Sustainable Supply Chains

Dr. Yann Bouchery is an Assistant Professor at EM Normandie (France). Dr. Bouchery received a Master Degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from Lund University (Sweden) as well as a Master Degree in Industrial Management and Logistics from Ecole Centrale Lille (France). He obtained a PhD in Operations Management from Ecole Centrale Paris (France) in 2012. His PhD research dealt with sustainable supply chain optimization with a special focus on inventory models. He spent two years at Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) as a postdoc researcher. His research mainly focused on a Dinalog project called “Cargo driven intermodal transportation”. This project aimed at studying container flows management at the cargo level and focused on both economic and environmental performances optimization. His main research interest is on Sustainable Operations and Logistics. He has published articles in academic journals such as International Journal of Production Economics and European Journal of Operational Research.

Dr. Tarkan Tan is an Associate Professor in the School of Industrial Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. Dr. Tan received his Ph.D in Industrial Engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2002. He pursued one year of his studies towards his Ph.D. degree at Columbia University, Graduate School of Business, Management Science / Operations Research division, New York, as a Fulbright scholar. He joined Eindhoven University of Technology as a post-doc researcher in 2003 and started working as an assistant professor the same year in the Operations, Planning, Accounting, and Control group. In 2010 he spent an academic term at the University of California, Los Angeles, as a visiting scholar. Dr. Tan has been elected twice as the best lecturer in Operations Management and Logistics MSc program, by “Industria”, the organization of the Industrial Engineering students of Eindhoven University of Technology. He is an executive board member of the European Supply Chain Forum. His research interests include inventory theory, capacity management, spare parts management, and supply chain management with a particular focus on the effects of carbon emissions. He has published articles in academic journals such as Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Transportation Science, IIE Transactions, Naval Research Logistics, Operations Research Letters, and European Journal of Operational Research.

Following the completion of his PhD Thesis, he was awarded a fellowship by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. He specializes in Operations Planning and Supply Chain Management in the process and food industries, is part of the Eindhoven Retail Operations

Fransoo currently serves in the management team of the research group OPAC. He is currently also vice-president of Dinalog (Dutch Institute for Advanced Logistics), a University of California at Los Angeles, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is regular visitor to Tsinghua University (China), Hong Kong University of Science and as Associate Editor of Operations Research, and has served and serves on the editorial board of a number of other journals. He has published over 70 papers in academic journals such as Journal of Operations and Production Management, and European Journal of Operational

Journal of Industrial Ecology, and currently serves as editor-in-chief forFoundations and Trends in Technology, Information and Operations Management. He was named an AT&T Faculty Fellow in Industrial Ecology in 1997, and in 2013 he was elected a lifetime Fellow of the Production and Operations Management Society. He has received several teaching awards, in addition to the UCLA Staff Assembly’s Faculty/Staff Partnership Award and the Anderson School’s J. Clayburn LaForce Faculty Leadership Award. He founded and co-directed the award-winning UCLA Leaders in Sustainability graduate certificate program and the Easton Technology Leadership Program. He has given (semi-)plenary and keynote lectures at conferences in Bali, Istanbul, Lima, Mexico City, Paris, Sao Paulo, Salvador (Brazil), Shanghai, Tainan and Taipei (Taiwan), and Wroclaw (Poland). Professor Corbett holds a Ph.D. in Production and Operations Management from INSEAD in Fontainbleau, France, and a Drs. in Operations Research from Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands).