Call for papers: Special Issue on: “Intelligent Supply Chain Management”

International Journal of Services Operations and Informatics (IJSOI)

Call for papers: Special Issue on: “Intelligent Supply Chain Management”

Guest Editors: Dr Dong Li and Prof Dennis Kehoe, University of Liverpool, UK.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

* New customer service models with RFID enabled retail supply chains

* Real-time scheduling and optimisation with RFID and decision making service Grids

* Autonomous and self-organising systems in logistics

* Virtual enterprise with Grid technologies

* Supply chain cooperation and Grid computing technologies

* Novel supply chain architectures with integrated e-Business and Grid technologies

* E-business solutions to enable the connectivity and use of Grid technologies in supply chains

* Operations automation with RFID technologies and agent-based systems

* Agile service operations with RFID enabled intelligent products

* Mass/personalised customisation with intelligent products

* Just-in-time operations with RFID technologies

* Intelligent products for international supply chain management

* Products and assets tracking with GPS connected RFID networks

* Intelligent traceability systems

* RFID and data grids in product recycling and reverse logistics

* RFID systems with data warehousing for supply chain decision support

* Grid enabled data warehousing

* Case studies on intelligent traceability systems

* Implementation issues of intelligent supply chain systems

* Technology selection and vendor selection issues for intelligent supply chain management

* Knowledge-based systems for information scanning, filtering and interpreting

* Internet-based systems for intelligence scanning and reporting, e.g. portals

For more information, subject coverage, notes for intending authors, submission dates and contact information, see the Journal Call for papers website.