2020 GSCM Conference Speakers Profile
SPEAKERS PROFILE (ACADEMIC)
Federico Caniato is Full Professor of Supply Chain and Purchasing Management at the School of Management
of Politecnico di Milano. He earned a Master of Science and a Ph.D. in Management
Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, where he now serves as the Rector’s Delegate
for Life Long Learning. He is the director of the International Master in Supply Chain
and Procurement Management of MIP Politecnico di Milano Graduate School of Business.
Federico Caniato is a member of the board of the European Operations Management Association
(EurOMA). He authored several international publications on various Operations and
Supply Chain Management journals, and he is Associate Editor of the Journal of Purchasing
and Supply Management and a guest editor of a Special Issue on IJOPM. The research
interests of Federico Caniato are in the field of Supply Chain and Purchasing Management,
in the last years, he has focused on Supply Chain Finance, Supply Chain Sustainability
and Supply Chain Resilience. He focused in particular on the Food and Fashion industries.
He is the director of the Supply Chain Finance Observatory, the leading research initiative
in Italy on the topic, in close collaboration with the International Supply Chain
Finance Community.
TITLE: THE ROLE OF SUPPLY CHAIN FINANCE TO MANAGE TO IMPACT OF COVID-19
The outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic has dramatically impacted the health of millions of people worldwide, and the consequent reaction to fight the contagion has affected the life and economy of the entire population at a global level, with huge consequences on global supply chains. Since supply chains are not only moving goods but also managing information and money, even worse risks arise from the disruption of financial flows. In this scenario, the risk of bankruptcy, in particular for SMEs, grows exponentially. And when supply chains will restart production, there will be a dramatic lack of liquidity to sustain the ramp-up, while the suppliers that will have gone out of business in the meanwhile will be lost forever. In such a dramatic situation, Supply Chain Finance can play a role in both the short and the long term: in the short term, it may provide financial support to the smaller actors in the supply chain; in the longer term, it may support the ramp-up of the supply chain once demand comes back. Research on Supply Chain Finance has been developing in the last decade, but the new challenges open up new needs that are great opportunities for research to contribute to facing the new global scenario.
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Dursun Delen is the holder of William S. Spears Endowed Chair in Business Administration, Patterson
Family Endowed Chair in Business Analytics, Director of Research for the Center for
Health Systems Innovation, and Regents Professor of Management Science and Information
Systems in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University. Prior to his
academic tenure at OSU, he worked for a privately-owned research and consultancy company
as a research scientist for five years, during which he led a number of advanced analytics
research projects funded by federal agencies including DoD and NASA. Dr. Delen has
authored more than 150 peer-reviewed articles and 11 books and. Dr. Delen is often
invited to companies for consultancy engagements and national and international conferences
for keynote addresses. He regularly chairs tracks and mini tracks at various business
analytics and information systems conferences. Currently, he is the editor-in-chief
for the Journal of Business Analytics and Ai in Business (in Frontiers in Artificial
Intelligence), senior editor for the Journal of Decision Support Systems, Decision
Sciences, and Journal of Business Research, associate editor for Decision Analytics
and International Journal of RF Technologies, and is on the editorial boards of several
other academic journals. He has been the recipient of several research and teaching
awards including the prestigious Fulbright scholar, regents’ distinguished teacher
and researcher, president’s outstanding researcher, and Big Data mentor awards.
TITLE: THE JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ANALYTICS OFFERED BY THE OPERATIONS RESEARCH SOCIETY
There are many definitions for business analytics—some focus on the scope/problem-type, some on the nature of the data, and some concentrate on the enabling technologies, methods and methodologies. The common denominator of all these definitions is that business analytics is the art and science of extracting/discovering insight—by way of using sophisticated mathematical/statistical/AI models along with a variety of data and domain expertise—to support accurate and timely decision making. The Journal of Business Analytics is created by the OR Society with the mission to serve the emerging and rapidly growing community of business analytics researchers, both in academia and industry. Covering all facets of business analytics (descriptive/diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive), the journal is destined to become the pinnacle for rigorous and relevant analytics research manuscripts. An exemplary paper for this journal is the one that focuses on developing practical solutions to real business problems, using real-world, large, and feature-rich data, and in this process, offering innovative and generalizable methods and methodologies.
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David Dobrzykowski is an Associate Professor and Director of the Master of Science Program in Supply
Chain Management at the University of Arkansas Sam M. Walton College of Business.
