A refined framework of information sharing in perishable product supply chains

Luluk Lusiantoro is a Lecturer within the Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Gadjah Mada. He won a bursary award from Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education (LPDP) for his MSc and PhD in Logistics and Supply Chain Management at Cranfield University, UK. His research interest is in the area of Supply Chain for Perishable Products, Health Care Supply Chain, and Humanitarian Logistics. In 2015, his project in the blood supply chain with National Health Service Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) won an MSc Dissertation of the Year from the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, UK.

Dr Nicola Yates is a Lecturer within the Cranfield University Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management. She has a wide general interest in modelling the supply chain. Her research focusses on simulation and modelling of supply chains, with a particular interest in the management of supply chains which handle perishable products such as food or blood. Her work has been published in a number of internationally renowned journals. She also teaches modules on physical network design, simulation and manufacturing on Masters Programmes. She is a Chemical Engineer by initial training with a PhD in Food Rheology.

Dr Carlos Mena is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Supply Chain Management at Michigan State University. The focus of his research is the impact of procurement practices on business, society, and the environment. His research has attracted over $2 million in funding and led to more than 20 refereed publications in leading journals. He has also published two books entitled Leading Procurement Strategy and Delivering Performance in Food Supply Chains. Carlos received a Doctorate degree and MSc from the University of Warwick in the UK and a BEng in Industrial Engineering from the Iberoamericana University in Mexico.

Liz Varga is a Professor of Complex Infrastructure Systems and Director of the Complex Systems Centre at Cranfield University, UK. Professor Varga has trans-disciplinary expertise in interdependent infrastructure systems (energy, transport, water, waste, and telecoms) as well as social infrastructures such as food and product supply chains. Her interests are in sustainable innovation and interventions which promote resilient systems. She applies both qualitative and quantitative methods to implement computational complex systems’ models to explore potential futures within different scenarios, governance regimes, and policy interventions. She runs several research projects, supervises doctoral students, and is a regular speaker and RCUK reviewer.