Invitation for an Interview

Interview objectives

This interview aims to explore the manufacturing, retail, service, and freight industry practices for anticipating and mitigating supply chain disruptions, challenges experienced, and lessons learned. We, therefore, invite supply chain practitioners across different functions of organizations of any size to an online interview to capture their views in this manner. Our questions will be to understand your view and experience on supply chain visibility, supplier integration, and monitoring, supply chain disruptions, and supporting digital technologies.  

Your contribution to this study will enable us (1) to provide state of art industry practices (2) to identify industry needs and research gaps (3) and to disseminate our findings to the scientific community as well as the public and policymakers. 

Interview Process

Your responses will be confidential, treated anonymously, and aggregated with others. Analytical findings of the interviews will be shared with you. 

Interview Protocol

 “Deep Learning-based Transferrable Supply Chain Stress Test” 22/NCF/DR/11264 is a Science Foundation Ireland (SFI, https://www.sfi.ie/research-news/news/minister-new-ncf-teams/) funded research study that is being conducted by Principal Investigator Dr Cemalettin Ozturk (Munster Technological University), and Co-PI Prof. Barry O’Sullivan (University College Cork).  

Interviews will be undertaken by the research team and will be held online via Zoom and upon participants’ consent, it will be recorded for putting in writing. Participation in the research is voluntary. Each participant has the right to opt out during the interview at any time and refuse to answer any question. Interviews will be executed as semi-structured and hence questions might be tailored based on industry, organization, and the position of the participant. Participant responses will be held strictly confidential and will be used only for research purposes. 

The transcript of the interview will be kept in a Microsoft Word document and shared with the participant for review and approval to be used or deleted. Insights obtained from all interviews will be shared with all participants once they are completed.  

Interview data will be stored and processed according to the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016 (GDPR) (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/2016-05-04) and the Republic of Ireland Data Protection Act 2018 (https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/bills/bill/2018/10/). 

Interview data obtained will be securely stored on the MTU cloud platform and once the interview is put in writing, interview audio files will be removed from the cloud and deleted. Transcripts of the interviews will be kept until the end of the project and will be deleted afterward. Participants can access the information they have provided at any time and ask them to be deleted.

A complete interview information sheet can be accessed from here.