Journal of Production Research & Management

Journal of Production Research & Management

Journal of Production Research & Management [2249-4766(e)] is a peer-reviewed hybrid open-access journal launched in 2011 focused on the rapid publication of fundamental research papers on all areas of Production Research and Management. This journal attempts to be a key research journal in the areas of operations management in manufacturing and services.

• • Production and Operations Management: Productivity improvement, quality teams, service operations and the service factory, customer retention, electronic data interchange, survey-based operations research.
  • Production Planning, Optimization, and Simulation: Manufacturing capacity planning, simulation-optimization, genetic algorithms, artificial neural networks, planning in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
  • Production Systems: Manufacturing and agri-food production systems, consumption and demand analysis, environmental impacts of production, sustainable resource use.
  • Supply Chain Management: Global supply chains, customer order management, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, analytical supply chain models, decision support systems.
  • Manufacturing and Operations Strategy: Competitiveness, empirical studies of manufacturing strategy, International Manufacturing Strategy Survey (IMSS) data analysis.
  • Policy Formulation and Evaluation: System dynamics modeling, quantitative policy models, energy policy and energy analysis for production sectors, integrated national planning models such as Threshold 21.
  • Technology and Innovation Management: Open innovation in manufacturing and production systems, technology adoption and integration, technology partnerships, digital transformation, commercialization of production technologies, technology management, innovation strategies, and implementation of emerging technologies in manufacturing and service operations.
  • Marketing and Customer Management: Demand forecasting and market analysis for production planning, customer-order management, customer relationship management, service operations, market-driven production strategies, product and service development, customer satisfaction and retention, and coordination between marketing and production functions.
  • Human Resource and Workforce Management: Workforce planning and allocation, employee productivity, skills development, training and competency management, workforce flexibility, human factors in production systems, employee participation in quality and continuous improvement, knowledge management, leadership in operations, and human-resource practices in manufacturing and service organizations.
  • Business Strategy and Organizational Management: Strategic planning in production organizations, small and medium-sized enterprises, entrepreneurship in manufacturing and services, competitive advantage, organizational design, strategic alignment, managerial decision-making, performance management, and business strategies supporting production and operations.