Moroccan Company Research Articles

Production and Inventory Dynamics in the Mining Supply Chain: The Impact of Extraction Routings

This paper deals with integrated production-inventory-routing decisions in mining industries. It treats the impact of phosphate extraction routings adopted in open pit mines in providing stocks with diversified characteristics, to satisfy customer requirements at a minimum production cost. Those routings aim to control minerals’ characteristics in terms of quality, volume, and delivery time. For planning production activities, there is a need to select the right extraction routings in mines, to enrich (or not) the raw material and then blend ingredients according to their availability and customer requirements. Less attention was given by literature to the impact of extraction routings in production and stock dynamics. The primary focus revolves around filling the gap and recognizing their pivotal impact in open pit mines. While washing and blending ingredients play crucial roles, they alone may not always suffice to meet customer requirements. This paper undertakes an exhaustive study and modeling, using the case study of a Moroccan company specialized in phosphate rock production and its derivatives, aiming to underscore the significance of extraction routings through tangible and real examples. The findings emphasize a crucial need for variating the extraction routings in providing stocks of raw materials with the optimal characteristics regarding customer requirements.

A Fuzzy DEMATEL framework for maintenance performance improvement: A case of Moroccan Chemical Industry

Maintenance performance has vital importance for enterprises to continue their operations without any interruption. The satisfaction of stakeholders and the achievement of strategic goals in a manufacturing organization are highly dependent on effective maintenance performance. A good management system is essential to achieve the desired level of performance. A good management system could be divided into two main parts. The first part consists of identifying and determining the most relevant indicators for maintenance. The determined indicators have to be measured to offer a comprehensive examination of their performance. The second part consists of improving the maintenance performance; however, from the multi-criteria aspect, system performance improvement requires simultaneously various limited sources such as time, resources, and skills. Therefore, improving maintenance performance needs to assign priority to the most critical indicators to use limited resources effectively; however, this is not easy to achieve. Furthermore, the benefit of such efforts may be less than the expected level. In this context, this paper proposes an approach to improve maintenance performance based on the Fuzzy DEMATEL method. The proposed method identifies and priorities the most sufficient indicators to improve overall maintenance performance of an enterprise. Consequently, DMs can put in place the most appropriate action plan, which allows an effective and efficient enhancement of the maintenance performance. Then, the proposed method is implemented in the case of Moroccan Company which is one of the leaders in the chemical industry. The results of this research allow DMs to develop the most advantageous action plan for effective and efficient improvement of both local and global maintenance performance in the company.

The Moroccan company at the time of the crisis and the practice of foresight: Choice or Necessity?

The Moroccan company at the time of the crisis and the practice of foresight: Choice or Necessity?

Lean and industry 4.0: A leading harmony

Avoid waste, get rid of non-value-added operations, keep processes and equipment simple and easy to maintain, these are the major assets of the Lean Manufacturing philosophy of the Toyota Production System (TPS). If Industry 4.0 offers a whole new way of considering decision-making in terms of problem solving, Lean Manufacturing multiplies the opportunities to integrate into continuous improvement. Digitalization being the trend of this new era where everything is connected, a new version of Lean has emerged: Lean 4.0. It is a combination of Industry 4.0 technologies and Lean Manufacturing principles that allows the benefits of these two paradigms to be fully exploited. The objective of this article is therefore to present what Lean Manufacturing is and how it has adapted to new technologies to make way for Lean 4.0. It constitutes a literature review based on some authors statements regarding this new concept, and a reflection paper proposing some practical cases of Lean 4.0 concretized by a simulation based on the case study that shows time and productivity gains within a Moroccan company, serving as an example to demonstrate the power of Lean 4.0.

