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Dr. Muhammad Azmat
Institute for Transport and Logistics, Vienna University of Economics and Business

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Best Paper Award

Innovation Arabia Conference (Dubai) by HBMSU




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Short Biography

Dr. Muhammad Azmat is a young researcher and lecturer at the Department of Engineering Systems and Supply Chain Management at Aston University. He comes from a Business and management background, with a PhD in transport, logistics and supply chain management and a Masters in supply chain management from one of Europe’s finest Business universities in Vienna, Austria (accredited by EQUIS, AACSB, and AMBA). He also holds an MBA in Supply Chain Management from one of the leading business universities in Pakistan. Besides, Dr. Azmat is an alumnus of the Oxford Leadership Program, Saïd Business School, Transport Study Unit, University of Oxford. There he completed two modules on the Global Challenges in transport, for which he was awarded a scholarship, twice. In his brief academic career, Dr. Azmat has developed hybrid research interests, which fall right in the centre of disruptive technologies, consumer’s perspective and innovative business applications. He has accomplished international projects with organizations like the Federal Procurement Agency of Austria (BBG), Highway authorities and concessioners like ASFINAG (Austria), AISCAT (Italy), Brisa (Portugal), IBTTA (USA) and Not for Profit Organizations like Kühne Foundation (Switzerland). The focus of these projects was to identify the potential impact of disruptive technologies AVs, CVs, Mobility 4.0, and the IOT on different business sectors.

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Review
Published: 17 June 2021 in Sensors
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The Internet of Things (IoT) and its benefits and challenges are the most emergent research topics among academics and practitioners. With supply chains (SCs) gaining rapid complexity, having high supply chain visibility (SCV) would help companies ease the processes and reduce complexity by improving inaccuracies. Extant literature has given attention to the organisation’s capability to collect and evaluate information to balance between strategy and goals. The majority of studies focus on investigating IoT’s impact on different areas such as sustainability, organisational structure, lean manufacturing, product development, and strategic management. However, research investigating the relationships and impact of IoT on SCV is minimal. This study closes this gap using a structured literature review to critically analyse existing literature to synthesise the use of IoT applications in SCs to gain visibility, and the SC. We found key IoT technologies that help SCs gain visibility, and seven benefits and three key challenges of these technologies. We also found the concept of Supply 4.0 that grasps the element of Industry 4.0 within the SC context. This paper contributes by combining IoT application synthesis, enablers, and challenges in SCV by highlighting key IoT technologies used in the SCs to gain visibility. Finally, the authors propose an empirical research agenda to address the identified gaps.

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Shehzad Ahmed; Tahera Kalsoom; Naeem Ramzan; Zeeshan Pervez; Muhammad Azmat; Bassam Zeb; Masood Ur Rehman. Towards Supply Chain Visibility Using Internet of Things: A Dyadic Analysis Review. Sensors 2021, 21, 4158 .

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Shehzad Ahmed, Tahera Kalsoom, Naeem Ramzan, Zeeshan Pervez, Muhammad Azmat, Bassam Zeb, Masood Ur Rehman. Towards Supply Chain Visibility Using Internet of Things: A Dyadic Analysis Review. Sensors. 2021; 21 (12):4158.

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Shehzad Ahmed; Tahera Kalsoom; Naeem Ramzan; Zeeshan Pervez; Muhammad Azmat; Bassam Zeb; Masood Ur Rehman. 2021. "Towards Supply Chain Visibility Using Internet of Things: A Dyadic Analysis Review." Sensors 21, no. 12: 4158.

Journal article
Published: 07 August 2020 in Logistics
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Courier, express, and parcel (CEP) services represent one of the most challenging and dynamic sectors of the logistics industry. Companies of this sector must solve several challenges to keep up with the rapid changes in the market. In this context, the introduction of autonomous delivery using self-driving trucks might be an appropriate solution to overcome the problems that the industry is facing today. This paper investigates if the introduction of autonomous trucks would be feasible for deliveries in urban areas from the experts’ point of view. Furthermore, the potential advantages of such autonomous vehicles were highlighted and compared to traditional delivery methods. At the same time, barriers that could slow down or hinder such an implementation were also discovered by conducting semi-structured interviews with experts from the field. The results show that CEP companies are interested in innovative logistics solutions such as autonomous vans, especially when it comes to business-to-consumer (B2C) activities. Most of the experts acknowledge the benefits that self-driving vans could bring once on the market. Despite that, there are still some difficulties that need to be solved before actual implementation. If this type of vehicle will become the sector’s disruptor is yet to be seen.

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Evelyne Tina Kassai; Muhammad Azmat; Sebastian Kummer. Scope of Using Autonomous Trucks and Lorries for Parcel Deliveries in Urban Settings. Logistics 2020, 4, 17 .

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Evelyne Tina Kassai, Muhammad Azmat, Sebastian Kummer. Scope of Using Autonomous Trucks and Lorries for Parcel Deliveries in Urban Settings. Logistics. 2020; 4 (3):17.

