Special Issue "Advances in Operations and Supply Chain Management with Sustainability Considerations"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2022.

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Sungyong Choi
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Operations and Service Management, School of Business, Hanyang University, Seoul 04763, Korea
Interests: operations and supply chain management (OSCM) modeling and applications under risk; service operations and quality management; inventory management; analytics and data-driven optimization; operations finance/marketing interfaces
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Special Issue Information

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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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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Keywords

  • optimization
  • quality management
  • sustainable operations
  • green supply chain management
  • environmentally concious production for service and manufacturing firms
  • operaitons planning and scheduling
  • supply chain innovation and strategies
  • value of information
  • inventory management
  • supply chain productivity and efficiency

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Bartering: Price-Setting Newsvendor Problem with Barter Exchange
Sustainability 2021, 13(12), 6684; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13126684 - 12 Jun 2021
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Barter exchange is a system of swapping goods or services for other goods or services in a moneyless and direct manner. Barter has become an effective model of a circular economy because it reduces the consumption impact. Bartering maximizes the utility of assets [...] Read more.
Barter exchange is a system of swapping goods or services for other goods or services in a moneyless and direct manner. Barter has become an effective model of a circular economy because it reduces the consumption impact. Bartering maximizes the utility of assets and existing resources, and can unleash the unspent social, economic, and environmental value of underutilized assets. The present article analyzes the price-setting newsvendor problem with a barter exchange option. The retailer facing a stochastic price-dependent demand sells a product on the market and, additionally, needs another product for its own purposes. Therefore, first, the retailer trades the unsold product for the product it needs by means of barter, and next disposes of the unsold product at a discounted price at the end of the selling season. The retailer’s optimal order quantity and optimal price are derived assuming additive uncertainty in demand. This type of demand function has special characteristics, for example, the actual demand may attain negative values in times of economic uncertainty. The possibility of negative demand realizations is taken into consideration in the study. It proves that, in certain cases, the optimal solution belongs to the set of high barter prices which implies that the actual demand may be negative. Full article
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Managing the Product-Counterfeiting Problem with a Blockchain-Supported E-Commerce Platform
Sustainability 2021, 13(11), 6016; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13116016 - 27 May 2021
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As a disruptive tool, blockchain technology can eradicate the product-counterfeiting problem in supply chains. However, a blockchain-supported platform charges an operating fee to legitimate manufacturers and retailers for product traceability and authentication. In this study, we employ enterprise profit-driven analytical models using Stackelberg [...] Read more.
As a disruptive tool, blockchain technology can eradicate the product-counterfeiting problem in supply chains. However, a blockchain-supported platform charges an operating fee to legitimate manufacturers and retailers for product traceability and authentication. In this study, we employ enterprise profit-driven analytical models using Stackelberg equilibrium theory and highlight the values of blockchain-supported e-commerce platforms in addressing the product-counterfeiting problem. To measure the actual benefits of blockchain technology, we compare the profits of all agents in two different supply chains, traditional and blockchain-supported. Results show that the application of blockchain technology is not always beneficial to manufacturers, retailers, and customers. However, when the manufacturing cost of a legitimate manufacturer is sufficiently high, the manufacturer generates more profits using blockchain technology. Further, for a price-sensitive market, a retailer tends to trade in a blockchain-supported e-commerce platform if the retailer’s qualification in the platform is lower than that in a traditional supply chain, and the manufacturing cost of the counterfeit manufacturer in the platform is higher than that in a traditional supply chain. Full article
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