Assessing technological impact on vaccine supply chain performance
Industrial Management & Data Systems
ISSN: 0263-5577
Article publication date: 8 August 2022
Issue publication date: 16 August 2022
Abstract
Purpose
The study aims to develop an integrated quantitative approach and suggest a framework to assess the impact of a technological intervention on the internal process dimension of the vaccine supply chain (VSC) system for multiple administered regions.
Design/methodology/approach
An evaluation index system is developed by selecting suitable performance indicators (PIs) that define the objectives of a VSC. Then multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) methods are applied to obtain pre and post-intervention relative ranks for the regions and performance scores of the objectives. A bilateral data envelopment analysis (DEA) compares significant efficiency differences between improvement and deterioration groups.
Findings
This study demonstrates that technological intervention improves the internal process dimension of a VSC for the regions under consideration. The empirical study delivers two groups of regions showing improvement or deterioration in relative performance ranking due to the technological intervention. However, the efficiency-based bilateral comparison may reveal an insignificant difference between the two groups.
Practical implications
Decision-makers associated with VSC will find the suggested model helpful in assessing the impact of technological intervention. They can easily identify specific objectives of VSC's internal process dimension, whether a particular region has observed an improvement or deterioration in its relative performance and maximize the outcome by focusing on the areas of concern for a specific region.
Originality/value
This study is the first to provide a quantitative approach that empirically determines relative performance improvement or deterioration of different regions for a set of identified VSC objectives in the context of the Indian states.
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Citation
Rai, P., Bera, S. and Ray, P. (2022), "Assessing technological impact on vaccine supply chain performance", Industrial Management & Data Systems, Vol. 122 No. 8, pp. 1938-1955. https://doi.org/10.1108/IMDS-08-2021-0488
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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