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. Doctoral thesis supervisor, co-supervising 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
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 Ecole de Management and SKEMA Business School until 2026.
Research interests
My research focuses on how best to help firms to increase their efficiency and manage risks.
From my previous experience as a co-founder in Argentina of a web-based service to help shippers and carriers to communicate more efficiently I studied collaboration, information sharing and coordination.
I also spent a number of years researching the impact of abnormal weather on sales of consumer goods. If the weather is hot, people will buy icecream. How much do sales fall if the weather is cloudy? If it rains?
Over the last 5 years I have studied the impact of climate change: which locations in a supply network are exposed to extreme floods? to wildfires? What would such an event cost? What should a manager do?
Now managers must use AI in their work and decision processes: I study the interactions between managers and the AI tools. I research the reliability, provability, biases, and the corresponding governance mechanisms which need to be applied.
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