Dr. Mustafa Çagri Gürbüz

Biography

Professor of Supply Chain Management

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. 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.

Research Areas

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.

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.

Projects

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

While it is by nature a large-scale interconnected and interdependent system to efficiently move people and goods, its complexity also makes it more vulnerable in the event of a disruption and generates economic impact on a European scale. Due to the increasing cross-border interdependencies between services provided using critical infrastructures in these sectors, an interruption […]

Resilient Rapid Reconfigurable Production Process chains

Covid-19 has shown that unpredictable events can disrupt supply chains, demand, and induce work restrictions, which can be detrimental to the manufacturing sector, significantly affecting growth. Especially, when medium or high-volume manufacturing is considered, resilience can only be achieved through rapid reconfigurability and digitalization. Rapid reconfigurability must be addressed in all production levels, ranging from […]

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

AI-CUBE seeks to enhance the understanding of different digital technologies related to artificial intelligence (AI) and big data (BD) applied in process industries for all the SPIRE industrial sectors (cement, ceramics, chemicals, engineering, minerals and ores, non-ferrous metals, steel, water). Therefore, a close collaboration with industry is mandatory to achieve in-depth insights into possible application […]

Next generation Technologies for networked Europe

The aim of the project is to put in place a cross-sectoral and cross-technological initiative at European level to increase integration between production and distribution proposing research and innovation priorities for the future of supply chain. In particular, the project will develop a Strategic Research Agenda (SRA), where the effort of different communities like EFFRA, […]

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

INSPIRE aims at increasing the competitiveness of European manufacturing which depends on producing differentiated and high added value products in an efficient and sustainable manner, with reduced production costs, increased product quality, minimised time to market and optimized strategies towards resource efficiency. The main focus of this project is the development of innovative business models […]

Consistently Optimised Resilient Secure Global Supply-Chains

CORE presented at Intermodal Europe 2014 – Press release Newsletter CORE Newsletter - Dic 2014 CORE Newsletter - Aug 2015 Project Description CORE will demonstrate how a powerful and innovative Consistently Optimised REsilient ecosystem implementation, integrating interoperability, security, resilience and real-time optimisation can produce cost effective, fast and robust solutions that will guarantee the efficient […]

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

Project Description SAFEPOST aims to raise the current level of postal security by integrating innovative screening solutions suitable for an uninterrupted flow of the enormous volume of parcels and letters, with operational postal processes and criminal and customs intelligence work, in a European wide cooperative, distributed model. Starting from the perspective of partner postal operations, […]

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

Project Description This project studies the complete process that products undergo from pick-up in the reverse chain to processing (recycling, repair, etc.) at the corresponding facilities. Each of the two partners shall focus on one of these two steps: the return chain and product processing, to look into opportunities to improve the design and planning […]

Common assessment and analysis of risk in global supply chains

The challenges facing international intermodal container logistics are efficiency and security. These seemingly conflicting issues have a common solution: supply chain visibility, where data for visibility can be shared between business and government. Since technical solutions already exist, the challenge lies in integrating solutions across the supply chain. CASSANDRA will: Facilitate the adoption of a […]

Papers

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