16 March 2024 – Guest lecture by BRISA

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As part of our PMBA Operations Management course at Sabancı Business School, Brisa Bridgestone Sabanci Supply Chain Director Ahmet Gunenc (also our EMBA alumni) and Purchasing Specialist Özge Özçelik gave a very informative guest lecture. Oğuz Özkavukcu, Head Of Lean & Agile Transformation Office (also student in the mART master program), was among the attendees …

8 January 2024 – Article: Untying the Gordian knot: A systematic review and integrative framework of supply network complexity

Our recent research about supply network complexity has been published in Journal of Business Logistics. In this research, we provide a systematic review of supply network complexity research and present an integrative framework illustrating the dimensions, antecedents, outcomes and management of supply network complexity. Click here for the full text and see below the abstract of …

28 February 2023 – Panel: Future Supply Chains

We had the pleasure to host “Future Supply Chains” Panel as part of the PMBA Operations Management course at Sabancı Business School, Sabanci University. I would like to thank once more our panelists Tugrul Günal from TEDAR – Tedarik Zinciri Yönetimi Derneği and Dr. Ismail Karakis from PwC Türkiye who shared their projections regarding the …

27 June 2022 – IPSERA PSM Summer School: Theories for Purchasing and Supply Management Research

Last week, IPSERA PSM Summer School was held at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. The summer school, organized by Finn Wynstra, consisted of both faculty presentations on key theories utilized in purchasing and supply management research and PhD student presentations. I was happy to participate as a faculty member and discuss resource-based view and dynamic …

31 March 2022 – Article: Financial sustainability in supply chains under times of crisis

A plethora of factors such as the uncertainties brought about by the pandemic, increases in raw material prices, sudden fluctuations in demand, and problems in international transportation have resulted in difficult-to-solve problems in cash flow and liquidity management. Although short-term practices can be a quick remedy to these problems, what organizations should aim for in …