Yossi Aviv
Dan Broida Professor of Operations & Manufacturing Management
Area of Expertise:
Decision Analysis, Math Programming, Simulation Modeling, Stochastic Processes, Pricing, Inventory Control, Production Planning, and Scheduling, Operations Strategy, Revenue Management
Research Interests:
Production and operations management, logistics and distribution systems, supply chain management, decision analysis and stochastic processes.
Selected Publications:- "Gaining Benefits from Joint Forecasting and Replenishment Processes: The Case of Auto-Correlated Demand", Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Issue 1, 55-74, 2002
- "Time Series Framework for Supply Chain Inventory Management", Operations Research, Issue 2, 210-227, 2003
- "The Effect of Collaborative Forecasting on Supply Chain Performance", Management Science, Issue 10, 1326-1343, 2001
- "Capacitated Multi-Item inventory Systems with Random and Fluctuating Demands: Implications for Postponement Strategies", Management Science, Issue 4, 512-531, with A. Federgruen, 2001
- "Design for Postponement: A Comprehensive Characterization of its Benefits Under Unknown Demand Distributions", Operations Research, Issue 4, 578-598, with A. Federguen, 2001
- "The Value-Iteration Method for Countable State Markov Decision Processes", Operations Research Letters, Issue 5, 223-234, with A. Federgruen, 1999
- "The Benefits of Design for Postponement, Chapter 18 in Quantitative Modeling for Supply Chain Management", Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998
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Academic/Professional Activities:- Member, INFORMS Council of Logistics Management; Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenshiment (CPFR) Committee
Awards/Honors:- Asenath Marie and Duncan Merriwether Fellowship, 1995
- The Miriam and Aaron Gutwirth Science-Based Industries Center - Special Award, 1993
- Gruenblat Foundation Award, 1990
- Selim and Rachel Benin Scholarship, 1992 and 1995-96
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Professor Aviv develops and applies operations research models and methods to study problems related to supply chain management and revenue management. His current research focuses on strategic inventory positioning in distribution networks, supply chain coordination, collaborative forecasting, and dynamic pricing. He severs on several Management Science journal editorial board, and has consulted in the defense and electronics industries. At the Olin School of Business, he teaches courses on quantitative decision modeling, operations management, and supply chain management in the BSBA, MBA , EMBA, and Ph.D. programs.
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Email: aviv@wustl.edu
Phone: (314) 935-6396
PhD 1998, Graduate School of Business - Columbia University
MS 1993, Israel Institute of Technology
BS 1990, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
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