The Texas A&M Energy Institute’s Distinguished Lecture Series in Energy will feature Dr. Dmitry Ivanov, a Professor for Supply Chain and Operations Management in the Department of Business and Economics at the Berlin School of Economics and Law, on Wednesday, March 11, 2026, from 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. CDT (UTC -5:00). The topic will be “Supply Chain Viability and Digital Ecosystems.”
Abstract
This talk is devoted to supply chain viability and digital ecosystems. We will discuss adaptation-based principles of supply chain viability, design and implementation of digital technology for viable supply chains, and human-AI collaboration in digital twins and viability stress testing. Pilot implementations will be illustrated using anyLogistix supply chain simulation and optimization software, and use cases in industry. Future research directions will be outlined, especially focusing on cross-disciplinary collaboration between management, biology, ecology, and control engineering.
Biography
Prof. Dr. Dr. habil. Dmitry Ivanov is a Professor of Supply Chain and Operations Management and the director of the Digital-AI Supply Chain Lab at the Berlin School of Economics and Law. His research spans supply chain resilience and digital supply chain twins. He has made influential contributions, particularly exploring the structural dynamics of supply chains. Author of the Viable Supply Chain Model and founder of the ripple effect and viability research in supply chains. Recipient of several research excellence awards. His research record counts around 470 publications, with more than 170 papers in prestigious academic journals and the leading books “Global Supply Chain and Operations Management” (three editions), “Introduction to Supply Chain Resilience,” “Introduction to Supply Chain Analytics,” “Structural Dynamics and Resilience in Supply Chain Risk Management,” “Scheduling in Industry 4.0 and Cloud Manufacturing,” “Digital Supply Chain” and “Handbook of Ripple Effects in the Supply Chain.” He delivered invited plenary, keynote, panel, and guest talks at the conferences of INFORMS, IFPR, IFIP, IFAC, IEEE, DSI, and POM, and over 40 universities worldwide. He has been Chairman, IPC Chair, and Advisory Board member for over 80 international conferences in supply chain and operations management, industrial engineering, control, and information sciences. Principal investigator in several projects about digital supply chain twins and resilience funded by EU Horizon and DFG. Several Awards for Best Papers (IJPR, IISE Transactions, Omega), Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher Awards. Ranked #1 worldwide in Supply Chain by ScholarGPS and #1 in Operations Research by Stanford/Elsevier ranking. Ranked #1 in German-Austrian-Switzerland Ranking of Top Scientists in Business and Management area. Chair of IFAC CC 5 “Cyber-Physical Manufacturing Systems,” Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Integrated Supply Management, Editor Annals of Operations Research, Associate Editor of International Journal of Production Research and OMEGA, guest editor and Editorial Board member in over 20 leading international journals, including IISE Transactions and IJPE, to name a few.