpose of this study was to identify formal project management methodology as well as to investigate a forecasting software implementation project. As companies face challenges of improving supply chain performance and creating cost effective business strategies, projects emerge for process...

Energy sector capital projects typically cost hundreds of millions and even billions of dollars to design, engineer, procure and construct. Major components of these projects are engineered capital equipment that the facility is built around. Managing the engineered equipment is important during...

Data warehouse management is fast becoming one of the most popular and important topics in industries today. For business executives, it promises significant competitive advantage for their companies, while presenting the information system managers a way to overcome the obstructions in...