Production Planning & Control is an international journal that brings together research papers on the management of operations in all industries. The journal focuses on research that stems from an industrial need and can guide the activities of managers and future researchers. With the aim of developing the research community in operations management, pictures and bios of authors together with their contact details are provided with each paper. Where possible, reviewers provide guidance for the improvement of papers including those being rejected. We also welcome book reviews dealing with books of relevance to our readers.

Production Planning & Control welcomes papers that describe research based on the emerging needs of industry, making clear the nature of the industrial problem. Any appropriate research methods may be used and each paper should justify the method applied. Case studies are welcome where they illustrate research needs or application problems that have significance at the international level. Writers should relate their work to the existing knowledge in the field, especially with regard to the implications of the work for management practice and setting the agenda for future research.

Papers based on surveys tend to be broad and descriptive and often fail to develop useful new knowledge that can guide the activities of managers.

Production Planning & Control is not the appropriate journal for theoretical papers in operations research, OR/MS, optimisation or simulation based on invented scenarios or other numerical experiments or examples that are only tested in the laboratory, even when the test data comes from a company.

To be published in Production Planning & Control, a paper will have been reviewed and accepted by at least two competent experts in the field. Reviewers are drawn from the Editorial Board and a list of occasional reviewers who have been nominated for their expertise. Reviewers’ comments are based on relevance to the field, particularly applicability in industry, besides originality and scientific rigour.

Production Planning & Control is subscribed to by a wealth of universities and industry libraries and readership includes researchers in the field of operations management, supply chain management, and business improvement, consultants dealing with manufacturing and service industries, operations managers, business improvement specialists, and other managers in industry.

Editor:
Dr Stephen J. Childe - Plymouth Business School, Plymouth University, UK
Founding Editor:
Professor Asbjørn Rolstadås - Norway
Co-Editor:
Professor Bjørn Andersen - Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Book Reviews Editor:
Marco Macchi - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Gestionale, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32, 20133 Milano, Italy 

Associate Editors:
Dr Yang Cheng - Department of Materials and Production, Aalborg University, Denmark 
Dr Paolo Gaiardelli - Department of Management, Information and Production Engineering, University of Bergamo, Italy 
Professor Gordian Udechukwu Ojiako - College of Engineering, University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates 
Dr Laura Purvis -  Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
International Editorial Board: 
Professor E. O. P. Akpan  - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Akwa Ibom State University, Nigeria 
Professor U. Bititci - School of Management and Languages, Heriot Watt University, UK   
Professor Michael Bourlakis - Director of Demand Chain Management Community, Cranfield University, UK 
Professor Ross Chapman - CQUniversity, Sydney, Australia 
Professor Roberto Cigolini - Politecnico di Milano, Italy 
Professor S. Dowlatshahi - University of Missouri, USA 
Professor A. M. Everett - University of Otago, New Zealand 
Dr P Folan -  University of Chester, UK 
Professor J. Frick  - University of Stavanger, Norway 
Professor Patrizia Garengo -  University of Padua, Italy 
Dr R. Greatbanks - University of Otago, New Zealand 
Dr A. Gunasekaran - California State University, USA   
Dr Jorge Hernández - University of Liverpool, UK 
Professor H. Hvolby - Aalborg University, Denmark 
Professor R. Anthony Inman - Louisiana Tech University, USA 
Professor T. Kaihara - Kobe University, Japan 
Professor Lenka Landryova - VSB- Technical University Ostrava, Czech Republic 
Professor A. Lee-Post - University of Kentucky, USA 
Dr I. McCarthy - Simon Fraser University, Canada 
Dr G. Mohan - Arizona State University, USA 
Professor R. P. Mohanty - Vice Chancellor, SOA University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India 
Professor Sai Nudurupati - Manchester Metropolitan University, UK 
Professor J. Olhager - Lund University, Sweden 
Professor G. C. Onwubolu - Sheridan Institute of Technology & Applied Learning, Canada       
Professor Kit Fai Pun - The University of the West Indies, West Indies 
Professor Shams Rahman - RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia 
Professor A. Rolstadås - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway 
Professor P. Schönsleben - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland 
Dr Dinesh Seth - College of Engineering, Qatar 
Dr M. K. Sharma -M.B.M Engineering College,Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur, India 
Professor Ebrahim Shayan - Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan 
Professor R. Smeds - Helsinki University of Technology, Finland 
Professor Amrik Sohal - Monash University, Australia 
Dr K. Steger-Jensen -  Aalborg University, Denmark 
Professor M. Taisch  - Politecnico di Milano, Italy  
Professor I. Tatsiopoulos  - National Technical University of Athens, Greece  
Professor Klaus-Dieter Thoben - Bremen University, Germany 
Professor M. K. Tiwari -  Indian Institute of Technology, India 
Dr F. Tonelli -  University of Genoa, Italy 
Professor J. C. Wortmann  - University of Groningen, The Netherlands