Dr Yiannis Polychronakis' Outputs (24)

Additive manufacturing for standard parts in the healthcare supply chain: What are the available performance improvements? (2024)
Journal Article

Additive Manufacturing (AM) has established itself as a manufacturing technology for customised and personalised parts in healthcare applications. More recently its use in healthcare applications has been extended to also include standard parts, albe... Read More about Additive manufacturing for standard parts in the healthcare supply chain: What are the available performance improvements?.

Identifying challenges in implementing digital transformation in UK higher education (2024)
Journal Article
Saini, S., Gomis, K., Polychronakis, Y., Saini, M., & Sapountzis, S. (in press). Identifying challenges in implementing digital transformation in UK higher education. Quality Assurance in Education, https://doi.org/10.1108/qae-05-2024-0076

Purpose

The purpose of this study is to systematically dissect strategies against the challenges stalling digital transformation (DT) in the UK higher education (HE) sector. It addresses the challenges impeding DT’s incorporation and offers a blue... Read More about Identifying challenges in implementing digital transformation in UK higher education.

The role of artificial intelligence in project management: a supply chain perspective (2024)
Journal Article
Georgiev, S., Polychronakis, Y., Sapountzis, S., & Polychronakis, N. (2024). The role of artificial intelligence in project management: a supply chain perspective. Supply Chain Forum: an International Journal, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/16258312.2024.2384823

Artificial intelligence continuously overtakes an increased number of functions within numerous business fields. Consistently, its appliance in supply chain-related project management is also constantly rising. The purpose of this paper is to explore... Read More about The role of artificial intelligence in project management: a supply chain perspective.

Knowledge sharing in circular procurement management: a case study from the construction industry (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Additive manufacturing technology adoption in the upstream supply chain of the Nigerian oil and gas industry (2024)
Thesis

Additive Manufacturing (AM) has grown in popularity and advancement in academic research and industrial application, and benefits to supply chain are well documented, yet the technology appears relatively new to Oil and Gas (O&G) sectors, especially... Read More about Additive manufacturing technology adoption in the upstream supply chain of the Nigerian oil and gas industry.

Housebuilding procurement approaches: A systematic literature review (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Current research within housebuilding procurement is based on project management approaches and theories from the infrastructure construction sector. This research uses a systematic literature review to synthesise research focused on housebuilding pr... Read More about Housebuilding procurement approaches: A systematic literature review.

Gender-responsive procurement: a systematic literature review (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Kelly, S., Reszka, M., & Polychronakis, Y. (2024, March). Gender-responsive procurement: a systematic literature review. Paper presented at The 33rd Annual International Purchasing and Supply Education and Research Association Conference, Rio de Janiero, Brazil

There have been a number of ways in which governments and buying organisations have used gender-responsive procurement to attempt to increase the amount and spread of spend with women-led businesses. These range from regulatory interventions, such as... Read More about Gender-responsive procurement: a systematic literature review.

Housebuilding procurement approaches: A systematic literature review (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Robertson, A., Kelly, S., Polychronakis, Y., & Sapountzis, S. (2024, March). Housebuilding procurement approaches: A systematic literature review. Paper presented at The 33rd Annual International Purchasing and Supply Education and Research Association Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Current research within housebuilding procurement is based on project management approaches and theories from the infrastructure construction sector. This research uses a systematic literature review to synthesise research focused on housebuilding pr... Read More about Housebuilding procurement approaches: A systematic literature review.

Additive manufacturing implementation in healthcare systems : a supply chain perspective (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Chaldoupis, K., Polychronakis, Y., & Sapountzis, S. (2024, March). Additive manufacturing implementation in healthcare systems : a supply chain perspective. Paper presented at IPSERA 2024: Emerging Alternatives, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

In this study the authors have constructed a conceptual framework by examining the factors influencing AM implementation within the supply chain. Most studies address the potential disruptions of AM in logistics and distribution. Therefore, a study i... Read More about Additive manufacturing implementation in healthcare systems : a supply chain perspective.

Negotiating in public sector procurement: a systematic literature review (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Kelly, S., Polychronakis, Y., & Israilidis, J. (2023, April). Negotiating in public sector procurement: a systematic literature review. Paper presented at The 32nd Annual International Purchasing and Supply Education and Research Association Conference, Barcelona

The paper synthesises and consolidates the current public sector negotiation literature to establish a coherent platform through which to inform new policies and directions that will be needed as we move into a more flexible, dynamic, and changing re... Read More about Negotiating in public sector procurement: a systematic literature review.

