Operations and Supply Chains

The Operations and Supply Chains area considers articles at the forefront of advancing the science and engineering of operations, encompassing research on the design, planning, control, and improvement of manufacturing, service, supply, and distribution operations, as well as revenue management and pricing. We encourage papers that examine the interface of operations with other areas, including marketing, finance, accounting, economics, strategy, entrepreneurship/innovation, and behavioral science. Papers examining strategic operating decisions, developing new mathematical models and methods for critical or emerging operational issues, developing new methods for the empirical analysis of operational phenomena, and/or incorporating modern technological advances of business analytics in operations are especially welcome.

A paper’s contribution to the science of operations may focus on advancing theory and developing new methods, analytical frameworks, structural results, quantitative relationships, and models. A paper’s contribution to the engineering of operations may focus on advancing the state-of-the-art in providing innovative models, solutions, and insights to specific operational problems, and may include motivation from industrial practice, validation with real-world data, and computationally tractable algorithms. In all cases, however, the contribution must be significant, relevant, and conceptually sound.

Associate Editors: Ravi Anupindi, Mor Armony, Baris Ata, Damian R. Beil, Fernando Bernstein, John R. Birge, Zhi-Long Chen, William L. Cooper, Francis E. de Vericourt, Gregory DeCroix, Rommert Dekker, Izak Dueynas, Awi Federgruen, Vishal Gaur, Albert Y. Ha, Nicholas G. Hall, Seyed Iravani, Roman Kapuscinski, Chung-Yee Lee, Retsef Levi, Adam Mersereau, Kamran Moinzadeh, Karthik Natarajan, Tava Olsen, Ozalp Ozer, Rodney Parker, Georgia Perakis, Ioana Popescu, Kaj A. Rosling, Paat Rusmevichientong, Garret van Ryzin, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Nicola Secomandi, Max Zuo-Jun Shen, Léopold Simar, Xuanming Su, Peng Sun, Terry Taylor, Huseyin Topaloglu, Gustavo Vulcano, Amy R. Ward, Chen Xin, Susan Xu, Yao Zhao, Shaohui Zheng, Yong-Pin Zhou