Purpose The aim of this study is to provide insights into how the purchasing function can increase the maturity of smart maintenance management (SMM) in construction clients by (1) assessing current SMM maturity and (2) developing an adapted service triad for purchasing's meaningful involvement in SMM. …

Abstract The emergence of new technologies such as mp3 and music streaming, and the accompanying digital transformation of the music industry, have led to the shift and change of the entire music industry’s value chain. While music is increasingly being consumed through digital channels, the number of …

Voice intelligence is a revolutionary “zero-touch” type of human-machine interaction based on spoken language. There has been a recent increase in the number and variations of voice assistants and applications that help users to acquire information. The increased popularity of voice intelligence, however, …

Circularity and recycling are gaining increased attention, yet the amount of recycled plastic applied in new products remains low. To accelerate its uptake by businesses, it will be useful to empirically investigate the barriers, enablers, needs and, ultimately, requirements to increase uptake of recycled …

Abstract Despite the numerous business benefits of data science, the number of data science models in production is limited. Data science model deployment presents many challenges and many organisations have little model deployment knowledge. This research studied five model deployments in a Dutch government …

The research presented in this paper aims to outline how digital supply chain compliance management platforms can benefit and add value to the fresh produce industry. It seems that increased quality risks confront global food supply chains due to the accelerated complexity of supply chains (Aung & Chang, …

This study analyses the information flow in the sugar bean value chain in Zimbabwe that involves farmers at Mkoba and Insukamini smallholder irrigation schemes. The study paid particular attention to the essential bottlenecks in which farmers and PHI Commodities view as the stumbling block in improving …

Citrus farming is a popular enterprise among smallholder farmers in the Teso sub-region of eastern Uganda and has considerable attention from Government. However, inadequate agricultural market information is cited as one of the major hindrances to market access by smallholder farmers in the area. This …

The generation of food loss and waste is a topic that gained increasing attention over the past years. The most prominent estimate is that a third, or 1.3 billion tons, of the human food produced is wasted every year. The massive overproduction of food products on the one side and the malnutrition of …

Management of fashion (related) companies need to become convinced that circularity delivers positive financial results and incentives. This research aims to provide the first information requirement insights needed to enable the transition to a circular fashion industry. Due to easy access and abundant information …