New Trends in Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Management

Dear Colleagues,

We are experiencing great challenges across the globe. These emphasize enterprises’ exposure and systems’ vulnerabilities regarding conditions that may compromise a company’s agenda and the assurance of service levels to customers. Managers and practitioners advocate the need for system flexibility and adaptability in order to deal with diversified business risks.

Additionally, the environmental and social awareness, coupled with technological development, are changing the concept of business growth, which has guided companies for decades. Profound system reengineering and the restructuring of business processes and supply chains are emerging, particularly regarding the sustainability balance that is being placed in the top priorities of industry planning. Also, the international dimension of supply chains (SCs), as well as the complex partnership networks and the miscellaneous systems, present great challenges to the paradigm of fully integrated SCs.

New trends in sustainable operations and supply chain management are required to help managers during decision-making processes, enhancing outcomes and global efficiency.

For this reason, this Special Issue encourages research efforts that encompass a broad range of topics including, but not limited to, the sustainability dimensions of systems and business processes, and their operations, logistics, and technologies, with the aim of achieving innovative approaches to efficient and sustainable supply chains. The goal is to gather a set of cutting-edge proposals regarding those topics, among other relevant areas, and bring together new insights concerning the systems' modeling and dynamics, especially those impacting on SC managing and planning strategies.

Dr. Elisabete Maria da Fonseca Correia
Prof. Dr. Ana Cristina dos Santos Amaro
Guest Editors

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