Optimization Methods in Operations and Supply Chain Management
A special issue of Algorithms (ISSN 1999-4893). This special issue belongs to the section "Combinatorial Optimization, Graph, and Network Algorithms".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 January 2023) | Viewed by 4563
Special Issue Editors
Interests: reliability engineering; combinatorial optimization; statistical optimization and production scheduling
Interests: optimization in operations and supply chain management; fuzzy decision making in business and management; quality management; sustainability
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue focuses on recent applications and developments of optimization methods in operations (both production and services) and supply chain management (SCM).
The business that competes in today’s world is based on the production of goods and the delivery of services based on customer needs and, at the same time, to be cost-effective (Eskandari et al., 2021). A supply chain is a collection of connected organizations under flows of material, information, and financial currents. These organizations may include institutions that produce raw materials and products, as well as those that supply services such as distribution, storage, wholesale, and retailing (Avakh Darestani and Hemmati, 2019). In fact, the application of optimization methods and techniques helps companies and individuals to implement optimal decision making in operations, production and supply chains at different levels. In this respect, this Special Issue serves as a forum for the development of novel and advanced algorithms and optimization methods applying existing ones for solving operations management and supply chain management problems.
Researchers are invited to submit their original and unpublished works on areas including but not limited to the following:
- Optimization in supply chain management;
- Application of heuristic and meta-heuristic algorithms in operations and production management;
- Optimization algorithms in operations management;
- Application of soft computing in supply chain management;
- Decision theory in business and management;
- Fuzzy sets theory in operations and supply chain management;
- Application of meta-heuristic algorithms in production scheduling and sequencing;
- Optimization in production scheduling and sequencing;
- Application of fuzzy decision-making techniques in quality management;
- Modeling and optimization in supply chain network models;
- Fuzzy decision making in supplier evaluation and allocation problems;
- Using decision making in lean manufacturing and production;
- Optimization in inventory control and management;
- Application of fuzzy decision making in sustainability in supply chain.
Dr. Mani Sharifi
Dr. Soroush Avakh Darestani
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- optimization in supply chain management
- application of heuristic and meta-heuristic algorithms in operations and production management
- optimization algorithms in operations management
- application of soft computing in supply chain management
- decision theory in business and management
- fuzzy sets theory in operations and supply chain management
- application of meta-heuristic algorithms in production scheduling and sequencing
- optimization in production scheduling and sequencing
- application of fuzzy decision-making techniques in quality management
- modeling and optimization in supply chain network models
- fuzzy decision making in supplier evaluation and allocation problems
- using decision making in lean manufacturing and production
- optimization in inventory control and management
- application of fuzzy decision making in sustainability in supply chain
