Special Issue "Sustainable Supply Chain and Operations Management"

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

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Atour Taghipour
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Guest Editor
Faculty of International Business, Normandy University, 76610 Le Havre, France
Interests: supply chain; operations management
Dr. Malek Masmoudi
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Guest Editor
Faculty of Science and Technology, Jean-Monnet University, 42000 Saint-Étienne, France
Interests: operations management

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Nowadays, companies are increasingly integrating sustainability in their operations. Sustainable operations management can be defined as coordinating the operations, while considering social, economic and environmental objectives into five main objectives of supply chain and operations management to create and deliver sustainable value to final costumers and their environment. In this context, all aspects of operations and supply chain management can be redesigned based on the principals of sustainability.

The purpose of this edition is to provide new ways to integrate the sustainability into the supply chain and operations management process.

Objective

This Special Issue proposes solutions to integrate the sustainability into the operations and supply chain management process. It will be written for academics and professionals who want to improve their understanding of supply chain coordination to be competitive in new era of the globalization.

Target Audience

The target audience of this call for papers will be composed of professionals and researchers working in the field of supply chain management, operations management, logistics, operations research. Moreover, this issue will provide insights and support executives concerned with the management of expertise, knowledge, information and organizational development in different types of work communities and environments.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Competitiveness, Strategy, Productivity and sustainability;
  • Demand forecasting as a tool of the sustainably;
  • Sustainable Product & Service Design;
  • Strategic Capacity Planning for Products and Services;
  • Capacity planning and sustainability;
  • Towards Sustainable Facility Location;
  • Sustainable Work Design;
  • Integrating the Sustainability in Location Planning and Analysis;
  • Sustainable quality management;
  • Sustainable Production Planning Models;
  • Sustainable Inventory Management;
  • The Relationship between JIT, Lean and Sustainability;
  • Sustainability in Manufacturing Operations Scheduling;
  • Sustainable Project Management;
  • Green Supply Chain Management;
  • Sustainable Mathematical Optimization.

Dr. Atour Taghipour
Dr. Malek Masmoudi
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

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.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • sustainable operations management
  • sustainable supply chain management

Published Papers

This special issue is now open for submission.
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