Core Research Areas
Core research areas in logistics and supply chain management at Zaragoza Logistics Center (ZLC) strive to be actionable and applied so that people and organizations can make decisions and take action. Our faculty and researchers collaborate across multiple disciplines to deliver innovative solutions to global supply chain challenges that help organizations and societies to thrive. ZLC core research areas include:
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.
Healthcare Operations
Demand management and pharmaceutical supply chain network optimization; investigating segmentation and advanced lean system approaches to support humanitarian recovery.
Resilience, SC Security & Risk Management
Methodologies for risk management; Risk based approach to SCM; supply chain models integrating risks and security controls; supply chain disruptions and resilience.
Supply Chain Digitalization
How digital technologies enable the supply chain to attain situational awareness and context-sensitive decision making, becoming customer-driven, agile and responsive.
Supply Chain & Finance
Promotes the study of the interrelationship between supply chain and finance areas. Its main objective is to successfully provide best practices to practitioners in supply chain and finance by balancing the trade-offs between liquidity and profitability.
Sustainable Networks
How environmental concerns can be integrated into operational decision making throughout the supply chain.
Transport Networks & Urban Mobility
Promoting multimodality, the creation of transport networks and the improvement of logistics parks as fundamental nodes for the development of the supply chain. Developing new business models for urban mobility and SUMP’s.
Manufacturing & Logistics Analytics
Addressing operational decision-making problems focused on examining shop floor control management technologies to improve operational performance.
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