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The purpose of this workshop is to bring together academic, industry and government personnel from various countries in order to share and to discuss the theoretical and practical results on the supply chain management in sustainable and circular economies.  We invite to present both qualitative and quantitative studies on various challenges and solutions related to transition of the traditional supply chain towards more sustainable performance. In particular, we encourage discussion on new approaches towards managing returns in the e-commerce, configuration of the reverse logistics and closing the materials loop by recovery scenarios like remanufacturing, recycling and reuse.

Teacher CV

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She obtained a DSc. (habilitation) in Transportation Engineering at Poznan University of Technology and hold PhD in the field of Engineering with a strong focus on applied research in automotive industry. She is a graduate of the "Executive Master of Business Administration" program of the University of Warsaw and the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaigne (USA). In 2016 she served as an expert to the European Commission within STRIA - Strategic Transport Research and Innovation Agenda. She collaborates as a visiting professor with the Polytechnic University in Valencia (Spain) and Luxembourg University.

 She conducts research in the area of: sustainable supply chain management, IT support for transport and logistics processes, sustainable transport and logistics in Circular Economy.

She is the editor-in-chief of a series at Springer Verlag entitled "EcoProdution - Environmental Issues in Logistics and Manufacturing". She is a Topic Editor at the journal Sustainability. She serves as a board member of the International Federation of Logistics and SCM Systems. She is the author and co-author of over 100 scientific publications.

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Circular economy (CE), as a smart managerial tool, aims at sustainable development of societies by focusing on renewable sources of energy and precise management of waste to i) ensure fair access to scarce resources, ii) mitigate the negative impacts of manufacturing processes on climate change and global warming. Centring on CE, governments can formulate practical strategies at micro and macro levels for more efficient use of energy, water, and natural materials, and restricting waste disposal into the environment. Analysing the efficiency of CE-related endeavours of countries help them benchmark best practices and improve their processes to be more efficient. Since circular economy emphasizes the economic development with the least amount of undesirable environmental impacts, this research implements data envelopment analysis (DEA) to evaluate the environmental performance of the organization for economic cooperation and development (OECD) countries.

Teacher CV

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Dr. Reza Kiani Mavi is a senior lecturer of Supply Chain and Project Management in the School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University (ECU), Australia. His research interests include eco-innovation analysis, and supply chain performance evaluation using multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques, and data envelopment analysis (DEA). He has published over 60 refereed papers in many prestigious journals such as Supply Chain Management: an International Journal, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of the Operational Research Society, among others. In addition to serving as the editorial board member of Technological Forecasting and Social Change, and Management Decision, Reza is an associate editor for the Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems. Dr. Kiani Mavi has secured research grants from the Australian Institute of Project Management and iMOVE Collaborative Research Centre as the chief and participating investigator.