Organisational innovation and sustainability: the critical role of procurement (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Israilidis, J., Polychronakis, Y., & Kelly, S. (2023, April). Organisational innovation and sustainability: the critical role of procurement. Paper presented at 32nd Annual International Purchasing and Supply Education and Research Association Conference, Barcelona

The paper explores how procurement can innovate to meet emerging socio-economic and environmental challenges. Innovation is looked at from the theoretical lens of absorptive capacity. We see procurement as gatekeepers operating at the interface betwe... Read More about Organisational innovation and sustainability: the critical role of procurement.

Demand Forecasting in Manufacturing Pharmaceutical (MPharma) Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Ghana (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Aidoo-Anderson, A., Polychronakis, Y., & Kelly, S. (2023, April). Demand Forecasting in Manufacturing Pharmaceutical (MPharma) Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Ghana. Paper presented at 32nd Annual International Purchasing and Supply Education and Research Association Conference, Barcelona

This paper investigates how Manufacturing Pharmaceutical (Mpharma) SMEs in Ghana forecast demand. It identifies sector-specific forecasting methods, the importance of accurately forecasting demand, as well as the challenges and how they can be mitiga... Read More about Demand Forecasting in Manufacturing Pharmaceutical (MPharma) Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Ghana.

Exploring the factors and attributes of value-adding activities and their impact on moderators and mediators within Rice Value Chains in the Ayeyarwady Delta (2022)
Thesis

Supermarkets across the globe have direct points of contact and data capture systems and records of customers buying behaviour. Often these are multiple forms of real-time datasets. These datasets allow for both extrapolations of historical data that... Read More about Exploring the factors and attributes of value-adding activities and their impact on moderators and mediators within Rice Value Chains in the Ayeyarwady Delta.

Sustainable food procurement in public catering – comparison of the UK with Denmark & Sweden (2022)
Thesis

The research compares sustainable food procurement in public catering in three countries: Denmark, Sweden and the UK. The greatest difference between the UK and the other two countries was the very much higher percentage of organic food in Denmark an... Read More about Sustainable food procurement in public catering – comparison of the UK with Denmark & Sweden.

Demand Forecasting In Manufacturing Pharmaceutical Small and Medium Enterprise’s (SME’s) In Ghana (2021)
Thesis

Forecasting is a ubiquitous, multi-discipline area which has received much attention from practitioners and researchers for many several years. It permeates every facet of an organisation’s life as the bedrock of planning and decision making. An orga... Read More about Demand Forecasting In Manufacturing Pharmaceutical Small and Medium Enterprise’s (SME’s) In Ghana.

Forecasting the success of megaprojects with Judgmental methods (2021)
Thesis
Litsiou, K. Forecasting the success of megaprojects with Judgmental methods. (Thesis). University of Salford

Forecasting the success of megaprojects is a very difficult and important task because of
the complexity of such projects, as well as the large capital investment that is required for
the completion of these projects. One could argue that forecasti... Read More about Forecasting the success of megaprojects with Judgmental methods.

The impact of judgment on statistical forecasts (2020)
Thesis
Keyes, M. (in press). The impact of judgment on statistical forecasts. (Thesis). University of Salford

The thesis will aim to empirically assess how judgment impacts a statistical forecast in a spare parts supply chain.
The thesis will investigate what impact judgment has on forecast accuracy that is, does it improve the statistical forecast. If so,... Read More about The impact of judgment on statistical forecasts.

Relative performance of judgemental methods for forecasting the success of megaprojects (2019)
Journal Article
Litsiou, K., Polychronakis, Y., Karami, A., & Nikolopoulos, K. (2019). Relative performance of judgemental methods for forecasting the success of megaprojects. International Journal of Forecasting, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2019.05.018

Forecasting the success of megaprojects, such as the Olympic Games or space exploration missions, is a very difficult and important task because of the complexity of such projects and the large capital investment they require. Megaproject stakeholder... Read More about Relative performance of judgemental methods for forecasting the success of megaprojects.

Barriers to implementing green supply chain initiatives in road and ocean logistics (2012)
Thesis

In the year 1997, within the United Nations' building, several of the world's largest
countries chose to address the issue of climate change. For some years prior to 1997,
there were grumblings by NGOs (non-government organisations), such as
Green... Read More about Barriers to implementing green supply chain initiatives in road and ocean logistics.

Integrating the spare parts supply chain : an inter-disciplinary account (2010)
Journal Article
Martin, H., Syntetos, A., Parodi, A., Polychronakis, Y., & Pintelon, L. (2010). Integrating the spare parts supply chain : an inter-disciplinary account. Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, 21(2), 226-245. https://doi.org/10.1108/17410381011014387

Purpose: this paper aims to substantiate the need for additional research into a more holistic and multidisciplinary approach to managing the supporting supply chains that may also capture contextual information, also pointing out emerging avenues fo... Read More about Integrating the spare parts supply chain : an inter-disciplinary account.