Coordination of the research Cluster Operations and Supply Chain Management

Mohamed Zied BABAI Senior Professor/Head of the Cluster Operations and Supply Chain Management Kedge Business School PROFESSIONAL +33 5 56 84 63 51 mohamed-zied.babai@kedgebs.com EDUCATION 2014 Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches - Bordeaux University (France) 2005 PhD in Industrial Engineering - Ecole Centrale Paris (France) 2002 MSc in Industrial Engineering - Ecole Centrale Paris (France) 2001 BSc in Industrial Engineering - Ecole Nationale d Ingénieurs de Tunis (Tunisia) EXPERIENCE AT KEDGE BUSINESS SCHOOL 2008-present Courses taught Demand forecasting, ISLI Inventory control, ISLI Operations planning, ISLI Gestion opérationnelle dans les supply chains, PGE Gestion des flux dans les supply chains, PGE Research Activities 2010-present Coordination of the research Cluster Operations and Supply Chain Management OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE IN TEACHING AND RESEARCH Positions held 2012-2013 Leverhulme Research fellow at Bucks New University (UK) 2009-2011 Visiting Professor at King Saud University (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) 2006-2008 Research Assistant - University of Salford (Royaume Uni) 2002-2006 Teaching and Research Assistant - Ecole Centrale Paris (France)

2 Mohamed Zied BABAI Courses taught 2012-2013 IT for logistics and supply chain, Management Science & Systems 2006-2008 Inventory control 2002-2006 Flow management, simulation, inventory control, linear programming Thesis supervisions Completed Current S CO-S M Post-doctorale 2 1 0 1 Thèses (Doctorat) 2 2 0 0 Thèses (Maîtrise) 0 0 0 0 Projets (Maîtrise) 0 0 0 0 S=Supervisor; CO-S=Co-Supervisor; M=Member of the thesis Committee Thesis/Projects Supervised 2010-2013 Co-supervision of the PhD thesis of Bahman Rostami-Tabar at the University of Bordeaux on the topic Demand forecasting by aggregation 2008-2012 Co-supervision of the PhD thesis of David LENGU at the University of Salford (UK) on the topic Modelling and prediction of intermittent demand distributions 2012-2013 Co-supervision of the post-doctoral project of the student Jalel EUCHI on the topic «Développement d heuristiques pour le problème de Pickup and delivery avec fenêtres de temps» 2014- Present Co-supervision of the post-doctoral project of the student Mehdi AMIRIAREF on the topic Integrated inventorylocation problem under uncertain demand EXTERNAL/INTERNAL RESEARCH GRANTS From - To Source Project Amount 2010/09/ ANR, FR PRODIGE Routage des 230000 2014/03/ produits intelligents 2006/09/ EPSRC, UK On the development of theory-informed operationalised 166000 2008/08/ definition of demand patterns OTHER BUSINESS ACTIVITIES Co-Editor-In-Chief of: Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal. Associate Editor of: IMA Journal of Management Mathematics.

Mohamed Zied BABAI 3 PUBLICATIONS Books 1. The AlphaBem of the sustainable Supply Chain. Editions BEM, ISBN 978-2-9509676-8- 8, 2011. 2. «Politiques de pilotage des flux sur prévisions», Editions Universitaires Europeennes, ISBN 978-613-1-51901-7, 2010. Chapters in Books 1. «Les méthodes de prévision au cœur de la prise de décision», Edition Techniques de l ingénieur, Logistique, 2013. 2. A Review of Bootstrapping for Spare Parts Forecasting, in Service Parts Management: Demand Forecasting and Inventory Control, Springer Verlag (ISBN: 978-0-85729-038-0), 2010. 3. Distributional assumption for parametric forecasting of intermittent demand. in Service Parts Management: Demand Forecasting and Inventory Control, Springer Verlag (ISBN: 978085729-038-0), 2010. Articles published in refereed journals 1. Syntetos, A.A., Babai, M.Z., Gardner, Jr. E.S. (2014). Forecasting intermittent inventory demands: simple parametric methods vs. bootstrapping, Journal of Business Research, forthcoming. 2. Rostami-Tabar, B., Babai, M.Z., Syntetos, A., Ducq, Y. (2014). A note on the forecast performance of temporal aggregation, Naval Research Logistics, vol. 61, 489-500. 3. Babai, M.Z., Ladhari, T., and Lajili, I. (2014). On the inventory performance of multicriteria classification methods: empirical investigation, International Journal of Production Research, DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2014.952791. 4. Babai, M.Z., Syntetos, A., Teunter R., (2014). Intermittent demand forecasting: An empirical study on accuracy and the risk of obsolescence, International Journal of Production Economics, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2014.08.019. 5. Syntetos, A.A., Lengu, D., Babai, M.Z., (2013). Spare parts management: linking distributional assumptions to demand classification, European Journal of Operational Research, 235 (3), pp. 624-635. 6. Rostami-Tabar, B., Babai, M.Z., Syntetos, A.A., Ducq, Y., (2013). Demand forecasting by temporal aggregation, Naval Research Logistics, Vol. 60 (6), pp. 479-498. 7. Syntetos, A.A., Lengu, D., Babai, M.Z., (2013). A note on the demand distributions of spare parts, International Journal of Production Research, 51(21), pp. 6356-6358. 8. Babai, M.Z. and Jouini, O. (2013). Operations Management in Service Systems (Editorial). IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, 24, pp. 135-136. 9. Saidane, S., Babai, M.Z., Aguir, M.S., Korbaa, O., (2013). On the Performance of the BaseStock Inventory System Under a Compound Erlang Demand Distribution, Computers & Industrial Engineering, vol. 66 (3), pp. 548-554.

