#BLMM2024
Peter Corfitsen, CEO of Rijeka Gateway
Peter Corfitsen is the CEO of Rijeka Gateway, the biggest container terminal in Croatia, which is currently being built.
From 2021 to 2024 Peter was the CEO of Maersk’s cargo airline, Maersk Air Cargo. During his more than 30 years of experience in container shipping with Maersk, Peter has held a series of leadership positions in the company, notably with base in Denmark, US, South Africa, Singapore and Panama.
Peter Corfitsen will give a lecture titled “RGW as enabler of Rijeka becoming the main gateway to Central Europe’s logistics HUB”. Upon completion, the Rijeka Gateway terminal will be the most modern, mostly remotely controlled container terminal in this part of Europe. Peter will offer insights in all cutting edge technologies used on this state-of-the-art terminal and will provide a deep dive in the project details.
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#BLMM2023
Dr. Márton Lányi
Managing Director of Kühne + Nagel Kft., Hungary
Dr. Márton Lányi, Ph.D is a part time Assistant Professor on the Edutus University in Hungary next to his roles as Managing Director of Kühne + Nagel and the President of the Hungarian Freight Forwarders Association.
He conducted his PhD in the field of cargo security and personal safety via systemized logistics transport solutions. His publications are related to transport, logistics security and safety, last mile, e-commerce, logistics outsourcing.
Dr. Márton Lányi will give a lecture titled “Actual challenges and opportunities of the intermodality in Hungary”. Reporting and commenting the results of a survey conducted by several logistics associations in Hungary. The intention of the survey was to discover, gather and discuss current viewpoints of the market participants regarding the actual challenges and opportunities of the intermodality in Hungary. Researches were conducted recently between August and September in 2023.
#BLMM2022
MSc Ivana Jakir-Bajo
MSc Ivana Jakir-Bajo was born on 15 March 1974 in Nürnberg. She graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Business in Zagreb in 1997 and obtained her Master’s Degree from the Department of Organisation and Management of the same Faculty in 2012. From December 1998 to July 2020, Ms Jakir-Bajo worked in the Ministry of Finance, first in the Directorate for State Accounting and from 2016 in the State Treasury where she acted as Chief State Treasurer and National Authorising Officer. Until 2014 she was also the Chair of the OECD Regional Network of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European Countries Senior Budget Officials (CESEE-SBO). In her work so far she participated in many professional trainings in renowned international institutions in the United States of America (Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government), the Netherlands and Slovenia. She took part in the implementation of international projects in the area of public finance. She is the author and a co-author of a large number of professional and scientific papers published in the country and abroad on budget system, fiscal responsibility, performance measuring and budget accounting and also co-authored a number of books and manuals.
Pursuant to the decision of the Croatian Parliament, Ms Ivana Jakir-Bajo was appointed Vicegovernor of the Croatian National Bank on 1 July 2020.
Vicegovernor Jakir-Bajo coordinates and manages the Currency Area.
#BLMM2021
Prof. dr. Herbert Kotzab
Professor and Chair of Logistics Management, University of Bremen, Germany
Prof. Kotzab received his PhD and a postdoctoral degree from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and prior to that, obtained a MBA in Marketing andManagement from the same institution. Prof. Kotzab lectures at undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate levels in marketing, logistics and supply chain management.
Prior to his assignment in Bremen, Prof. Kotzab held a position as Professor at the Copenhagen Business School, Department of Operations Management. In 1998, Prof. Kotzab was Visiting Scholar at the Center for Transportation Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research focuses on supply chain management as a critical success factor for a firm’s performance, e-enabled supply chain management, service operations and consumer driven value networks. Prof. Kotzab published over over 300 publications in leading journals such as Journal of Business Logistics, The International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, Industrial Marketing Management, European Journal of Operational Research, Production & Operations Management (POM), Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Electronic Markets, Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, Industrial Management and Data systems, chapters in books, conference proceedings and non-refereed journals.
He has lectured and offered executive education programs in close cooperation with the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, INSEAD, European Business School, ETH Zurich, ESCCA Angers and the University of St. Gallen as well as provided logistics consulting services to a number of international companies and the Austrian Efficient Consumer Response Initiative. He has also been a frequent speaker and session chair at leading academic and practitioners conferences in the field.
Prof. Kotzab is a member of the scientific board of the German Logistics Association (BVL). He is also a member of the Editorial board of the Journal of Marketing Channels, the International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management and since 2013 the editor-in-chief of Logistics Research.
#BLMM2020
Arkadiusz Kawa, Ph.D.
Director of Research Network Łukasiewicz – Institute of Logistics and Warehousing, Poznan, Poland
Dr. Kawa is an author of over 300 scientific, didactic, and popularization papers dealing with logistics, e-commerce, IT and business network. He published in Industrial Marketing Management, International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management, LogForum. He received his PhD and habilitation in economics from the Poznań University of Economics and Business where he worked previously as an associate professor.
He is a winner of a scholarship for young, extraordinary scientists contest, arranged by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. He is also the winner of a prestigious contest by the Foundation for Polish Science.
He has delivered over 60 projects for organisations, such as: Volkswagen, Landmark (bPost), Poczta Polska (Polish Post), DHL, UPS, Deloitte, AT Kearney, KPMG, BCG, GS1, Last Mile Experts, Pepco, Merlin.pl, SGB-Bank, NaviExpert.
He was an expert in “Digital Economy, Innovation, and East Asia’s Competitiveness in GVCs” project of Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) and he is principal investigator of the “Value network creation in e-commerce in terms of logistics and marketing” project.
He is member of the Working Group on National Smart Specialization (Environmentally friendly transport solutions) at the Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Technology in Poland and a member of the Wielkopolska Smart Specialization Forum (Specialized logistic processes) at the Marshall Office of the Wielkopolska Region. He is an expert in the Vocational Competence Certificate programme and the author of educational materials for the profession of a logistician.
#BLMM2019
Prof. Arthur V. Hill
…is the John and Nancy Lindahl Professor in the Supply Chain and Operations Department in the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. He is also the Academic Director of the Carlson Consulting Enterprise. Until recently, he was the Associate Dean for MBA programs in the Carlson School and the Director for the Supply Chain & Operations Board of Advisors. He has been awarded numerous teaching awards at the Carlson School and was recognized as an outstanding instructor in several national publications including Business Week. He has been a visiting professor at Indiana University, the Moscow Institute of Management, IMD International in Lausanne Switzerland, Wits University in Johannesburg South Africa, the National University of Singapore, and Eastern International University in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam. He has provided operations management consulting for over 100 organizations, including 3M, Best Buy, Boston Scientific, Cargill, Ceridian, CH Robinson, Cummins, Delta Airlines, Donaldson, Dow Chemical, Easter Seals/Goodwill, Ecolab, General Mills, Goodrich, Home Depot, Honeywell, Land O’Lakes, Mayo Clinic, Medtronic, Methodist Hospital, Nestlé, Radisson, Sam Goody, St. Jude Medical, Target, Thomson Reuters, Toro, and US Bank. His Encyclopedia of Operations Management – 2018 Edition is a popular text at many business schools around the world. He attended West Point for two years and then earned a BA in Mathematics from Indiana University and then an MS in Industrial Administration and a PhD in Management from the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University. He is committed to helping organizations add more value to their customers, shareholders, and employees – and to helping Carlson School MBA students succeed in their education, career, and life.
On his BLMM plenary lecture, Prof. Hill will give a lecture titled:
Forecasting the Forecastability Quotient for Inventory Management!
