Operations and Supply Chain Management

Upper tier titles | Additional titles | Trade journals | Professional management journals

Upper tier titles

• Decision sciences
• Decision support systems and electronic commerce
• Interfaces
  An INFORMS title.
• International journal of production research
• Journal of operations management
• Journal of supply chain management
• Management science
  Associate Editor Professor Tava Olsen.
• Manufacturing and service operations management: M&SOM
  From the Institutue for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). Associate Editor Professor Tava Olsen.
• Production and operations management

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Additional titles

• Asia Pacific journal of marketing and logistics
• Business process management journal
• European journal of operational research
• The international journal of logistics management
• International journal of logistics: Research and applications
• International journal of operations and production management
• International journal of project management: The journal of the International Project Management Association
• International journal of physical distribution and logistics management
• International journal of retail and distribution management
• International journal of services and operations management
• Industrial marketing management
• Journal of business and industrial marketing
• Journal of business logistics
• Journal of enterprise information management
• Journal of manufacturing technology management
• Journal of purchasing and supply management
• Operations research
  An INFORMS title.
• PM network
  From the Project Management Institute.
• Production and operations management
  Senior Editor Professor Tava Olsen.
• Project management journal
• Supply chain management
• Transportation journal
• Transportation research
  Part E, Logistics and transportation review.

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Trade journals

• Industrial distribution
• Journal of commerce
• Logistics management
• Logistics today
• The McKinsey quarterly
• Modern materials handling
• RFID journal
• Supply chain management review
• Traffic world

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Professional management journals

• California management review
• Harvard business review
• MIT Sloan management review

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Articles | Conference papers | Theses | New Zealand | International | Industry resources

A selection of publications and organisations related to Supply Chain Management.

Articles

• Akan, M., Ata, B., & Olsen, T. (2012). Congestion-based lead-time quotation for heterogenous customers with convex-concave delay costs: Optimality of a cost-balancing policy based on convex hull functions. Operations Research, 60(6), 1505-1519. doi:10.1287/opre.1120.1117
• Ata, B., Killaly, B. L., Olsen, T. L., & Parker, R. P. (2013). On hospice operations under Medicare reimbursement policies. Management Science, 59(5), 1027-1044. doi:10.1287/mnsc.1120.1606
• Cook, W. D., Harrison, J., Imanirad, R., Rouse, P., & Zhu, J. (2013). Data envelopment analysis with nonhomogeneous DMUs. Operations Research, 61(3), 666-676. doi:10.1287/opre.2013.1173
• Bischak, D. P., Robb, D. J., Silver, E. A., & Blackburn, J. D. (2014). Analysis and management of periodic review, order-up-to level inventory systems with order crossover. Production and Operations Management, 23(5), 762-772. doi:10.1111/poms.12072
• Katok, E., & Pavlov, V. (2013). Fairness in supply chain contracts: A laboratory study. Journal of Operations Management, 31(3), 129-137. doi:10.1016/j.jom.2013.01.001
• Katok, E., Olsen, T., & Pavlov, V. (2012). Wholesale pricing under mild and privately known concerns for fairness. Production and Operations Management. 23(2), 285-302. doi:10.1111/j.1937-5956.2012.01388.x
• Olsen, T. L., & Parker, R. P. (2014). On Markov equilibria in dynamic inventory competition. Operations Research, 62(2), 332-344. doi:10.1287/opre.2013.1250
• Sadovykh, V., Sundaram, D., & Piramuthu, S. (2015). Do decision-making structure and sequence exist in health online social networks? Decision Support Systems, 74, 102-120. doi:10.1016/j.dss.2015.03.007
• Sadovykh, V., Sundaram, D., & Piramuthu, S. (2015). Do online social networks support decision-making? Decision Support Systems, 70, 15-30. doi:10.1016/j.dss.2014.11.011
• Wong, T. Y. T., Peko, G., Sundaram, D., & Piramuthu, S. (2015). Mobile environments and innovation co-creation processes & ecosystems. Information & Management. 53(3), 336-344. doi:10.1016/j.im.2015.09.005

