Projects
STRAUSS: SusTainable collaboRAtive Urban Supply chainS - The future of urban supply chain orchestration Hasselt University
Sustainability through supply chain consolidation: an efficient tool for joint supply chain planning. University of Antwerp
REMASC - Prediction & Management of the ‘Reverse’ Remanufacturing Supply Chain Ghent University
Driven by sustainability, companies and customers alike are looking to set up a closed loop supply chain whereby products are returned to be ‘remanufactured’ (i.e., process to retain the usefulness of the product or the components). These product returns trigger a reverse manufacturing supply chain (REMASC). Companies are in need for tools that support both operational aspects, as well as strategic decision making related to the management of ...
Prediction & management of the 'reverse' remanufacturing supply chain (REMASC). University of Antwerp
The trade-off between inventories, lead time and capacity: application to vaccine supply chain design. KU Leuven
This doctoral dissertation contributes to the modeling and measuring of the operational performance of a vaccine manufacturing supply chain. These models are part of a broader, overarching framework on stakeholder-based vaccine supply chain design. We show how the developed models in this doctoral dissertation are positioned in that framework. The overarching framework consists of five steps to generate and evaluate new (vaccine) supply chain ...
Sustainability in the supply chain; from anecdotal evidence to an objective empirical framework. KU Leuven
Sustainability is the one metric where both consumers and firms are "Supply-Chain-aware"; that is, buying decisions do not depend exclusively on product or financial considerations but also on the sustainability performance of the *entire* supply chain. (For example, fashion consumers are becoming more and more sensitive about the conditions of workers all along the supply chain and alter their behaviour accordingly.)
However, ...
Design for Supply Chain Resilience KU Leuven
Supply chain resilience is the ability to proactively plan and design the supply chain network to quickly bounce back from a disruption event. Resilience is becoming more important during the last few years. Yet, there is a need for formalizing decisions regarding supply chain resilience measures. We will focus on supply chain resilience measures integrated into the design phase of a (new) product. This means that the products will be ...
DeSCRe_IRVA - Design for Supply Chain Resilience Ghent University
Supply chain resilience is the ability to proactively plan and design the supply chain network to quickly bounce back from a disruption event. Resilience is becoming more important during the last few years. Yet, there is a need for formalizing decisions regarding supply chain resilience measures. We will focus on supply chain resilience measures integrated into the design phase of a (new) product. This means that the products will be ...
Improving vaccine distribution supply chain design in low- and middle-income countries: a data-driven modelling approach. KU Leuven
Immunization substantially contributes to global health by saving millions of lives every year. Yet, a vast amount of people around the world, including nearly 20 to 25 million infants each year, have insufficient access to vaccines. Challenges related to the storage and distribution of vaccines persist, contributing to vaccination coverage rates that are below the required thresholds to reach herd immunity. Our research is motivated and ...