His research investigates information processing and the coordination of work processes,
primarily in healthcare and other regulated industries. His publications have appeared
in the Journal of Operations Management, Decision Sciences Journal, Journal of Supply Chain Management, among other outlets. He has received a number of research awards including the 2017 Decision Sciences Journal Best Paper. He is Department Editor for Healthcare and Service Operations at Decision Sciences Journal where he was the Outstanding Reviewer of the Year in 2015, an Associate Editor for Journal of Operations Management, and a member of the Editorial Review Board of Journal of Supply Chain Management. He is President of POMS College of Healthcare Operations Management, VP of Marketing
for DSI, and is an Academic Scholar at Cornell University’s Institute for Healthy
Futures. He previously earned tenure at Rutgers University during which time he was
named “One of the Top 50 Healthcare Management Professors” (#32) by HealthcareAdministrator.org.
Dr. Dobrzykowski holds a PhD from the University of Toledo.
Title: Operations Management within a Sharing Economy
Operations Management (OM) scholars have referred to the term sharing economy to describe business models developed around on-demand access to products and services often facilitated by online platforms designed to link large numbers of small service providers or suppliers with large numbers of individual customers or small buyers. As such, sharing economy operations represent a departure from many of the characteristics observed in traditional operations and supply chain models. While the sharing economy may represent a promising new avenue for economic prosperity, it brings with it important operational considerations calling for thought leadership from researchers. This presentation will highlight some important contextual factors that drive research opportunities for OM scholars and discuss the Sharing Economy Call For Papers for Journal of Operations Management.
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Takahiro (Taka) Fujimoto is a professor, Faculty of Economics at University of Tokyo, Executive Director of Manufacturing Management Research Center (MMRC). Fujimoto graduated from Tokyo University and joined Mitsubishi Research Institute in 1979. He received doctoral degree from Harvard Business School in 1989. Fujimoto’s main publications in English include: Fujimoto, T. and D. A. Heller, ed. (2018) Industries and Disasters: Building Robust and Competitive Supply Chains; Fujimoto, T. and F. Ikuine, ed. (2018) Industrial Competitiveness and Design Evolution; Fujimoto, T. (2007) Competing to Be Really, REALLY Good; Fujimoto, T. (1999) The Evolution of a Manufacturing System at Toyota; K. Shimokawa, U. Juergens and T. Fujimoto, eds. (1997) Transforming Automobile Assembly; Clark, K.B. and T. Fujimoto (1991) Product Development Performance: Strategy, Organization, and Management in the World Auto Industry.
TITLE: GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS IN THE AFTER-COVID-19 ERA
Abstract: This presentation characterizes the 2019-2020 new coronavirus pandemics as “the first global and invisible disaster in the era of global competition,” in which risks of factory shut-downs caused directly or indirectly by infections can happen at any part of the global supply chains. This is also an invisible disaster that affects human productive resources, as opposed to visible disasters that destroy nonhuman physical productive resources. In the latter case, the organizational capabilities for quick recovery of damaged sites and ramp-up of substitutive production are key factors, while the protective capability for defending the factory and keeping it uninfected is critical in the latter case. I argue that the spread of the new coronavirus infections is a global disaster that broke out in the middle of intense global competition, so a dynamic balance between supply chain competitiveness and robustness/resilience, including quick switching between a competition-focused mode and a disaster-focused mode, is crucial. In this situation, certain factories with higher levels of deep-level competitiveness and anti-disaster robustness strengthened historically by intense competition and major disasters in the past, may take central roles in enhancing the competitiveness and robustness of a firm’s global supply chain as a whole. It also discusses the future possibilities for rebalancing the supply chains of Japanese firms in Asia with the help of a triangular model consisting of Japan, China, and ASEAN countries.
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Xenophon Koufteros is a full Professor of Supply Chain Management at the Mays Business School, Texas
A & M University where he also holds the Jenna & Calvin R. Guest Professorship in
Business and the Eppright University Professorship in Undergraduate Teaching Excellence.
He also serves as the Director of the Supply Chain Consortium at the Mays Business
School. Prof. Koufteros has published over 50 articles in refereed journals including
Decision Sciences Journal, Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations
Management, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Structural Equations Modeling, IEEE
Transactions on Engineering Management, International Journal of Production Research,
International Journal of Operations & Production Management, and International Journal
of Production Economics amongst others. Dr. Koufteros is currently serving as a co-editor-in-Chief
of Decision Sciences Journal.
