Operations Management

The Operations Management group focuses on decision-making and operations management by using quantitative/analytical and qualitative methods with descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive approaches. The group is involved in teaching at Executive, Master, and Bachelor levels, as well as tailor-made Corporate courses.

The group is a multi-disciplinary environment with faculty members from such backgrounds as industrial engineering, business administration, finance, and operations research.

The group targets publishing research in high-quality international journals such as European Journal of Operational Research, Transportation Science, Production & Operations Management, Journal of Operations Management, International Journal of Production Economics, Computers & Operations Research, International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management and Academy of Management Journal.

The research and teaching interests of the faculty members are theory- and application-oriented and aim to provide tools and methods for improved decisions and operations, including the following areas:

• Supply chain optimization
• Network design strategy and facility location
• Sustainability, circular economy, and recycling
• Transportation, shipping, distribution planning, and vehicle routing
• Warehousing and layout planning
• Supply chain risk management and resilience
• Procurement and supply management
• Production planning, quality management, inventory planning, lot-sizing, and scheduling
• Decision making under uncertainty
• Computer simulation and system dynamics
• Multi-criteria decision making
• Project Management
• Disaster relief and humanitarian logistics
• Medicine and vaccine supply chain management
• Retail and process industry planning
• Performance management
• Product development, innovation, and service planning
• Health care modelling

The group is a member of Norwegian Operations Research Society (NORS) and hosts the annual LOGMA (Logistics and Material Administration Network) conference.