Dr. Çagri Gürbüz | Professor, ZLC and Research Affiliate, MIT CTL

Dr. Mustafa Çagri Gürbüz

Professor of Supply Chain Management at the MIT-Zaragoza Program

Dr. Mustafa Çagri Gürbüz is Professor of Supply Chain Management at the MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program. He is also a Research Affiliate at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics.

He completed his PhD at the Department of Management Science at the University of Washington in July 2006. He earned his BS and MS degrees from the Department of Industrial Engineering at Bilkent University, Turkey in 1999 and 2001, respectively.

His main research interests are inventory and supply chain management, optimizing distribution systems, contracts, and modeling operations systems.

Mr. Gurbuz has been a consultant to AT&T Wireless, AREX, and RENFE. He has led research projects with companies such as Roche, Philips, Halliburton, to name a few. He also participated as a principal investigator in a number of EU Projects related to supply chain management. He has been a visiting professor at MIT CTL in 2009 and City University of Hong Kong in 2014. .

He has also published in journals such as Management Science, Production and Operations Management, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Economics, and Operations Research Letters.

Research Areas

Resilience, SC Security & Risk Management

The Research Group on Resilience, SC Security & Risk Management tackles the challenging question of how to achieve efficient and secure supply chains.

Advanced Inventory Management

In order to provide an appropriate service level to customers while keeping operational costs as low as possible, companies have to design smart replenishment systems.

Projects

Transport resilience against cyber and non-cyber events to prevent network disruptions

Project Name: Transport resilience against cyber and non-cyber events to prevent network disruptions Acronym: TRANSCEND Project number: 101168023 Funding Body: European Commission – Horizon Europe Type of funding: Public Main Researcher: Mustafa Çagri Gürbüz Start date: 01/09/2024 End date: 31/08/2027 Duration: 36 months Project description While it is by nature a large-scale interconnected and interdependent […]

Resilient Rapid Reconfigurable Production Process chains

Project Name: Resilient Rapid Reconfigurable Production Process chains Acronym: R3GROUP Project number: 101091869 Funding Body: European Union – Horizon Europe Type of funding: Public Main Researcher: Mustafa Çagri Gürbüz Start date: 01/01/2023 End date: 31/12/2026 Duration: 48 months Project description Covid-19 has shown that unpredictable events can disrupt supply chains, demand, and […]

Artificial Intelligence and Big Data CSA for Process Industry Users, Business Development and Exploitation’ — ‘AI-CUBE’

Acronym: AI_CUBE Project number: 958402 Funding Body: European Commission – H2020 Type of funding: Public Main Researcher: Mustafa Çagri Gürbüz Start date: 01/09/2020 End date: 31/08/2022 Duration: 24 months Website: www.ai-cube.eu Project description AI-CUBE seeks to enhance the understanding of different digital technologies related to artificial intelligence (AI) and big data (BD) applied in […]

Next generation Technologies for networked Europe

Acronym: NEXT – NET Project number: 768884 Funding Body: European Commission – H2020 Type of funding: Public Main Researcher: Mustafa Çagri Gürbüz Start date: 01/10/2017 End date: 30/09/2019 Duration: 24 months https://nextnetproject.eu/ Project description The aim of the project is to put in place a cross-sectoral and cross-technological initiative at European level to increase integration […]

Towards growth for business by flexible processing in customer-driven value chains

Acronym: INSPIRE Project number: 723748 Funding Body: European Commission – Horizon 2020 Type of funding: Public Main Researcher: Mustafa Çagri Gürbüz Start date: 1/09/16 End date: 31/08/18 Duration: 24 months www.inspire-eu-project.eu Project description INSPIRE aims at increasing the competitiveness of European manufacturing which depends on producing differentiated and high added value products in an efficient […]

Consistently Optimised Resilient Secure Global Supply-Chains

Acronym: COREProject Reference: FP7-SEC-2013-1 Project Number: 603993 Funding body: European Commission, 7th Framework Programme Type of Funding: Public Main Researcher: Mustafa Çagri Gürbüz Other Researchers: Luca Urciuoli, Spyros Lekkakos Start date: 01/05/2014 End date: 30/04/2018 Duration: 4 years CORE presented at Intermodal Europe 2014 – Press release Website Newsletter CORE Newsletter – Dic 2014 CORE […]

Re use and development of Security Knowledge assets for International Postal Supply Chains

Acronym: SAFEPOST Official reference: 285104 Funding body: European Commission, 7th Framework Programme Type of funding: Public Main Researcher: Mozart Menezes Other Researchers: Mustafa Çagri Gürbüz, María Jesús Sáenz, Luca Urciuoli Duration (1-04-2012 to 31-03-2016): 48 months Project Description SAFEPOST aims to raise the current level of postal security by integrating innovative screening solutions suitable for […]

Comprehensive Management of Electronic Product Return Logistics: Design of the Return Chain

