Browsing by Author "Nabia Anser"

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    Critical factors of supplier selection and their impact on supply chain performance in hospitals
    (UMT Lahore, 2018) Nabia Anser
    Supplier selection is a well-studied subject, but for healthcare sector it needs further exploration. Supply chain management practices are now being followed by many industries including healthcare. This significant part of supply chain is performed by the suppliers or also known as strategic business partners. Suppliers’ performance is highly influential on the value chain of the company whose ultimate purpose is to provide high quality service to the customers. Healthcare sector in Pakistan is somehow unstructured and there are various private and public sector institutions are operational to provide healthcare services in Pakistan. This research study focuses on the factors that are highly influential in supplier selection process for the hospitals in Pakistan and their potential impact on the supply chain performance. The researcher used quantitative research strategy to collect data from managerial supply chain staff for the hospitals. Data was collected using a questionnaire and empirical tests were run to measure the association between the research variables. The results showed a strong association between costs, quality and service delivery on supply chain performance of the hospitals. However, supplier profile and risks association with supplier’s location were not significantly affecting supply chain performance of the hospitals. The research findings have implications for the supply chain managers of the hospitals to think beyond the cost model only and focus on the other factors such as service delivery and quality of the supplier while making supplier selection decisions.
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    CRITICAL FACTORS OF SUPPLIER SELECTION AND THEIR IMPACT ON SUPPLY CHAIN PERFORMANCE IN HOSPITALS
    (umt.lahore, 2018) Nabia Anser
    Supplier selection is a well-studied subject, but for healthcare sector it needs further exploration. Supply chain management practices are now being followed by many industries including healthcare. This significant part of supply chain is performed by the suppliers or also known as strategic business partners.
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    Reduction in lead time through value stream mapping in the sewing department of apparel industry
    (UMT, Lhr, 2022-11-16) Waqar Ahmad; Tahir Ayub; Nabia Anser
    Lean manufacturing is a business strategy which is developed in Japan. The main benefit of this strategy is improvement in productivity of manufacturing, reduction in wastages and also improvement in quality of the product in this era of competition. There are several tools of lean manufacturing. This research is attempted to identify the applicability of one of the important tool of lean named Value Stream Mapping in the sewing department of apparel industry of Pakistan. In this research firstly, current state map is developed by doing necessary calculations after this gap analysis being made in gap analysis things to be identified which creating hurdles in current state in the last step future and purposed work state is being developed. The findings of this research paper extended to similar apparel industry in the future.