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Every two years the International Society for Inventory Research (ISIR) offers a Best Student Paper Award, usually in connection with the bi-annual symposium of the Society in Budapest. This year we have to postpone the event to 2021, but this competition will be organized nevertheless. Papers will be judged based on their contribution to the advancement of inventory research. The papers may be thematically positioned under any of the current sections of the society:  Economics of Inventory and Production,  Analytics and Forecasting for Inventory Control,  Interfaces of Inventory with Transportation, Production, Finance and Marketing,  Inventory Coordination in Supply Chains (includes multi-echelon),  Spare Parts Management and Maintenance Optimization and  Sustainable Inventory Management …

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The International Society for Inventory Research (ISIR) organizes its 21st International Symposium on Inventories, the only scholarly forum in the world focusing directly on inventories in Budapest, Hungary between August 24 and 28 in 2020. The professional objective of organizing this event is to provide a forum for an international exchange of ideas on various aspects …

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The International Society for Inventory Research (ISIR) sponsors a session each year at the ASSA meetings.  The 2020 meetings will be held on January 3 – 5, 2020 in San Diego, CA. This year the session is being co-organized by Pablo Ottonello of the University of Michigan and Nicolas Crouzet of Northwestern, Kellog. The ISIR …

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Prof. Henk Zijm officially retired from his position as full professor in Production and Supply Chain Management at the University of Twente on May 3, 2017. On June 7, 2017 he presented his valedictory lecture. A copy of the text of this lecture can be found here

Logistics Systems Dynamics Group (LSDG), and Panalpina Centre for Maufacturing and Logistics Research at Cardiff University Cardiff Business School has partnered with Yeo Valley, the largest organic dairy producer in the UK, on a project to streamline the company’s forecasting, planning and replenishment systems. The £220,000 two-year collaborative project is being led by Dr Laura …

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The Department of Law and Economics invites applications for a vacant position of a Research Assistant – 75 % at the Institute for Production and Supply Chain Management, initially limited to 3 years. An option for increasing the coverage of the position is available – for more information please contact the head of the institute. …

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