Supply Chain Engineering

Dear Colleagues,

Supply chains have grown from basic, localized manufacturing systems to sophisticated, globally linked networks because of technical advances such as containerization, computerization, and commercialization. However, the growth of e-commerce has resulted in enhanced visibility, shorter delivery times, and a greater emphasis on efficiency and sustainability across the supply chain process. Supply chain network design is important as it allows businesses to strategically plan, analyze, and optimize the flow of goods from suppliers to customers, with the goal of lowering costs, increasing efficiency, improving customer service, and identifying potential risks by carefully selecting warehouse locations, transportation routes, and inventory levels, ultimately giving businesses a competitive advantage by ensuring timely delivery and cost-effective operations. Supply chain engineering is the practice of designing, planning, and managing the flow of materials and information throughout a company's entire supply chain, from raw materials to the final product delivered to the customer, often utilizing engineering principles like optimization and modeling to improve efficiency and cost-effectiveness across the entire process; it includes aspects like logistics, production planning, inventory control, and distribution strategy. Supply chains accepted new technology quickly, but without paying enough attention to systems thinking, integration, and optimization. As a result, supply chain engineering has emerged as a new paradigm for maximizing advantages to global supply networks while also improving their resilience. This Special Issue welcomes unique papers in the fields of supply chain, network design, optimization, digitalization, AI and ML integration to enhance resilience and boost flexibility, as well as any work that falls within those subdomains.

Dr. Asela K. Kulatunga
Dr. M. Vijaya Manupati
Guest Editors

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• supply chain optimization
• supply chain network design
• supply chain reconfiguration
• supply chain modeling and simulation