Special Issue "Sustainable Operations Planning and Scheduling"

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 Editors

Prof. Benjamin Lev
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Guest Editor
Department of Decision Sciences and MIS, LeBow College of Business, Drexel University, Philadelphia 19104, PA, USA
Interests: inventory control; mathematical programming; operations planning and scheduling
Prof. Dr. Yi Liao
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Assistant Guest Editor
Department of Logistics, School of Business Administration, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu 610030, Sichuan, China
Interests: operations management; supply chain management
Prof. Dr. Zongmin Li
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Assistant Guest Editor
Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, Sichuan, China
Interests: decision making science; operations management

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to submit papers to this Special Issue on Sustainable Operations Planning and Scheduling. We are looking for research contributions on topics such as:

  • Sustainable supply chain planning and scheduling
  • Inventory control management for sustainability
  • Sustainable operations planning and scheduling opportunity identification techniques
  • Risk and opportunity management approaches for sustainable operations
  • Energy and water consumption reduction approaches
  • Vendor and contractor management for sustainability
  • Critical success factors for sustainable operations
  • Value of effectively managing sustainability during operations planning and scheduling and from the different stakeholders’ perspective
  • Waste/emissions minimization in scheduling
  • Green scheduling
  • Case studies and lessons learned

The sustainability of our operations is a journey, not a destination, which requires us to continually improve operations planning and scheduling. Thus, it is important to implement the most advanced solutions in operations to further reductions in our already efficient operations. With the development of various new related disciplines and optimization technologies, many new tools, methods, algorithms have appeared in inventory control, vendor and contractor management, operations planning, scheduling, etc. The research methods of sustainable operations planning and scheduling are developing in a diversified direction. We are open to any contributions adding to the understanding of how to improve sustainability in operations planning and scheduling. It could be new theory, tools, methods, new approaches, etc. We also welcome case studies that can support research questions and bring lessons learned together with new insight on the above-described topics.

Prof. Yi Liao
Prof. Zongmin Li
Prof. Benjamin Lev
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • sustainable operations planning and supply chain management
  • scheduling
  • planning
  • sustainable operations
  • green scheduling
  • sustainable scheduling
  • waste/emissions minimization

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Research on Sustainable Supplier Selection Based on the Rough DEMATEL and FVIKOR Methods
Sustainability 2021, 13(1), 88; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13010088 - 23 Dec 2020
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In competitive global markets, sustainable suppliers are critical success factors for sustainable supply chain operations. Sustainable supplier selection must be based on a complex network of numerous indicators and experts’ fuzzy linguistic terms. Considering the correlation between the evaluation criteria and the ambiguity [...] Read more.
In competitive global markets, sustainable suppliers are critical success factors for sustainable supply chain operations. Sustainable supplier selection must be based on a complex network of numerous indicators and experts’ fuzzy linguistic terms. Considering the correlation between the evaluation criteria and the ambiguity of the criteria values, this paper proposes combining the rough DEMATEL method and the fuzzy VIKOR (FVIKOR) method to solve sustainable supplier selection problem. We determine 15 sustainable supplier evaluation criteria from economic, environmental and social dimensions. We also apply the rough DEMATEL method to determine the weight of evaluation indicators that are interrelated or even conflicting and use the FVIKOR method to determine supplier rankings by converting the fuzzy linguistic terms into precise information. The practicability of the proposed method is verified by an example of sustainable supplier selection. Full article
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