Doctoral Researchers in OSCM

Tigar Putri Adhiana

Optimizing Bundling Strategies and Pricing Decisions in Supply Chain

In order to enhance sales and remain competitive against other firms and products, many businesses adopt a bundling strategy. Bundling is a selling strategy involving selling two or more products or services together.

In addition, with dynamic changes in the market, it is important for companies to set the right prices for their products and services. Thus, this research focuses on identifying bundling trends, including product and service bundling.

Furthermore, this research also investigates the bundling types and pricing strategies in the supply chain with several considerations and decisions that can optimize customer satisfaction, the performance of all of the entities in the supply chain, and the performance of the supply chain as a whole.

• 1^st Supervisor: Professor Dongping Song
• 2^nd Supervisor: Dr Eunice Guo

Nader Alshammari

Büşra Bayrak

Pricing Decisions and Recovery Strategies in Closed-Loop Supply Chains

With continuous technological advancements, e-waste is steadily increasing due to the short product life cycles.

Ensuring sustainability is of utmost importance for the preservation of valuable resources. In this context, closed-loop supply chains have emerged as a solution.

Customer returns play a pivotal role in this process, serving as a valuable source for generating new products while reducing dependency on new resources.

This study delves into the implementation of viable recovery strategies, considering customer returns, and employs pricing decisions to strike a balance between profitability and sustainability.

• 1^st Supervisor: Professor Jason Choi
• 2^nd Supervisor: Dr Eunice Guo

Syed Haider

Peiyi Liang

Meiting Lin

Ahmad F.M. Mah'd

Innovative Business Models: A Blockchain-Driven Paradigm for Supply Chain Sustainability 

The PhD research explores the intersection of supply chain, sustainability, and Blockchain technology.

The primary focus is on understanding the critical factors that influence the emergence of innovative business models that enhance sustainability in the supply chain through the implementation of Blockchain.

The study aims to uncover the intricate dynamics that shape the effectiveness of Blockchain in enhancing sustainability practices within the supply chain.

Furthermore, in the supply chain domain, the research explores the landscape of developed sustainability strategies, frameworks, or interventions that leverage Blockchain.

• 1^st Supervisor: Dr Dong Li
• 2^nd Supervisor: Dr Gopalakrishnan Narayanamurthy

Josh Marriott

E-commerce Returns; Could Last-Mile Innovations Help Decarbonise the Reverse Network of Fashion E-commerce Retailers

An overwhelming 25% of the global e-commerce carbon footprint is owing to the reverse logistic process. In order to sustain the influx of product returns, retailers and logistic providers must endeavour to implement robust, innovative supply chain networks.

Reverse logistics, in particular, has the ability to increase the recovery value of returned products, prevent product decay and also ensure of safe disposal.

This research will investigate last-mile solutions in order to decarbonise the reverse network of fashion e-commerce retailers

• 1^st Supervisor: Professor Tolga Bektas
• 2^nd Supervisor: Professor Andy Lyons
• 3^rd Supervisor: Dr Eric Leung

Shivani Mishra

Ganapathy Muthuthandavam

Seyma Onal

Ekin Ozgurbuz

Application of distributionally robust optimisation in combinatorial logistics problems

My research focuses on the application of distributionally robust optimisation techniques to solve network design and facility location problems under scarce data and uncertain parameter environments in the field of logistics and supply chain management.

I am particularly interested in topics such as operations research, combinatorial optimisation, mixed-integer programming, simulation, and stochastic processes. Prior to my PhD, I completed my bachelor's and master's degrees in Industrial Engineering at Boğaziçi University.

I am passionate about exploring innovative approaches to address complex logistics challenges and contribute to the advancement of supply chain optimisation.

• 1^st Supervisor: Professor Tolga Bektas
• 2^nd Supervisor: Dr Cagatay Iris

Ankur Kumar Pandey

Louise Postema

Smallholder Adaptation as Supply Chain Risk Management for African Agri-Food Businesses 

My research focuses on private sector investments in smallholder climate change adaptation.

Specifically, I will look at how investments in smallholder adaptation can be financially viable supply chain risk management strategies for agri-food companies procuring from these farmers.

This includes understanding risk management decision-making and influencing factors, enabling financial instruments and effective implementation mechanisms.

• 1st Supervisor: Dr Hugo Lam
• 2nd Supervisor: Dr Andrew Lyons