13 articles in this issue
Corne Schutte
“We will either find a way or make one.” --Hannibal (247-182 BC), Carthaginian General In the editorial of the first edition of 2020, I referred to the Spanish Flu, and the fact that we were in the first phases of a national lock-down. Never did we r... see more
Michael Mogaramedi,Hannelie Nel,Annlize Marnewick
Organisations implement lean in production to improve continuously, but implementation may be unsuccessful due to ineffective leadership. Also, organisations have not eliminated the eighth lean waste — namely, the waste of unused employee creativity. The ... see more
M Bvuchete,Sara Saartjie Grobbelaar,Joubert Van Eeden
Healthcare supply chains ensure that there is a cost-effective availability of medicines at healthcare facilities. However, it appears that public healthcare supply chains in South Africa are experiencing significant challenges in the management and distr... see more
Abdullah Alrabghi
Providing efficient healthcare is more important today than ever before. Simulation is a well-established technique that has been used to understand and improve systems in various applications. It seems that simulation implementation in the healthcare ind... see more
Jonatan Jacobs,Marthinus Willem Pretorius
Organisations are finding it increasingly difficult to create value in the current dynamic, globalised, interconnected, and ever more complex business and technology environments. The Fourth Industrial Revolution (FIR) is set to increase these challenges ... see more
Sugandren Naidoo,Amendra Rajcoomar
Professional bodies represent practitioners who recurrently seek guidance on industry-related problems and challenges. Research has revealed that professional bodies are lacking in effectiveness and need to improve so that their affiliates can obtain maxi... see more
Alfred Mutizwa Chitongo,Leon Pretorius
The use of competition as a conflict-handling style aimed at win-lose end results has been highlighted by some researchers to be common during project execution. However, the impact of such competition on project performance remains largely under-research... see more
Mehmet Erdem
Electric vehicles (EVs) offer ideal opportunities to reduce the negative effects of transport. Demographic changes have led to an increase in the demand for home healthcare services and the transporting of healthcare staff. This paper is an attempt to int... see more
Manoj Lall
Trying to find a parking space in a parking lot is a routine activity for most people in our society. However, in managing the sustained growth rate in the number of vehicle users, the demand on such parking facilities is likely to remain under constant p... see more
Caue Barros Guimaraes,Jair Mendes Marques,Ubiratã Tortato
Conventional demand forecasting and inventory management models cannot be applied to replacement parts due to their intermittent and seasonal demand. Thus the aim of this study is to compare, in the case of the strategic stocking of high turnover replacem... see more
Jaco Prinsloo,Marc James Mathews,Jan Christiaan Vosloo
Revolutionary advances in the information and communication technology field pave the way for automation and data exchange in the heavy industry sector. Currently, Industry 4.0 solutions are more readily accepted in factories and in more advanced economie... see more
Brighton Tshuma,Herman Steyn,Corro van Waveren
A conceptual model for the role of a project management office (PMO) in improving the usability of knowledge that is transferred between projects is proposed, and a method to investigate the role of PMOs in knowledge transfer is validated. The case of a P... see more
Danilo Gonçalves Calvacante,Luciano Ferreira,Denis Borenstein