Prof. Koufteros also served as Associate Editor of Decision Sciences Journal, Journal
of Operations Management, Journal of Supply Chain Management, and Journal of Business
Logistics. He received multiple times the Best Associate Editor Award for the Journal of Operations Management and for the Journal of Supply Chain Management,
and the Best Empirical Paper Award for Decision Sciences Journal. He is also a member of the editorial board for Production
& Operations Management, Structural Equation Modeling: An Interdisciplinary Journal
and Educational & Psychological Measurement. He currently conducts research in sourcing
decisions when ethical considerations are invoked. His recent studies are behavioral
in nature and involve an experimental methodology. His prior work addressed integration
issues in the realm of supply chain management with product development and innovation
focus. One of his manuscripts in this area is the second most downloaded (16,685 times)
paper ever for the Decision Sciences Journal and it is the 15th most cited paper ever for the journal. In 2012 he was ranked as one of the World’s Top Innovation Management Scholars, in “Perspective: Ranking of the World’s Top Innovation Management Scholars and Universities,” (based
on unadjusted # of authors counts of papers in top 8 Management & Marketing journals) J
PROD INNOV MANAG 2012; 29(2):319–331.
Prof. Koufteros teaches courses across all levels and he received numerous teaching
awards including the Distinguished Achievement Award – Teaching, at the University level, and at the Mays Business School - Texas A&M University,
Association of Former Students. In 2018, he was designated as Poets & Quants’ Top
50 Undergraduate Business Professors, a global recognition. In 2019, he received the Wickham
Skinner Teaching Award from the POM Society for Teaching Innovation. In 2020, he was
awarded the Eppright University Professorship in Undergraduate Teaching Excellence.
He also received several awards for his service to the profession and students, such
as the Distinguished Achievement Award – Individual Student Relationships, at the University level, Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University.
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Dr. Hokey Min is James R. Good Chair in Global Supply Chain Strategy in the Department of Management
of Schmidthorst College of Business at the Bowling Green State University. He was
a Professor of Supply Chain Management, Distinguished University Scholar, and Founding
Executive Director of the Logistics and Distribution Institute (LoDI), the UPS Center
for Worldwide Supply Chain Management, and the Center for Supply Chain Workforce Development
at the University of Louisville. He earned his Ph.D. degree in Management Sciences
and Logistics from the Ohio State University. His expertise includes global logistics
strategy, healthcare supply chains, closed-loop supply chains,
e-synchronized supply chains, service benchmarking, supply chain technology, and supply
chain modeling. He has published more than 205 scholarly articles in various refereed
journals including the European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Business Logistics, International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Journal of the Operational Research Society, International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Transportation Journal, and Transportation Research. He authored three books: (1) Healthcare Supply Chain Management: Basic Concept and Principles; (2) Global Business
Analytics Models; Concepts and Applications in Predictive, Healthcare, Supply Chain.
and Finance Analytics; (3) The Essentials of Supply Chain Management: New Business
Concepts and Applications.
TITLE: POST-COVID 19 GLOBAL LOGISTICS TRENDS
The COVID-19 pandemic posed unprecedented managerial challenges for every business sector across the world, forcing many companies to rethink their business strategies in the murky market environment. These challenges include unpredictable supply chain disruptions caused by temporary plant closures, part shortages, transportation restrictions, social distancing, and government safety protocols. In addition, economic hardships resultant from job insecurity, high unemployment, and shrinking working hours pressured the potential consumers to spend less and subsequently created a vicious cycle of demand decline and poor sales. Such a vicious cycle will further restrain business activities. Despite this bleak outlook, optimism still exists, if the companies can adapt to the rapidly changing business landscape in the midst of COVID-19 crisis and find a way to develop a business continuity plan. This presentation will highlight key supply chain trends that may reshape future logistics activities across the globe and propose the potential roadmap for “new normal” business practices and swift recovery from the COVID-19 induced disaster.
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Tobias Schoenherr, the Hoagland-Metzler Endowed Professor of Purchasing and Supply Management, is an internationally renowned and award-winning scholar and teacher focusing on the area of sourcing, with a particular interest in buyer-supplier relationships. He has published more than 60 papers in peer-reviewed academic journals, such as the Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Management Science, Decision Sciences, the Journal of Business Logistics, and the Journal of Marketing Research. Several of his papers were recognized as some of the best in the respective journals, and his overall research excellence has been recognized by numerous awards and fellowships. Dr. Schoenherr is the Co-Editor-In-Chief for the International Journal of Operations and Production Management, and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Operations Management, Decision Sciences and the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, and serves on the Editorial Review Boards of several other journals. Dr. Schoenherr holds a Ph.D. in Operations Management and Decision Sciences from Indiana University, Bloomington, from where he also obtained his B.Sc. and M.B. He also holds a Diplom-Betriebswirt (FH) from the European School of Business, Reutlingen University, Germany.
