Decision Making in Manufacturing and Services

About the Journal

Decision Making in Manufacturing and Services (p-ISSN 1896-8325, e-ISSN 2300-7087) is an interdisciplinary, international, peer-reviewed, and open-access journal. DMMS semiannually publishes research on how organizations make decisions: how production is planned, how supply chains are coordinated, how processes are designed and improved, and how services are delivered. These are management questions, and the journal's primary discipline is accordingly management and quality studies.
The journal is distinctive in its approach to decision-making. Decisions are studied as problems that can be modeled, solved and tested, so the work published here draws on operations research, optimization, game theory, statistics and machine learning. Those methods serve the managerial question rather than standing in for it: a scheduling model is published because it tells a manufacturer how to sequence work, and a multi-criteria method because it helps an organization choose between options it actually faces.
This orientation is visible in what the journal publishes. Across Volumes 1–19, three in five articles address manufacturing and supply chain management, quality and process management, or applications in services, energy, public administration and finance. The remainder develop the decision-analytic methods on which that work rests. Since 2019, the balance has moved further towards management: applied and process-oriented research now accounts for the majority of each volume, and a growing share of articles report implementations carried out with named organizations, several co-authored with practitioners.
Reflecting this, the journal brings content relevant to several scientific disciplines, primarily management and quality studies, and additionally to information and communication technology and mechanical engineering, which cover its methodological and engineering contributions.

The electronic version of the journal is the version of record.
There is no article processing charge (APC) for publication in the journal; it is entirely free of charge
Articles are published in English only.
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Articles are distributed according to the terms of the Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 License.