Economic, geopolitical, technological, environmental, and social upheavals have ushered in an era of both gradual and radical transformations in supply chain management (e.g., Covid, war in Ukraine, maritime piracy, etc.). In these times of increased turbulence, demand volatility, declining supply reliability, and the growing awareness of our planet's limited resources call for a more global, agile, and resilient approach to supply chain management. The social and ethical challenges related to the use of emerging technologies (Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Analytics, Internet of Things, Blockchain, automation, etc.) have become central to both practitioners and academic researchers. Furthermore, issues of equity, diversity, and social inclusion are increasingly emerging as key imperatives within supply chains. These evolving challenges naturally mobilize both the management science community and industrial engineering researchers. This conference offers a unique opportunity to bring together these two communities, which address similar issues through different methodological lenses.

The 16th edition of the AIRL-SCM conference aims to bring together researchers and professionals to exchange on their research work and on current and future applications in the professional world related to supply chain management.

Gilles Paché 

Gilles Paché is Full Professor of Management Sciences at Aix-Marseille University. Former President of the International Association for Research in Logistics and Supply Chain Management (AIRL-SCM), and a member of the Aix-Marseille Center for Management Studies and Research (CERGAM), he has published around twenty academic books, including Heterodox Logistics (Presses Universitaires d’Aix-Marseille), and is the author of several hundred articles, conference papers, reports, and book chapters. His research focuses primarily on the implementation of logistics strategies and the governance of football clubs.

Stefan Minner

Stefan Minner is Full Professor for Logistics and Supply Chain Management at the School of Management, Technical University of Munich (TUM) and a core-member of the Munich Data Science Institute (MDSI). His research interests using methods of operations research, artificial intelligence and machine learning are in global supply chain design, transportation optimization and inventory management. His work was published in many peer reviewed journals, including Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Operations Research, Production and Operations Management, Transportation Science, Transportation Research Part B, and European Journal of Operational Research. He serves on several editorial boards of logistics and operations research journals. Currently, Stefan Minner is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Production Economics. Stefan Minner is a fellow of the International Society for Inventory Research (ISIR) and is currently vice-chairman of the scientific advisory board of the German Logistics Association (BVL), and a member of the Research Committee of the European Logistics Association (ELA).

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