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Dear Colleagues and Students,
This is a reminder that the submission deadline for the 2015 MSOM Supply Chain Management SIG Conference (June 28, University of Toronto) is Friday, February 20, one week from today! Please follow instructions in the CfP below to submit your papers.
SCM SIG Co-Chairs
Gad, Rob, and Karen
Call for Papers
2015 MSOM Supply Chain Management SIG Conference
June 28, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
The Supply Chain Management (SCM) Special Interest Group (SIG) of the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society (MSOM) of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) will hold its 7th annual conference on Sunday, June 28, 2015 at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, preceding the 2015 MSOM Conference (June 29-30).
On behalf of the Supply Chain SIG we would like to invite you to submit papers to this conference. The acceptance decisions will be based on full paper submissions and presentations will be scheduled in a single track. High quality papers on a full range of topics relating to supply chain management will be considered. We are interested in identifying and showcasing papers in the general areas of centralized planning (e.g., single and multi-echelon inventory/capacity management), decentralized planning (e.g., procurement contract design, coordination), and the role of behavior (e.g., trust, fairness) in supply chain management. Studies that use mathematical modeling, empirical data, and/or human-subject experiments to provide actionable managerial insights and/or policies to effectively manage global supply chains, are of particular interest.
Important Dates
Submission deadline (full paper): February 20, 2015 (Note: This is before the March 9 MSOM conference deadline.)
Notification of acceptance: March 23, 2015
Submission Guidelines and Review Process
· Submit by email to scmsig2015@gmail.com
· Please include the paper title in the email subject line and attach two files (author information file and paper file) in pdf format.
· The author information file should list the paper title, authors' affiliations and full contact information, as well as the presenter information. Please name this file as <first 3 words of paper title_last name of the presenter.pdf> (e.g. "Supply Chains Rock_Cartman.pdf") and include the same information in the email body as well.
· The paper file should have a separate title page with an abstract and key words. Although we do not impose a page limit, ideally the main body of the paper without proofs should not exceed 32 pages, and must comply with MSOM formatting standards (no author identification). Please name the paper file as <first 3 words of the paper title.pdf> (e.g. "Supply Chains Rock.pdf").
· The papers will undergo a double-blind review process by an expert panel. To support this process author names should NOT appear anywhere in the paper file.
Coordination with General MSOM Conference
Although the same work may not be presented in both the MSOM Conference and a SIG Conference, authors may have their submission considered by both. To do so, they should only make a single submission to the SIG Conference and indicate in their submission email that they would also like to be considered for the MSOM conference in case the paper is not accepted by the SIG Conference (which has higher priority). The same work may not be submitted to more than one SIG Conference.
Registration Fee
There will be a separate SIG Conference registration fee (allowing you to attend any of the SIG Conferences). This fee will be announced separately by the MSOM Conference Committee and posted on the conference website.
Contact
Supply Chain Management SIG Conference Co-Chairs
Gad Allon (g-allon@kellogg.northwestern.edu)
Rob Bray (r-bray@kellogg.northwestern.edu)
Karen Zheng (yanchong@mit.edu)
or
SCM SIG Chair:
Özalp Özer (oozer@utdallas.edu)
MSOM Conference Website:
http://inside.rotman.utoronto.ca/msom-2015/