14th ISIR Summer School / August 26th-30th, 2019 / Leuven, Belgium
-- Logistics 4.0: Inventory management in a digital era --
FURTHER INFO: https://feb.kuleuven.be/ISIR2019
The next ISIR Summer School will be hosted by the University KU Leuven with the aim to bring together PhD students and professors with a background in inventory management to discuss and improve their research.
Industry 4.0, the Internet-of-Things or Smart Industry are only a few nicknames to describe our current digitalized economy, characterized by automation, communicating devices and the increased availability of data and computing power. New methodologies such as advanced data science and machine learning have found their way into various business applications such as self-driving cars, virtual assistants or improved fraud detection. But these techniques also have applications to improve inventory management. The impact of these (and other) innovative approaches on inventory management plays a central role in this year’s Summer School.
Key research streams that will be included in the Summer School are (but not limited to):
- Forecasting for Inventory Management
- Inventory Management for Service Logistics
- Interface between Inventory Management and Transport & Logistics (Synchromodal Transport, Collaborative Shipping, etc.)
- Supply Chain Design and inventory management
- Technological and Business Interfaces to Inventory Management
- Inventory Management for Humanitarian Operations
- Supply Chain Risk Management
- Machine Learning for Inventory Management
- Supply Chain Dynamics
- Offshoring, Nearshoring and Dual Sourcing
- Inventory management for perishable goods
- Inventory management for sustainable supply chains
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS:
PhD students will have the opportunity to present and discuss their ongoing research with their peers, as well as with senior researchers. For each presentation two participants, one Ph.D. student and one senior researcher, will act as discussants. In addition to the presentations of Ph.D. students, senior researchers will give talks and offer tutorials.
In the spirit of “Utile Dulci” (the motto of the Economics students at KU Leuven), we also foresee a number of social activities that combine the useful with the pleasurable. In addition to the discussions on inventory research, you will see inventory management in practice (visit to AB inBev and Nike’s European Logistics Campus).
IMMINENT DEADLINES:
March 30th, 2019 | Deadline to apply for accommodation in student rooms (an abstract is expected to be submitted before applying to the dormitories). |
April 30th, 2019 | Deadline for submission of abstracts by Ph.D. students and deadline for application by senior researchers. |
Hope to see you in Leuven in August!
Best regards,
Attila Chikán
Executive Vice President
