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.

《生產計劃與控制》是一本國際期刊，匯集了所有行業經營管理方面的研究論文。該雜志專注于源于工業需求的研究，能夠指導管理者和未來研究人員的活動。為發展營運管理研究社群，每篇論文均附有作者的照片、個人簡介及聯絡資料。在可能的情況下，審稿人為改進論文(包括被拒絕的論文)提供指導。我們也歡迎處理與讀者相關的書籍的書評。《生產計劃與控制》歡迎根據工業新出現的需要進行研究的論文，闡明工業問題的性質。任何適當的研究方法都可以使用，每篇論文都應該證明所采用的方法是正確的。歡迎案例研究說明在國際一級具有重要意義的研究需要或應用問題。作者應該將他們的工作與該領域的現有知識聯系起來，特別是關于工作對管理實踐的影響和為今后的研究制定議程。基于調查的論文往往是廣泛的和描述性的，往往不能發展有用的新知識，可以指導管理者的活動。《生產計劃與控制》不適合發表運籌學、或/MS、優化或仿真方面的理論論文，這些論文基于所發明的場景或其他僅在實驗室中測試的數值實驗或示例，即使測試數據來自一家公司。將在《生產計劃與控制》上發表的一篇論文將由至少兩名該領域的勝任專家評審和接受。評審員從編委會和偶爾被提名的評審員名單中選出。除了原創性和科學嚴謹性外，審稿人的評論還基于與該領域的相關性，特別是在行業中的適用性。《生產計劃與控制》由多所大學和行業圖書館訂閱，讀者包括運營管理、供應鏈管理和業務改進領域的研究人員、與制造業和服務業打交道的顧問、運營經理、業務改進專家和其他行業經理。