...Christian F. Durach; Leopoldo Gutierrez Purpose This editorial for the 6th World Conference on Production and Operations Management (P&OM) 2022 Special Issue delves into the transformative role of advanced artificial intelligence (AI)-driven chatbots in reshaping operations, supply chain...

.... Following that, the methodology is described, and findings from the empirical data are presented. The final sections include a discussion, in which the findings are compared to those in the literature, as well as a summary of implications for academia and business practice. Operations management...

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... logistics Retail operations Service‐dominant logic Retailing Operations management Stockouts are a persistent problem in retailing (Grewal and Levy, 2007). On a global average, 8.3 percent of retail items are not available on the shelves (Gruen and Corsten, 2008). Despite the initiatives...

...‐optimal solutions in a practical amount of computing time. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Inventory management Parts Storage management Operations management Vehicle routing Inventory routing Subgradient optimization Set partitioning Inbound inventory routing...

... Group Publishing Limited 2010 Disasters Aid agencies Operations management Cluster analysis The increasing number and complexity of disasters has made specialisation and coordination both important and challenging (Beamon, 2004 ; Oloruntoba, 2005 ; Schulz, 2008 ; van Wassenhove...

... Operations management Water supply The values of these two criteria are combined into one objective function by taking a weighted average. In our experiments, we chose the value 0.5 for each of these weights, assuming both objectives as equally important. Note that the minisum criterion represents...

... integration (29.6 percent), and purchasing (13.2 percent). Operations management Third‐party vendors Logistics data processing Financial performance Hong Kong Over the past decade, third‐party logistics (3PL) providers have extended their scope beyond traditional transportation...

...Mark Rainbird Proposes that a broad perspective needs to be taken of operations management, so that it is no longer seen as the domain of mechanistic functionalism, but rather as the architect and engineer of the business model driving in turn the firm's creation of value. Suggests that a value...

...Timothy L. Urban Acknowledges that the effect of displayed inventory on retail sales is widely recognized in the logistics, marketing and operations management literature and has been empirically verified. However, neither the marketing literature (shelf‐space allocation models) nor the operations...

... and quality[ 11 ]. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Logistics Materials management Operations management Purchasing Value added networks Much of the competitive dilemma experienced by US and European firms in recent years is a result of a persistent failure to manage the firm as a cohesive...

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.... The applications reveals that improved scheduling and a reduction in scheduling time and effort can be achieved by using the DSS over the manufacturing organisations′ manual systems. Consultants Operations management Production management Quantitative techniques Manufacturing industry Cost reduction...