--服务供应链中信息、物流及外包的风险管理和协调的特约征稿
目标和成绩
目前在很多发达国家和地区，超过90%的GDP源自于服务。通常，供应链管理与产品的前向物流和逆向物流以及有关的信息流和资金流相关关联。由于“服务产品”不能被存储，顾客高度参与服务过程，并且服务质量的评价可以是非常主观的，因此服务供应链和传统意义上的制造供应链有很大不同。这些不同产生了风险的新维度，并导致很多传统决策，如生产、补给、仓储、计划和质量控制正在采取新的性能指标。实际上，服务供应链可以被定义为由供应商、服务设计商、服务提供商和其他将资源转移到服务(或服务化的产品)并把它们交付给客户的服务参与者组成的网络。协调服务供应链需要创新战略和新的分析模型。
本特刊致力于出版有关服务供应链管理问题最先进的科学研究成果。由于服务供应链要求及时并具有特殊的服务操作指导，所以我们尤其关注服务供应链中的风险管理和协调挑战。
潜在的研究主题包括但不局限于以下几个方面：
服务供应链的网络设计及协调
服务供应链中的风险分析
服务价值传递和物流的分析研究
服务外包和协调
信息技术和它对服务供应链的影响
服务提供商的调度和能力分配
服务供应链中的质量和可靠性
服务供应链中的外包
数据驱动的服务供应链管理
服务供应链的博弈理论分析
基于仿真的服务供应链优化
手稿准备和提交
提交的截止日期为2014年7月31日。通过JORS的网上提交系统提交论文，网址为http://jors.msubmit.net/，期刊的投稿须知见http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jors/author_instructions.html。请您确认提交到“服务供应链管理”特刊（通过在合适的位置选择此选项）。我们将会用期刊的同等标准评估提交到特刊的所有论文。
出版计划
论文提交期限：2014年7月31日。
特刊最早将在2016年初出版。
特邀编辑
Tsan-Ming Choi，香港理工大学，香港。
Stein W. Wallace，挪威经济学院，挪威。
Yulan Wang，香港理工大学，香港。
Call for Papers – Journal of the Operational ResearchSociety
Special Issue on Risk management and coordination in servicesupply chains: information, logistics and outsourcing
Aims and Score
Today in many developed countries and regions, over 90%of GDP comes from the service sector. Normally, supply chain management isconcerned with the management of the forward and reverse flows of physical productsand the related flow of information and funds. A service supply chain differsdramatically from the traditional manufacturing supply chain because the“service product” cannot be inventorized, customers are highly involved in theservice process, and the assessment of the service quality can be highlysubjective. As a result, new dimensions on risk emerge, and many traditionaldecisions such as production, replenishment, warehousing, scheduling andquality control are taking new performance metrics. In fact, a service supply chaincan be defined as a network of suppliers, service designers, service providersand other service partners that transfer resources into services (or servitisedproducts) and deliver them to customers. Coordinating a service supply chainrequires both innovative strategies and new analytical models.
This special issue is devoted to publishingstate-of-the-art scientific research findings on issues related to servicesupply chain management. In particular, we focus on risk management andcoordination challenges in service supply chains as they are very timely andhave special relevance to service operations. Potential research topicsinclude, but are not limited to, the following:
Networkdesign and coordination of service supply chain
Riskanalysis in service supply chains
Analyticalstudies on service value delivery and logistics
Serviceoutsourcing and coordination
Informationtechnology and its impact on service supply chain
Schedulingand capacity allocation for service providers
Qualityand reliability in service supply chains
Outsourcingin service supply chains
Data-driven service supply chain management
Game-theoreticanalysis of service supply chains
Simulation-basedservice supply chain optimization
Manuscript Preparation and Submission
The closing date for submissions will be 31 July 2014.Papers should be submitted electronically via the Journal of the OperationalResearch Society's online submission system at http://jors.msubmit.net/, following
the journal's instructions to authors at http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jors/author_instructions.html. Please
indicate that your submission is to the Special Issue“Service supply chain management” (by selecting this option at the appropriateplace). All papers submitted to the special issue will be peer reviewed inaccordance with the standard processes of the Journal.
Publication Schedule
Deadlinefor paper submissions: 31 July, 2014.
TheSpecial Issue is scheduled for publication in early 2016.
Guest Editors
Tsan-MingChoi, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.
SteinW. Wallace, Norwegian School of Economics, Norway.
Yulan Wang, The Hong Kong PolytechnicUniversity, Hong Kong.