Call for Papers for

International Conference on Innovation and Supply Chain Management

Organized by ISCM Forum; co-organized by Southwest Jiaotong University, Tsinghua University, CAS, Keio University

Background

Due to the change of production and distribution environment in recent years, supply chain management (SCM) has also changed its research focus. From strategic viewpoint, risk management, competition power or evolution power of a supply chain are great concerns for sustainable development of supply chain. From the operational viewpoint, physical flow, information flow and cash flow should be integrated or coordinated to create operation efficiency, and in addition, the interaction and constraints associated with these three flows should be studied in order to mitigate the supply chain risks. Furthermore, Industry4.0 and the extended version of the national strategy on manufacturing bring new changes and challenges to us who engaged in the research on innovation and supply chain management.

To exchange and disseminate the ideas of the strategic consideration on SCM, including manufacturing and logistics, we have organized the 1^st international workshop on the institutional supply chain (ISCM) in 2006, and published a special issue, the “Institutional Perspective on Supply Chain Management”, in the International Journal of Production Economics. The 2^nd international workshop on the ISCM was organized in Xi’an Jiaotong University, with supports from Tsinghua University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Keio University, Japan Industrial Management Association, Chinese Academy of Science, and Chinese Association of Management Science in Japan. And the special issue “Supply Chain Risk Management” was published on the International Journal of Production Economics.

This year, we decided to organize the 4^rd workshop on ISCM (Innovation and Supply Chain Management), at beautiful island Okinawa. Two main topics of the workshop include (1) innovation management and (2) supply chain management. We are seeking papers in three perspectives: (1) national and global-level issues in R&D and global supply chain management, (2) techniques and principles on the innovation management and supply chain management, (3) historical co-evolution of innovation and supply chain management. And the ISCM includes all kinds of methodologies such as modeling, optimization, algorithms, simulation, case studies, event studies and industrial survey, to identify problems and solve the problems. Those papers which related to the Industry 4.0, Made in China 2025, Society 5.0, Advanced Manufacturing Partnership will be published in the special issue “Industry 4.0 and Production Economics” of the journal IJPE (International Journal of Production Economics, SCI, IF:4.052)

https://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-production-economics/call-for-papers/industry-40-and-production-economics

We seek papers that address any ISCM, including but not limited to:

(1) Solution techniques and models in ISCM;

(2) Logistics and transportation

(3) R&D risk management and supply chain risk management

(4) Case studies, event studies of SCM for innovative products

(5) Application of stochastic programming approach and robust optimization approach

(6) Legislation and environmental concern in ISCM;

(7) Information science and engineering for ISCM;

(8) Forecasting models and systems;

(9) Co-evolution mechanism of national issues, organizational issues on ISCM;

(10) Other research topics concerning the ISCM.

Abstract and Full Paper Submission

You are permitted only one contributed abstract or paper as the presenting author (speaker). You can be a co-author on other contributed or invited abstracts or papers. All abstracts and full papers will be pear reviewed.

If you need an early confirmation for travel (visa application) or budgetary reasons, please indicate in the "comments" field on the submission form.

Selected papers will be published in SI of the IJPE.

Important dates

Abstract submission: September 30^th, 2017

Full paper submission: October 20^th, 2017

Workshop: October 28-30, 2017

Contacts

Secretariat : Akiyo AOKI

Email: iscm2017@iscm.mtcj.org or secretary_scm@ae.keio.ac.jp

Fax.:+81-45-566-1818

Registration

    Email or Fax. Your name, title, affiliation, position, and email address to Akiyo AOKI

Registration fee: 400USD or 40000 JPY

Student’s discount : 200USD or 20000JPY (banquet fee is excluded)

Co-Chairs

• Mikio Kubo, Tokyo University of Marin Science and Technology, JAPAN
• Xiaobo Liu, Southwest Jiaotong University, CHINA
• Xueguo Xu, Shanghai University, CHINA
• De-bi Cao, Keio University, JAPAN

Organization Committee

·         Qunzhi Wang, Southwest Jiaotong University, CHINA

·         Aya Ishigaki, Tokyo University of Science and Technology, JAPAN

Program Committee

·         Jian Wang, Shanghai University, CHINA

·         Masaru Nakano, Keio University, JAPAN

Keynote Speaker

Takeshi MARUI (CEO, Suruga Inc.),

Shouyang WANG (DEAN, CAS School of Management)

Venue

Hotel Moon Beach, Okinawa, Japan (November 1^st -3^rd)

http://www.moonbeach.co.jp/international/english.html

 Bird View of the Hotel Moon Beach