TITLE: BEST PRACTICES FOR PUBLISHING: LESSONS LEARNED AND THE IJOPM PERSPECTIVE
Academic publishing is both a science and an art, and it is critical to consider both aspects when writing a paper. In this talk, I will share my experiences gathered over the last two decades in academic publishing, highlighting some best practices I have derived over the years that have resulted in successful publications. I will couple this with my experience serving as a co-editor-in-chief for the International Journal of Operations and Production Management, as well as my role as Associate Editor for several other journals, including the Journal of Operations Management and Decision Sciences. For the IJOPM perspective, I will share our editorial philosophy, and provide an insight into which features of a paper increase the likelihood if it navigating the review process successfully.
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Sri Talluri is the Hoagland-Metzler Endowed Professor and Professor of Supply Chain Management
at Michigan State University. His research interests are in the areas of supply risk,
buyer-supplier relationships and supply contracts, sustainability in supply chains,
and performance evaluation. Sri's methodological expertise lies in the areas of optimization
methods (deterministic and stochastic models), game theory, empirical methods (statistical
models), and data envelopment analysis. He has more than 95 journal publications in
a variety of top-tier academic journals including the IIE Transactions, Decision Sciences,
Production and Operations Management Journal, Journal of Operations Management, International
Journal of Production Research, European Journal of Operational Research, IEEE Transactions
on Engineering Management, and has presented papers in various national and international
conferences. Sri has over 10,000 citations of his work and an h-index of 46. In journal
articles published in 2013 and 2015.
Sri was ranked as a top 20 (rank # 17) researcher worldwide in terms of the impact
of his work in the domain of data envelopment analysis (Liu, J.S., Lu, Y. Y., Lu,
W.M., and Lin, B.J. Data envelopment analysis 1978-2010: A citation-based literature
survey, OMEGA, 41, pp. 3-15, 2013), and top 1% researcher worldwide in the area of
operations management based on publications in elite journals (Shang, G., Saladin,
B., Fry, T., and Donohue, J. Twenty-Six Years of Operations Management Research (1985
- 2010): Authorship Patterns and Research Constituents in Eleven Top Rated Journals,
International Journal of Production Research, 53(20), pp. 6161 - 6197, 2015). His
research is funded by companies and organizations such as Dow Chemical, Lear Corporation,
CIBER, McNeil Healthcare, and Center for Advanced Purchasing Studies (CAPS). Professor
Talluri was designated as a Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) in 2019.
He is one of the 116 fellows of DSI over the 50-year rich history of the organization.
Sri was also a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Business and Economics for the year
2016-2017 and currently holds the position of Honorary Professorial Fellow at the
University of Melbourne, Australia. He was the recipient of the Dean's Research Excellence
Award in 2019 and John D. and Dortha J. Withrow Endowed Emerging Scholar Award for
outstanding scholarly contributions in 2004. Sri currently serves as the Co-Editor
in Chief of the Decision Sciences Journal. He served as the Conference Chair for the
47th Annual Decision Sciences Institute Conference and as the Associate Executive
Director for POMS from 2006-2009. He has more than 20 years of teaching experience
and has taught a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses in the areas of supply
chain management, operations management, operations research/management science, and
statistics.
TITLE: DECISION SCIENCES JOURNAL (DSJ), THE PREMIER JOURNAL OF THE DECISION SCIENCES INSTITUTE
publishes peer-reviewed scholarly research about decision-making within the boundaries of an organization (individual, group, and firm), as well as decisions involving inter-firm coordination and collaboration. In reviewing the historical focus of the journal and categorizing published manuscripts in the past ten years, it is apparent that DSJ is the publication of choice for established and emerging researchers in Operations/Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Information Systems/Technology (IT). Thus, research papers that address contemporary business problems and simultaneously provide novel managerial and/or theoretical insights in the broad areas of SCM and IT and their interface are ideal for publication in the journal. The journal has made however some important changes since January 1, 2020, and we will like to discuss them along with our philosophy and expectations about prospective submissions. Five new departments were added and highly published department editors were recruited for all departments. The Associate Editors board has seen a major revision and we are adopting a Reviewer Board. Since January 1, 2020, the journal demands that submissions are motivated and informed by direct interactions with relevant constituents. These and other changes will be discussed in more detail at our session.
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