This research develops and empirically tests a model to estimate the economic advantage of using a time phased order point system (TPOP) with time series forecasting over a simple reorder point system in an independent demand inventory management context. Empirical study of a large dataset of time series from a Fortune 100 firm found that the forecastability quotient (Q) in the holdout sample can be predicted with just three variables from the estimation sample. Surprisingly, many highly touted time series metrics (e.g., coefficient of variation and approximate entropy) and forecast accuracy metrics (e.g., mean absolute percent error) were not good predictors of Q.
Dr. Alexander Trautrims
…from Nottingham University Business School, Great Britain will give a lecture on Modern slavery in supply chains!
Dr. Trautrims leads the Unchained Supply project at the University of Nottingham’s Rights Lab, a transdisciplinary research centre that works towards the eradication of modern slavery. The Global Slavery Index estimates that currently 40.3 million people across the world live in modern slavery, more than ever before in history. He will explain what modern slavery is, where it can be found in supply chains and why supply chain management is crucial to solving modern slavery.
He will introduce some of his current research on how supply chain design affects the occurrence of modern slavery and how modern slavery in supply chains can be prevented. His presentation will conclude with raising opportunities for supply chain scholars from all areas of the discipline to get involved in working towards slavery-free supply chains.
#BLMM2018
Prof. dr. Herbert Kotzab
Professor and Chair of Logistics Management, University of Bremen, Germany
Prof. Kotzab received his PhD and a postdoctoral degree from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and prior to that, obtained a MBA in Marketing andManagement from the same institution. Prof. Kotzab lectures at undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate levels in marketing, logistics and supply chain management.
Prior to his assignment in Bremen, Prof. Kotzab held a position as Professor at the Copenhagen Business School, Department of Operations Management. In 1998, Prof. Kotzab was Visiting Scholar at the Center for Transportation Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research focuses on supply chain management as a critical success factor for a firm’s performance, e-enabled supply chain management, service operations and consumer driven value networks. Prof. Kotzab published over over 300 publications in leading journals such as Journal of Business Logistics, The International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, Industrial Marketing Management, European Journal of Operational Research, Production & Operations Management (POM), Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Electronic Markets, Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, Industrial Management and Data systems, chapters in books, conference proceedings and non-refereed journals.
He has lectured and offered executive education programs in close cooperation with the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, INSEAD, European Business School, ETH Zurich, ESCCA Angers and the University of St. Gallen as well as provided logistics consulting services to a number of international companies and the Austrian Efficient Consumer Response Initiative. He has also been a frequent speaker and session chair at leading academic and practitioners conferences in the field.
Prof. Kotzab is a member of the scientific board of the German Logistics Association (BVL). He is also a member of the Editorial board of the Journal of Marketing Channels, the International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management and since 2013 the editor-in-chief of Logistics Research.
#BLMM2017
Prof.Dr. Stefan Seuring
Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. pol. habil. Stefan Seuring is full professor of supply chain management at the University of Kassel, Germany. Stefan is one of the globally leading authors on sustainable supply chain management, but also covers topics on supply chain strategy and the application of management accounting tools across supply chains. So far he successfully supervised 18 PhD students.
In 2016, Stefan Seuring was listed among the 27 globally most-influential researchers in logistics and supply chain management by a panel of French Researchers.
Stefan has collaborated interdisciplinary in research project with colleagues from agriculture, engineering and political sciences..
His papers have appeared e.g. in Journal of Cleaner Production, International Journal of Production Economics, Supply Chain Management – An International Journal, Journal of Business Ethics, International Journal of Operations and Production Management.
#BLMM2016
Prof. Dr. Alexander Hübner is Professor of operations management at Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany. Prof. Hübner’s research and teaching interests are in supply chain planning, multi-channel logistics, assortment and inventory management, network planning and stock replenishment, service and health c
are operations.
He has published articles in leading operational and retailing journals, including European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Retail and Distribution Management, Operations Management Research and Omega.
His book Retail category management: Decision support systems for assortment, shelf space, inventory and price planning, published by Springer is leading title in the field of retail shelf space management.
Priror to receiving his doctorate, he worked for McKinsey & Company, and has consulting experience for Audi AG.
