Recent Advances in Integrating Demand Management and Vehicle Routing: Conceptual Framework, Methodological Review, and Research Opportunities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Fleckenstein ◽  
Robert Klein ◽  
Claudius Steinhardt
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Vehicle Routing ◽  
Demand Management ◽  
Methodological Review ◽  
Research Opportunities ◽  
Recent Advances

The role of demand management in achieving supply chain agility

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (5/6) ◽  
pp. 577-591 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Gligor
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Flexible Manufacturing ◽  
Demand Management ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Turbulent Environments ◽  
Supply Chain Agility ◽  
Managerial Implications

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of demand management in achieving supply chain agility (SCA) through a multi-disciplinary review of the relevant research. The systematic literature review provides the basis for formulating a conceptual framework of the relationship. Design/methodology/approach – A systematic, comprehensive review of the literature on manufacturing, marketing organizational and SCA from 1991 through 2013 was conducted. The literature on demand management is also examined to identify the various elements that contribute to SCA. Findings – Most agility frameworks take a supply-side perspective and assume that demand is known. Those that do acknowledge the role of demand fall short of offering a holistic framework that acknowledges the role of both. This paper suggests that it is simply not enough to have flexible manufacturing, distribution and procurement systems to achieve SCA. Flexibility in managing demand is also needed. Furthermore, it is the premise of this paper that demand and supply integration (DSI) inside the firm is critical to achieving SCA. Research limitations/implications – This research is a systematic, integrative review of the existing literature on the concept of agility. As such, the next phase of research needed for theory building will be the operationalization of constructs and testing of the hypothesized relationships proposed by the conceptual framework. Practical implications – The paper has several managerial implications as well. It illustrates how firms can create and sustain competitive advantages in turbulent environments. Managers can use the framework developed here to assess what structures and decision-making processes they can use to increase the firm’s SCA. Practitioners can use this model as a checklist to identify candidate areas for improving agility. The section illustrating the use of knowledge management to increase DSI should be of particular interest to managers, considering that a great deal of firms experience a disconnect between demand creation and supply fulfillment. Originality/value – Through a systematic, comprehensive review of multi-disciplinary literature, the paper explores the role of demand management in achieving SCA.

scholarly journals Topic modeling in marketing: recent advances and research opportunities

2018 ◽  
Vol 89 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Reisenbichler ◽  
Thomas Reutterer
Keyword(s):  
Topic Modeling ◽  
Research Opportunities ◽  
Recent Advances

scholarly journals The Complexities of New Venture Legitimacy

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 263178772091388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
New Venture ◽  
Prior Work ◽  
Research Opportunities ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Optimal Distinctiveness ◽  
New Research ◽  
Over Time

For entrepreneurs, establishing and maintaining new venture legitimacy is a complex endeavor. Various factors complicate this process, including issues of optimal distinctiveness, audience diversity, market category evolution, and multiple legitimacy thresholds. Moreover, the establishment and maintenance of new venture legitimacy is an intricate process that unfolds over time. In this essay, I review and integrate prior work on new venture legitimacy not only to highlight these complications, but also to consolidate insights, theoretical nuances, and empirical observations to describe what happens when entrepreneurs confront multiple complications at the same time. In so doing, I propose that configurational approaches provide a valuable theoretical perspective to enhance knowledge related to new venture legitimacy. I also highlight exemplar studies that have adopted these perspectives, accounting for multiple new venture legitimacy complications in a single analysis. This provides a basis to understand recent advances in the new venture legitimacy literature, and inspires and opens up new research opportunities for further exploration.

scholarly journals Choice-Based Demand Management and Vehicle Routing in E-Fulfillment

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 473-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinan Yang ◽  
Arne K. Strauss ◽  
Christine S. M. Currie ◽  
Richard Eglese
Keyword(s):  
Vehicle Routing ◽  
Demand Management

Route 2005: Recent advances in vehicle routing optimization

Networks ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 243-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniele Vigo ◽  
Paolo Toth ◽  
Aristide Mingozzi
Keyword(s):  
Vehicle Routing ◽  
Routing Optimization ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Vehicle Routing Optimization

Customer experience research: intellectual structure and future research opportunities

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge H.O. Silva ◽  
Glauco H.S. Mendes ◽  
Paulo A. Cauchick Miguel ◽  
Marlene Amorim ◽  
Jorge Grenha Teixeira
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Customer Experience ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Intellectual Structure ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research Opportunities ◽  
Integrative View ◽  
Research Propositions

PurposeThis article aims to synthesize and integrate current research on customer experience (CX), identifying the intellectual structure of the field, systematizing a conceptual framework and identifying future research opportunities.Design/methodology/approachTo analyze 629 articles published in peer-reviewed journals in almost four decades, this study employs both bibliometric co-keyword and thematic literature analysis in a complementary way.FindingsThis article maps the CX literature by describing its intellectual structure in terms of three research domains (customer, organizational and technological), their corresponding most relevant research themes and topics. Moreover, this study develops a conceptual framework and research propositions to summarize and integrate the CX literature. This work recognizes technology as an important driver for the development of CX research. Lastly, this article provides future research opportunities for moving the field forward, considering an integrative view among domains.Originality/valueThis paper complements other reviews on CX by using a novel methodological approach (co-keyword and thematic analysis) that enables the identification and visualization of the CX intellectual structure. In addition, the study explores the increasing connection between technology and CX research, by raising evidence that technology, by continuously modifying services and consequently CX, has become a transversal component in the research field. These outcomes may be useful for academics and practitioners.

ROUTE 2007: Recent advances in vehicle routing optimization

Networks ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 165-166
Author(s):  
Alan L. Erera ◽  
Martin W. P. Savelsbergh
Keyword(s):  
Vehicle Routing ◽  
Routing Optimization ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Vehicle Routing Optimization

scholarly journals Shining light on recent advances in microbial mercury cycling

FACETS ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 858-879 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel S. Grégoire ◽  
Alexandre J. Poulain
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Terrestrial Ecosystems ◽  
Mercury Cycling ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Oxidation Reduction ◽  
New Findings ◽  
The Face ◽  
Global Pollutant ◽  
Analytical Tools

Mercury (Hg) is a global pollutant emitted primarily as gaseous Hg0 that is deposited in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems following its oxidation to HgII. From that point, microbes play a key role in determining Hg’s fate in the environment by participating in sequestration, oxidation, reduction, and methylation reactions. A wide diversity of chemotrophic and phototrophic microbes occupying oxic and anoxic habitats are known to participate directly in Hg cycling. Over the last few years, new findings have come to light that have greatly improved our mechanistic understanding of microbe-mediated Hg cycling pathways in the environment. In this review, we summarize recent advances in microbially mediated Hg cycling and take the opportunity to compare the relatively well-studied chemotrophic pathways to poorly understood phototrophic pathways. We present how the use of genomic and analytical tools can be used to understand Hg transformations and the physiological context of recently discovered cometabolic Hg transformations supported in anaerobes and phototrophs. Finally, we propose a conceptual framework that emphasizes the role that phototrophs play in environmental Hg redox cycling and the importance of better characterizing such pathways in the face of the environmental changes currently underway.

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