A plethora of factors such as the uncertainties brought about by the pandemic, increases in raw material prices, sudden fluctuations in demand, and problems in international transportation have resulted in difficult-to-solve problems in cash flow and liquidity management. Although short-term practices can be a quick remedy to these problems, what organizations should aim for in …
Our editorial for the IPSERA 2022 Special Issue has been published at the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management. Click here for the full text and see below the abstract ABSTRACT: In this editorial, we introduce the four best papers selected from the IPSERA 2021 conference for this special issue of the Journal. We discuss …
Last Saturday, as part of the Operations Management course in our Professional MBA program, we discussed supply chain management under times of crisis and what the future supply chains will look like. I would like to sincerely thank our panelists Tugrul Günal from TEDAR – Tedarik Zinciri Yönetimi Derneği and Dr. Ismail Karakis from PwC …
The contribution of the purchasing function to the performance of organizations and providing competitive advantage is now an undeniable fact. Organizations that can implement strategic purchasing practices not only reduce their costs, but also increase the quality of their products, carry out new product development projects with their suppliers, and achieve their sustainability goals by …
Our recent research about supply base complexity has been published as online first in International Journal of Operations and Production Management. In this research, we find that supply base complexity sub-dimensions (detail and dynamic complexity) exert varying effects on purchasing performance. We also illustrate that strategic purchasing enables mitigating the negative effects and leveraging the …
We presented our research titled “Unraveling the effects of strategic purchasing on sustainability performance: The role of supplier integration and supply base complexity” at the 11th Annual Meeting of the European Decision Sciences Institute (EDSI). This is a joint work with Davide Luzzini from EADA Business School.
Our recent research about supply chain complexity (meta-analysis) has been published as online first in Journal of Supply Chain Management. We find that supply chain complexity is not always detrimental: the effects vary across supply chain complexity and performance (sub)dimensions. Thus, managers should encourage cross-functional decision-making to assess the trade-offs carefully and manage supply chain complexity …
Last Sunday we successfully concluded the Operations Management course of the Professional MBA program. A big thank you goes to 80 ambitious Sabanci University PMBA’21 students who survived 36 hours of online lectures and discussions, GSCM simulation, panel with guest speakers, active participation to the discussion forum, in-class exercises, and a 3-hour exam! I’m proud of them …
As part of the Operations Management course in our Professional MBA program we discussed the role of Covid-19 on supply chains. I would like to sincerely thank our panelists Tugrul Günal from TEDAR – Tedarik Zinciri Yönetimi Derneği and Dr. Ismail Karakis from PwC Turkey for illustrating how the pandemic can be an opportunity rather than a threat.
We submitted the narrated video presentation of our paper titled “Order from chaos: A meta-analysis of supply chain complexity and firm performance” for the asynchronous presentation at the Academy of Management 2020 conference. See the abstract at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings.