International Journal of Inventory Research  (IJIR)
ISSN (Online): 1746-6970  -  ISSN (Print): 1746-6962

Published in 4 issues per year  (View Subscription Price)

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   Objectives

The objective of IJIR is to promote and stimulate innovative inventory research and its application for improving the productivity, customer satisfaction and competitiveness of manufacturing firms, retailers, logistics providers and all organisations that manage inventories. Although the journal maintains a focus on inventory theory, it deals with operational as well as strategic issues, with specific inventory models and with general supply chain issues, with firm-level as well as macroeconomic perspectives.

   Readership

IJIR is relevant for all managers and professionals, researchers, educators and students concerned with recent advances in the area of inventory management and control. Individuals from a variety of disciplines such as operations management, industrial engineering, operational research, supply chain management, statistics, economics, etc. will find IJIR beneficial.

   Contents

IJIR publishes original, high-quality research. Normative and methodological research, empirical studies and innovative applications are appropriate for IJIR, provided there is practical managerial relevance. State-of-the-art review papers that examine and evaluate recent streams of inventory research will also be considered. Special Issues devoted to important topics in inventory research will occasionally be published.

   Subject Coverage

Submissions are encouraged on all aspects of inventory research including, but not limited to:

• Modelling inventory systems (deterministic/stochastic, single/multi-echelon, static/dynamic, etc.)
• Empirical research
• Supply chain management
• Retail inventory management
• Revenue management
• Supplier partnerships, including vendor-managed inventory, quick response, etc.
• Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems
• Supply contracts
• Transportation inventory networks
• Lean systems
• Macroeconomic aspects of inventories

Research that integrates inventory theory with other areas (marketing, quality control, finance, etc.) is also encouraged.

   Specific Notes for Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper was not originally copyrighted and if it has been completely re-written).

All papers are refereed through a double blind process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Submission of Papers web-page.

You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an e-mail (details of file formats in Author Guidelines) to Prof. Timothy L. Urban

Please include in your submission the title of the Journal

   Editors and Members of the Editorial Board

Editor

Timothy L. Urban
Collins Professor of Operations Management
Department of Finance and Operations Management
The University of Tulsa
Tulsa OK 74104-3189
USA
timothy-urbanutulsa.edu

Editorial Board Members

Sven AxsäterSv
Lund University
Department of Industrial Management and Logistics
P.O. Box 118
SE-22100 Lund
SWEDEN

Youhua ChenYo
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
Shatin, N. T.
HONG KONG

Guillermo GallegoGu
Columbia University
Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
New York NY 10027
USA

Vishal GaurVi
Cornell University
Johnson Graduate School of Management
321 Sage Hall
Ithaca, NY  14853 
USA

Joseph P. GeunesJo
University of Florida
Industrial and Systems Engineering
303 Weil Hall
Gainesville, FL 32611
USA

Mark GohMa
University of South Australia
School of Managment
City West Campus
Adelaide, SA 5000
AUSTRALIA

Robert W. GrubbströmRo
Linköping Institute of Technology
Department of Production Economics
S-581 83 Linköping
SWEDEN

Vernon Ning HsuVe
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Department of Decision Science and Managerial Economics
Shatin, New Territories
HONG KONG

Panos KouvelisPa
Director, The Boeing Center for Technology, Information, and Manufacturing, and Emerson Distinguished Professor of Operations and Management
Washington University in St. Louis
Olin School of Business
St. Louis MO 63130
USA

Hon-Shiang LauHo
City University of Hong Kong
Department of Management Sciences
Kowloon Tong
HONG KONG

Louis J. MacciniLo
Johns Hopkins University
Department of Economics
Baltimore MD 21218
USA

Ana MurielAn
University of Massachusetts
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
220 ELAB
Amherst, MA 01003-2210
USA

Steven NahmiasSt
Santa Clara University
OMIS Department
Leavey School of Business
Santa Clara CA 95053
USA

David PerryDa
University of Haifa
Department of Statistics
Haifa 31905
ISRAEL

David F. PykeDa
Dean, School of Business Administration
University of San Diego
341 Olin Hall
5998 Alcala Park
San Diego, CA  92110-2492 
USA

Uday S. RaoUd
University of Cincinnati
Quantitative Analysis and Operations Management
528 Carl H. Lindner Hall
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0130
USA

H. Edwin RomeijnH.
University of Michigan
Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering
2893 IOE Building, 1205 Beal Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI  48109-2117 
USA

Dolores Romero MoralesDo
University of Oxford
Saïd Business School
Oxford OH1 1HP
UK

Zuo-Jun (Max) ShenZu
University of California, Berkeley
Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
4121 Etcheverry Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-1777
USA

Charles R. SoxCh
University of Alabama
College of Commerce and Business Administration
343 Alston Hall
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0226
USA

Linda G. SpragueLi
Emeritus Professor
China Europe International Business School
14 Concord Avenue #509
Cambridge, MA  02138 
USA

Albert P. M. WagelmansAl
Econometric Institute
Erasmus University Rotterdam
P. O. Box 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam
NETHERLANDS

Yunzeng WangYu
Dean's Distinguished Scholar in Supply Chain Management
University of California, Riverside
A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management
142 Anderson Hall, 900 University Avenue
Riverside, CA  92521
USA

Sila ÇetinkayaSi
Texas A&M University
Department of Industrial Engineering
College Station TX 77843-3131
USA

Özalp ÖzerÖ
University of Texas at Dallas
School of Management
800 West Campbell Road
Richardson, TX  75080-3021
USA