Impact of hedonic motivation and corporate culture on the adoption of an information system

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of corporate culture (CC) and hedonic motivation (HM) on the adoption of an information system (IS) inside a Moroccan company. To do so, the authors have combined and merged the “unified theory of acceptance and use of technology 2” along with the “Nguyen and Aoyama’s model” that covers the subject of CC. Later, the authors tested the research model within a Moroccan company.Design/methodology/approachIn the present work, the authors used a quantitative analysis approach. Survey data were collected through oral interviews and analysis was performed based on the “partial least square” method, over a 94 sample of direct IS users.FindingsThe findings of the present investigation demonstrate the reliability and the validity of the established measurement model. Concerning the structural model, results support all hypotheses but with different effect size. The conclusion that can be extracted from this study is that CC and HM are important factors in the adoption process within the Moroccan firm.Originality/valueThis study enhances the understanding of the major factors affecting the adoption of an IS in a developing country. While several studies on adoption have been conducted, this study’s originality and contribution lays in the examination of the rarely evaluated factors: HM and CC.

Audit de la formation

La formation joue un rôle capital dans le développement des compétences des ressources humaines au sein des organisations. En effet, ce levier, qui doit impérativement toucher tous les aspects de la vie dans l’entreprise et toutes ses fonctions, doit être généralisé sur l’ensemble des collaborateurs quels que soient leurs niveaux d’instruction ou leurs positions dans la hiérarchie. La formation est un outil qui permet à l’entreprise de faire face efficacement à un environnement de plus en plus imprévisible et de plus en plus contraignant. L’importance du système formation au sein des organisations est à même à pousser les décideurs à commanditer régulièrement des audits des systèmes formation au sein de leurs entreprises afin d’en déceler les forces et les faiblesses et de proposer les redressements nécessaires. La présente communication se veut une opportunité d’exhiber la notion d’audit de la formation et de présenter une synthèse de cas de la pratique de cette démarche au sein de l’entreprise marocaine comme une mesure d’asseoir l’excellence au sein de son processus formation.

A Built-in Criteria Analysis for Best IT Governance Framework

The implementation of IT governance is important to lead and evolve the information system in agreement with stakeholders. This requirement is seriously amplified at the time of the digital area considering all the new technologies that have been launched recently (Big DATA, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep learning, etc.). Thus, without a good rudder, every company risks getting lost in a sea endless and unreachable goal. This paper aims to provide decision-making system that allows professionals to choose IT governance framework suitable to desired criteria and their importance based on a multi-criteria analysis method (WSM), we did implement a case study based on a Moroccan company. Moreover, we present a better understanding of IT Governance aspects such as standards and best practices. This paper goes into a global objective that aims to build an integrated generated meta-model for a better approach of IT Governance.

Maturity of the Warehousing function in Moroccan companies: a case study

In today’s competitive market environment, companies are continuously forced to improve their warehousing operations. To meet high performance goals, tools must be developed to improve efficiency in every aspect of warehousing function. In this paper, we propose a new approach to improve the performance of the warehousing function based on Maturity model, which may better identify, explain, assess and improve this critical function in a supply chain. The aim of this article is to validate the model developed by a case study in a Moroccan company by demonstrating its capacity of assessing the maturity of warehousing function and whether it can develop an improvement roadmap.

Elaboration of an implementation approach of a condition-based maintenance through vibration analysis

Vibration analysis is a powerful and widely used tool in industry for monitoring rotating machinery. Despite the possibilities offered by the measuring equipment of vibration through technological progress, companies which practice Vibration Based Analysis (VBM) show performance below expectations in terms of machine availability. Our duty then is to develop an approach for the implementation of the VBM taking into consideration the keys to success and avoiding the causes of failure. We carried out an analysis of 30 years of practice of the VBM within a large Moroccan company in the chemical industry, through a collective approach called DCA (in French applied short diagnosis) and a survey among national and international experts in the field of the VBM. The synthesis of these studies has led us to propose a comprehensive and structured approach that comes in 5 phases: inventory, feasibility studies, preparation phase, implementation phase, evaluation and improvement phase.

