Ralf Seifert
Professeur ordinaire
ralf.seifert@epfl.ch +41 21 693 00 22 http://tom.epfl.ch
Nationalité: German and Swiss
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Domaines de compétences
- Supply chain strategy
- Supply chain finance
- Technology network management and entrepreneurship
Publications
Publications Infoscience
Publications principales
2024
Balancing Resilience and Efficiency: A Literature Review on Overcoming Supply Chain Disruptions
Production and Operations Management. 2024. DOI : 10.1177/10591478241302735.2023
Utilizing additive manufacturing and mass customization under capacity constraints
Journal Of Intelligent Manufacturing. 2023. DOI : 10.1007/s10845-022-02007-x.Assortment optimization using an attraction model in an omnichannel environment
European Journal Of Operational Research. 2023. DOI : 10.1016/j.ejor.2022.08.002.Information Retrieval Under Network Uncertainty: Robust Internet Ranking
Operations Research. 2023. DOI : 10.1287/opre.2022.2298.Quantitative Methods for Omnichannel Decision-Making
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10058.Optimizing Sales Forecasting, Inventory, Pricing and Sourcing Decisions
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10040.2022
A Machine Learning-based Framework for Forecasting Sales of New Products With Short Life Cycles Using Deep Neural Networks
International Journal of Forecasting. 2022. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijforecast.2022.09.005.Limiting the impact of supply chain disruptions in the face of distributional uncertainty in demand
Production And Operations Management. 2022. DOI : 10.1111/poms.13781.Managing Perishability in the Fruit and Vegetable Supply Chains
Sustainability. 2022. DOI : 10.3390/su14095378.Modeling and mitigating supply chain disruptions as a bilevel network flow problem
Computational Management Science. 2022. DOI : 10.1007/s10287-022-00421-3.Why Do Companies Need Operational Flexibility to Achieve Sustainability at Source?
Sustainability. 2022. DOI : 10.3390/su14010367.2021
Benefiting from additive manufacturing for mass customization across the product life cycle
Operations Research Perspectives. 2021. DOI : 10.1016/j.orp.2021.100201.Manufacturing Management in Process Industries: The Impact of Market Conditions and Capital Expenditure on Firm Performance
IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. 2021. DOI : 10.1109/TEM.2019.2914995.Industry 4.0 Technologies and Customer-centricity for Digital Supply Chains
Lausanne, EPFL, 2021. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10736.Modeling Supply Chain Disruptions: A Network Flow Approach
Lausanne, EPFL, 2021. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10689.2020
Product assortment and space allocation strategies to attract loyal and non-loyal customers
European Journal Of Operational Research. 2020. DOI : 10.1016/j.ejor.2020.02.019.Mitigating Product Shortage Due to Disruptions in Multi-Stage Supply Chains
Production And Operations Management. 2020. DOI : 10.1111/poms.13286.2019
Is Demand Planning Ready for AI
Supply Chain Quarterly. 2019.2018
Optimal replenishment cycle for perishable items facing demand uncertainty in a two-echelon inventory system
International Journal of Production Research. 2018. DOI : 10.1080/00207543.2018.1504244.Roles of inventory and reserve capacity in mitigating supply chain disruption risk
International Journal of Production Research. 2018. DOI : 10.1080/00207543.2018.1504173.2017
Benefits of working capital sharing in supply chains
Journal Of The Operational Research Society. 2017. DOI : 10.1057/s41274-016-0009-2.Building up Resilience in a Pharmaceutical Supply Chain through Inventory, Dual Sourcing and Agility Capacity
Omega-International Journal Of Management Science. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.omega.2017.01.001.Optimal Dynamic Order Scheduling Under Capacity Constraints Given Demand-forecast Evolution
Production and Operations Management. 2017. DOI : 10.1111/poms.12759.How Process Industries Can Improve Supply Chain Performance
