Over the past decade, there has been increasing interest in production and operation management (POM) issues pertaining to the transformation of production and operational inputs into “outputs”. POM incorporates many tasks that are interdependent, but which can be grouped under five main headings: products, plants, processes, programs and peoples. Research studies have to date revealed incompleteness and loosely coupled findings to answer
1) “how to ensure that the business actually makes the required products in accordance with the plan?”
2) “what kind of plant is needed to make product, comprising the bulk of the fixed assets of the business?”
3) “how to choose the best process or series of processes to product a product?”
4) “how to determine the production program which concerns the dates and times of the products that are to be produced and supplied to customers?”
5) “how to place right people to right placement and how to make them much more productive?” These are multi- and inter-disciplinary unresolved issues confronting the academia and service practitioners.

　This conference serves as a forum for researchers, practitioners, and users to exchange new ideas, developments, and experience on production and operation management interrelated issues. The scope includes planning and control, supply chain management, manufacturing strategy, human resource management, revenue management, risk management, project management, quality management, and other related area.