October 2018 - Ewgla

Supply chain complexity track - MIM 2019 [Call for contributions]
by Olivier Péton 31 Oct '18

31 Oct '18

***************************** Dear colleagues and friends, Mozart Menezes (Kedge Business School) and I, Diego Ruiz-Hernandez, are organising a track at MIM 2019 (9th IFAC/IFIP/IFORS/IISE/INFORMS Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control) to be held in Berlin on 28-30 of August, 2019. The focus is on the holistic understanding of the link between supply chain decisions and financial performance. Companies struggle to improve their financial indicators in highly competitive environments, and encourage the organisation to use the proliferation of products, markets, and channels, as a mechanism for capturing additional revenue for sustaining growth. This proliferation, to which we refer to as /structural complexity/, is likely to bring increases in revenues but those increases are hardly reflected in the operating profits. Although structural complexity seems to be a very big issue in managing todays’ business (a simple Google search for '“supply chain complexity”' or “operational complexity” brings over 250,000 results) and preliminary empirical results suggest that companies may lose up to 10 percent points (or more) of operating profits due to complexity, there is not an organised space for researchers working on this cross-functional areas topic, to exchange ideas. This track wants to fill that void. The track aims at bringing together papers (interdisciplinary work is highly encouraged) that address supply chain complexity from many angles. We accept quantitative and qualitative papers on the subject with an empirical view or theoretically leaning approaches. Papers that discuss performance loss (operation or financial) due to multiplicity of products, markets, and channels, are welcomed. That includes, but is not limited to, loss of forecasting accuracy due to (broadly defined) supply chain complexity, or behavioural experiments that help to shed light on the issue of complexity-induced performance loss in the supply chain. We also encourage the submission of system dynamics and discrete simulation based papers on this subject. Papers of facility location and network design topics that focus on multiple products and markets are also welcome. General facility location or transportation/routing investigations that highlight the issues involved when the numbers of products grow will be of special interest. We would like to use this conference as an opportunity and a platform for organising a group, interested in supply chain complexity issues, for planning beyond this conference. Depending on the answers to this “call of duty”, we will organise a social event for allowing us to get acquainted with each other. We hope you will get on board in this initiative with us. Please, if you have a colleague that could be interested in this subject then forward this message to her/him. *Track (Invited) Supply Chain Structural Complexity * Please ask me (d.ruiz-hernandez(a)sheffield.ac.uk <mailto:d.ruiz-hernandez@sheffield.ac.uk>) for a submission code if interested. Deadline for submissions: 15th of December, 2018. With best regards, Diego Ruiz-Hernandez (on behalf of the organisers). ********************** *Dr Diego Ruiz-Hernandez (PhD MSc MA)* */Senior Lecturer in Management Science/* */Operations Management & Decisions Sciences Division/* */ /* The University of Sheffield Conduit Road, S10 1FL, Sheffield ORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0001-5538-6930 <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5538-6930>

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[EURO 30] First call for location related contributions
by Olivier Péton 25 Oct '18

25 Oct '18

Dear locators, The EURO 30 conference will be held in Dublin, Ireland (23-26 june 2019). https://www.euro2019dublin.com/ One stream dedicated to "Locational Analysis and Optimization"will be managed by the EWGLA coordination board. We strongly encourage you to participate in this conference and to submit a scientific contribution. It will be an opportunity to gather people involved in locational analysis and to improve visibility of our Euro Working Group. The stream currently includes 6 sessions: *Stream* *Name* *Code* Location Analysis and Optimization <https://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro30/edit_session?sessid=47> Facility location <https://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro30/edit_session?sessid=47> 9050d038 Location Analysis and Optimization <https://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro30/edit_session?sessid=48> Hub Location <https://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro30/edit_session?sessid=48> 1f7e0689 Location Analysis and Optimization <https://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro30/edit_session?sessid=49> Facility location in supply chains <https://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro30/edit_session?sessid=49> d2484108 Location Analysis and Optimization <https://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro30/edit_session?sessid=50> Facility location in transportation networks <https://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro30/edit_session?sessid=50> 0b2af7d7 Location Analysis and Optimization <https://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro30/edit_session?sessid=51> Facility location and sustainability <https://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro30/edit_session?sessid=51> 9551cb25 Location Analysis and Optimization <https://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro30/edit_session?sessid=52> Location in the Public Sector and Humanitarian Logistics <https://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro30/edit_session?sessid=52> 3d000a25 This stream is still open to additional topics. If you wish to propose a new session or chair a session, please contact the coordination board : ewgla-board(a)euro-online.org Best regards, Olivier Péton -- IMT Atlantique <http://www.imt-atlantique.fr> *Olivier PÉTON* Professeur +33 251 85 83 13 olivier.peton(a)imt-atlantique.fr 4 rue Alfred Kastler 44307 Nantes Cedex 3 Site web IMT Atlantique <http://www.imt-atlantique.fr>Twitter IMT Atlantique <https://twitter.com/IMTAtlantique>Facebook IMT Atlantique <https://www.facebook.com/IMTAtlantique>Google+ IMT Atlantique <https://plus.google.com/109356934816329928502>LinkedIn IMT Atlantique <https://www.linkedin.com/company/imt-france>Blog IMT Atlantique <http://blogrecherche.wp.imt.fr> Une école de l'IMT <https://www.imt.fr>

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PhD Research Position: Call for Applications - Computational Approaches for Radiotherapy Planning of Excellence
by Joana Matos Dias 16 Oct '18

16 Oct '18

Apologies for any cross-postings. I would greatly appreciate if you can distribute this call within your contacts. * * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Call for Applications* We are looking for a talented PhD researcher to work with us in a challenging and interesting research project: RT-CARE, Computational Approaches for Radiotherapy Planning of Excellence. Candidates should have a PhD in any of the following areas: Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Physics Engineering, Medical Physics, Electrical and Computer Engineering or related fields. More information regarding the application can be found here: http://www.eracareers.pt/opportunities/index.aspx?task=global&jobId=102516 *Application Deadline: 18 September* Candidates can also contact Joana Dias (joana(a)fe.uc.pt) the PI of the project, for more detailed information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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