Supply Chain Quarterly. 2017.Inventory dynamics in process industries: An empirical investigation
International Journal Of Production Economics. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijpe.2017.06.019.A test of inventory models with permissible delay in payment
International Journal Of Production Research. 2017. DOI : 10.1080/00207543.2016.1224947.Improving firm performance through sustainable operations
Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7788.2016
The International Human Epigenome Consortium: A Blueprint for Scientific Collaboration and Discovery
Cell. 2016. DOI : 10.1016/j.cell.2016.11.007.Measurements of the Higgs boson production and decay rates and constraints on its couplings from a combined ATLAS and CMS analysis of the LHC pp collision data at $ \sqrt{s}=7 $ and 8 TeV
Journal of High Energy Physics. 2016. DOI : 10.1007/JHEP08(2016)045.New Markets, New Customers and New Supply Chain Problems: Seven Mitigation Strategies to Tackle High Sales Variances
2016Dynamic Product Portfolio Management with Life Cycle Considerations
International Journal of Production Economics. 2016. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijpe.2015.10.017.Knowledge spillovers in the supply chain: Evidence from the High Tech Sectors
Research Policy. 2016. DOI : 10.1016/j.respol.2015.12.007.Quantifying the Bullwhip Effect Using Two-Echelon Data: A Cross-Industry Empirical Investigation
International Journal of Production Economics. 2016. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijpe.2015.08.027.Supply Chain Management in Process Industries: Empirical Investigations for Commodity Markets
Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7190.Supply Chain Disruption Risk Management : Modeling Risk Mitigation Strategies
Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7399.2015
Combined Measurement of the Higgs Boson Mass in $pp$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ and 8 TeV with the ATLAS and CMS Experiments
Physical Review Letters. 2015. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.191803.Does the Bullwhip Still Strike? Detecting Variability in the Supply Chain
2015Coherent Measures of Customer Service Level
2015. EurOMA Annual Meeting, Neuchâtel, June 2015.Dynamic Capabilities in Sustainable Supply Chain Management: A Theoretical Framework
Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal. 2015. DOI : 10.1080/16258312.2015.11728690.On the optimal frequency of multiple generation product introductions
European Journal Of Operational Research. 2015. DOI : 10.1016/j.ejor.2015.03.041.Carbon footprint and responsiveness trade-offs in supply chain network design
International Journal Of Production Economics. 2015. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijpe.2015.04.016.Knowledge Spillovers in the Supply Chain: Evidence From The High Tech Sectors
2015. EurOMA Annual Meeting, Neuchâtel, June 2015.Taking an Integrated View on Point of Sales Materials Supplies: Three Lessons from L’Oréal to Increase Loyalty and Obtain New Customers with Gifts and Testers
20152014
Inventory Leanness and the Financial Performance of the Firm
Production Planning & Control. 2014. DOI : 10.1080/09537287.2013.797123.Joint product assortment, inventory and price optimization to attract loyal and non-loyal customers
Omega-International Journal Of Management Science. 2014. DOI : 10.1016/j.omega.2014.02.002.The value of updated information on future price behaviour
International Journal Of Production Research. 2014. DOI : 10.1080/00207543.2013.848481.2013
Trade Credit: Literature Review and Research Directions
European Journal Of Operational Research. 2013. DOI : 10.1016/j.ejor.2013.03.016.Lego: Consolidating Distribution (Abridged)
Supply Chain Forum: an International Journal. 2013. DOI : 10.1080/16258312.2013.11517309.Financial Supply Chain Management: Working Capital Requirements with Short-term Debt
Computers & Operations Research. 2013. DOI : 10.1016/j.cor.2013.07.008.The Perks and Pitfalls of Knowledge Diffusion in the Supply Chain
IMD – Tomorrow’s Challenges. 2013.What is the Value of Updated Information on the Time of Price Decrease?
