Special issue on “Operations Research Models for Supply Chain Finance”

• Date: 01 September 2018
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/itor.12554
• Published date: 01 September 2018

Intl. Trans. in Op. Res. 25 (2018) 1711–1712

DOI: 10.1111/itor.12554

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Special issue on “Operations Research Models for Supply

Chain Finance”

Guest Editors

Tsan-Ming (Jason) Choiaand Dmitry Ivanovb

aThe Hong Kong PolytechnicUniversity, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR

bBerlin School of Economics and Law, Berlin, Germany

E-mail: jason.choi@polyu.edu.hk [(Jason) Choi]; dmitry.ivanov@hwr-berlin.de [Ivanov]

Operations research(OR) is the major discipline which supports the establishment of modern supply

chain management. Over the past decades, supply chain management problems, such as supply

chain inventory management, transportation management, facility location selection, production

scheduling, demand and supply forecasting, supply chain operations–marketing interface, channel

coordination, and closed-loop supply chains,have been well-addressed by OR models and analyses.

However, these problems focus mainly on materials and information flows in the supply chain

systems.Relatively little researchhas been conducted on the capital flows in the supply chain systems.

In recent years, we have witnessed the development of an area called supply chain finance.

For instance, suppliers in some supply chains would finance the smaller retailers with an interest

rate more favorable than the banks as a part of their strategic alliances. Some retailers purchase

from manufacturers and ask for a long credit period to settle the payment but this increases the

manufacturers’ financial risk, etc. All of these issues are critical and can be addressed by using OR

models and analyses. However, currently, the topic of supply chain finance is still emerging and is

under explored in the OR literature.

Motivated by the importance of supply chain finance, this special issue of International Transac-

tions in Operational Research (ITOR) has been organized. It is devoted to the development of novel

OR models and the respective analyses to advance our knowledge towards the optimal mechanisms

and policies for supply chain finance. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, capital flow

optimization in supply chains, default and bankruptcy in supply chains, supply chain optimization

with financial constraints, supply chain financial risk management, credit risk analysis in supply

chains, risk-averse attitudes in supply chain finance, trade credits in supply chains, among others.

The deadline for submissions is December 31, 2018. Papers will be peer-reviewed according

to the editorial policy of International Transactions in Operational Research (ITOR), the flagship

journal published by the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS).

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