UNCORRECTED PROOF Journal : SmallCondensed 10479 Article No : 3679 Pages : 4 MS Code : 3679 Dispatch : 5-6-2020 Vol.:(0123456789) Annals of Operations Research https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-020-03679-5 1 3 SI: SOME Preface: sustainable operations in manufacturing enterprise Surya Prakash Singh 1  · Malin Song 2  · R. R. K. Sharma 3  · Ron Fisher 4  · R. K. Amit 5  · Reza Farzipoor Saen 6 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020 It is indeed a real pleasure to announce the publication of this special issue, Sustainable Operation in Manufacturing Enterprise (SOME), for Annals of Operations Research. Over- all, many papers were received for this special issue, and based on reviewer reports the best papers are included in this issue. This special issue is focused primarily on the three sus- tainable aspects, 3Ps of sustainability: proit, planet, and people. The accepted papers focus on sustainability, circular economy, mutli-criteria decision making (MCDM), optimization modelling using mixed integer linear/non-linear program (MLP/MINLP), and data envel- opment analysis (DEA) having some applications to industry and society were considered. A special thanks goes to all the authors and to the learned reviewers for their tireless eforts in providing constructive and useful feedback that helped in making decisions on the papers. On behalf of the Guest Editors, we would like to express our sincere thanks to Editor-in-Chief Endre Boros, for providing us an opportunity to publish this collection of papers and Publications Managers Katie D’Agosta and Ann Pulido for their support in making this special issue a success. As highlighted above, all articles illustrate various * Surya Prakash Singh surya.singh@gmail.com Malin Song songml@aufe.edu.cn R. R. K. Sharma rrks@iitk.ac.in Ron Fisher r.isher@griith.edu.au R. K. Amit rkamit@iitm.ac.in Reza Farzipoor Saen farzipour@kiau.ac.ir 1 Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, New Delhi, India 2 Anhui University of Finance and Economics, Benbu, Anhui, China 3 Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Kanpur, India 4 Cardif Metropolitan University, Cardif, UK 5 Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai, India 6 Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran AQ1 AQ2 AQ3 AQ4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 A9 A10 A11 A12 A13 A14 A15 A16 A17 A18 Author Proof