2013Assessing the Comprehensiveness of Supply Chain Environmental Strategies
Business Strategy and the Environment. 2013. DOI : 10.1002/bse.1749.Inventory Management with Working Capital Restrictions
Lausanne, EPFL, 2013. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-5658.Operational Decisions and Supply Chain Dynamics : An Empirical Investigation
Lausanne, EPFL, 2013. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6034.Variable Product Portfolio Management in Retail Operations
Lausanne, EPFL, 2013. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-5784.2012
Designing Service Level Contracts for Supply Chain Coordination
Production and Operations Management. 2012. DOI : 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2011.01301.x.Reviewing the Adoption of Ecolabels by Firms
2012Mobility Carsharing: An IT Leadership Crisis
2012.Aligning Supply Chain and Product Portfolios
International Journal of Production Economics. 2012. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijpe.2011.08.032.A three-echelon supply chain with price-only contracts and sub-supply chain coordination
International Journal Of Production Economics. 2012. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijpe.2012.04.006.Oracle: An Evolution of the IT Paradigm
2012.Mobility Carsharing: An IT Leadership Crisis
2012.Strategic Supply Chain Management: The Executive Role
London: Routledge.Benefits and Scepticism of Ecolabels as Accountability Mechanism
European Business Review. 2012.Corporate Environmental Strategies : Towards Supply Chain Approaches
Lausanne, EPFL, 2012. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-5389.2011
Unilever Sustainable Tea. Part II: Reaching out to Smallholders in Kenya and Argentina
The Dutch Sustainable Trade Initiative: Utrecht, IDH007-22.; Utrecht: The Dutch Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH), 2011.Unilever Tea: Revitalizing Lipton's Supply Chain (A)
2011.Unilever Tea: Going Beyond the Low-hanging Fruits (B)
2011.Umweltsiegel: Was bei Zertifizierung wichtig ist
Business-Wissen.de. 2011.Interrelating Operational and Financial Performance Measurements in a Multi-Product Inventory System
International Journal of Services and Operations Management. 2011. DOI : 10.1504/IJSOM.2011.042925.Managing business dynamics with adaptive supply chain portfolios
European Journal Of Operational Research. 2011. DOI : 10.1016/j.ejor.2011.06.026.Hilti (A & B): Gearing the Supply Chain for the Future
2011.Strategic Assessment is a Must in Selecting Ecolables
Gulf News. 2011.Unilever Tea: Revitalizing Lipton's Supply Chain (A & B)
2011.Financing the Chain
International Commerce Review. 2011.2010
Interrelating operational and financial performance measurements in inventory control
European Journal Of Operational Research. 2010. DOI : 10.1016/j.ejor.2009.11.001.An Analysis of Supply Chain Environmental Management Practices of Sustainability Leaders
2010Unilever Sustainable Tea: Leapfrogging to Mainstream
2010.An Analysis of Supply Chain Environmental Management Practices of Sustainability Leaders
POMS 2010, Vancouver, Canada, May 2010.Interrelating Operational and Financial Performance Measurements in a Multi-Product Inventory Control
2010Designing Service Level Contracts for Supply Chain Coordination
2010Systematic and Comprehensive Supply Chain Environmental Management
Euro 2010, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2010.Trade Credit: Literature Review and Research Directions
2010A Heuristic to Locate Distribution Centers in Large Supply Chains
EURO 2010, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2010.Responding to Business Dynamics with Adaptive Supply Chain Portfolios
2010Supply Chain Finance: Foundations, Benefits, and Success Factors
2010Estimating the Impact of Stochasticity in Operating Theatres
EURO 2010, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2010.Being Proactive about Supply Chain Environmental Management
IMD- Perspective for Managers. 2010.Collaborative working capital management in supply networks
Lausanne, EPFL, 2010. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-4617.2009
Supply Chain Finance - What is it Woth?
IMD- Perspective for Managers. 2009.Lego (A): Consolidating Distribution
2009.Aligning Supply Chain and Product Portfolios
2009The Effect of Supply Chain Disruptions on Suppliers, Customers, and Rivals
POMS 2009, Orlando, USA, May 2009.Third-party Provision of Conversion Technologies in Network Markets
Journal of Technology Management and Innovation. 2009. DOI : 10.4067/S0718-27242009000200001.Interrelating operational and financial performance measurements in inventory theory
Lausanne, EPFL, 2009. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-4304.Lego (A & B): Consolidating Distribution
2009.Lego (B): Consolidating Distribution
2009.Pièges Mortels pour Jeunes Pousses High-Tech
L'Expansion Entrepreneuriat. 2009.Adoption of Network Technologies in the Presence of Converters
Economics of Innovation and New Technology. 2009. DOI : 10.1080/10438590701663701.On the Optimal Working Capital Allocation in a Multi-echelon Supply Chain
INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA, November 2009.Aligning Supply Chain and Product Portfolios
2009Price-only Contracts with Sub-supply Chain Coordination
2009Attaining Sustained Supply Chain Alignment – Step by Step
2009The Effect of Supply Chain Disruptions on Suppliers, Customers, and Rivals
20092008
Managing competing technology standards in the digital economy
Lausanne, EPFL, 2008. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-3989.Optimal Retail Channel Selection under Decentralized Decision Making
2008Hilti (B): Reflections and Outlook
2008.Nurturing Science-based Ventures: An International Case Perspective
Springer.Aligning Supply Chain Portfolios with Product Portfolios
POMS 2008, La Jolla, USA, May 2008.Working Capital in Times of Financial Crisis: Three Trade Credit Strategies
IMD - Perspective for Managers. 2008.Contextual and Tactical Changes in Standard Wars: What Consequences for "Winners"?
