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Subject: Call for Papers - ISJ - E-Commerce Enabled Manufacturing Operatio ns- Deadline January 31 Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 12:16:29 -0500 From: Joseph Sarkis jsarkis@CLARKU.EDU To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE

CALL FOR PAPERS

Information Systems Journal

E-commerce Enabled Manufacturing Operations: Issues and Analysis

The management of materials, information, and other resources in organizations has expanded beyond the role of typical operations managers. Along with the breakdown of internal and external organizational boundaries has come the more open environment that may envelop organizational boundaries. Practitioners and managers throughout the world have realized the enormity and importance of these inter-organizational systems. Central to the development of these systems are concepts, technologies, and tools for electronic commerce. These issues are of critical importance to large, medium, and small-sized manufacturing firms.

E-commerce encourages and supports communication and cooperation among various functions, vendors, and customers of organizations. Evolving e-commerce paradigms and practices are expected to be central enablers to operations and manufacturing concepts such as concurrent engineering, design for "x", supply chain management, computer integrated manufacturing, agile and virtual enterprising. Thus, its importance is strategically vital to organizations that wish to remain competitive. Practitioners have realized this importance by spending billions in e-commerce-enabled systems and practices, and supporting processes. Yet, researchers have been slow to critically investigate their roles, especially with respect to manufacturing organizations. Thus, we have decided to help expand the field of knowledge in this area by offering this special issue of the Information Systems Journal.

Papers are sought for a special issue, "E-commerce Enabled Manufacturing Operations: Issues and Analysis". Conceptual and strategic frameworks, empirical research, case studies, and analytical models focusing on development, design, management and control of e-commerce-enabled manufacturing and operations systems for improving organizational competitiveness are especially encouraged. Contributed papers may deal with, but are not limited to:

˜ Planning for E-commerce in Manufacturing and Operations settings -Organizational strategy, justification, and project management -Models and tools to integrate and incorporate e-commerce within strategic directions -Applications of tools through case studies -Project management models (e-commerce linkages with internal systems) -Enterprise Resource Planning Systems -Web based enterprise integration and management ˜ Design and Analysis of E-commerce based Manufacturing systems. -Performance of E-commerce enabled Manufacturing and Operations systems -Decision Tools and approaches for systems development -Integration of e-commerce with existing and new operations business processes and policies -Architectures and Systems Models integrating manufacturing and operations with E- Commerce ˜ Operations of E-commerce systems -Capacity and logistics planning and management -Materials management in an E-commerce setting -Scheduling in an E-commerce setting -Supply Chain management within an E-commerce setting -Shop floor operations -Virtual facility layout ˜ Monitoring and Control of E-commerce systems -Performance evaluation tools and techniques for E-commerce based operations systems -Decision support and expert systems and their development for the E-commerce enabled manufacturing setting -Cost Management and Product Pricing for E-commerce Enabled Systems

Papers will be evaluated on their contribution, suitability to the special issue, and overall quality. Authors should closely follow the guidelines under "Instructions to Authors" of the Information Systems Journal. Please visit the homepage of the journal for further information: http://www.blacksci.co.uk/~cgilib/jnlpage.bin?Journal=isj&File=isj&P... . Manuscripts will be strictly refereed based on the standards of the Information Systems Journal. Four copies of the manuscript should be mailed to one of the following guest editors by January 31, 2002.

Publication Schedule:

Deadline for submitting manuscripts: January 31, 2002 Review reports on the submitted papers: April 28, 2002 Revised paper submission: July 31, 2002 Forward final accepted papers to the Editor: September 30, 2002 Publication of the special issue: End of 2002.

Guest Editors for the Special Issue:

Professor A. Gunasekaran Department of Management University of Massachusetts 285 Old Westport Road North Dartmouth, MA 02747-2300 USA Tel: (508) 999-9187 Fax: (508) 999-8776 E-mail: agunasekaran@umassd.edu

Professor Janice M. Burn Foundation Professor and Head MIS, Edith Cowan University Churchlands Campus Perth, WA 6018 Australia Tel: (618) 9273 8718 Fax: (618) 9273 8222 Mobile: 0419 925907 E-mail: j.burn@ecu.edu.au

Professor Joseph Sarkis GSOM Clark University 950 Main Street Worcester, MA 01610-1477 USA Tel: (508) 793-7659 Fax: (508) 793-8822 E-mail: jsarkis@clarku.edu

Professor R. P. Sundarraj GSOM Clark University 950 Main Street Worcester, MA 01610-1477 USA Tel: (508) 793-7648 Fax: (508) 793-8822 E-mail: rsundarraj@clarku.edu

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