Mitigating inventory uncertainty through whole systems thinking

The total value of inventories in developed nations is around 15% of their GDP! Tiny savings in such investment have enormous economic implications. But with global disruptions, including more recently Brexit, the covid-19 pandemic, war in Europe and the subsequent economic crisis, the ability to control and manage such inventories requires different ways of thinking to make the whole supply chain more resilient to disruptions.

The International Society for Inventories Research (ISIR) is a community of scientists that are interested in all aspects of inventory management; from inventory modelling to pricing, and from financial research to relevant (macro-)economic issues, and indeed one of the founding people of the Society and first President was Kenneth Arrow.

Organized and hosted by Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, on behalf of the ISIR, the 16th ISIR PhD Summer School will be held in the capital city of Cardiff, Wales, UK, from 24th July to 28th July 2023. ISIR’s bi-annual Summer School aims to bring together PhD students, and potentially one of their supervisors plus other senior faculty members, to give an opportunity to the former group to present their work in a developmental way, receive extensive constructive feedback, expand their network, attend several keynotes from renowned researchers in the field and also attend some methodology workshops to expand their methodological repertoire.

Submission Guidelines

Please note that there will be a competitive process of accepting PhD student presentations based on peer review conducted by a scientific committee. Applicants should send a 500-word extended abstract highlighting the Purpose, Method, Findings (even if provisional), Originality and Limitations of their research. Please submit your abstract via Easy Chair – https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isir2023.

Committees

Organizing committee

• Prof. Aris Syntetos
• Prof. Mohamed Naim
• Dr Thanos Goltsos
• Dr Irina Harris
• Dr Qinyun Li
• Dr Xun Paul Wang
• Ms Beverly Fransis

Invited Speakers

• Prof. Robert Boute, Vlerick Business School, and KU Leuven, Belgium
• Prof. John Boylan, Management School, Lancaster University, UK
• Prof. Stephen Disney, University of Exeter Business School, UK
• Prof. Rogelio Oliva, Mays Business School, Texas A&M University, USA
• Prof. Ruud Teunter, Department of Operations, University of Groningen, Netherlands
• Prof. Li Zhou, School of Business, Operations and Strategy, University of Greenwich, UK

Venue

We can guarantee an exciting week with fascinating presentations from talented researchers, and an exciting social programme and industry visits. The venues will be a mixture of the traditional (the Glamorgan Building, that opened in 1912 as the headquarters of the County Council of Glamorgan, Glamorgan being the former name for the region in which the city of Cardiff resides) and the new (Cardiff Business School’s Postgraduate Teaching Centre) and the new multidisciplinary Social Science Research Park).

Contact

Any queries can be sent to ISIR2023@cardiff.ac.uk