Presentations

TOM Conference Presentations

Key research themes of the Chair of Technology & Operations Management (TOM) are regularly presented at various international conferences:

“Assortment Optimization Using an Attraction Model in an Omnichannel Environment,” INFORMS Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, October 2022.

“Limiting the impact of supply chain disruptions in the face of distributional uncertainty in demand,” INFORMS Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, October 2022.

“Why Do Companies Need Operational Flexibility to Reduce Waste at Source”, CORS/INFORMS International Conference, Vancouver, Canada, June 2022.

“Optimizing Order Quantity and Pricing Decisions of a Product Portfolio with Capacity Constraint”, CORS/INFORMS International Conference, Vancouver, Canada, June 2022.

A.Timonina-Farkas, R.W. Seifert. “Internet Ranking Robust to the Growth and Network Structural Changes”, 31st European Conference on Operational Research, 11 – 14 July 2021, University of West Attica Athens, Greece.

A.Timonina-Farkas, R.W. Seifert. “Internet Ranking Robust to the Growth and Network Structural Changes”, VCDMU, October 2021, University of Vienna, Austria.

“Information Retrieval Under Network Uncertainty: Robust Internet Ranking,” INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 2020.

“A Network Flow Approach to Modeling and Mitigating Supply Chain Disruptions,” INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, USA, October 2019.

“Additive Manufacturing: Towards Flexible Operations and Profitable Mass Customization,” INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, USA, October 2019.

“Risk-averse pathwise dynamic programming: A simple simulation-and-regression approach,” INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, USA, October 2019.

“Risk-averse pathwise dynamic programming: A simple simulation-and-regression approach,” XV International Conference on Stochastic Programming (ICSP2019), Trondheim, Norway, July 2019.

“Mitigating Product Shortages due to Disruptions in Multi-stage Supply Chains,” Supply Chain Finance & Risk Management Workshop, Olin Business School of Washington University in St. Louis, USA, May 2019.

“Building up Resilience in a Pharmaceutical Supply Chain through Inventory, Dual Sourcing and Agility Capacity,” INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, USA, November 2018.

“Stochastic Dynamic Programming Using Optimal Quantizers,” co-authored with Georg Ch. Pflug, Swiss OR Days 2018, June 2018.

“Product Assortment and Space Allocation Strategies to Attract Loyal and Non-loyal Customers,” 2018 PhD Summer Academy, Zaragoza Logistics Center.

“Disruption Risk Management in Two-Echelon Supply Chains: Early Commitment to Finished Goods,” POMS Annual Conference, Houston, USA, May 2018.

“Differences in the Way Inventory and Reserve Capacity are used to Deal with Supply Disruption Risk in Two-echelon Supply Chains,” INFORMS Annual Meeting, Houston, USA, October 2017.

“Investments in Lead-Time Reduction: How to Finance and How to Implement,” Supply Chain Finance & Risk Management Conference, St-Louis, U.S.A, June 2017.

“Managing Perishability in the Fruit and Vegetable Supply Chain,” POMS Annual Conference, Seattle, USA, May 2017.

“Disruption Risk Management for Two-Echelon Supply Chains: Inventory versus Reserve Capacity,” POMS Annual Conference, Seattle, USA, May 2017.

“Disruption Risk Management for Two-Echelon Supply Chains: Early Commitment to Finished Goods,” INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 2016, Nashville, TN, USA.

“Optimal dynamic order scheduling under capacity constraints given demand-forecast evolution,” EurOMA Annual Meeting, Trondheim, Norway, June 2016.

“Dynamic Order Scheduling under Evolution of Demand Forecasts,” POMS Annual Conference, Orlando, USA, May 2016.

“Managing Disruption Risks under Stochastic Demand,” POMS Annual Conference, Orlando, USA, May 2016.

“Optimal Replenishment Cycle for Perishable Items under Demand Uncertainty,” POMS Annual Conference, Orlando, USA, May 2016.

“Inventory Dynamics in Process Industries: An Empirical Investigation,” POMS Annual Conference, Orlando, USA, May 2016.

“Optimal Production and Investment Policies under Evolutionary Demand Risk,” INFORMS Annual Conference, November 2015, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

“Knowledge Spillovers in the Supply Chain: Evidence from the High Tech Sectors,” 75th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Vancouver, 2015.

“Knowledge Spillovers in the Supply Chain: Evidence from the High Tech Sectors,” DRUID15 Conference on ‘The RELEVANCE of INNOVATION’, Rome, 2015.

“Coherent Measures of Customer Service Level,” EurOMA Annual Meeting, June 2015, Neuchatel, Switzerland.

