Aims and Scope

POM publishes leading-edge, innovative research that has the potential to significantly advance the field of production and operations management, theoretically and practically, in both manufacturing and service industry sectors, and in both private and public settings.

The scope of the Journal covers all aspects of production and operations management. Specifically, contributors can address, inter alia, the following areas:

Quality management and engineering- Performance management and Productivity - Organizational Excellence

Project Mana

ement and control

Logistics, and Supply-distribution Chain

Time and Work Study, Ergonomy

Maintenance –System Reliability -risk management

Facility Lay Out, location, ...

Sequencing and scheduling

Production planning and Inventory Control

Manufacturing planning

Queuing theory and Stochastic process

Data Mining-Statistical analysis

Systems Analysis - Systems dynamics- Simulation

Engineering Economics

Integer Programming-graph and network

Multiple Criteria Decision Making-fuzzy theory

Meta Heuristic methods – Artificial Intelligence

DEA

Optimal control-optimization

New production management systems (Lean Manufacturing- JIT-flexible prod.-agile-TOC)- production and operations strategies

Energy management

Technology management-innovation-knowledge managment