Welcome to Xavier Brusset’s personal website.
Expert in supply chain management.
Research statement
My interest lies in increasing the efficiency of supply chains by focusing on information, coordination, and collaboration issues. Past events (and future ones) mean that causes and effects of disruptions must be investigated so that proper risk prevention and mitigation measures can be deployed. Recently, I have also focused on climate change and weather risk.
Publications in Peer Reviewed Journals
Teaching
Professor of Supply Chain Management and purchasing in the Digitalisation Academy at SKEMA Business School. Director of the Centre for Analytics and Management Science. Doctoral thesis supervisor, co-supervised a thesis at the Université Paris – La Sorbonne.
Supply Chain Management
Supply Chain strategy & SCOR model
Green supply chains & reverse logistics
Supply Chain Management (EMBA)
Research Methodology
Mathematical models
How to do a literature review
Risk Management
How to deal with turbulence in logistics
Mitigating information asymmetry
Operations Management
Operations Management principles and applications
Operations in retail and distribution
Bio
My name is Xavier Brusset. I hold a PhD from the Université catholique de Louvain as well as an Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches from Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense university. I teach in French, English and Spanish.
I have been teaching since 2009 Logistics and Supply Chain Management at the Toulouse Business School, ESSCA and now SKEMA since 2016.
Research interests
My research focuses on the relationship between supply chain partners (information sharing, trust, collaboration) as well as the impact of weather risks or of climate change. The purpose of my research is to help firms to increase their efficiency and manage risks.
This stems from my previous experience as a co-founder in Argentina of a web-based service to help shippers and carriers to communicate more efficiently about cargoes to transport and available trucks. The problem of efficiency is pervasive in any supply chain. This is why I became interested in information sharing and collaboration between suppliers and customers.
I have also researched the impact of the vagaries of the weather on sales of consumer goods. If the weather is hot, people will buy icecream. But what happens if the weather is cloudy? If it rains? Now, we must take into account climate change: which locations in a network are exposed to floods? Exposed to wildfires? What would such an event cost?
Author of scientific articles
My findings have been published in academic journals such as The Journal of Operations Management, The European Journal of Operational Research, the International Journal of Production Economics, Computers and Industrial Engineering, RAIRO Operations Research, Journal of Asset Management, La Revue Française de Gestion Industrielle.
Author and co-author of text and scientfic books
I edited and co-authored a textbook about business cases in distribution and a chapter in the “The Digital Supply Chain” (Eds. B. MacCarthy and D. Ivanov), titled”Algorithms, Analytics, and Artifical Intelligence: harnessing data to make supply chain decisions”.
Advisory board member of the CERR
I am a member of the advisory board of the Colloquium on European Research in Retailing (CERR). Check their website for the next Colloquium.
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Supply Chain & Logistics management expertise