Our people

Meet our Centre for Supply Chain Management (CSCM) members and learn about their research interests.

Director

Dr Sarah Marshall, Senior Lecturer

Advisory Group members

Member Position
Santiago Aon Director, Global Supply Chain, Fonterra
Tessa Auelua General Manager, Container Operations, Planning and Engineering, Port of Auckland
Dave Christie Supply Chain Strategy Director, Tainui Group Holdings
Deena Clarkson Chief Executive Officer, CODA Group
Simon Dedman General Manager, Cargo, Kuehne+Nagel
Sebastian Doelle Manager, Trade and Supply Chains, Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment
Dr Tom Goldsby Dee and Jimmy Haslam Chair of Logistics, and Professor of Supply Chain Management, Haslam College of Business, University of Tennessee - Knoxville.
Co-executive Director, Global Supply Chain Institute
Hamish Jackson Head of Supply Chain, Placemakers
Commodore Maxine Lawes Commander Logistics, Defence Logistics Command, New Zealand Defence Force
Richard Marshall GM Supply Chain, Air New Zealand
Suzanne O'Leary Director, January Group
Darren Porteous General Manager, Supply Chain, Briscoe Group
Jonti Rhodes VP Supply Chain, Facilities, and Sustainability, Fisher & Paykel Healthcare

Research centre members

Dr Sarah Marshall, Director

  • Inventory management
  • Modelling uncertainty in supply chains
  • Supply chain analytics

Xiaowei Dong, Lecturer

  • Operations and Supply Chain Management
  • Reverse Logistics

Dr Haokun Du, Lecturer

  • Revenue Management
  • Behavioural Operations

Dr Subhamoy Ganguly, Senior Lecturer

  • Food Loss and Waste
  • Academic Admissions
  • Health Care Operations

Dr Ismail Golgeci, Professor

  • Global Supply Chains
  • Interorganizational Relationships
  • Sustainable SCM
  • Innovation Networks

Dr Mahdi Mahmoudzadeh, Lecturer

  • Behavioural operations
  • Sustainable operations
  • Supply chain analytics

Dr Mike O'Sullivan, Associate Professor

  • Operations Research (optimisation and simulation)
  • Modelling Healthcare Delivery
  • Working with Communities on Digital Ecosystems

Dr Benny Oz, Senior Lecturer

  • Revenue Management
  • Service Systems

Dr Gabrielle Peko, Senior Lecturer

  • Business process design
  • Supply chain management

Dr David Robb, Professor

  • Supply chain improvement in systems with supply and demand
  • Service-level/inventory trade-offs - empirical and modelling approaches uncertainty
  • Supply chain practice and performance in China

Dr David Sundaram, Professor

  • Supply Chain 4.0
  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management
  • Aquaculture and Cold Supply Chains

Administrative, Business Development and Engagement staff

Dinah Towle
Coordinator
Email: d.towle@auckland.ac.nz

Simon Crook
Business Development Manager - Research Collaboration
Auckland UniServices
Email: simon.crook@auckland.ac.nz

Noah Ghebremichael
Senior Business Development - Capability Development Solutions for Organisations
Executive and Professional Development (EPD) | Business School
Email: noah.ghebremichael@auckland.ac.nz

PhD students

Jihyun Ahn, PhD student

"Supply base characteristics and firm financial performance"

Pavani Diyawadana, PhD student

“Procurement Category Management Practices in FMCG Companies”

Param Iyer, PhD student

  • "Optimisation opportunities in temperature-controlled supply chains"

Hasan Nur, PhD student

  • "Determining industrial parks location in emerging economies: Learning from Indonesia's nickel boom"

Fatemeh Rostambeygi, PhD student

  • “Application of Process Mining in Supply Chain Management”

External members

Dr Aadhaar Chaturvedi, Associate Professor, Clemson University, USA

  • Sourcing
  • e-Auctions
  • Supply chain management
  • Sharing economy platforms

Dr Benjamin Dehe, Associate Professor, Auckland University of Technology

  • Industry 4.0 technologies and digital transformation
  • Operational excellence and innovation
  • Supply Chain design and integration

Dr Lahiru Gunasekara, Lecturer, Lincoln University

  • Supply chain management
  • Circular supply chains
  • Used product take-back and reverse logistics optimisation

Dr Riccardo Mogre, Associate Professor, Durham University Business School, UK

  • Supply chain risk management
  • Stochastic models of production and service systems
  • Technology adoption in operations and supply chains

Dr Shandong Mou, Associate Professor, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, P.R. China

  • Operations and Supply Chain Management
  • Systems Optimisation and Decision Making
  • Retail Management

Dr Fernando Oliveira, Head of the Analysis, Data and Modelling Division, OECD Trade and Agriculture Directorate

  • Energy Supply Chains
  • Quantitative Risk Management
  • Revenue Management and Dynamic Pricing
  • Sustainability

Dr Tava Olsen, Professor, Melbourne Business School, Australia

  • Supply chain management, pricing and inventory control
  • Stochastic models of production, service and health systems
  • Agricultural supply chains

Dr Valery Pavlov, Professor, Graduate School of Business, HSE University

  • Supply chain coordination
  • Behavioural operations

Dr Timofey Shalpegin, Associate Professor of Operations, Prince Mohammed Bin Salman College, Saudi Arabia

  • Incentive conflicts in collaborative product development
  • Models of supply chain coordination at product development stage
  • Early supplier involvement

Dr Yangyan (Peter) Shi, Associate Professor, Macquarie University, Australia

  • Third-party purchase
  • Third-party logistics
  • Operations and supply chain management

Dr Arvind Tripathi, Associate Professor, The University of Kansas, USA

  • Online markets
  • Social networks
  • Open innovation
  • Supply chain management

Dr William Wang, Associate Professor of Digital Business and Supply Chain Management, The University of Waikato

  • Enterprise Systems in Supply Chain Management
  • Health Logistics and Data Analytics

Dr Lincoln Wood, Professor, University of Otago, New Zealand

  • Operations and supply chain management in construction
  • Performance in logistics service relationships

Dr Quan (Spring) Zhou, Senior Lecturer, University of Wollongong, Australia

  • Supply chain management and coordination
  • Humanitarian supply chain, nonprofit operations

Alumni

Hendrik Reefke, PhD
Senior Lecturer in Supply Chain Management, School of Management, Cranfield University

Chin Boo Soon, PhD
Asia Pacific Sales and Technical Manager, BT9 International

Lincoln Wood, PhD
Professor in Operations and Supply Chain Management, Department of Management, University of Otago
Adjunct Research Fellow at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia

Samsul Islam, PhD
Project Researcher, Dalhousie University

Dusan Ku, PhD
Terminal Business Analyst, South Korea

Quan (Spring) Zhou, PhD
Senior Lecturer in School of Management, Operations and Marketing, University of Wollongong

Xiaoyan (Miya) Qian, PhD
Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne

Mojtaba Mahdavi, PhD
Network Design Lead, Fisher & Paykel Healthcare
Adjunct Lecturer, ISOM department, University of Auckland

Lahiru Gunasekara
Lecturer, Lincoln University

Shandong Mou, PhD
Associate Professor, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, P.R. China