• Global operations management, lean/agile operations
• Knowledge, service, demand and R&D management
• Scheduling, sequencing, vehicle routing
• Inventory management and co-ordination
• Multi-objective optimisation; TQM and six sigma practices
• Business process outsourcing
• Aggregate planning, ERP, JIT
• Performance measurement
• Cultural, environmental and implementation issues
• Logistics service performance, supply chain management
• Product planning, lot sizing, MPS, MRP
• Repetitive manufacturing and service operations
• Project and technology management, network management
• Modelling and simulation, decision analysis/making
• Comparison of operations management in different countries.