The theme of Operations Strategy discusses the pattern of strategic decisions and actions that defines the role, objectives, and activities of an operation. The Development of Products and Processes should be aligned with the strategic objectives of the operation. Studying, researching, and formulating viable and sustainable strategies from an operational viewpoint is the object of operations strategies both in terms of evaluating and finding operational alternatives for implementing and managing strategies in the context of operations, based on the identification, selection, and management of critical projects for organizational competitiveness and sustainability.
• Production Strategies

• Strategic and Operational Planning of the Organization

• Industrial Organization

• Business Networks and Managing the Productive Chain

• Product/Process Planning

• Managing the Product Development Process

• Product and Process Design

The theme of Operational Excellence aims to discuss improving performance and productivity in industrial and service operations, via the rational use of resources and innovation of operational processes and in their management. One of the fundamental questions to be addressed to make the sustainable development of the Brazilian economy and society viable is productivity. How can we increase the performance and added value of our industrial and service operations, thus increasing the country’s competitiveness in today’s challenging global economic scenario?
• Quality and Productivity Management

• Lean Production / Lean Management / JIT / Lean Six Sigma

• Analysis and Re-engineering of Processes

• Total Quality

• Theory of Constraints

Although most jobs created in our society are in the production of services, there still exists the practice of considering the Administration of Services as a particular case of Administration as a whole. Moreover, although there are foundations for the idea that the principles and techniques of planning and controlling service operations should be derivations of the principles and techniques used in the manufacturing of goods, relatively little effort has been made – at a practical and theoretical level – in the sense of demonstrating these derivations.
• Service Operations Strategies

• Servitization of Products

• Networks in Services

• Quality in Services

• Planning and Control in Services

• Evaluation and Performance of Service Operations

Sustainable Operations Management aims to discuss how operations can be created so that sustainability (environmental, social, and economic) forms part of its strategy and how (and if) this question can be a source of competitive advantage. It aims to understand the production system and the life cycle of products/services, so as to include the variables of losses, waste, and other environmental and social impacts in the analysis.
• Impacts of Sustainability on Operations Management

• Sustainable/Green Supply Chain Management

• Closed Loop Supply Chains

• Product Life Cycle Analysis

• Reverse Logistics and Waste Management

• Developing Sustainable Products and Processes

• Environmental Licensing and Project Management

• Health, Safety, and the Environment in Operations

• Clean Production Technologies and Eco-efficiency

The management of the flow of added value by organizations requires contemplating the whole supply chain in order to identify and build competitive differentials that include the demands of their end customers. This integration includes supply logistics, the flow of information or the flow of investments, and organizational governance alternatives for the organizations involved. This is what makes both the role of logistics and supply chain management important.
• Corporate, Regional, National, and International Logistics
• Location of Operations
• Logistics – Transport modals and systems: ports, airports, industrial airports/ports, incoterms and regulatory bodies

• Logistics – distribution, routing, and optimization

• Shipment and storage, distribution centers, cross-docking systems and equipment

• Reverse Logistics

• Supply Chain Planning and Management

• Local Productive Arrangements

• Negotiations, Purchases, and Contracts, etc.
• System Dynamics – Modeling and Simulating Productive Systems

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The Circular Economy involves the creation and systemic operationalization of new businesses, technologies, products, and services, aiming to keep products and materials in use for longer, regenerating natural systems and eliminating waste and pollution caused by consumption.

• Circular Economy

• Circular business models

• Transition systems for resource circularity

• Regenerative systems

• Industry 4.0 as an input for retaining the value of resources and promoting the circularity of materials

• Environmental and social aspects of regenerative systems

• Circular cities

• Circular productive chains

• Circular products and services

• Circular industrial ecosystems

• The role of government and of public policies in spreading the circular economy

• The role of sustainable leaders in a successful circular economy

• Innovation, blockchain, artificial intelligence, traceability, intelligent factories, connectivity, integration, and partnerships as driving elements for the circular economy