Due to the complexity of building supply chain resilience (SCR) towards long-term environmental sustainability amendments, the use of emerging technologies such as Blockchain Technology (BCT) can be adopted as an innovative tool to enhance the sustainability and resilience of supply chains, especially in uncertain environments. Drawing on the Knowledge-Based View (KBV) and Dynamic Capability View (DCV), this research aims to demonstrate how the adoption of BCT can enhance the environmental supply chain performance (SCP). A total of 603 valid surveys were collected from respondents from manufacturing and service organizations in Egypt. The collected data were analyzed using structural equation modelling, and results revealed that BCT adoption alone had a negative direct impact on environmental SCP. However, when this relationship was mediated by SCR and sequentially mediated by customer integration and green customer information sharing, the results were positive. This research presents insights on how organizations can adapt to dynamic business environments, and, in addition, it extends the theories of KBV and DCV in an empirical contribution by filling the gap in understanding regarding how environmental SCP can be enhanced through the adoption of BCT.
The COVID-19 pandemic is regarded as the major disruptive event of this decade, resulting in unexpected socio-economic impacts worldwide. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused considerable damage to various industries worldwide. Availability and supply of a wide range of raw materials, intermediate goods, and finished products have been seriously disrupted. The magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic has had an enormous impact on the health system and pharmaceutical industry in almost every country globally. This new virus has resulted in pharmaceutical organizations experiencing unprecedented logistical restrictions as a result of increasing demand and limited capacity. Accordingly, this case study assesses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the supply chain (SC) integration of the pharmaceutical sector in Egypt. A case study technique was used for better understating of the situation and to analyze the industry's position and its capabilities to face the consequences of the pandemic, which hindered the integration along the supply chain.
Technology has progressed from being a supporter of the fundamental element of today's economy. The “digital economy” includes digital sectors, such as media, e-commerce, as well as traditional industries that have been touched by digitalization to varying degrees. This case study focuses on the Saudi e-commerce retail industry and how much it has grown exponentially through increased internet penetration, use of smartphones, and language diversity on e-commerce platforms. Moreover, the adoption of digital wallets is now more prevalent, supported by a general shift towards digital payments. The development of transport and logistics systems is based on digital platforms, such as Salla platform, which has a significant impact on the efficiency and competitiveness of supply chains and the logistics activities in KSA. Salla connects its sellers and customers. The platform provides companies with many advantages and tools.
Pharmaceutical products are considered sensitive products that require a well-managed distribution channel as they impact human lives. The aim of this research is to investigate the applicability of improving the downstream of the pharmaceutical supply chain (distribution channel) in Egypt through developing an E-business system. The study has adopted a deductive approach. Qualitative and quantitative methodologies were followed respectively. Qualitative in-depth interviews were conducted to get a better understanding of the situation in Egypt followed by a structured survey to test and verify the significance and the relation of the extracted variables using statistical tools. This resulted in highlighting significant variables impacting the relationship between pharmaceutical retailers (pharmacies) and consumers and the applicability of introducing an e-business retailing application that improves downstream chain performance by facilitating transactions i.e. easily locating the required medicine, matching consumers and retailers and spotting the inventory level in the distribution channel for better management solutions.
Egypt has a traditional wealth in manufacture and use of leather and leather products as demonstrated on the walls of the tombs of pharaonic civilization. Nowadays the status of leather supply chain in Egypt has deteriorated and only account for a minor percentage of the Egyptian GDP. The INNOLEA (Erasmus+) project aims at developing and enhancing the leather supply chain through the establishment of leather innovation centers in Egypt and Jordan. The project also aims to create a link between university research activities and the leather sector which shall foster innovation and lead to manufacturing of high quality products. In this regard four focus group discussions have been organized with a total of nineteen participants (4-5 in each group) from different leather sector stakeholders (industry and academia). The outcomes of this research emphasized a number of steps to be undertaken to ensure a bright future the Egyptian leather supply chain with its main phases, tanning and leather products manufacturing. The industry has to undergo major technological advancements, produced leather products have to comply with the international norms and standards, government should increase its intervention and monitoring of this industry and support it stakeholders and labor professional skills and training have to be giving more emphasis and get developed.
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