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CESIT experts are at the forefront of Supply Chain news and research at the national and international level. They also intervene regularly in the media to provide insight in the news owing to their expertise and work, and they organise and participate in many seminars with their international partners.

Furthermore, they are developing cutting-edge academic projects in the fields of maritime supply chains, sustainable supply chains, supply chain 4.0, and urban logistics. They are also working on applied research projects related to companies and to the dissemination of knowledge and technologies from the academic world into the business world. 

Focus on

5 clés pour repenser la collaboration durable en aéronautique, Walid Klibi, Olivier, Labarthe, kedge.edu, 05/03/2024

Presence in the media 

Research and development 

Projects

• MAIA - Models and Methods for an Active Ageing workforce: An International Academy 

MAIA is a European research project with a focus on a timely and strategic international challenge: the efficient involvement of ageing workers in the manufacturing systems of the future.

MAIA is a ‘Research and Innovation Staff Exchange’ funded by the Horizon 2020 research and innovation program. The project is aimed at strengthening research collaboration through active networking, staff exchange and dissemination activities between 7 European universities from Italy, Germany, France and Slovenia as well as 6 non-European universities from USA, Japan, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Canada.

The academy will focus on active ageing industrial workforce problems and needs. The network is multidisciplinary with leading expertises on ageing and psychosocial aspects, ergonomics, manufacturing system design, robotics/assistance technologies, and economics.

The partners aim to contribute to the state of the art by transforming concepts used in manufacturing systems design and management, human sciences, ergonomics and operations management. Within KEDGE, this project is led by Olga Battaïa, member of CESIT.  

• VitiREV project (2019 – 2024), Sustainability in wine sector (logistics and wine tourism), Tatiana Bouzdine-Chameeva, member of the Food, Wine & Hospitality center of excellence

• CIFRE thesis (2019-2022) with La Poste and the Institut de mathématiques de Bordeaux, entitled «Conception de réseaux de distribution urbaine mutualisée en mode doux » (Design of soft mobility shared urban distribution networks). This project is steered by Walid Klibi and Gautier Stauffer.  
• Lectra (Since 2017), Design du réseau Chine ; Empreinte carbone ; Amélioration DDMRP, Optimisation Milk Run (Designing China's network; Carbon footprint; DDMRP's improvement; Milk Run optimisation). Respectively steered by Walid Klibi, Anicia Jaegler and Zied Babai. 

Chairs 

• LA POSTE chair 

The project is based on 3 research axes with different objectives relating to the issues in each specific line of research. Several CESIT experts are involved in this work, including a doctoral researcher, post-doctoral researchers, a student-worker, and ISLI students. 
Research axes: 

1. Project 1: Steering an added value logistics scheme
2. Project 2: Shared (hyperconnected) urban distribution using non-polluting transportation 
3. Project 3: Forecasting Distribution Traffic

Chair's main point of contact: Walid Klibi 
Contributors: Zied Babai, Larissa Belgouzia, Imen Ben Mohamed, Nadine Kafa, Olivier Labarthe, Johan Leveque, and Gautier Stauffer. 
Outside collaborations: Benoit Montreuil, Georgia-Tech Institute, Atlanta, USA 

• SEPHORA chair 

Omnichannel distribution and Network design 
Lines of research: Network Design, Green Supply Chain, Planning and advanced analytics. 
Chair's main point of contact: Walid Klibi 
Contributors : Zied Babai, Larissa Belgouzia, Imen Ben Mohamed, Yann Bouchery, Marjan Bozorg, Nadine Kafa, Haytham Omar. 
External collaborations: Ayse N. Arslan, INSA Rennes and Benoit Montreuil, Georgia-Tech Institute, Atlanta, USA. 

Pedagogy and student life 

Training programmes associated with the centre

Members of the Supply Chain research centre actively participate in the Supply Chain courses at the school. They regularly participate in the various ISLI training programmes, both for initial trainings, apprenticeships, and continuous professional development.

Gerald LANG oversees the Academic Division of the ISLI programme in continuous professional development. 

Centre members are also involved in the ITL, PGE, IBBA, and EBP programmes within specialisation tracks or Supply Chain and/or maritime field acculturation modules. CESIT also offers custom training within companies in its areas of expertise

Theses and missions 

The CESIT also assists students with their research thesis work (mandatory component of the ISLI curriculum) and the ‘ISLI missions’ (a semester-long job in group project of 4 to 5 students in partnership with a company), for both our programmes in France and abroad. We oversee approximately two hundred theses per year as well as a dozen missions. 

Beyond their educational aspect, theses and missions feed the work of CESIT members (research and case studies in particular) and support the development of strategic partnerships with the companies involved (many of the team's projects stemmed from missions and theses). 

