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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).
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*Dr Diego Ruiz-Hernandez (PhD MSc MA)*
*/Senior Lecturer in Management Science/*
*/Operations Management & Decisions Sciences Division/*
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