>> Bali-OSCM 2005 <<

An International Conference on O/SCM in the World No. 1 Holiday Island

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Hosted by the Department of Industrial Engineering, ITS Surabaya - Indonesia,
supported by IPOMS

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PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
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Operations and Supply Chain Management (O/SCM) has been among the most 
important fields to business education and practice in the world. Nowadays, 
O/SCM are not only relevant to manufacturing companies, but also to service 
and public sector organizations. In the era where customers increasingly 
need products and services with better quality, lower price, more 
flexibility, and quicker responses, the role of O/SCM is immense. This 
conference is intended to provide academics and practitioners with a forum 
to exchange ideas on research, teaching, and practice of Operations 
Management and Supply Chain Management. The conference is expected to 
promote better communication and joint efforts among practitioners and 
academics in the Asia Pacific region as well as those from other parts of 
the world.

Theme of the conference :  “The Role of O/SCM in promoting smarter use of 
global resources”.


TOPIC OF INTERESTS
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We will provide you with a flexibility to present either fully refereed or 
non-refereed papers. In the non-refereed case, we will review only the 
abstracts and the authors may or may not submit full papers. We welcome 
abstracts/papers addressing any topic within the broad area of Operations / 
Supply Chain Management including, but are not limited to, the following:

- Operations Strategy
- Supply Chain Design
- Sustainable Manufacturing
- Lean Operations / Supply Chain
- Product / service design
- International operations / SC
- Location and layout
- Distribution management
- Procurement management
- Planning and scheduling
- Inventory management
- Performance measurement
- Operations improvement
- Quality management
- Logistics management
- E-Business
- Maintenance management
- Project management
- Teaching O/SCM
- Research methodologies in O/SCM
- The impact of the Internet
- O/SCM Tools and techniques
- Financial aspects of SCM
- Technology management
- IS/IT for O/SCM
- HRD for O/SCM
- SCM for agricultural products
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP

IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission of Abstracts : 10 May 2005
Notification of acceptance : 10 June 2005
Submission of full papers (for refereed papers) : 30 July 2005
Notification of decisions : 15 September 2005
Submission of final papers (if revision needed) : 15 October 2005
Conference : 15 – 17 December 2005


CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
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HONORARY CHAIR
Muhammad NUH
Rector, Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology, Indonesia

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS
Nyoman Pujawan, Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology, Indonesia
Saibal Ray, McGill University, Canada

ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Derek Atkins, University of British Columbia, Canada
Saifallah Benjaafar, University of Minnesota, USA
Umit Bititci, Strathclyde University, UK
John Buzacott, York University, Canada
Anang Gani, Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia
Yigal Gerchak, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Suresh Goyal, Concordia University, Canada
Robert Grubbström, Linköping Institute of Technology, Sweden
Diwakar Gupta, University of Minnesota, USA
Elizabeth Jewkes, University of Waterloo, Canada
Bart MacCarthy, The University of Nottingham, UK
Michael Magazine, University of Cincinnati, USA
Kai Mertins, Fraunhofer IPK, Germany
Mahmut Parlar, McMaster University, Canada
Rick So, University of California – Irvine, USA
Amrik Sohal, Monash University, Australia
Mario Tabucanon, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
Joel Wisner, University of Nevada – Las Vegas, USA
Kum Khiong Yang, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Candi Yano, University California – Berkeley, USA

REVIEW COMMITTEE
Antarikso Abdulrahman, Bandung Institute of Technology , Indonesia
Siah Hwee Ang, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Tamer Boyaci, McGill University, Canada
Kah Hin Chai, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Chi Kin Chan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Mohamed Ben-Daya, King Fahd Univ. of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia
Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima University, Japan
Mark Ferguson, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Michael Fry, University of Cincinnati, USA
Haresh Gurnani, University of Miami, USA
Moazzem Hossain, Malaysia Univ. of Science and Technology, Malaysia
Tim Huh, Columbia University, USA
Pinar Keskinocak, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Harish Krishnan, University of British Columbia, Canada
Joseph Lee, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Qing Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Mahesh Nagarajan, University of British Columbia, Canada
Andre Pekerti, The University of Queensland, Australia
Nicholas Petruzzi, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Anulark Techanitisawad, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
David Robb, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Alison Smart, The University of Manchester, UK
Patdono Suwignjo, Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology, Indonesia
Ahmad Syamil, Arkansas State University, USA
Isa Setiasyah Toha, Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia
De-bi Tsao, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Yunzeng Wang, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Salleh Yahya, KUTKM, Malaysia
Pisal Yenradee, SIIT, Thammasat University, Thailand