Inventory Management for Sustainable Industrial Operations
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 65521
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Interests: resilience management; resilience engineering; safety and risk management; socio-technical systems modelling; operations management; aviation; supply chain management
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Interests: supply chain management; industrial operations and management; compliance and risk management; resilience engineering; performance variability in complex systems; product-service system (PSS)
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Interests: safety; resilience; smart factory; supply chain; digitalization
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Effective inventory management strategies aim to reduce costs while ensuring high service levels. At the same time, environmental and social aspects of inventory management should be considered to jointly ensure sustainability and profitability.
This Special Issue aims to be a dedicated point of reference for researchers working in the inventory management domain and to provide policy-makers with insights on advanced techniques in the field, with the ultimate target of strengthening the link between research and practice.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to gather knowledge on inventory management for both spare parts and consumable items. Particular attention is devoted to items’ transportation, warehousing, degradation, and demand forecast, especially in relation to emissions and environmental management.
Relevant contributions should investigate alternative inventory management strategies in relation to cost, availability, and environmental sustainability, either at the theoretical or operational level. Analytical or simulation models would be particularly welcome, especially if adopting a systemic view to support supply chain decision-makers on, e.g., lead times, reorder quantities, and stock levels.
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Dr. Riccardo Patriarca
Prof. Dr. Giulio Di Gravio
Prof. Dr. Francesco Costantino
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Spare parts management
- Consumable parts management
- Inventory management
- Operations management
- Green supply chain
- Emissions management
- Sustainable operations
- Warehouse
- Transportation
- Inventory pooling
- Performance-based contract
- Maintenance management
- Item degradation
- Systemic methods
- Analytical models
- Simulation models
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