The CSR: Case of Moroccan Companies

Nobody argues the fact that a company can be a legal person may hold assets and liabilities. Today, the debate is stronger around the rights and duties with regard to men and environment that go with that status. We intend to primarily reflect on the dimension of social responsibility in other words, social responsibility. A company must be able to act and be held accountable for their actions or inactions as would a humain being. The issue of capacity and the means to achieve this has been discussed in corporate governance, politics, economics and business. In this paper, we think of the concept of CSR perspective of strategic management and try to demystify the theoretical foundations as well as the evolution of the concept and its tools. It stems from a critical reading in hypothesis. A comparative approach between the companies is advanced in reading and verification of hypotheses in search of an evaluative grid positions and managerial practices more appropriate for the Moroccan company. Keywords: corporate social responsibility, Hypothesis, Moroccan company,

Loyalty And Relationship Orientation Case of Moroccan Company: Quantitative Approach

the problem we studied in this article focused on the influence of perceived quality, and relational orientation of companies in creating value for the customer through a collaborative relationship. Well this research aims to investigate the effect of perceived value by the customer through a relational exchange in his loyalty. Data collection was collected in Moroccan company. Structural equations modeling (SEM) is used to evaluate the simultaneous effects of the predictive variables. Implications for manager’s academicians are discussed and areas for future research are presented. Key word: Loyalty, Value, Quality perceived, Relational orientation

Gouvernance d'entreprise et responsabilité sociale au Maroc : l'évolution de l'OCP

L’article propose d’analyser la démarche de Responsabilité Sociale d’une grande entreprise marocaine, l’OCP (Office Chérifien des Phosphates). Dans une première partie, nous rappellerons quelques définitions du concept de RSE dans une perspective systémique et préciserons le contexte marocain afin de déterminer les leviers qui expliquent l’appropriation et la mise en œuvre de démarches RSE au sein des entreprises marocaines. La seconde partie de notre travail sera consacrée à l’analyse de l’évolution de l’OCP dans une économie marocaine en mutation. Notre recherche s’attache à montrer les contraintes auxquelles l’entreprise se trouve confrontée dans son environnement immédiat et international et les réponses qu’elle y apporte et qui sont de nature à modifier sa démarche RSE.

Taking into Consideration the Sociocultural Dimension in the Drive for Change Through Quality: Application to the Moroccan Company

Although the principles of quality and excellence appear to be universal, their implementation is necessary local and depends on the culture specificities. In this paper, we present a systemic approach for culture that allows, through a set of cultural dimensions, to characterize national culture, enterprise culture, and quality culture. Comparison between existing culture and the quality culture lead to identifying the required levers and resistances to be taken into account to implement change on the basis of quality criteria. The cases we present, which deal with two Moroccan companies, show that the sociocultural dimension plays a major role in the implementation of the quality approach. The work conducted on these cases is dedicated to decision makers, heads of enterprises, and quality project leaders in order to assist them in conducting changes on the basis of quality in their enterprises.

Oil and Gas Developments in North Africa in 1981

In the 6 countries covered by this paper, valid petroleum rights at the end of 1981 amounted to 2,024,414 km2 or 7% more than at the end of 1980. As far as the rightholding situation is concerned, the main event was the abandonment by Esso of all its rights in Libya. Information on exploration activity remains scarce, but it is estimated that seismic activity increased by 35%. Large air-magnetometry surveys were carried out in Sudan and Egypt. Exploration drilling activity continued to increase, with 169 wells completed versus 115 in 1980. This effort led to 67 oil and gas discoveries, a success rate of about 40% compared with 35% in 1980. All these discoveries were made in established producing provinces. Highly successful results were obtained in the Gulf of Suez with 1 gas and 19 oil discoveries compared with 4 discoveries in 1980. Good success was also obtained by ONAREP, the new Moroccan state company, with 5 gas discoveries out of 11 wells spudded during the year. Chevron continued to find oil in the interior basins of Sudan, and expects commercial production in 1984 from the Unity field, which has reserves estimated at 400 million bbl of oil. Oil production markedly decreased by about 23%, with an average of 2,820,000 BOPD in 1981. Oil output decreased in all the North African countries except Egypt, where it increased 8%. Utilized natural gas production can be estimated at about 2,300 MMCFGD. Sonatrach published official figures for gross gas production in 1981 which amounted to 4,420 MMCFGD, of which about 2,000 MMCFGD were collected and utilized.