“Dual Sourcing under Heavy-Tailed Demand: An Extreme-Value Theory Approach,” INFORMS Annual Conference, November 2014, San Francisco, CA, USA.

“The Value of Reducing Lead Time under Non-Stationary Demand,” INFORMS Annual Conference, November 2014, San Francisco, CA, USA.

“Knowledge Spillovers in the Supply Chain: Evidence from the High Tech Sectors,” INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA, November 2014.

“Managing Disruption Risks: Aligning Inventory, Dual Sourcing and Agility Capacity Decisions,” INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA, November 2014.

“Effects of Carbon Footprint Reduction on Supply Chain Network Design,” IFORS (EURO), Barcelona, July 2014.

“Knowledge Spillovers in the Supply Chain: Evidence from the High Tech Sectors,” POMS Annual Conference, Atlanta, USA, May 2014

“Product Portfolio Management with Product Life Cycle Considerations,” INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, USA, October 2012.

“Has the Bullwhip Effect Been Underestimated? – A Study Linking Customers and Suppliers,” INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, USA, October 2012.

“Joint Product Assortment, Inventory and Price Optimization,” European Conference of Operational Research, Vilnius, Lithuania, July 2012.

“A Three-echelon Supply Chain with Price-only Contracts and Sub-supply Chain Coordination,” P&OM World Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 2012.

“Inventory Decisions and the Financial Performance of the Firm,” POMS Annual Conference, Chicago, USA, April 2012.

“Joint Product Assortment and Inventory Management Optimization,” INFORMS Annual Meeting, Charlotte, USA, November 2011.

“Financial Supply Chain Management : Working Capital Requirements with Short-term Debt,” POMS Annual Conference, Reno, USA, May 2011.

“Associations between Inventory Performance and Firm Profitability – Evidence from the Manufacturing Industry,” POMS Annual Conference, Reno, USA, May 2011.

“Carbon Abatement in Global Supply Chain Networks,” POMS Annual Conference, Reno, USA, May 2011.

“On The Effect of Supply Chain Disruptions on Suppliers, Customers, and Rivals,” INFORMS Annual Meeting, Austin, USA, November 2010.

“Large Supply Chain Network Design: Decomposition and Heuristic” INFORMS Annual Meeting, Austin, USA, November 2010.

“A Heuristic to Locate Distribution Centers in Large Supply Chains” EURO 2010, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2010.

“Estimating the Impact of Stochasticity in Operating Theatres” EURO 2010, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2010.

“Systematic and Comprehensive Supply Chain Environmental  Management” EURO 2010, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2010.

“An Analysis of Supply Chain Environmental Management Practices of Sustainability Leaders” POMS 2010, Vancouver, Canada, May 2010.

“On the Optimal Working Capital Allocation in a Multi-echelon Supply Chain” INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA, November 2009.

“The Effect of Supply Chain Disruptions on Suppliers, Customers, and Rivals” POMS 2009, Orlando, USA, May 2009.

“Aligning Supply Chain Portfolios with Product Portfolios” POMS 2008, La Jolla, USA, May 2008.

“Interrelating Operational and Financial Performance Measurements in Inventory Control” POMS 2008, La Jolla, USA, May 2008.

“Maximizing Supply Chain Profits with Selective Channel Strategies” INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, USA, November 2007.

“Market Dynamics in a Retail Supply Chain under Item-level RFID” INFORMS Annual Meeting, Denver, USA, October 2004.

“The mi adidas Mass Customization Initiative” INFORMS Annual Meeting, Denver, USA, October 2004.

“Satisfying Customer Preferences via Mass Customization and Mass Production,” INFORMS Annual Meeting, Atlanta, USA, October 2003.

“Radio-Frequency Identification and the Retail Supply Chain,” INFORMS Annual Meeting, Atlanta, USA, October 2003.

“Optimal Procurement Strategies for Online Spot Markets,” INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Jose, USA, November 2002.

“Integrating Direct and Indirect Sales Channels Under Decentralized Decision Making,” INFORMS Annual Meeting, Miami, USA, November 2001.

“Relaxing Channel Separation – Integrating the Virtual Store,” INFORMS Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, USA, November 1999.

“Evaluation of AGV Routing Strategies Using Hierarchical Simulation,” 1995 Winter Simulation Conference, Washington D.C., USA, December 1995.

“Evaluation of Routing Strategies for AGV’s Based on Computer Simulation,” Special Interest Group of Discrete-Event Simulation, Operations Research Society of Japan, Tokyo, Japan, July 1995.