Smart and Sustainable Service and Manufacturing in the Context of Operations and Supply Chain Management
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Products and Services".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (2 February 2024) | Viewed by 346
Special Issue Editors
Interests: supply chain management; sustainable operations management; collaborative transportation; green product development
Interests: numerical optimization; evolutionary algorithms; swarm intelligence techniques
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Stringent government regulations and policies result in a growing concern about the economic, social, and environmental aspects of sustainability in different industries. Therefore, service and manufacturing firms have focused on sustainability in their businesses and supply chains. To this end, these firms should define measurable economic, societal, and environmental indexes and monitor them throughout the business to generate both social and environmental benefits alongside financial returns. In addition, these businesses need to apply different management techniques and tools, such as data analytics, optimization, and simulation, to improve their sustainable performance. Although small firms could achieve their goals by implementing mentioned techniques in their operations, many medium and large businesses cannot achieve their goals unless they have a holistic view of their supply chains. Therefore, they must implement proper techniques and tools throughout their supply chains and manage them integrated to achieve the predefined level of sustainability.
Objective
Given the significance of sustainability in Service and Manufacturing, this Special Issue aims to publish state-of-the-art studies that improve business sustainability through management techniques and/or intelligent and novel business practices. Therefore, original research and review associated with sustainability in Service and Manufacturing are welcome.
Research Topics
The research area includes but is not limited to the following:
- Strategic planning, operations management, and supply chain sustainability.
- Sustainable logistics and transportation management.
- Green supply chain management.
- Capacity planning and sustainability in manufacturing.
- Logistics and environmental protection in supply chains.
- Sustainable service management.
- Production planning and sustainability in manufacturing.
- Big data and supply chain sustainability.
- Data analytics applications in service sustainability.
- Data analytics applications in manufacturing sustainability.
- Machine learning forecasting methods and their impacts on business sustainability.
Target Audience
The current Special Issue invites all professionals and researchers in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Operations Research, Data Analytics, and Operations Management to submit their research outputs. Moreover, this issue welcomes all related practical and case studies to submit their works if they provide insights and knowledge for management and professional communities in practice.
Dr. Hossein Zolfagharinia
Prof. Dr. Millie Pant
Dr. Mehdi Najafi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- green logistics
- sustainable supply chain
- data analytics
- big data
- machine learning
- operations management
- sustainable service
- sustainable manufacturing.
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