Professor Aviv develops and applies operations research models and methods to study problems related to supply chain management. His current research focuses on strategic inventory positioning in distribution networks, supply chain management, collaborative forecasting, and dynamic pricing. Aviv has consulted in the defense and electronics industries.  At the Olin School of Business, he teaches courses on operations and supply chain management, at the undergraduate, MBA, and EMBA levels.

POSITIONS

• Olin School of Business. Washington University.

  • Effective July, 2008 - Professor of Operations and Manufacturing Management.

  • July, 2002 - July 2008. Associate Professor of Operations and Manufacturing Management (tenured in 2003). 

  • 1997 - 2001. Assistant Professor of Operations and Manufacturing Management.

ACADEMIC DEGREES

• Ph.D. (Management Science) 1998 (M.Phil.; 1997). Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. Dissertation: Planning Models for the Design of Capacitated Multi-Stage Production and Distribution Systems

• M.Sc. (Operations Research and Systems Analysis) 1993, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

• B.Sc. (Industrial Engineering) cum laude 1990, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

RESEARCH

Journal Publications (published and accepted for publication)

• Aviv, Y., A. Pazgal. 2007. Optimal Pricing of Seasonal Products in the Presence of Forward-Looking Consumers. To Appear in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. <download a copy>

• Aviv, Y. 2007. On the Benefits of Collaborative Forecasting Partnerships between Retailers and Manufacturers. Management Science 53 (5) 777-794.

• Aviv, Y., A. Pazgal. 2005. A Partially Observed Markov Decision Process for Dynamic Pricing. Management Science 51 (9) 1400-1416.

• Aviv, Y. 2003. A Time Series Framework for Supply Chain Inventory Management. Operations Research 51 (2) 210-227.

• Aviv, Y. 2002. Gaining Benefits from Joint Forecasting and Replenishment Processes: The Case of Auto-correlated Demand. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 4 (1) 55-74.

• Aviv, Y. 2001. The Effect of Collaborative Forecasting on Supply Chain Performance. Management Science 47 (10) 1326-1343.

• Aviv, Y., A. Federgruen. 2001. Capacitated Multi-Item Inventory Systems with Random and Fluctuating Demands: Implications for Postponement Strategies. Management Science 47 (4), 512-531.

• Aviv, Y., A. Federgruen. 2001. Design for Postponement: A Comprehensive Characterization of its Benefits Under Unknown Demand Distributions. Operations Research 49 (4), 578-598.

• Aviv, Y., A. Federgruen. 1999. The Value-Iteration Method for Countable State Markov Decision Processes. Operations Research Letters 24 (5), 223-234.

• Aviv, Y., A. Federgruen. 1997. Stochastic Inventory Models With Limited Production Capacity and Periodically Varying Parameters. Probability in The Engineering and Informational Science 11 (1), 107-135.

• Aviv, Y., M. Kress. 1997. Evaluating the Effectiveness of Shoot-Look-Shoot Tactics in the Presence of Incomplete Damage Information. Mil. Oper. Res. 3 (1), 79-89.

Submitted Manuscripts & Under Revision

• Yin, R., Aviv, Y., A. Pazgal, C. S. Tang. 2007. Optimal Markdown Pricing: Implications of Inventory Display Formats in the Presence of Strategic Customers . Under 2nd review in Management Science. <download a copy>

Book Chapters

• Aviv, Y. 2002. Collaborative Forecasting and its Impact on Supply Chain Performance. Chapter 10 in D. Simchi-Levi, S.D. Wu, Z. Shen, eds. Handbook of Quantitative Supply Chain Analysis -- Modeling in the E-Business Era.  Kluwer Academic Publishers.

• Aviv, Y., A. Federgruen. 1998. The Benefits of Design for Postponement. Chapter 18 in S. Tayur, M. Magazine, R. Ganeshan, eds. Quantitative Modeling for Supply Chain Management. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

• Under preparation:

  • Aviv, Y., C. S. Tang, R. Yin. 2008. Dynamic Pricing in the Presence of Strategic Consumers: Reservations and Inventory Display Formats. Book chapter under preparation for OM Models with Consumer-Driven Demand (Eds. S. Netessine, and C. S. Tang) <download abstract>

  • Aviv, Y., Y. Levin, M. Nediak. 2008. Innovative Dynamic Pricing Policies under Strategic Consumer Behavior. Book chapter under preparation for OM Models with Consumer-Driven Demand (Eds. S. Netessine, and C. S. Tang) <download abstract>

  • Aviv, Y., G. Vulcano. 2008. Dynamic List Pricing. Book chapter under preparation for Handbook of Pricing Management (Eds. O. Ozer, and R. Phillips) <download abstract>

Unpublished Manuscripts

• Aviv, Y., A. Federgruen. 1998. The Operational Benefits of Information Sharing and Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) Programs. Working Paper. <download>

• Aviv, Y., A. Pazgal. 2005. Pricing of Short Life-Cycle Products through Active Learning. Working Paper. <download>

Work in Progress (Sample)

• Innovative Pricing Strategies under Strategic Consumer Behavior.

• Price and Capacity Competition in the Presence of Strategic Consumers (joint work with Y. Levin and M. Nediak).

• Effective Bottleneck Resource (EBR) for a Multi-Constraint Production System.

• An Approximation Algorithm for Partially Observed Markov Decision Processes: Upper Bounds and Heuristics.

