Research directions
Competitive manufacturing in a high-cost environment
The Cost-Differential Frontier calculator is available at
http://cdf.oplab.unil.ch.
Supply chain management
Evaluation of the role of lead time reduction in supply chain improvement efforts
Reducing lead times
The process of reducing lead times in an organization. What motivates companies to reduce lead times? What challenges do they face? What are the organizational and strategic implications?
Lean production
The system dynamics of JIT and lean production
The relationship between inventory reduction and learning
The impact of lean production systems on workers
Process consistency improvement
The role of process documentation in improving process consistency
Implementation issues in process documentation
The impact of requiring that workers perform operations as specified in the process documents on motivation
Health care operations
The application of operations management tools and concepts in the health care management context
Queuing theory-based mathematical modeling of operations
