| Summary | We are studying different regulatory mechanisms and the responses of pharmaceutical companies to make orphan drugs for rare diseases available at reasonable cost |
| Collaborators | Tugce Martagan (TU/e), Carla Hollak (AMC/UvA) |
| Summary | We are studying different regulatory mechanisms and the responses of pharmaceutical companies to make orphan drugs for rare diseases available at reasonable cost |
| Collaborators | Tugce Martagan (TU/e), Carla Hollak (AMC/UvA) |
| Summary | Supply chain decisions have an environmental and a social impact. Using a variety of different approaches, we try to understand this impact and develop alternative decision making mechanisms that take the environmental and social effects into account. The main focus of our work has been on carbon emissions which affect climate change, but recently we have started trying to understand the effect of supply chain decisions on the water footprint of a company, the impact of fairness and equality on supply chain coordination, the competition dynamics of refurbished cellphones, and the management of packaging reuse and recycling. |
| Collaborators | Nayeli Hernandez-Martinez, Nevin Mutlu (TU/e), Yann Bouchery (Kedge BS), Maxi Udenio (KU Leuven); Nughthoh Arfawi Kurdhi, Shaunak Dabadghao (TU/e); Mahyar Taheri (KLU) |
| Summary | Containers transport an increasing share of the world’s goods. While the operations of these container supply chains now impacts to a large extent the effectiveness of the world’s supply chains, its performance remains understudied. Reliability tends to be low and coordination across the multiple actors remains poor. In our work, we focus specifically on the (import) hinterland supply chain in Europe. We investigate collaboration between hinterland terminals, scheduling of barges, and have introduced the concept of synchromodality to designate the seamless exchange of modalities along the supply chain. One of our current focuses is to find alternative mechanisms to deal with demurrage and detention. |
| Collaborators | Yann Bouchery (Kedge BS), Benjamin Legros (EM Normandie/CentraleSupélec), Tao Lu (Erasmus University), Mingzhu Yu (Shenzhen University), Chung-Yee Lee (Hong Kong UST), Stefano Fazi (Ru Groningen). |
| Summary | Despite the advent of Advanced Planning Systems, it is ultimately a human decision maker that decides on the plan or schedule. While decision support systems have been focused on improving the performance on the planned process, in this study we focus on the efficiency of the planning process itself. My vision is to improve efficiency of the human planner by a factor 10 in 10 years. Moreover, we collaborate in an international study trying to understand decision making behaviors in SMEs in developing countries |
| Collaborators | Jose Larco (UTEC); Josué Velázquez (MIT) |
| Summary | Companies go through consistent business cycles, some long-term regular, other triggered by major events such as the bankrupty of Lehman Brothers in 2008. We model these cycles using inventory dynamics and obtain very accurate and relevant forecasts of sales cycles. We further study the ways in which companies adjust inventories due to dynamics. In the 2020 Coronacrisis, we model the rampup of supply chains after lockdowns. |
| Collaborators | Maxi Udenio (KU Leuven); Kai Hoberg (KLU) |
| Summary | While the financial flow is an intregrated part of any supply chain, its analysis has usually been limited to managerial accounting issues. We have initiated a research line that takes much more of a financing perspective. We are in particular looking at the mechanisms of reverse factoring and real options, and taking their benefits beyond the traditional finance benefits to operational supply chain benefits. |
| Collaborators | Taymaz Soltani, Shaunak Dabadghao (TU/e); Haolin Feng (Sun Yat Sen University) |
| Summary | For Consumer Packaged Goods, the complete growth over the next decade will come from emerging economies. Retail distribution in emerging economies has a completely different structure than the structures we are familiar with in Western Europe and North America. We study the complete supply chain, with a focus on the traditional channel (nanostores) in megacities. |
| Collaborators | Rafael Escamilla, Prisca Brosi (KLU), Jiwen Ge (Tuck School at Dartmouth College), Christopher Mejia-Argueta (MIT); Dorothee Honhon (UT Dallas); Josue Velazquez-Martinez (MIT); Youssef Boulaksil (UAE University); Lei Zhao (Tsinghua University) |