Operations & supply chain management: principles and practice
Review article, 2025
Operations and Supply Chain Management (OSCM) has continually evolved, incorporating a broad array of strategies, frameworks, and technologies to address complex challenges across industries. This encyclopedic article provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary strategies, tools, methods, principles, and best practices that define the field’s cutting-edge advancements. It also explores the diverse environments where OSCM principles have been effectively implemented. The article is meant to be read in a nonlinear fashion. It should be used as a point of reference or first-port-of-call for a diverse pool of readers: academics, researchers, students, and practitioners.
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principles
encyclopedia
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Author
Fotios Petropoulos
University of Bath
Henk Akkermans
Tilburg University
O. Zeynep Aksin
Koç University
Imran Ali
Central Queensland University (CQUniversity)
Mohamed Zied Babai
KEDGE Business School
Ana Barbosa-Povoa
Instituto Superior Tecnico
Olga Battaïa
KEDGE Business School
Maria Besiou
Kühne Logistics University
Nils Boysen
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Stephen Brammer
University of Bath
Alistair Brandon-Jones
University of Bath
Dirk Briskorn
Bergische Universität Wuppertal
Tyson R. Browning
Texas Christian University
Paul Buijs
University of Groningen
Piera Centobelli
University of Naples Federico II
Andrea Chiarini
Verona University
Paul Cousins
University of Liverpool
Elizabeth A. Cudney
Maryville University
Andrew Davies
University of Sussex
Steven J. Day
Zhejiang University
René de Koster
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Rommert Dekker
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Juliano Denicol
University College London (UCL)
Mélanie Despeisse
Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Production Systems
Stephen M. Disney
University of Exeter
Alexandre Dolgui
Laboratoire des Sciences du Numérique de Nantes
Linh Duong
University of the West of England
Malek El-Qallali
Rabdan Academy
Behnam Fahimnia
The University of Sydney
Fatemeh Fakhredin
Kühne Logistics University
Stanley B. Gershwin
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Salar Ghamat
Wilfrid Laurier University
Vaggelis Giannikas
University of Bath
Christoph H. Glock
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Janet Godsell
Loughborough University
Kannan Govindan
University of Adelaide
Claire Hannibal
Robert Gordon University
Anders Haug
University of Southern Denmark
Tomislav Hernaus
University of Zagreb
Juliana Hsuan
Copenhagen Business School (CBS)
Dmitry Ivanov
Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin
Marianne Jahre
Kühne Logistics University
Björn Johansson
Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Production Systems
Madan Shankar Kalidoss
University of Southern Denmark
Argyris Kanellopoulos
Wageningen University and Research
Devika Kannan
University of Adelaide
Elif Karul
Koç University
Konstantinos V. Katsikopoulos
University of Southampton
Ayse Begüm Kilic-Ararat
University of Bath
Rainer Kolisch
Technical University of Munich
Maximilian Koppenberg
Wageningen University and Research
Maneesh Kumar
Cardiff University
Yong Hong Kuo
The University of Hong Kong
Andrew Kusiak
University of Iowa
Michael A. Lewis
University of Bath
Stanley Frederick W.T. Lim
Michigan State University
Veronique Limère
Ghent university
Jiyin Liu
Loughborough University
Omid Maghazei
University of Bath
Matija Marić
University of Zagreb
Joern Meissner
Kühne Logistics University
Miranda Meuwissen
Wageningen University and Research
Pietro Micheli
Warwick Business School
Samudaya Nanayakkara
Western Sydney University
Bengü Nur Özdemir
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Thanos Papadopoulos
University Of Kent
Stephen Pavelin
University of Bath
Srinath Perera
Western Sydney University
Wendy Phillips
University of the West of England
Dennis Prak
University of Twente
Hubert Pun
Ivey Business School
Sharfah Ahmad Qazi
University of Kassel
Usha Ramanathan
University of Sharjah
Gerald Reiner
Wirtschaftsuniversitat Wien
Ewout Reitsma
School of engineering Jönköping university
Jens K. Roehrich
University of Bath
Nada R. Sanders
Northeastern University
Joseph Sarkis
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Nico André Schmid
University of Lille
Christoph G. Schmidt
University of Bath
Andreas Schroeder
Lancaster University
Kostas Selviaridis
Lancaster University
Stefan Seuring
University of Kassel
Chuan Shi
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Byung Gak Son
City University
Martin Spring
Lancaster University
Brian Squire
University of Bristol
Wendy van der Valk
Tilburg University
Dirk Pieter van Donk
University of Groningen
Geert Jan van Houtum
Eindhoven University of Technology
Miriam Wilhelm
Wirtschaftsuniversitat Wien
Finn Wynstra
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Ting Zheng
Technische Universität Darmstadt
International Journal of Production Research
0020-7543 (ISSN) 1366-588X (eISSN)
Vol. In PressSubject Categories (SSIF 2025)
Transport Systems and Logistics
Economics and Business
DOI
10.1080/00207543.2025.2555531