The Operations and Supply Chain Management (OSCM) Group develops world-class research, teaching programmes and business collaborations, aimed at devising and implementing advanced solutions to optimise the use of resources and skills across technology-enhanced social and business networks.

 

Our specialist researchers are making original contributions to OSCM theory and practice and regularly publish in some of the top journals within the field, including Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Transportation Research Part-B, Risk Analysis, and European Journal of Operational Research.

 

Research themes

Through the development and application of models, analytical techniques and technologies that underpin the achievement of excellence in the design of operations and supply chain systems, our group's specialists offer research expertise in five different themes: 

• Transport and logistics
• Agri-food supply chains
• Sustainable operations and supply chain management
• Agile operations
• Supply chain technologies, analytics and risk

 

Research centres

We work closely with the Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Food Systems, the Institute for Risk and Uncertainty, the Heseltine Institute for Public Policy and Practice and the Management School’s Centre for Sustainable Business.

 

Alongside this, our group hosts the School’s Centre for Supply Chain Research, aimed at promoting novel research in contemporary issues in OSCM and collaboration with public and private-sector organisations.

 

Find out more about the Management School's research centres