Operations and Supply Chain Management

The Operations and Supply Chain Management (OSCM) research group in the Department of Management engages with industry, government and other research agencies across critical areas relevant to organisational operations and the management of supply chains.

Our researchers bring expertise across inter-related themes including supply chain labor, supplier management, cyber security, closed-loop supply chains, modern slavery, product returns, auditing and compliance, and blockchain applications. Our research seeks to resolve contemporary challenges through operations and supply chain management.

Our researchers have received funding from industry partners and competitive national and international funding schemes, including from the Australian Research Council (Linkage and Discovery), and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Our approaches include a diverse set of empirical and field-based study, analytical modelling, qualitative research, and studies involving managers, workers and consumers.

Our group publishes in leading academic journals in operations and supply chain management, including Management Science, Journal of Operations Management, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Transportation Research Part E, Decision Sciences, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, International Journal of Production Research, Journal of Supply Chain Management, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and Industrial Management & Data Systems.