Proceedings of the 2025 Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) Africa International Conference

Authors

Rudi Oltmann; Sbusiso Skosana ; Aarti Panday; Bruno Emwanu; Owen Ngobeni; Anas Ahmad; Ibrahim Al Turki ; Abdul Bashir Wadood Oghlo; Dirk Bakker; Errol Mutamba; Sabrina Chatur; Catherine Carter ; Jacoba Bührmann; Wilna Bean; Wilhelm Smit; Marne de Vries; Matthew Baldwin; Ilse Doyer; Carina Behr; Shannon Strydom; Chantelle Du Plessis; Karla Van Dyk; Tanya Kok; Tamika Lee Venter; Maria Van Zyl-Cillie; Dino Petrarolo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.35293/esi.93

Keywords:

Operations management, Sustainability, Supply Chain

Synopsis

The Proceedings of the 2025 Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) Africa International Conference, contains the papers presented at the POMS conference which took place from 18–26 November 2025 at the Future Africa Campus in Pretoria. The papers presented is centred on advancements and trends in production and operations management, spanning health and humanitarian operations, manufacturing operations, operational excellence, service operations, supply chain management, and sustainable operations.

The volume compiles eleven peer-reviewed conference papers covering a wide industry range of which the themes include the circular plastic flow and Industry 4.0, hospital work-order systems and inventory management (via Markov decision processes), data quality management in financial services, process-modelling tool usability in higher education, cost savings through load consolidation and multi-stop routing, lean leadership frameworks in tech, logistics capabilities in GCC construction projects, technological innovation in South Africa's automotive sector, knowledge-management collaboration in financial services, green supply chain practices in Saudi Arabia, and metrics for agile software development team performance.

Chapters

  • FRONT MATTER
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  • FOREWORD
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  • INDUSTRY 4.0 FOR CIRCULAR PLASTIC FLOW IMPROVEMENT
    A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
    Catherine Carter , Wilna Bean
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  • DEVELOPMENT OF A TECHNICAL SERVICE WORK ORDER SYSTEM FOR A SOUTH AFRICAN PRIVATE HOSPITAL
    Tanya Kok, Tamika Lee Venter, Maria Van Zyl-Cillie
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  • IMPROVING INVENTORY MANAGEMENT OF A SOUTH AFRICAN HOSPITAL’S OPERATING THEATRE USING A MARKOV DECISION PROCESS
    Chantelle Du Plessis, Karla Van Dyk, Maria Van Zyl-Cillie
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  • TOWARDS TOTAL DATA QUALITY MANAGEMENT THAT ENABLES FEASIBLE STATISTICAL MODELLING
    A CASE STUDY IN THE FINANCIAL SERVICES SECTOR
    Ilse Doyer, Carina Behr, Shannon Strydom
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  • USABILITY-CENTRED SELECTION OF PROCESS MODELLING TOOLS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
    A MULTIVOCAL LITERATURE REVIEW
    Marne de Vries, Matthew Baldwin
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  • COST SAVINGS USING LOAD CONSOLIDATION AND MULTI-STOP ROUTING
    Rudi Oltmann, Jacoba Bührmann
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  • DEVELOPMENT OF A LEAN LEADERSHIP FRAMEWORK FOR THE TECHNOLOGY SECTOR
    Dirk Bakker, Errol Mutamba, Sabrina Chatur
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  • TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT CAPABILITIES AND PROJECT PERFORMANCE IN GCC CONSTRUCTION
    AN SEM STUDY
    Anas Ahmad, Ibrahim Al Turki , Abdul Bashir Wadood Oghlo
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  • PRODUCT AND PROCESS TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION AND FIRM’S PERFORMANCE IN SOUTH AFRICAN AUTOMOTIVE AND AUTOMOTIVE PARTS INDUSTRY
    Aarti Panday, Bruno Emwanu, Owen Ngobeni
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  • COLLABORATION BETWEEN BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY TEAMS USING KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS – LESSONS FROM FINANCIAL SERVICES
    Sbusiso Skosana , Bruno Emwanu
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  • IMPACT OF GREEN SUPPLY CHAIN PRACTICES ON OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE
    SEM ANALYSIS IN SAUDI ARABIA
    Anas Ahmad, Abdul Bashir Wadood Oghlo
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  • VALIDATING METRICS OF A MODEL FOR AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM PERFORMANCE (MASTEP)
    Wilhelm Smit, Marne de Vries
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18 August 2026

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ISBN-10 (02)

978-1-0671824-3-4 (Digital)

ISBN-13 (15)

978-1-0671824-2-7 (Print)