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Research visit to Donghua University

Research collabouration with Glorious Sun Business School, Donghua University, China

Highly Ranked Scholar

ScholarGPS ranks me as a Highly Ranked Scholar in the supply chains

A collection of dual sourcing web apps

A collection of shiny apps on dual sourcing

Research.com ranking

Research.com lists me in as a Top 100 UK Scientist in Business and Management

ISIR PhD Summer School, Cardiff

International Society for Inventory Research PhD Summer School

Some thoughts on editing and reviewing

The editorial and review process is an essential step in the scientific process, ensuring the integrity of our scientific knowledge base.

Operations Analytics Event at the University of Exeter Business School

In 2023 we started a workshop for Professors and their PhD students. It was held in Leuven, Belgium in 2024. In 2025 it will be held in Barcelona.

Email etiquette

Some hints and tips for good email etiquette

The top 10 papers of the European Management Journal

My paper on supply chain collabouration is one of the top 10!

Writing a PhD proposal

Here are somne tips for writing a PhD proposal, a document that you will need to secure a position as PhD student.

Supply chain forecasting interview

Dr Carel Bezuidenhout from the University of Massey recently interviewed me on the topic of supply chain forecasting.

Guest editor for a Special Issue on Uncertainty in Operations and Supply Chain Management in JOM

Here is the call for papers for a Special Issue in the Journal of Operations Management on Uncertainty in Operations and Supply Chain Management which I guest edited.

Interview with Joannes Vermorel from Lokad TV on the bullwhip effect

Watch my interview with Lokad TV, which is now on YouTube

I am listed in the top 2% of scientists in the world!

In 2019 I was ranked the 270th scientist in the world for the feild of operations research.

What’s the right forecasting method? It depends on your data

Matt Leonard, from SupplyChainDive.com wrote a nice news article mentioning some of my recent forecasting research with Fotios Petropoulos and Xun Wang.

The unintended consequences of a small bit of math

My Lambert W function Excel Add-in is bing used by a growing number of researchers!

Moving on…

29 years ago I left my hometown in Devon to come to Cardiff as a student and have had a successful, interesting, and enjoyable career in Cardiff Business School.

The trials and tribulations of running a research group

Helping others in your research group is one of the most enjoyable part of acedemic life.

The ingredients for a good paper-setting up a winner

Recently I have been asked by my School, and my Research Group, to give a talk about how to write a good paper. Here are my speaking notes.

Industry week reports on our SpeedFactory paper

A SpeedFactory is a small, local factory, with a short lead time that works in tandom to a global outsourced supplier.

Order-up-to policy found to create chaos in supply chains

The OUT policy with incorrect lead time information and a non-linearity (think capacity constraints or lost sales) is found to be chaotic.

Activity sampling procedure updated

The binomial proportion confidence interval found to provide the exact solution for the confidence interval in activity sampling studies.