International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management. 2008. DOI : 10.1142/S0219877008001485.Interrelating Operational and Financial Performance Measurements in Inventory Control
POMS 2008, La Jolla, USA, May 2008.Hilti (A): Gearing the Supply Chain for the Future
2008.Modeling and implementing strategies for supply chain alignment
Lausanne, EPFL, 2008. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-4118.Fighting Technology Standards Competitions: Adapting to New Rules
IMD - Perspective for Managers. 2008.2007
Novo Nordisk Engineering: Running for Fast-Track Project Execution
2007.Managing Complexity in Marketing and Supply Chains
Managing Complexity in Global Organizations; Wiley, 2007. p. 205 - 228.Applications of RFID in Supply Chain Management
Trends in Supply Chain Design and Management: Technologies and Methodologies; London: Springer, 2007. p. 29 - 48.Maximizing Supply Chain Profits with Selective Channel Strategies
INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, USA, November 2007.Shape Up Your Technology Start-Ups! Or How to Avoid the Most Common Management Problems in Early-stage, Science-based Companies
IMD- Perspective for Managers. 2007.Managing Complexity in the Electronics Manufacturing Service Industry
Managing Complexity in Global Organizations; Wiley, 2007. p. 87 - 102.Covaly: Managing the Companies Growth and Development Strategy - The VC Perspective
2007.Item-Level RFID in the Retail Supply Chain
Production & Operations Management. 2007. DOI : 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2007.tb00166.x.2006
Relaxing Channel Separation – Integrating a Virtual Store Into the Supply Chain
IIE Transactions. 2006. DOI : 10.1080/07408170600854453.Novo Nordisk' Engineering: Running for Fast-Track Project Execution - A Customer's Perspective
2006.Satisfying Customer Preferences via Mass Customization and Mass Production
IIE Transactions. 2006. DOI : 10.1080/07408170500346386.Integrating Direct and Indirect Sales Channels Under Decentralized Decision Making
International Journal of Production Economics. 2006. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijpe.2005.06.006.Covalys: Managing the Companies Growth and Development Strategy
2006.Netcetera (B): Organizing for Sustainable Business Success?
2006.EndoArt SA: Creating and Funding a Medical Technology Start-Up (A)
2006.Modeling the Value of Updated Information on the Time of Price Decrease
2006Netcetera (C): Reflections and Outlook
2006.Performance of Service Level Contracts in Two-Level Supply Chains with Decentralized Decision-Making
2006EndoArt SA: Creating and Funding a Medical Technology Start-Up (B)
2006.GigaTera Inc: Pulling the Plug?
2006.Unaxis: Going Asia (A&B)
2006.Netcetera (A): Hiring an External CEO?
2006.2005
Sentron at the Crossroads (A)
2005.Unaxis: Going Asia (B)
2005.SA: Creating and Funding a Medical Technology Start-Up
2005.Unaxis: Going Asia (A)
2005.Unaxis: Going Asia
2005.Lyncée Tec SA: Scaling Up a Technology Venture
2005.AC Immune: Managing Options for Sustained Business Growth
2005.The Food and Beverage Industry
2005.Sentron at the Crossroads (B)
2005.Running Effective Group Assignments
Mastering Executive Education: How to Combine Content with Context and Emotion, The IMD Guide; Prentice Hall, 2005.2004
Hewlett-Packard: Creating a Virtual Supply Chain (A) (Abridged)
2004.Market Dynamics in a Retail Supply Chain under Item-level RFID
2004. INFORMS, Denver USA, Octobre 2004.Hewlett-Packard: Creating a Virtual Supply Chain (A & B) (Abridged)
Supply Chain Forum. 2004. DOI : 10.1080/16258312.2004.11517127.Outsourcing in the Global Automotive Industry – Drivers, Patterns and Lessons
2004.Novartis: The Art of R&D Collaborations
2004.Optimal Procurement Strategies for Online Spot Markets
European Journal of Operational Research. 2004. DOI : 10.1016/S0377-2217(02)00754-3.Outsourcing Patterns in the Pharmaceutical Industry
2004.Hewlett-Packard: Creating a Virtual Supply Chain (B) (Abridged)
2004.The mi adidas Mass Customization Initiative
2004. INFORMS, Denver USA, Octobre 2004.Enseignement & Phd
Enseignement
Management of Technology