Our people
Meet our Centre for Supply Chain Management (CSCM) members and learn about their research interests.
Director
Professor David Robb, Director
Advisory Group members
| Member | Position |
|---|---|
| Dave Christie | Supply Chain Strategy Director, Tainui Group Holdings |
| Deena Clarkson | Chief Executive Officer, CODA Group |
| Simon Dedman | General Manager, Cargo, Kuehne+Nagel |
| Debbie Howarth | Director, Industry and External Engagement, NZDF |
| Charles Lott | National Manager, Equipment and Logistics, Fire and Emergency NZ |
| Suzanne O'Leary | Director, January Group |
| Jonti Rhodes | VP Supply Chain, Facilities, and Sustainability, Fisher & Paykel Healthcare |
| Sebastian Doelle | Manager, Trade and Supply Chains, Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment |
| Tessa Auelua | General Manager, Container Operations, Planning and Engineering |
| Darren Porteous | General Manager, Supply Chain, Briscoe Group |
Research centre members
Professor David Robb, Director
- Supply chain improvement in systems with supply and demand
- Service-level/inventory trade-offs - empirical and modelling approaches uncertainty
- Supply chain practice and performance in China
Dr Gabrielle Peko, Senior Lecturer
- Business process design
- Supply chain management
Dr Subhamoy Ganguly, Senior Lecturer
- Food Loss and Waste
- Academic Admissions
- Health Care Operations
Dr Sarah Marshall, Senior Lecturer
- Inventory management
- Modelling uncertainty in supply chains
- Supply chain analytics
Dr Mahdi Mahmoudzadeh, Lecturer
- Behavioural operations
- Sustainable operations
- Supply chain analytics
Benny Oz, Senior Lecturer
- Revenue Management
- Service Systems
Administrative, Business Development and Engagement staff
Dinah Towle
Coordinator
Email: d.towle@auckland.ac.nz
Simon Crook
Business Development Manager - Research Collaboration
Auckland UniServices
Email: simon.crook@auckland.ac.nz
Noah Ghebremichael
Senior Business Development - Capability Development Solutions for Organisations
Executive and Professional Development (EPD) | Business School
Email: noah.ghebremichael@auckland.ac.nz
PhD students
Param Iyer, PhD student
- "Optimisation opportunities in temperature-controlled supply chains"
Hasan Nur, PhD student
- "Determining industrial parks location in emerging economies: Learning from Indonesia's nickel boom"
Jihyun Ahn, PhD student
- "Supply base characteristics and firm financial performance"
Pavani Diyawadana, PhD student
- “Procurement Category Management Practices in FMCG Companies”
Fatemeh Rostambeygi, PhD student
- “Application of Process Mining in Supply Chain Management”
External members
Professor Valery Pavlov, Professor, HSE University
- Supply chain coordination
- Behavioural operations
Associate Professor Timofey Shalpegin, Associate Professor of Operations, Prince Mohammed Bin Salman College, Saudi Arabia
- Incentive conflicts in collaborative product development
- Models of supply chain coordination at product development stage
- Early supplier involvement
Lahiru Gunasekara, Lecturer, Lincoln University
- Supply chain management
- Circular supply chains
- Used product take-back and reverse logistics optimisation
Professor Tava Olsen, Melbourne Business School, Australia
- Supply chain management, pricing and inventory control
- Stochastic models of production, service and health systems
- Agricultural supply chains
Dr Riccardo Mogre, Associate Professor, Durham University Business School, UK
- Supply chain risk management
- Stochastic models of production and service systems
- Technology adoption in operations and supply chains
Dr Lincoln Wood, Professor, University of Otago, New Zealand
- Operations and supply chain management in construction
- Performance in logistics service relationships
Dr Quan (Spring) Zhou, Senior Lecturer, University of Wollongong, Australia
- Supply chain management and coordination
- Humanitarian supply chain, nonprofit operations
Dr Yangyan (Peter) Shi, Associate Professor, Macquarie University, Australia
- Third-party purchase
- Third-party logistics
- Operations and supply chain management
Associate Professor Arvind Tripathi, The University of Kansas, USA
- Online markets
- Social networks
- Open innovation
- Supply chain management
Professor Fernando Oliveira, Adjunct Professor, Porto Business School
- Energy Supply Chains
- Quantitative Risk Management
- Revenue Management and Dynamic Pricing
- Sustainability
Associate Professor Aadhaar Chaturvedi, Clemson University, USA
- Sourcing
- e-Auctions
- Supply chain management
- Sharing economy platforms
Associate Professor Benjamin Dehe, Auckland University of Technology
- Industry 4.0 technologies and digital transformation
- Operational excellence and innovation
- Supply Chain design and integration
Alumni
Hendrik Reefke, PhD
Senior Lecturer in Supply Chain Management, School of Management, Cranfield University
Chin Boo Soon, PhD
Asia Pacific Sales and Technical Manager, BT9 International
Lincoln Wood, PhD
Professor in Operations and Supply Chain Management, Department of Management, University of Otago
Adjunct Research Fellow at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia
Samsul Islam, PhD
Project Researcher, Dalhousie University
Dusan Ku, PhD
Terminal Business Analyst, South Korea
Quan (Spring) Zhou, PhD
Senior Lecturer in School of Management, Operations and Marketing, University of Wollongong
Xiaoyan (Miya) Qian, PhD
Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
Mojtaba Mahdavi, PhD
Network Design Lead, Fisher & Paykel Healthcare
Adjunct Lecturer, ISOM department, University of Auckland
Lahiru Gunasekara, PhD
Lecturer, Lincoln University