4 Mohamed Zied BABAI 10. Allal-Chérif, O. and Babai, M.Z., (2012). Do Electronic Marketplaces Improve the Procurement Performance, Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal, vol. 13(3), pp. 40-54. 11. Babai, M.Z., Ali, M.M., Nikolopoulos, K. (2012). Impact of Temporal Aggregation on Stock Control Performance of Intermittent Demand Estimators: Empirical Analysis, OMEGA - International Journal of Management Science, vol. 40(6), pp. 713-721. 12. Syntetos, A.A., Babai, M.Z., and Altay, N., (2012). On the demand distributions of spare parts, International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 50 (8), pp. 2101 2117. 13. Babai, M.Z., Ali, M.M., Boylan, J.E., Syntetos, A.A., (2012). Forecasting and Inventory Performance in a Two-Stage Supply Chain with ARIMA(0,1,1) Demand: Theory and Empirical Analysis, International Journal of Production Economics, Vol. 143, pp. 463 471. 14. Teunter, R., Syntetos, A.A. and Babai, M.Z., (2011). Intermittent demand: linking forecasting to inventory obsolescence, European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 214, pp. 606615. 15. Babai, M.Z., Jemai, Z., Dallery, Y., (2011). Analysis of Order-Up-To-Level in Inventory Systems with Compound Poisson Demand, European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 210, pp. 552 558. 16. Spithourakis, G.P., Petropoulos, F., Babai, M.Z., Nikolopoulos, K., Assimakopoulos, V., (2011) Improving the Performance of Popular Supply Chain Forecasting Techniques, Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal, vol. 12(4), pp. 16-25. 17. Syntetos, A.A., Babai, M.Z., F., Davies J. and Stephenson, D., (2010). Forecasting and stock control: a study in a wholesaling context, International Journal of Production Economics, vol. 127, pp. 103 111. 18. Teunter, R., Babai, M.Z. and Syntetos, A.A., (2010). ABC classification: service levels and inventory costs, Production and Operations Management, vol. 19, pp. 343-352. 19. Teunter, R., Syntetos, A.A. and Babai, M.Z., (2010). Determining Order-Up-To Levels under Periodic Review for Compound Binomial (Intermittent) demand, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 203, pp. 619-624. 20. Babai, M. Z., Syntetos, A.A., Teunter, R., (2010). On the empirical performance of (T,s,S) heuristics», European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 202, pp. 466 472. 21. Syntetos, A.A., Keyes, M. and Babai, M.Z., (2009). Demand Categorisation in a European Spare Parts Logistics Network, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, 29(3), pp. 292-316. 22. Syntetos, A.A., Babai, M.Z., Dallery, Y. and Teunter, R., (2009). Periodic control of intermittent demand items: theory and empirical analysis, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 60, pp. 611-618. 23. Babai, M.Z. and Dallery, Y., (2009). Dynamic versus Static Control Policies in Single Stage Production-Inventory Systems, International Journal of Production Research, vol. 47, n 2, pp. 415-434.

