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Ongoing conference, book and journal projects:
1. Editor in International Journal of Integrated Supply Management (Inderscience)
2. Editor Annals of Operations Research (Springer)
3.Associate Editor in International Journal of Production Research and International Journal of Systems Science (Taylor & Francis)
4. Associate Editor in OMEGA (Elsevier)
4. Associate Editor in International Transactions in Operational Research (Wiley)
5. Editorial Board Member of several journals
6. Special Issue „Supply Chain Viability in the post-COVID era„, OMEGA, (closed), Call for papers
7. Special Issue „Stress Tests for Supply Chains: Towards Viable Supply Chain Designs“, International Journal of Production Research (closed), Call for papers
8. Special issue dedicated to Suresh Sethi on the occasion of his 80th birthday, International Journal of Production Research, deadline June 30, 2025, Call for papers
9. Special Issue „Viable Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and Logistics“. Annals of Operations Research, Call for papers (deadline: December 31, 2025)
10. 11th IFAC MIM Conference 2025
Research interests:
Supply chain resilience, structural dynamics and risk management: supply chain resilience and design with disruption risk considerations, ripple effect in the supply chain, complexity, network theory, simulation, viability
Digital twins, Industry 4.0 and digital manufacturing: digital supply chain twins, scheduling in Industry 4.0 and cloud manufacturing, real-time scheduling, data-driven optimization and simulation, Blockchain applications to supply chain and operations management
Most important research results:
- Founder of the Ripple effect research in supply chains
- Author of the Viable Supply Chain model
- Author of the Cloud Supply Chain framework
- Author of AURA (active usage of resilience assets) and LCN (low-certainty-need) supply chain frameworks
- Formulation and solution of new scheduling problem for Industry 4.0 systems: CF/DFJS (continuous flows / dynamic job shop scheduling)
- Author of Intertwined Supply Network framework
His research projects have been supported by funding from European Commission (Horizon 2020), DFG (German Research Foundation), IFAF as well industrial companies. In total, funding over one million euro has been obtained.
Our understanding of research in supply chain management and operations is based upon a combination of digitalization, resilience, sustainability and efficiency.
Prof. Ivanov’s research is based upon integrated consideration of processes, quantitative methods and technology for investigation of value-adding system dynamics.
Prof. Ivanov is an internationally renowned expert in supply chain and operations management, industrial and control engineering, and artificial intelligence. He has made fundamental and influential contributions, particularly exploring structural dynamics and control in complex networks with applications to supply chain resilience, Industry 4.0, supply chain simulation, risk analytics and digital supply chain twins. He is co-author of structural dynamics control method. His research coined several seminal academic and practical directions such as the ripple effect in supply chains and supply chain viability. He has applied different methodologies such as optimization, simulation, control theory, and artificial intelligence to a variety of supply chain and operations management problems. Most of his research stems from real practical context and focuses on the interface of supply chain management, operations research, industrial engineering, and digital technology.
Research methods comprise mathematical optimization, discrete-event simulation, agent-based simulation, control theory, and bio-inspired heuristics. Tools may include CPLEX, AnyLogic, anyLogistix as well as own software.
