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Call for papers
Special Issue
LOGISTICS SYSTEMS DESIGN IN LATIN AMERICA
Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management
http://www.jiem.org/index.php/jiem/announcement/view/60
Guest editors
Gaston Cedillo, IMT-National Laboratory in Transportation Systems and Logistics (Mexico)
Juan Carlos Villa, Texas A&M Transportation Institute (USA)
Submission Guidelines and Other considerations
This special issue will only publish regular research papers. Papers submitted must not have been published previously or under consideration for publication, though they may represent significant extensions of prior work. All submitted papers will go through a rigorous peer-review process (with at least two reviewers) that will include both topic relevance as well as scientific quality. The acceptance process will focus on those papers that address original scientific contributions in the form of theoretical and experimental research and case studies applying new perspectives on Sustainable Supply Chains operating in Latin America.
Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal’s Author Guidelines.
Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the JIEM submission system at http://www.jiem.org/index.php/jiem/login according to the following timeline:
Abstract submission: November 1, 2016
Notification on abstract review results: until December 15, 2016
Full papers submission deadline: February 14, 2017
Notification of paper review results: until June 1, 2017
Submission of revised papers: July 31, 2017
Publication: September, 2017
Possible topics for research papers include, but are not limited to:
Logistics Systems Design
New production systems detection
Lean production and quality trends
Sustainable Supply Chain Management
Green Operations Management
Reverse Logistics
Optimization and Operations Research for Development
Supply Chain Resilience and Sustainability
Disruptions in the Supply Chains and Implications for Sustainability
Humanitarian Logistics
Sustainable Transportation
Optimization for Energy and Power System’s Management
Sustainable Vehicle Routing
Progress in the Evolution and Management of the Decentralized ‘Smart Grid’
Natural Resource Management
Environmental Optimization of Human Diets
Renewable Resource allocation
Natural Disaster Planning and Management
Land Conservation in Relation to Sustainable Regional Management of Biodiversity and Eco-System Services
Effective Sustainable Supply Chain Design
Sustainable Supply Chain Key Performance Indicators
Measurement and optimization of the value of Sustainable Supply Chains
Strategic outsourcing of technology and processes
TIC´s for Sustainable Supply Chain Management
Identification of Success Drivers of Sustainable Supply Chains
Technology-Driven Innovations in Sustainable Supply Chains
Knowledge Management in Sustainable Supply Chain
Quantitative Models for Managing Intermodal Logistics Platforms
Mobile Applications in Sustainable Supply Chains
Sustainable Supply Chains Simulation
Cloud Computing in Sustainable Supply Chains
Game theory in Sustainable Supply Chains
Lean Approach in Sustainable Supply Chains
Cross-Domain Software Innovations Applied to Sustainable Supply Chains
B2C and B2B Trends in Emerging Markets
Sustainable Supply Chains in Public and Not-for-Profit Sectors
Event Management in Sustainable Supply Chains
Theories and Models for Sustainable Supply Chains
Overview
Logistics system is becoming a dominant factor as a competitive advantage for organizations running operations in Latin America. Thus, with the increased integration of suppliers operating in emerging countries to global supply chains, companies are forced to innovate for a better performance, especially when manufacturing specialized products and services with high sensitivity on time and costs. For decades, Latin American international trade was based on three main flows:
a) exchange flows of manufactured products towards industrialized nations;
b) export flows of products from industrialized nations to Latin America; and
c) export flows of raw material and primary goods from Latin America to industrialized ones.
However, since offshoring strategies became a critical part of most of the manufacturing business models, nowadays this context is fundamentally different. The geographical dispersion around the globe of different value components of the same value chain, allowed Latin American countries as Mexico, Brazil, Chile and others to be part of the global supply chains they did not participate before.
Since tremendous economic globalization allows obtaining needed goods from anywhere in the world, during the next years, identify new trends, models and technologies to improve sustainability of logistics systems running operations in emerging countries as Latin America will have great importance to global sustainable economic growth.
Logistics systems is already a powerful driver of economic growth of modern nations. Similarly, companies in Latin America are looking for improving their business models, by integrating a logistics approach based on new engineering models and management perspectives. However, despite the increasing attention to the logistics systems by both practitioners and academics, the new trends of logistics systems operating in emerging countries as Latin America remain unexplored. Furthermore, although logistics systems has been explored by several researches in the past from different standpoints, most of these studies have focused on industries operating in developed markets. Since emerging markets have been recognized as the major business growth area for the century, a new and more global perspective is needed for knowing their challenges and opportunities.
The aim of this special issue is to identify and diffuse innovative and high-quality research contributions regarding the use and implementation of conceptual frameworks, strategies, techniques, technologies, methodologies, informatics platforms and models applying new perspectives on logistics systems running operations in Latin America.
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