7 June 2021 – Article: Embracing supply base complexity: The contingency role of strategic purchasing

Our recent research about supply base complexity has been published as online first in International Journal of Operations and Production Management. In this research, we find that supply base complexity sub-dimensions (detail and dynamic complexity) exert varying effects on purchasing performance. We also illustrate that strategic purchasing enables mitigating the negative effects and leveraging the …

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14 May 2021 – Article: Order from chaos: A meta-analysis of supply chain complexity and firm performance

Our recent research about supply chain complexity (meta-analysis) has been published as online first in Journal of Supply Chain Management. We find that supply chain complexity is not always detrimental: the effects vary across supply chain complexity and performance (sub)dimensions. Thus, managers should encourage cross-functional decision-making to assess the trade-offs carefully and manage supply chain complexity …

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20 January 2021 – Concluding PMBA Operations Management course

Last Sunday we successfully concluded the Operations Management course of the Professional MBA program. A big thank you goes to 80 ambitious Sabanci University PMBA’21 students who survived 36 hours of online lectures and discussions, GSCM simulation, panel with guest speakers, active participation to the discussion forum, in-class exercises, and a 3-hour exam! I’m proud of them …

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13 November 2019 – Conference: Supply Chain Management in the Defense Industry

Organized in cooperation with ASELSAN and the Supply Chain Management Association of Turkey (TEDAR), the “Supply Chain Management and the Role of Nationalization and Digitization in the Defense Industry” conference was held in Ankara on 13 November 2019. Approximately 250 people consisting of the main players of the defense industry and TEDAR members attended the …

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