Event Type : Conferences

Mahmut Tutam
Erzurum Technical University, Turkey

Abstract:

Warehousing is a crucial element of logistics and plays a pivotal role in a company’s success. With the rise of e-commerce, warehouses have become more critical than ever in the logistics chain. Typically, warehouses receive, store, preserve, retrieve, and deliver millions of products daily or weekly. Consequently, warehouse systems are continuously evolving to facilitate the smooth flow of products in logistics. In recent years, numerous studies have focused on warehouse development. As a result, new warehousing systems, referred to as Warehousing 5.0, are being introduced and increasingly implemented in warehouses. This seminar evaluates the current state and future prospects of Warehousing 5.0, incorporating emerging technologies such as collaborative and compact storage/retrieval systems.

Dr. Mahmut Tutam is an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Erzurum Technical University in Turkey and holds a BSIE degree from Gazi University in Turkey. In 2012, he was awarded a full scholarship from the Ministry of National Education of Turkey to study in the United States. He received his MSIE and Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas (UA) in 2015 and 2018, respectively. He performed research on Warehouse Design problems. A recipient of the 2015 and 2023 ISERC Best Track Paper awards, he has given multiple presentations and served as Session Chair at IISE and INFORMS annual meetings. Following the postdoctoral fellowship at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands, he pursues his academic career at Erzurum Technical University. His research interests include, but are not limited to, supply chain management, facility logistics, warehousing, collaborative robots, and artificial intelligence.

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Fabiano Armellini
Polytechnique Montréal

Abstract:

In the not-so-distant past, the field of strategic management was prolific in proposing tools and methods to help industrial practitioners and decision-makers structure the strategic decisions of companies, particularly in the technological field. Since Henry Mintzberg’s criticism of strategic planning as an oxymoron incapable of accounting for the complexity and unpredictability of real business environments, researchers in this area have turned to less pragmatic and less propositional research agendas. Despite this, businesses and practitioners continue to use strategic management tools developed in the “pre-Mintzberg” era. However, these tools do not take stock of recent advances and recent phenomena in the field of technology and innovation management, such as open innovation and ecosystems, which are not systematically taken into account through these tools. This seminar aims to present some recent efforts to bridge this gap between the theory and practice of strategic technology management.

Fabiano Armellini, eng. D.Sc., is a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering and director of the Globalization and Management of Technology (GMT) research group at Polytechnique Montréal in Canada. He holds B.Eng., M.Sc. and D.Sc. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Polytechnic School of University of São Paulo in Brazil. Prior to professorship, Dr. Armellini worked for 10 years as a practitioner in innovation management and product engineering, mainly in the aerospace and defense sectors, and is the co-founder of two successful consulting companies in the field. In research, Dr. Armellini coauthors more than 90 scientific publications and communications. His research interests lie on technology and innovation management, with a particular interest in the strategic management of open and collaborative innovation.

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