[Iefac.list] Call for papers for Special Issue of Computers & Industrial Engineering

[Alice Smith]

Hi colleagues, posted for my friend and collaborator, Rosa Gonzalez, in Chile.  Alice


https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-and-industrial-engineering/call-for-papers/territory-driven-decision-making-in-industrial-supply-chains-reconfiguration

Territory-driven decision making in industrial supply chains reconfiguration
Aims:
Supply chains "Continentalization", "Regionalization" or simply "Nearshoring" are foreseen as a new stage of globalization. Thus, reorganization of the global procurement process can be seen as a result of at least three factors. First, a worrying "seamless" interconnection of international risks (trade wars, transportation disruptions, natural disasters, and so on). Second, the requirements from governments for involving more local producers into international supply chains (OECD, 2021; Weiss, 2016; UNCTAD, 2014). Third, the growing customer's awareness about the level of sustainability, as the transportation footprint, of products and services.
As a result, it is highly likely that a new "territorial footprint" of global supply chains is fashioning, something closer to what Pierre Veltz (2000) identified as an industrial world organized around an "economy in archipelago". A novel approach where the clusters of local producers would be the local pillars of the trade bridges between the markets that the global supply chains represent for the international trade.
Since reliability, flexibility, and constant cost reduction are requirements of modern logistics systems (Gulledge & Chavusholu, 2008; Cai, Liu, Xiao, & Liu, 2009; Kim & Min, 2011; Bai & Sarkis, 2014; Wibowo & Sholeh, 2015; Cedillo-Campos et al., 2019) it is likely that this regionalization of production based on a network of industrial clusters such as a "lock system", would be more useful when looking for maintaining a regional freight fluidity, opposing the latent risk slopes between regions.
Since the production systems are not disconnected to the territories (Guerrero et al., 2014), and the supply chains are the links stimulating the dynamic configuration between the industrial system and the territorial system (Cedillo-Campos, 2004), then, it seems that certain "territorial" variables would play an increasing role when designing, organizing and operating global supply chains during the coming years.
Thus, to make decisions under this global industrial reconfiguration, new methods, models and approaches to recognize, and analyze the "new variables" allowing to improve supply chain decisions based on a new "territorial paradigm", are needed. Even if during the last couple of years, a lot of discussion about a process of "Continentalization", "Regionalization" or "Nearshoring" of global supply chains was done, models and procedures used by academics and practitioners to make decisions during this new phase of reshoring (under a more complex conditions than ever before), remain largely unmapped nor discussed. Consequently, most of them do not address the essential discussion on what territorial-related factors are of significant importance for a better supply chain performance when a company of a particular industrial sector is designing a nearshoring or reshoring decision.
Thus, it is currently essential to improve our understanding on how new methodologies and advanced computer-based algorithms are used for characterizing situations, analyzing factors and solving reshoring challenges. Thus, driving questions for this special issue are formulated as follows:
·  What type of industrial supply chain echelons are more susceptible to be "regionalized"? why?
·  What are the key SC's elements to consider when relocation industrial facility plants?
·  What type the role is requested by the territory when relocating? (pool of talent, infrastructure, quality of life, industrial policy, environmental regulations, availability of local industrial clusters, etc.)
·  What is the importance of territory in the supply chain strategy when reconfiguring a global supply chains?
·  What methods are now used when measuring the critical role of the territory when relocating echelons of the global supply chains?
·  Under what type of methodologies are measured nearshoring decisions? What are their strengths and limitations for specific cases?
·  Are these methods proper to analyze variations under diverse uncertain or trendy scenarios?
·  Are they useful today when organizations are trying to improve their global supply chains?
·  How traditional methods could be used in front the new reshoring decisions? Under which circumstances it is worth to devise new computer-based techniques?
·  How could a combination of traditional and computerized methods improve decision-making capabilities of practitioners?
Strategically, since this Special Issue intends to close the present gap regarding the real-life usage of methods, techniques and computer-based algorithms in front if this new phase of industrial relocation, the main intention is to achieve three main objectives. First, to establish state-of-the-art about quantitative/qualitative methodological approaches used when making relocation decisions. Second, to better understand why certain methodological approaches are suitable/limited when integrating territorial factors for specific industrial supply chains. Third, to identify stimulating lessons and directions of future research on this matter, as well as recommendations to foster more sustainable and socially responsible supply chains.
Operationally, it is important to state that all submissions will be subject to a double-blind peer-review process according to the rigorous procedure followed by Computers & Industrial Engineering.
Scope:
Submissions of scientific results from experts in academia and industry are strongly encouraged. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
·  Decision Support System to aid nearshoring, offshoring, or reshoring of manufacturing systems
·  Decision Support System to aid nearshoring, offshoring, or reshoring of services
·  Global Supply chain network design models and solution methodologies
·  Data-collection techniques and methods (surveys, case studies, action research, mixed approaches, applied and empirical research) for the regionalization or continentalization of global SCs
·  Supply chain analytics and predictive tools to aid decision making under the paradigm of regionalization or continentalization of SCs
·  Supply chain fluidity measurement methods
·  Stochastic and robust optimization approaches to deal with uncertainty in global supply chains
·  Resiliency of global supply chains
·  Strategic sourcing and procurement under the paradigm of regionalization or continentalization of SCs
·  Design and assessment of intermodal transport corridors
·  Sustainable and green global supply chains
·  Synchromodal Transport Planning
·  Physical internet as a new supply chain paradigm
·  Collective intelligence in logistics
The editors of the special issue intend to publish a range of diverse topics and reserve the right to limit the number of papers included in one topic.
Submission Guidelines:
All papers must be original and have not been published, submitted and/or are currently under review elsewhere. All manuscripts should be submitted through the publisher's online system, Elsevier Editorial System (EES) at http://ees.elsevier.com/caie/<http://ees.elsevier.com/caie/default.asp?pg=login.asp>. Please follow the instructions described in the "Guide for Authors", given on the main page of EES website. Please make sure you select "Special Issue" as Article Type and "SCMTerritory" as Section/Category. In preparing their manuscript, authors are asked to closely follow the "Instructions to Authors". Submissions will be reviewed according to C&IE's rigorous standards and procedures through double-blind peer review by at least two qualified reviewers. Accepted papers will become the property of C&IE's publisher, Elsevier.

Deadline
The submission deadline is 10th May 2022. Submissions to the special issue will be processed immediately upon receipt. The Special Issue is scheduled for publication in 2022.
Guest Editors:
Miguel Gaston Cedillo-Campos
IMT-National Laboratory for Transportation Systems and Logistics
Mexican Institute of Transportation (Mexico)
e-mail: gaston.cedillo at imt.mx<mailto:gaston.cedillo at imt.mx>

Rosa Guadalupe González-Ramírez
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Universidad de los Andes (Chile)
e-mail: rgonzalez at uandes.cl<mailto:rgonzalez at uandes.cl>

José Fernando Camacho Vallejo
Faculty of mathematical and physical sciences
Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (México)
e-mail: jose.camachovl at uanl.edu.mx<mailto:jose.camachovl at uanl.edu.mx>

Rene Villalobos
Industrial Engineering Program
Arizona State University (USA)
e-mail: rene.villalobos at asu.edu<mailto:rene.villalobos at asu.edu>
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Alice E. Smith, Ph.D., P.E.
Joe W. Forehand/Accenture Distinguished Professor
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Auburn University
Auburn, Alabama 36849 USA
smithae at auburn.edu<mailto:smithae at auburn.edu>
http://www.eng.auburn.edu/sites/personal/aesmith/

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