We are please to announce that Hong Kong will host the 8th International Conference on Supply Chain Management and Information Systems (SCMIS 2010) in association with the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong on 6th to 8th of October 2010.
Scope of the Conference

Authors are invited to submit conference papers on the following aspects of the most recent global business issues. Authors are also encouraged to submit conference papers in related areas.

* Logistics Information Systems
* Bin-packaging Problems
* Palletization Problems
* Transport Logistics
* Low Carbon and Green Supply Chain Management
* Reverse Logistics
* Third Party Logistics
* VMI / Collaborative Inventory Planning
* Network Design and Food Supply Chain
* Warehousing and Location Decisions
* Fuzzy Modeling of Supply Chain Problems
* Systems Approach to Supply Chain Modeling
* Supply Chain Risk Management
* Information Management in a Supply Chain
* Simulation of industrial systems
* Environmental and Sustainability Issues in Logistics
* Managing International Logistical Operations
* RFID in Supply Chain Management
* Value Chain Management
* Transportation Decision
* Supply Chain Information Measurement
* Data Mining for e-business / SCM
* Knowledge Management
* Logistics in Disaster Management
* Outsourcing and Procurement / Vendor Management
* Supply Chain Performance Measures and Metrics
* Technology Management in Supply Chain
* ERP, WMS and TMS in Logistics
* Contemporary logistics issues

Others topics relevant to the theme of the conference but not included in the above will also be considered. You are also welcome to propose special session of particular topics at the conference if you are able to collect sufficient papers of the same topic (say 5 or 6 papers).
Publications

Accepted papers will be published in the SCMIS2010 Conference Proceedings and IEEE Xplore. All the accepted papers listed in IEEE Xplore would be indexed by Inspec, Compendex and EI. In addition to proceedings for all papers accepted for presentation, selected high quality papers will be recommended for publication in special issues of journals with high citation indices.