Mohamed Zied BABAI 5 24. Babai, M.Z., Syntetos, A.A., Dallery Y. and Nikolopoulos, K., (2009). Continuous Review Inventory Control Systems with Non-Stationary Demand and Lead Time uncertainty: Analysis and Empirical Investigation, International Journal of Production Research, vol. 47, n 9, pp. 2461-2483. 25. Sahin, E., Babai, M.Z., Dallery, Y. and Vaillant, R., (2007). Ensuring Supply Chain Safety Through Time Temperature Integrators, International Journal of Logistics Management, Vol. 18, n 1, pp. 102-124. Articles published in other journals or magazines 1. Babai, M.Z. (2011). «Comment optimiser vos approvisionnements», Transport & Logistique, n 84, octobre 2011. 2. Allal-Cherif, O., Babai, M.Z., Estampe, D., Roques, T. (2010). «Le Supply Chain Management: un atout pour les territoires», Cahier du Management, n 4, Sud Ouest Eco, 28 septembre 2010, p. 2. Communications published in conference proceedings 1. Benrqya, Y., Estampe, D., Vallespir, B., Babai, M.Z., Impact of products characteristics on distribution strategy selection, Proceedings of the 10 th International Conference of Logistics Research (RIRL'2014), Marseille (France), 2014. 2. Lajili, I., Ladhari, T., Babai, M.Z., Multi-criteria inventory classification problem: A consensus approach, Proceedings of the 5 th International conference on Modelling, Simulation and Applied Optimization, Hammamet (Tunisia), 2013. 3. Rostami-Tabar, B., Babai, M. Z., Syntetos, A. and Ducq, Y., Forecasting aggregate ARMA(1,1) Demands : theoretical analysis of top-down versus bottom-up, Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and System Management (IESM), pp. 353-361, 28-30 October 2013, Rabat, Morocco. 4. Rostami-Tabar, B., Babai, M.Z., Syntetos, A.A., Ducq, Y., "The Impact of Temporal Aggregation on Demand Forecasting of ARMA(1,1) Process: Theoretical Analysis, Proceedings of the IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control, Conference, Saint Petersburg (Russia), 2013. (Conference Best Paper Award) 5. Babai, M.Z., Jemai, Z., Dallery, Y., "Base stock inventory systems with compound Poisson demand: case of partial lost sales", Proceedings of the APMS 2012 Conference, Rhodes island (Greece), 2012 (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology 398 (PART 2), pp. 693-698, 2013). 6. Lajili, I., Babai, M.Z., Ladhari, T., "Inventory performance of multi-criteria classification methods: an empirical investigation", Proceedings of the 9 th International Conference on Modeling, Optimization & SIMulation- MOSIM, Bordeaux (France), 2012. 7. Rostami-Tabar, B., Babai, M. Z., Syntetos, A. and Ducq, Y., Forecasting Autoregressive Demands with Temporal Aggregation, Proceedings of the 9 th International Conference on Modeling, Optimization & SIMulation, Bordeaux (France), 2012.

