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manufacturing-and-service-operations-management
Use when targeting Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (M&SOM) or deciding whether an operations-management theory / modeling / empirical manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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# Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (manufacturing-and-service-operations-management)
## Journal positioning
M&SOM is INFORMS's dedicated operations-management journal, the field's home for rigorous OM theory and models with a growing empirical wing. It publishes analytical work on supply chains, inventory, service operations, capacity, and revenue management, alongside increasingly prominent empirical and behavioral OM. Where Operations Research prizes OR methodology for its own sake and Management Science spans all of management, M&SOM is OM-first: the contribution must speak to operations management theory and practice. The readership is the OM research community, so the operational insight must be central, not incidental.
This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the INFORMS / M&SOM site and the editorial submission system.
## When to trigger
- The author names M&SOM (or the INFORMS / UTD24 OM elite) as the target venue.
- An analytical or empirical OM paper on supply chain, inventory, service, capacity, or revenue management needs an OM-flagship home.
- A modeling paper needs re-framing so the operational insight, not the math, is the contribution.
- The author needs M&SOM's desk-reject risks and a credible OM / OR / MS alternative list before submitting.