Indian Perspectives on Supply Chain Management: A Special Issue

The 5 International Conference on Operations and Supply Chain Management (OSCM) was held in New Delhi, India in conjuction with the 7 Indian Subcontinent Decision Sciences Institute (ISDSI) in December 2013. The conference successfully attracted over 150 papers. In this special issue we selected six papers, all are addressing supply chain management problems in the Indian context, covering various aspects of supply chain management such as supply chain flexibility (Singh & Acharya, 2014), knowledge management (Baig et al., 2014), customer satisfaction or service quality (Itumalla, et al, 2014), and supplier selection (Dilgawar et al, 2014). Different industry sectors are also addressed, including the printing industry (Acharyulu, 2014); Fast moving consumer goods (Singh & Acharya, 2014), healthcare (Itumalla, et al., 2014), and online retailing (Kandulapati and Bellamkonda, 2014). India is obviously one of the biggest economy in the world nowadays and supply chain has been the major contributor for the running of the Indian economy. It is expected that the practice of supply chain management varies from one country to the other, and this special issue brings to you a perspective from Indian context that could enrich your global view of the supply chain management. This special issue would not be possible without contribution of many people. We would like to thank all the contributors of the six papers in this special issue. We also owe our thanks to all reviewers who have given comments for improving the manuscripts. Finally we hope that this special issue brings useful reading materials for the interested readers.