Sustainable Supply Chain and Operations Management: 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Nowadays, companies are increasingly integrating sustainability into their operations. Sustainable operations management can be defined as coordinating business operations in a way that considers social, economic and environmental objectives to be part of the five main objectives of supply chain and operations management, thus creating and delivering sustainable value for final costumers and the environment. In this context, all aspects of operations and supply chain management can be redesigned to reflect the principles of sustainability.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to outline innovative ways of integrating sustainability into the supply chain and operations management process.

Objective

This Special Issue proposes solutions to integrate the sustainability into the supply chain and operations management process. It will include papers written by academics and professionals who want to improve their understanding of supply chain coordination to help firms to remain competitive in the new era of socioeconomic globalization.

Target audience

The target audience of this Call for Papers comprises professionals and researchers who work in the fields of supply chain management, operations management, logistics, and operations research. Moreover, this Special Issue will provide insights related to and support executives concerned about the management of expertise, knowledge, information, and organizational development in different work and business environments.

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

• Competitiveness, strategy, productivity, and sustainability;
• Using demand forecasting to achieve sustainably;
• Sustainable product and service design;
• Strategic capacity planning for products and services;
• Capacity planning and sustainability;
• Sustainable facility location;
• Sustainable work design;
• Integrating sustainability into 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.

Prof. Dr. Atour Taghipour
Guest Editor

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 submissions that pass pre-check are 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 2400 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.

• sustainable operations management
• sustainable supply chain management