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Conference papers

• Arthanari, T. S., & Shi, P. (2013, May). Supply Chain Management. Paper presented at The 24th Production and Operation Management Society (POMS) Annual Conference, Denver, USA.
• Arthanari, T. S., & Ku, D. (2013, January). On double cycling for container port productivity improvement. Paper presented at International Symposium on Applied Optimization and Game-Theoretic Models, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi Centre, New Delhi. doi:10.1007/s10479-014-1645-z
• Arthanari, T. S., Li, A., & Fang, Z. (2012). Leveraging supply chain relationships – A system dynamics perspective. In E. Husemann, D. Lang (Eds.) Proceedings of the 30th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society, St Gallen, Switzerland. Retrieved from http://www.anzam.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf-manager/452_ANZAM2011-098.PDF
• Arthanari, T. S., Carfi, D., & Musolino, F. (2012, December). Game theoretic modeling of supply chain coopetition among growers. Paper presented at In Honour of Prof. C.R.RAO and Prof. Lloyd Shapley, International Conference on Game Theory and Management Applications, Hyderabad, India. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.1792.1043
• Bai X., White D., & Sundaram D. (2014). Towards an adaptive visualization system in context-aware environments. In Vinh P. C., Alagar V., Vassev E., & Khare A. (Eds.), Context-Aware Systems and Applications (Vol. 128, pp. 271–282). Cham: Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-05939-6_27
• Chung C. Y. S., Proskuryakov R., & Sundaram D. (2015). Design and implementation of sustainable social shopping systems. In Vinh P. C., Vassev E., & Hinchey M. (Eds.), Nature of Computation and Communication (Vol. 144, pp. 233–242). Cham: Springer International Publishing. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15392-6_23
• Laya, N., & Pavlov, V. (2014, July). Team decision-making and individual learning in the newsvendor problem: A laboratory investigation. Paper presented at ANZAM Operations, Supply Chain and Services Management Symposium, Auckland, New Zealand. Retrieved from http://docs.business.auckland.ac.nz/Doc/Pavlov-anzamsymposium2014_submission_140-EA-final.pdf
• Pavlov, V., Robinson, L. W., & Lin, T. (2015, November). Social comparison and pull-to-center in newsvendor contests. Paper presented at INFORMS 2015 Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, USA.
• Pavlov, V., & Vahabzadeh, A. (2014, November). Dynamic multi-class kidney allocation. Paper presented at INFORMS Annual Meeting 2014, San Francisco, California, USA.

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Theses

• Iro, T. E. (2015). Personalized education: An experimental study. (Masters thesis, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2292/25285
• Islam, S. (2014). Transport capacity improvement in and around ports: A perspective on the empty-container-truck trips problem. (Doctoral dissertation, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2292/27360
• Reefke, H. (2012). Sustainable supply chain management: Concepts, models and roadmap. (Doctoral dissertation, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2292/19418
• Shi, Y. (2013). Third party purchase: Effectiveness of value-added services by third-party logistics providers. (Doctoral dissertation, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2292/21329
• Ullah, M. A. (2012). Enhancing the understanding of corruption through system dynamics modelling: A case study analysis of Pakistan. (Doctoral dissertation, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2292/19582
• Zhang, R. (2012). Disruption modelling: Effectiveness and efficiency of the mitigation strategies under different disruption durations. (Masters thesis, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2292/19689

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New Zealand

• Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport - New Zealand Section
• i-Start Technology in Business NZ - SCM / RFID / B2B eCommerce research
• IBM Business Services - Supply Chain Management NZ
• Sustainable Business Council
  • Sustainable Supply Chain guide written with industry contribution. Includes Business Case Studies.
• New Zealand Shipping Federation resources
  Information and documents relevant to shipping in New Zealand and the work of the Federation.
• Supply Chain Council - Australia and New Zealand Chapter

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International

• APICS The Association for Operations Management
• Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport
• CIPS: Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply
• Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals
• EurOMA European Operations Management Association
• Institute for Supply Management
• Institute of Industrial Engineers
• JOMSA Japanese Operations Management and Strategy Association
• Kaizen Training and Research Page
• NZPICS Association for Operations & Supply Chain Professionals
• POMS Production and Operation Management Society
• Procurement and Supply Chain Benchmarking Association

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Industry resources

• SupplyChainBrain
  Industry news and resources, by Keller International Publishing LLC.

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