Advances in Operations and Supply Chain Management with Sustainability Considerations

Dear Colleagues,

With growing environmental interests globally, the international community is constantly making international cooperative efforts to reduce carbon emissions. Accordingly, environmentally friendly production and sustainability in the service and manufacturing areas are closely related. Then, one of the recent challenges faced by leading researchers and practitioners in the field of operations and supply chain management (OSCM) is to harmonize the traditional efficiency issues of production in the past and the emerging issue of sustainability. Due to such changes in the business environment, a new issue of sustainability is providing a paradigm shift and new research opportunities. In other words, traditional OSCM theories and practices are constantly being reinterpreted and reapplied in relation to these new issues.

Accordingly, a growing number of sustainable OSCM papers cover a wide range of supply chain performance and efficiency issues. As a result, the multidisciplinary nature of research in this field is emphasized by utilizing various research methodologies, including empirical analysis and optimization modeling. For these reasons, I invite high quality OSCM papers with sustainability considerations for publication in the Sustainability journal.

The scope of Sustainability ranges from the environmental, cultural, economic and social sustainability of human beings, and so on. Thus, the aim of this Special Issue is to publish the latest theoretical or empirical research papers in various industries and fields related to the OSCM with sustainability considerations. Accordingly, the range of topics available for publication in this Special Issue encompasses a wide spectrum, including, but not limited to:

(1) Innovative business models with sustainability

(2) Eco-friendly product design and sustainable packaging

(3) Green warehousing, logistics and transportation

(4) Closed-loop systems and reverse logistics

(5) Inventory management with sustainability

(6) Sustainable operations planning and scheduling

(7) Supply chain efficiency and productivity for services and manufacturing

(8) Sustainable procurement and supplier selection management

(9) Environmentally conscious production strategies in service and manufacturing sectors

(10) Value of information in sustainable supply chain management

Dr. Sungyong Choi
Guest Editor

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