International Journal of Logistics and Supply Chain Management (IJLSCM) is a bi annual journal aimed at investigating all the aspects of logistics, supply chain and operations management. It is concerned with the management and optimization of flows in the supply chain from primary supplier to final customer. It focuses on the integration of supply, production, marketing and salesfunctions of manufacturing. The journal is designed to appeal to business people and scholars concerned with logistics management, supply chain management, operations management and process management.
Contents: IJLSCM encourages to submit original manuscripts that are conceptual, case studies, or empirically-based and book reviews focus on the following or other areas related to Logistics and Supply chain, but are not limited to:
Logistics and Distribution Management
E-Business and E-commerce Approaches in SCM
Operations Management
Production Planning and Control
MRPII / ERP/ CRM / SCM
RFID / EDI / VMI / 3PL / 4 PL
Business Models / Tools / Techniques in SCM
Performance Measurement in SCM
Supply Chain Risk Management
Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making
Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management
Decision Making on Supply Chain Management
Decision-Support Systems for Supply Chain Management
Multi criteria Decision making in SCM
Multiple-Objective Decision Making
Supply Chain Integration and Coordination
Copyright and Submission: Papers considered for publications in IJLSCM should be original and had not been published or submitted for consideration of publications elsewhere. Authors will be asked to sign the “transfer of copyright” agreement to publisher before publications. Manuscripts should be submitted by E-mail in MS Word (or) PDF formats to the Editor-in-Chief.
Editor-in-Chief
Dr. K. Ganesh
Knowledge Specialist
Supply Chain Management - Center of Competence
McKinsey Knowledge Center, McKinsey and Company
8th Floor, DLF Plaza Tower, DLF City Phase 1
Gurgaon 122 002, Haryana, India
Email: koganesh@yahoo.com; koganesh@gmail.com;
k.ganesh@mckinsey.com
Reviewing procedure: The submitted papers firstly reviewed by the editor for general suitability for publication. Once the paper passes the first step, it will be sent to the different reviewers for revising the paper. According to the reports from reviewers, the editor will then take his decision whether the paper accepted as it is, revised, or rejected.
Instructions to Authors: The name of the author(s), full mail address, E-mail address, and telephone number, must be provided in the covering letter. Authors identifications should not be there in the full paper.
All manuscript should be double-spaced using 12 Times New Roman font, and usually 15 to 30 typed pages in length. The abstract should be typewritten in 12 Times Roman bold italic font. Margins on top, side and bottom of all pages should have at least one-inch.
The first page of the manuscript should be in the following order: Title, author name(s), institutional affiliation and an abstract in 200 words. The title should be in capital letters.
Tables should be cited consecutively with Arabic numbers as Table 1, Table 2, etc. and gives a suitable caption on the top ofthese tables. Figures should be cited consecutively with Arabic numbers as Figure 1, Figure 2, etc. also gives a suitable caption on the bottom of these figures.
References to articles and books, in the text should appear as follows: Kannan and Haq (2007) or Autor et al. (1998).
Journals, books and documents should appear in the reference section as follows:
Kannan, G. and Haq, A. N., (2007), “Analysis of interactions of criteria and sub-criteria for the selection of supplier in the built-order supply chain environment”, International Jounal of Production and Research, Vol.45, No.17, pp. 3831-3852.
Autor, D., L. Katz and A. Krueger (1998), “Computing Inequality: Have Computers
Changed the Labor Market?,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 92, pp. 1169-1214.
Maddala, G.S. and I.M. Kim (1999), “Unit Roots, Cointegration and Structural Change”, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Acknowledgements: Acknowledgements, if any, should be placed between conclusions and references.
Proof: Corrected proofs must be returned to the publisher within 48 hours of receipt.
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