Yossi Aviv

Professor of Operations and Manufacturing Management

Areas of Expertise:

Management Science - Decision Analysis; Management Science - Math Programming; Management Science - Simulation Modeling; Management Science - Stochastic Processes; Marketing - Pricing; Operations & Manufacturing Management - Inventory Control, Production Planning, and Scheduling; Operations & Manufacturing Management - Operations Strategy; Operations & Manufacturing Management - Revenue Management

Research interests:

Production and operations management, logistics and distribution systems, supply chain management, decision analysis and stochastic processes.

Selected Publications:

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• "Gaining Benefits from Joint Forecasting and Replenishment Processes: The Case of Auto-correlated Demand," Manufacturing & Service Operations Management under review
• "Time Series Framework for Supply Chain Inventory Management," Operations Research under review
• "The Effect of Collaborative Forecasting on Supply Chain Performance," Management Science 2001
• "Capacitated Multi-Item Inventory Systems with Random and Fluctuating Demands: Implications for Postponement Strategies," Management Science, with A. Federgruen 2001
• "Design for Postponement: A Comprehensive Characterization of its Benefits Under Unknown Demand Distributions," Operations Research, with A. Federgruen 2001
• "The Value-Iteration Method for Countable State Markov Decision Processes," Operations Research Letters, with A. Federgruen 1999
• "The Benefits of Design for Postponement," in Quantitative Modeling for Supply Chain Management, Tayur, et al, Ed., with A. Federgruen, Kluwer Academic Publishers 1998

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
Selim and Rachel Benin Scholarship, 1992 and 1995-96
Gruenblat Foundation Award, 1990