Acronym: RETURNET Official reference: DPI2007-65827-C02-02 Funding Body: Ministry of Education and Science (MEC) Type of Funding: Public Main Researcher: Prashant Yadav Other Researchers: Mustafa Çagri Gürbüz, Jarrod Goentzel, Carolina García, Santiago Blasco Project Description This project studies the complete process that products undergo from pick-up in the reverse chain to processing (recycling, repair, etc.) at […]

Common assessment and analysis of risk in global supply chains

Acronym: CASSANDRA Official reference: 261795 Funding Body: European Commission – 7th Framework Programme Type of Funding: Public Main Researcher: Mario Monsreal Barrera Other Researchers: Mustafa Çagri Gürbüz Term: 3 years Project Description The challenges facing international intermodal container logistics are efficiency and security. These seemingly conflicting issues have a common solution: supply chain visibility, […]

Publications

Global supply chains risks and COVID-19: Supply chain structure as a mitigating strategy for small and medium-sized enterprises

Gürbüz, M.C., Yurt, O., Ozdemir, S., Sena, V., Yu, W. Global supply chains risks and COVID-19: Supply chain structure as a mitigating strategy for small and medium-sized enterprises | Journal of Business Research | Vol. 155 Part B | January 2023 | 113407

Ordering Behavior and the Impact of Allocation Mechanisms in an Integrated Distribution System

Spiliotopoulou, E., Donohue, K., Gürbüz, M. Ç. Ordering Behavior and the Impact of Allocation Mechanisms in an Integrated Distribution System | Production and Operations Management | Volume 31, Issue 2, Feb. 2022 | pp. 422- 441

Unveiling the Challenges of Future Supply Chains: An Explorative Analysis

Gürbüz, M.C., Muerza, V., Marchiori, I., Zangiacomi, A. Unveiling the Challenges of Future Supply Chains: An Explorative Analysis | Next Generation Supply Chains – A Roadmap for Research and Innovation | Chapter 5, pp. 103-128 | January 1st, 2021 | ISBN 978-3-030-63504-6.

Optimal Spot Trading Integrated with Quantity Flexibility Contracts

Xu, J., Gürbüz, Ç., Feng, Y., Chen, S. Optimal Spot Trading Integrated with Quantity Flexibility Contracts. Production and Operations Management, Vol.29 (6), June 2020 | pp. 1532 – 1549.

Is it fake? Using potentially low Quality suppliers as back-up when genuine suppliers are unavailable

Wagner, L., Gürbüz, M.C., Parlar, M. Is it fake? Using potentially low Quality suppliers as back-up when genuine suppliers are unavailable.International Journal of Production Economics, Vol. 213, July 2019, pp. 185-200.

Managing and reallocating inventory across two markets with local information

Spiliotopoulou, E., Donohue, K., Gürbüz, M.C., Sebastian H. Managing and reallocating inventory across two markets with local information. European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 266, Issue 2, 16 April 2018, Pages 531-542

Static Inventory an Untapped Source of Working Capital

Gürbüz, M. C., Kella, R., Agrogiannis, C. Static Inventory an Untapped Source of Working Capital. Supply Chain Management Review, published online, September 28, 2016

Information reliability in supply chains: the case of multiple retailers

Spiliotopoulou, E., Donohue, K., Gürbüz, MG. Information reliability in supply chains: the case of multiple retailers, Production & Operations Management. Special Issue on Multi-methodological Research in Production and Operations Management, Vol. 25 (3), March 2016, pp. 548–567

Coordinated Replenishment Strategies in Inventory/Distribution Systems

Mustafa Çagri Gürbüz, Kamran Moinzadeh, Yong-Pin Zhou, Coordinated Replenishment Strategies in Inventory/Distribution Systems, Management Science, Vol. 53 (2) (2007) 293–307

Supplier diversification under binomial yield

Fadıloglu M., Berk E., Gürbüz Ç., Supplier diversification under binomial yield, Operations Research Letters, Vol. 36 (2008) 539–542

Grants & Awards

Full scholarship from Bilkent University (BS and MS) and from University of Washington (PhD)

Bertauche Transportation Fellowship, Evert McCabe Endowed Fellowship, and Dean’s Achievement Award from University of Washington.

Dr. Mustafa Çagri Gürbüz

Dr. Mustafa Çagri Gürbüz

Professor of Supply Chain Management at the MIT-Zaragoza Program

Research Areas

Projects

Publications

Global supply chains risks and COVID-19: Supply chain structure as a mitigating strategy for small and medium-sized enterprises

Ordering Behavior and the Impact of Allocation Mechanisms in an Integrated Distribution System

Unveiling the Challenges of Future Supply Chains: An Explorative Analysis

Optimal Spot Trading Integrated with Quantity Flexibility Contracts

Is it fake? Using potentially low Quality suppliers as back-up when genuine suppliers are unavailable

Managing and reallocating inventory across two markets with local information

Static Inventory an Untapped Source of Working Capital

Information reliability in supply chains: the case of multiple retailers

Coordinated Replenishment Strategies in Inventory/Distribution Systems

Supplier diversification under binomial yield

Managerial Publications

Grants & Awards