PRESENTATIONS & SEMINARS

Invited seminars at academic institutions

• McComb's School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. 2008.

• Queen's School of Business, Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario, CA). 2007.

• Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. 2006.

• McComb's School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. 2005.

• Sloan School of Management, MIT. 2004.

• Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. 2003.

• The Krannert School of Management, Purdue University. 2003.

• Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. 2003.

• Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. 2002.

• Leon Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration, Tel-Aviv University. 2002.

• Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University. 2000.

• Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration, The University of British Columbia. 2000.

• Haas School of Business, The University of California at Berkeley. 2000.

• Department of Industrial Engineering/Engineering Management, Stanford University. 1998.

• Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University. 1998.

• Business School, University of Michigan. 1998.

• Harvard Business School. Harvard University. 1998.

• Sloan School of Management, MIT. 1998.

• Faculty of Commerce, University of British Columbia. 1998.

• Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. 1998.

• Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. 1998.

• Department of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Cornell University. 1998.

Research seminars in industry

• Philips Research Lab. Briarcliff Manor, NY. 1996.

• Center for Military Analyses. Israel. 1993.

Conference presentations

• Innovative Pricing Strategies under Strategic Consumer Behavior. INFORMS Annual Meeting. Seattle, WA. 2007.

• Dynamic Pricing of Seasonal Products in the Presence of Strategic Consumers. INFORMS International Meeting. Puerto Rico. 2007.

• On the Benefits of Price Segmentation under Strategic Consumer Behavior. 18th Annual Conference of the Production and Operations Management Society. Dallas, Texas. 2007.

• Process Interoperability in Supply Chains: Emerging Research Themes. Supply Chain Thought Leaders Roundtable (co-organized by Yossi Aviv and Panos Kouvelis). St. Louis, MO. 2006.

• Partially Observed Dynamic Systems: Approximations and Bounds via Information State Modification. EURO XXI 2006. Reykjavik, Iceland. 2006. 

• A Time Series Framework for Examining the Benefits of Collaborative Forecasting Partnerships. ORSIS Conference. Nahariya, Israel. 2006.

• On the Benefits of Collaborative Forecasting Partnerships between Retailers and Manufacturers. 17th Triennial Conference of the IFORS. Honolulu, Hawaii. 2005.

• Streamlining Supply Chain Performance through Collaborative Forecasting: Information Sharing Concerns. INFORMS Annual Meeting. Denver, CO. 2004.

• Collaborative Forecasting and Inventory Management: Capacity Considerations. INFORMS Annual Meeting. Denver, CO. 2004.

• A Partially Observed Markov Decision Process for Dynamic Pricing. INFORMS Annual Meeting. Denver, CO. 2004.

• Collaborative Forecasting and Inventory Management - Logistics Capacity Considerations. 2nd World Conference on POM & 15th Annual POM Conference. Cancun, Mexico, 2004.

• Dynamic Pricing through Active Learning. INFORMS Fall Meeting. Atlanta, GA. 2003.

• Pricing of Short Life-Cycle Products through Active Learning. INFORMS Fall Meeting. San Jose, CA. 2002.

• Collaborative Forecasting and its Impact on Supply Chain Performance. INFORMS Fall Meeting. San Jose, CA. 2002.

• A Time Series Framework for Supply Chain Inventory Management. Multi-echelon Conference. University of California (Berkeley). June 2001.

• Joint Forecasting & Replenishment Processes in Supply Chains & the Value of Information Sharing. INFORMS International. Hawaii. June 2001. 

• Collaborative Forecasting Processes - A Time Series Framework. INFORMS Spring Meeting. Salt Lake City, UT. May 2000. 

• Collaborative Planning Forecasting & Replenishment in Supply Chains. INFORMS Fall Meeting. Philadelphia, PA. November 1999.

• Collaborative Forecasting in Supply Chains. Multi-Echelon Conference. Purdue University. Summer 1999.

• Collaborative Forecasting in Supply Chains. INFORMS Conference. Cincinnati. Spring 1999.

• The Benefits of Postponement - Revisited. INFORMS Conference. Seattle. Fall 1998.

• The Operational Benefits of Information Sharing & Vendor Managed Inventory Programs. INFORMS Conference. Seattle. Fall 1998.

• Supplier-Buyer Coordination in the Presence of Batch Ordering and Limited Production Capacity. INFORMS International. Tel Aviv. Summer 1998.

• The Benefits of Postponement - Revisited. INFORMS Conference. Dallas. Fall 1997. 

• Coordinated Replenishment by Capacitated Suppliers Under Periodically Varying Parameters. INFORMS Conference. Atlanta. Fall 1996.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Awards & Grants

• The Boeing Center on Technology, Information and Manufacturing (BCTIM) Research Grant: Revenue Management through Dynamic Pricing: The Case of Strategic Customers (with A. Pazgal). 2004.

• The Boeing Center on Technology, Information and Manufacturing (BCTIM) Research Grant: Dynamic Pricing of Short Life-Cycle Products (with A. Pazgal). 2002.

Editorial Positions

• Associate Editor: Management Science (Area of Operations and Supply Chain Management).

• Associate Editor: Operations Research (Area of Manufacturing, Service, and Supply Chain Operations).

• Associate Editor: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.

• Editorial Board: International Journal of Operational Research (IJOR).

• Editorial Board: International Journal of Procurement Management (IJPM).

• Serves as ad-hoc AE/referee for many journals.

Last updated: Dec, 2007.