6 Mohamed Zied BABAI 8. Saidane, S., Babai, M.Z., Aguir, M.S., Korbaa, O., Spare Parts Inventory Systems under an Increasing Failure Rate Demand Interval Distribution, Proceedings of the 41 conference of Computers and Industrial Engineering, Los Angeles, California (USA), 2011. 9. Kombas, A., Babai, M.Z., Vallespir, B., Exploring the benefits of using the RFID technology in road-based goods transportation processes, Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Systems Management (IESM), Metz (France), 2011. 10. Babai, M.Z., Jemai, Z., Dallery, Y. Approximations of Order-Up-To-Levels in Inventory Systems with Compound Poisson Demand, Proceedings of the 13 th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing: INCOM'09, Moscow (Russia), 2009. 11. Babai, M.Z., Syntetos, A.A., Teunter R. On the performance of periodic inventory control policies, Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Systems Management (IESM), Montreal (Canada), 2009. 12. Babai, M.Z. and Syntetos, A. Dynamic Inventory Control System with Lead-Time Uncertainty: Analysis and Empirical Investigation, Proceedings of the 2 nd International Conference on Operations and Supply Chain Management (OSCM), Bangkok (Thailand), 2007. 13. Babai, M.Z., Sahin, E., Dallery, Y. A Simulation Model Assessing the Impact of Using Time-Temperature-Integrators on Inventory Management Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Systems Management (IESM), Beijing (China), 2007. 14. Babai, M.Z. and Dallery, Y. A Dynamic Inventory Control Policy under demand, yield and lead time uncertainties, Proceedings of the International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management (SSSM), Troyes (France), 2006. 15. Babai, M.Z. and Dallery, Y. An Analysis of Forecast Based Reorder Point Policies: The Benefit Of Using Forecasts, Proceedings of the 12th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing: INCOM'06, Saint-Etienne (France), 2006. 16. Babai M.Z. and Dallery Y., Inventory Management: A Forecast Based Approach vs The Standard Approach, Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Systems Management (IESM), Marrakech (Morocco), 2005. 17. Babai M.Z. et Dallery Y., «Impact de l'information sur la demande sur le choix du mode de pilotage de flux dans la chaîne logistique», Proceedings of the conference MOSIM'04, Nantes (France), 2004. Communications and/or presentations 1. Saidane, S., Babai, M.Z., Aguir, M.S., Korbaa, O., On the empirical validation of compound Erlang distributional assumptions for intermittent demand, 1 st International Conference on Optimization and Reasoning in Information Systems (ROIS 2013), Hammam Sousse (Tunisia), 2013. 2. Babai, M.Z., Deschamps, J.C., Heuristics for the one-commodity pickup and delivery travelling salesman problem with soft time windows, The OR55 conference, Exeter (UK), 2013.

Mohamed Zied BABAI 7 3. Boylan, J.E., Babai, M.Z. Forecasting Percentiles Using Empirical Distribution Functions, The EURO-INFORMS 2013 Conference, Rome (Italy), 2013. 4. Babai, M.Z., Ali, M.M., Boylan, J.E., Syntetos, A.A. Analysis of the Bullwhip Effect under Periodic Ordering Policies, The EURO-INFORMS 2013 Conference, Rome (Italy), 2013. 5. Babai, M.Z., Syntetos, A.A. and Teunter, R., Forecasting in the presence of inventory obsolescence: empirical findings and impact of the smoothing constants, 17 th International Symposium on Inventories, Budapest (Hungary), 2012. 6. Rostami-Tabar, B., Babai, M.Z., Syntetos, A.A., Ducq, Y., The impact of temporal aggregation on demand forecasting, The 17 th International Working Seminar on Production Economics, Innsbruck (Austria), 2012. 7. Lengu, D., Babai, M.Z., Syntetos, A., "Distribution-Based Classification of Spare Parts", The OR53 conference, Nottingham (UK), 2011. 8. Saidane, S., Babai, M.Z., Aguir, M.S., Korbaa, O., Analysis of Base-Stock Inventory Systems under Renewal demand Process with Erlang Inter-Arrival Distribution, the OR53 conference, Nottingham (UK), 2011. 9. Lengu, D., Syntetos, A., Babai, M.Z. Inventory management of stock items with intermittent demand, 7 th IMA International Conference on Modelling in Industrial Maintenance and Reliability, Cambridge (UK), 2011. 10. Babai, M.Z., Ali, M.M., Boylan, J.E., Syntetos, A.A. "Information Sharing in a Two-Stage Supply Chain with ARIMA(0,1,1) Demand, The International Symposium For Inventory Research, Budapest (Hungary), 2010. 11. Teunter, R., Babai, M.Z. and Syntetos, A.A. A New Method for Forecasting Intermittent Demand, The INFORMS Annual Conference, San Diego (USA), 2009. 12. Babai, M.Z., Syntetos, A.A., Teunter R. A New Method for Determining Order-Up-To Levels for Intermittent Demand Items, the OR50 conference, York (UK), 2008. 13. Babai, M.Z., Syntetos, A.A., Marett, R. Periodic stock control heuristics for spare parts: analysis and empirical investigation, 15 th International Symposium on Inventories, Budapest (Hungary), 2008. 14. Babai, M.Z., Syntetos, A.A., Altay, N. Distributional assumptions for parametric forecasting of intermittent demand, The Internationl Federation of Operational Research Societies Symposium, Sandton (South Africa), 2008. 15. Boylan, J.E., Babai, M.Z., Syntetos, A.A., Smith, L. An investigation on parametric and nonparametric forecasting for intermittent demands, The 28 th International Symposium on Forecasting, