Operations and Supply Chain Management
Academic Areas
Operations and supply chain management is an academic specialization in the Haskayne School of Business. Some particular research strengths of our faculty include:
- Supply chain management, encompassing all aspects, from operations strategy – maximizing responsiveness through flexibility, collaboration and logistics – through supply chain network design, including facility layout and location, and;
- Health care operations management, specifically health care delivery optimization through addressing problems of access to care and quality/safety, employing quantitative tools as well as qualitative and empirical studies of health services.
Research Consortiums:
- Digitization for Innovative Supply Chains (DISC) Consortium is a platform to create and share knowledge, allowing members insights into the value added from applied research findings and access to highly qualified personnel who are trained in digitization.
- A Collaborative Consortium for Excellence of Service Delivery (ACCESD) healthcare is a collective consortium of clinical and non-clinical colleagues in a diverse set of disciplines within the University of Calgary and beyond.
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Spotlight on Research
New research on cross-dock distribution centers sheds light on how to improve efficiency.
Marco Bijvank and his colleagues develop an integrated scheduling and assignment model for reducing waiting times at distribution centers.
A dispatcher of a cross-dock terminal faces two interrelated decisions: where and when the trucks should be processed at the dock doors of the terminal. Including flexibility by operating (part of) the dock doors in a mixed service mode is known to make cross-dock operations more efficient (i.e., when both inbound and outbound trucks can be processed at these...
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Osman Alp
Area Chair - OSCM, Professor
Area of expertise: Inventory Management, Distribution Logistics, Sustainable Transportation
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Jaydeep Balakrishnan
Professor Emeritus
Area of expertise: Supply Chain Management, Decision Making
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Marco Bijvank
Associate Professor
Area of expertise: Supply Chain Management, Decision Making, Healthcare Management
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Diane Bischak
Professor Emerita
Area of expertise: Health care operations management; discrete-event simulation; spreadsheet business analytics
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Giovani Caetano da Silveira
Professor
Area of expertise: Operations strategy, Mass customization, Supply chain management, Servitization
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Serasu Duran
Assistant Professor
Area of expertise: Energy-related Operations, Sustainability, Empirical Analysis, Supply Chain Management
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Janice Eliasson
Professor (Teaching)
Area of expertise: Teaching Innovation
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Hossein Piri
Assistant Professor
Area of expertise: Healthcare Operations Research, Machine Learning, Revenue Management, Behavioral Operations, Human-AI interaction
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Alireza Sabouri
Assistant Professor
Area of expertise: Supply Chain Management, Healthcare Management
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Edward Silver
Professor Emeritus
Area of expertise: Supply Chain Management, Decision Making
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Brent Snider
Haskayne Teaching Fellow, Professor (Teaching), Academic Director - Executive MBA Program
Area of expertise: Enterprise Systems, Experiential Learning
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Sherry Weaver
Associate Professor (Teaching)
Area of expertise: Ethical Leadership, Decision Making, Healthcare Management
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