24th EurOMA conference

We invite you to EurOMA 2017 at Heriot-Watt University to engage with Operations Management that inspires, whether it inspires an industry or an organization, a leader or a worker, an OM teacher or a student. Our aim is to bring the international OM community together to engage with OM at its most dynamic, creating wealth, creating benefits and creating opportunities.

We welcome papers addressing a variety of operations management topics and in particular those that fit under the special sessions. Although the theme provides a special focus for the conference, all the usual broad areas of operations and supply chain management will be addressed:1. Behavioral Operations2. Capacity Planning and Control3. E-business and Operations4. Empirical Modelling and Simulation5. Empirical Research in Operations Management6. Global Operations and Strategic Sourcing7. Healthcare Operations Management8. Humanitarian Operations and Crisis9. Innovation, Product and Service Development10. Information Systems in Operations11. Inventory Management12. Lean and Agile Operations13. Logistics Management and Physical Distribution14. Managing Change in Operations15. Managing Inter-firm Relationships in Supply Chains16. Managing the Operations Interface within Organisations17. Mass Customization18. Negotiations and conflicts in decentralized supply networks19. Next generation operations20. Operations Innovation21. Operations Management in Regional Economies22. Operations in the Public Sector23. Operations Planning, Scheduling and Control24. Operations Risk Management and Resilience25. Operations Strategy26. Performance Measurement and Management27. Plant Location, Design and Layout28. Project Management29. Purchasing and Procurement30. Reliability and Maintenance31. Retail Operations32. Revenue Management in Operations33. Sales & Operation Planning34. Service Operations Management35. Servitization36. Special Sessions37. Supply Chain Management38. Supply Network Design39. Sustainability in Operations and Logistics (including CSR)40. Teaching and Learning in Operations Management (incl. Cases, Games and Simulations)41. Technology Management in Operations42. Total Quality Management, Kaizen and Six Sigma

EurOMA recognizes excellent research. If you think your paper could be considered for one of the best paper awards, please see Best Paper Awards.