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Evelyne Tina Kassai; Muhammad Azmat; Sebastian Kummer. 2020. "Scope of Using Autonomous Trucks and Lorries for Parcel Deliveries in Urban Settings." Logistics 4, no. 3: 17.

Journal article
Published: 24 February 2020 in Asian Journal of Sustainability and Social Responsibility
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The present decade has seen an upsurge in the research on the applications of autonomous vehicles and drones to present innovative and sustainable solutions for traditional transportation and logistical challenges. Similarly, in this study, we propose using autonomous cars and drones to resolve conventional logistics and transport challenges faced by international humanitarian organizations (IHOs) during a relief operation. We do so by identifying, shortlisting, and elaborating critical success factors or key transport and logistics challenges from the existing humanitarian literature and present a conceptual model to mitigate these challenges by integrating unmanned ground (UGVs) and aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the humanitarian supply chain. To understand how this novel idea of using UGVs and UAVs could help IHOs, we drafted three research questions, first focusing on the identification of existing challenges, second concentrating on remediation of these challenges, and the third to understand realization timeline for UGVs and UAVs. This lead to the development of a semi-structured, open-ended questionnaire to record the respondents’ perspectives on the existing challenges and their potential solutions. We gathered data form, ten interviewees, with substantial experience in the humanitarian sector from six IHOs stationed in Pakistan and Austria. In light of the feedback for the second research question, we present a conceptual model of integrating UAVs and UGVs in the relief chain. The results of the study indicate that technological advancement in mobility withholds the potential to mitigate the existing challenges faced by IHOs. However, IHOs tend to be reluctant in adapting UGVs compared to UAVs. The results also indicate that the adaptation of these technologies is subject to their technical maturity, and there are no significant differences in opinions found between the IHOs from Pakistan and Austria.

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Muhammad Azmat; Sebastian Kummer. Potential applications of unmanned ground and aerial vehicles to mitigate challenges of transport and logistics-related critical success factors in the humanitarian supply chain. Asian Journal of Sustainability and Social Responsibility 2020, 5, 1 -22.

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Muhammad Azmat, Sebastian Kummer. Potential applications of unmanned ground and aerial vehicles to mitigate challenges of transport and logistics-related critical success factors in the humanitarian supply chain. Asian Journal of Sustainability and Social Responsibility. 2020; 5 (1):1-22.

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Muhammad Azmat; Sebastian Kummer. 2020. "Potential applications of unmanned ground and aerial vehicles to mitigate challenges of transport and logistics-related critical success factors in the humanitarian supply chain." Asian Journal of Sustainability and Social Responsibility 5, no. 1: 1-22.

Journal article
Published: 10 December 2019 in Journal of International Humanitarian Action
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In the last few decades, an exponential increase in the number of disasters, and their complexity has been reported, which ultimately put much pressure on relief organizations. These organizations cannot usually respond to the disaster on their own, and therefore, all actors involved in relief efforts should have end-to-end synchronization in order to provide relief effectively and efficiently. Consequently, to smoothen the flow of relief operation, a shared understanding of critical success factors in humanitarian supply chain serves as a pre-requisite for successful relief operation. Therefore, any member of the humanitarian supply chain might disrupt this synchronization by neglecting one or several of these critical success factors. However, in this study, we try to investigate how faith-based and non-faith-based relief organizations treat these critical success factors. Moreover, we also try to identify any differences between Islamic and Christian relief organizations in identifying and prioritizing these factors. To achieve the objective of this study, we used a two-stage approach; in the first stage, we collected the critical success factors from existing humanitarian literature. Whereas, in the second stage, using an online questionnaire, we collected data on the importance of selected factors from humanitarian relief organizations from around the world in collaboration with World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations (WANGO). Later, responses were analyzed to answer the research questions using non-parametric Binomial and Wilcoxon Rank-Sum tests. Test results indicate that for RQ1, two but all factors are significant for successful relief operation. For RQ2, we found significant differences for some CSF among faith-based and non-faith-based relief organizations. Similarly for RQ3, we found significant differences for some CSF among Islamic and Christian relief organizations.

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Muhammad Azmat; Muhammad Atif; Sebastian Kummer. Identification and prioritization of critical success factors in faith-based and non-faith-based organizations’ humanitarian supply chain. Journal of International Humanitarian Action 2019, 4, 1 -17.

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Muhammad Azmat, Muhammad Atif, Sebastian Kummer. Identification and prioritization of critical success factors in faith-based and non-faith-based organizations’ humanitarian supply chain. Journal of International Humanitarian Action. 2019; 4 (1):1-17.

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Muhammad Azmat; Muhammad Atif; Sebastian Kummer. 2019. "Identification and prioritization of critical success factors in faith-based and non-faith-based organizations’ humanitarian supply chain." Journal of International Humanitarian Action 4, no. 1: 1-17.

