Supply Chain Management covers all activities and decisions that take place during the transformation of raw materials to products or services delivered to end customers. Key decision areas include supply chain network design, production and inventory planning, transportation and logistics, aimed at efficient allocation and use of limited resources to meet demand in areas like commerce, disaster response, humanitarian aid, and national defense.
The ISE department conducts research that creates new methods to analyze, design, and operate supply chains. The department has expertise in solving problems addressing the need to make time-sensitive decisions in complex environments.
Active Research Areas at RPI Include:
Supply Chain Resilience
Last Mile Logistics
Disaster Planning and Response
Infrastructure Network Restoration
Humanitarian Logistics
Retail Operations
Path Finding
Peer-to-Peer Resource Allocation
Affiliated Faculty
Recent Papers by Affiliated Faculty
Capacity Allocation in Service Systems with Preferred Delivery Times and Multiple Customer Classes (Dr. Çavdar)
Word-of-Mouth on Action: Analysis of Optimal Shipment Policy When Customers are Resentful (Dr. Çavdar)
Increasing Driver Flexibility Through Personalized Menus and Incentives in Ridesharing and Crowdsourced Delivery Platforms (Dr. Pazour and Dr. Mitchell)
Online Acceptance Probability Approximation in Peer-to-Peer Transportation (Dr. Pazour)
Path-Length Analysis for Grid-Based Path Planning (Dr. Bailey)
Affiliated PhD Students
Related Courses at RPI
ISYE 2210: Production and Operations Management
ISYE 4210: Design and Analysis of Supply Chains
ISYE 4500: Stochastic Methods in Operations Research
ISYE 4600: Deterministic Methods in Operations Research
ISYE 4960/ISYE 6960/MGMT 6960 Game Theory Applications: Supply Chain
ISYE 6550/CS 6966: Network Flows: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications
ISYE 6610: Systems Modeling in DSES