• Thierry Roques supervises our MBA students on our Chinese and French campuses: Mentoring MBA students for their SBP (Strategic Business Plan). SBP is the project that MBA students carry out throughout their whole programme to develop an existing activity within their company or to create a new activity or business. Thierry Roques oversees the SBPs with a SCM dimension.
• Joerg Hofstetter supervised Elina Aberle's thesis: “What are the requirements of monitoring performances of sub suppliers?", that is particularly remarkable ! 
• Food waste at the K’Fet in KEDGE Bordeaux (May 2020). This study was conducted by a group of 6 MSc ISLI students in Bordeaux: Antonin Hyest, Sanjai Saravanan, Mukundan Sreemohan, Muhammad Birama Sylla, Mélanie Tapa, and Chengfeng Yang. In partnership with KEDGE CSR department, the group examined food waste in the food service industry, particularly focusing on the school itself. By collecting and analysing data such as the volume of waste, the degree of customer satisfaction, and more, our group of students was able to formulate recommendations for more sustainable food management at KEDGE food service places. This work was overseen by Gautier Stauffer. 

News related to students / educational news

• Laurent Fedi - Creation of the first version of the Maritime Sulitest with Msc International Trade and Logistics students (Autumn 2019). ITL students drafted 20-question survey on CSR in maritime shipping. This survey was defended in front of KEDGE CSR Department and Surfrider association in December 2019. It aims at testing the awareness and knowledge on maritime CSR of future ITL students and employees/managers of shipping companies. This first version will be improved this year with the new intake of ITL students. 

Events

Seminars 

• Rainer Schlosser/ Stochastic Dynamic Pricing/ 14 octobre 2019 / Hasso Plattner Institut, Postdam
• Marjan Bozorg/ Optimization of membrane process architecture/ 14 November 2019/ CESIT 
• Mehdi Amiri-Aref / A robust stochastic Casualty Collection Points location problem/ 27 novembre 2019/ CESIT 
• Johan Leveque/ Urban network design for parcel delivery at La Poste: the example of Paris/ 30 janvier 2019/ CESIT 
• Haytham Omar/ Employing R in inventory management, UAE case study / 14 février 2020 /CESIT
• Alexandre Lavissière/ Supply Chain Management from an Industrial Marketing perspective: the case of Port community / 5 mars 2020/CESIT 
• Carlos A. Moreno-Camacho / Sustainable Supply Chain Network Design in the Dairy Sector/ 29 May 2020/ KEDGE & Mines Saint-Etienne, Univ Lyon 

Organized and co-organized conferences and workshops 

• Dataquitaine 2020, IA, Recherche Opérationnelle & Data Science, 13/02/2020 at Kedge Business School, Talence - www.dataquitaine.com Co-organisers Kedge Business School: Larissa Belgouzia, Walid Klibi, Gautier Stauffer 
• Dataquitaine 2019, IA, Recherche Opérationnelle & Data Science, 07/02/2019 at Kedge Business School, Talence - www.dataquitaine.com Co-organisers Kedge Business School: Larissa Belgouzia, Walid Klibi 
• Conférence KEDGE Alumni - Digitalisation in the maritime supply chain 13/02/2020 Marseille, organised by Laurent Fédi
• The Aussois Combinatorial Optimization Workshop Centre Paul Langevin du CNRS à Aussois (France), Gautier Stauffer is co-organiser since 2019. 
• Table ronde KEDGE Alumni - Smart Cities 12/06/2019 Kedge Business School Bordeaux, organised by Walid Klibi & Larissa Belgouzia 
• Conférence KEDGE Alumni - The design of Supply Chain 4.0. 05/06/2019 at Kedge Business School Paris, organised by Walid Klibi, Razat GAURAV, CEO and Member Board of Directors LLamasoft and Sébastien Riegel, Director Modeling & network design Schneider Electric 
• The 6th edition of the ILS - 2016 (« The International Conference on Information Systems, Logistics and Supply Chain ») Conference organised in Bordeaux from the 1^st to 4^th of June 2016. ILS 2016 event gathered more than 150 participants from more than 30 countries and included a doctoral students competition as well as an industrial day 
• The 10th edition of the RIRL - Conference was hosted by Kedge on May 20-21, 2014 in Marseille in collaboration with researchers from the University of Nantes (France). 
• ATRS (Air Transport Research Society) international conference by Kedge Business School from July 17 to July 20, 2014 in Bordeaux The annual ISLI forum is one of the top industrial logistics events in France. Over 400 Supply Chain managers attend the forum in Bordeaux every year, which has a sharp focus on innovation. In addition to this, the school’s internal “Supply Chain Clubs”, which are co-led with alumni, regularly organise events that companies are invited to attend. The centre of excellence also works with the French Logistics Association (ASLOG) to organise or jointly organise conferences, debates, round tables, and more. 

Major conferences 

• RIRL
• International Maritime Economists Conference (IAME) 
• IPIC - International Physical Internet Conference 
• POMS 
• INFORMS 
• EURO 
• ISMP