Journal article
Published: 20 September 2019 in Logistics
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Automotive manufacturers are competing to be the first to introduce customer-ready autonomous vehicles. Some manufacturers are claiming to launch their first self-driving cars as early as 2020. Which all sounds very good and futuristic; however, the question arises, are customers even ready to adopt this new technological advancement? Therefore, this pilot study is aimed at finding out the answer to this question in the Austrian market. This study discovers the standpoint of Austrian consumers concerning the acceptance of self-driving cars for daily usage and gives an overview of the current point of view regarding autonomous vehicles (AVs). The data for this study was collected using an online, user-friendly, Likert scale survey. The collected data were processed and analyzed for empirical significance in SPSS using Spearman’s rank correlation and the Mann–Whitney U test supported by descriptive analysis. The results of the study indicate that Austrian consumers are well aware of autonomous vehicles and their technology. However, they have specific concerns about reliability, cybersecurity, and futuristic car-sharing models. Therefore, these concerns about AVs should be addressed by auto manufactures in order to gain consumers’ trust and sell them a new form of mobility.

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Sophie Wintersberger; Muhammad Azmat; Sebastian Kummer. Are We Ready to Ride Autonomous Vehicles? A Pilot Study on Austrian Consumers’ Perspective. Logistics 2019, 3, 20 .

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Sophie Wintersberger, Muhammad Azmat, Sebastian Kummer. Are We Ready to Ride Autonomous Vehicles? A Pilot Study on Austrian Consumers’ Perspective. Logistics. 2019; 3 (4):20.

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Sophie Wintersberger; Muhammad Azmat; Sebastian Kummer. 2019. "Are We Ready to Ride Autonomous Vehicles? A Pilot Study on Austrian Consumers’ Perspective." Logistics 3, no. 4: 20.

Journal article
Published: 19 June 2019 in Logistics
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In the last couple of decades, there has been an unparalleled growth in number of people who can afford motorized vehicles. This is increasing the number of vehicles on roads at an alarming rate and existing infrastructure and conventional methods of traffic management are becoming inefficient both on highways and in urban areas. It is very important that our highways are up and running 24/7 as they not only provide a passage for human beings to move from one place to another, but also are the most important mode for intercity or international transfer of goods. There is an utter need of adapting the new world order, where daily processes are driven with the help of innovative technologies. It is highly likely that technological advancements like autonomous or connected vehicles, big data and the Internet of things can provide highway operators with a solution that might resolve unforeseeable challenges. This investigative exploratory research identifies and highlights the impact of new technological advancements in the automotive industry on highways and highway operators. The data for this research was collected on a Likert scale type online survey, from different organizations around the world (actively or passively involved in highway operations). The data was further tested for its empirical significance with non-parametric binomial and Wilcoxon signed rank tests, supported by a descriptive analysis. The results of this study are in line with theoretical and conceptual work done by several independent corporations and academic researchers. It is evident form the opinions of seasoned professionals that these technological advancements withhold the potential to resolve all potential challenges and revolutionize highway operations.

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Muhammad Azmat; Sebastian Kummer; Lara Trigueiro Moura; Federico Di Gennaro; Rene Moser. Future Outlook of Highway Operations with Implementation of Innovative Technologies Like AV, CV, IoT and Big Data. Logistics 2019, 3, 15 .

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Muhammad Azmat, Sebastian Kummer, Lara Trigueiro Moura, Federico Di Gennaro, Rene Moser. Future Outlook of Highway Operations with Implementation of Innovative Technologies Like AV, CV, IoT and Big Data. Logistics. 2019; 3 (2):15.

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Muhammad Azmat; Sebastian Kummer; Lara Trigueiro Moura; Federico Di Gennaro; Rene Moser. 2019. "Future Outlook of Highway Operations with Implementation of Innovative Technologies Like AV, CV, IoT and Big Data." Logistics 3, no. 2: 15.

Journal article
Published: 01 October 2015 in Logforum
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Muhammad Azmat; Sebastian Kummer. Importance of key success factors for local and international ngos in humanitarian supply chain. Logforum 2015, 15, 545 -555.

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Muhammad Azmat, Sebastian Kummer. Importance of key success factors for local and international ngos in humanitarian supply chain. Logforum. 2015; 15 (4):545-555.

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Muhammad Azmat; Sebastian Kummer. 2015. "Importance of key success factors for local and international ngos in humanitarian supply chain." Logforum 15, no. 4: 545-555.

Conference paper
Published: 01 September 2021
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Muhammad Azmat. Future Scenario: Self Driving Cars - The future has already begun. 2021, 1 .

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Muhammad Azmat. Future Scenario: Self Driving Cars - The future has already begun. . 2021; ():1.

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Muhammad Azmat. 2021. "Future Scenario: Self Driving Cars - The future has already begun." , no. : 1.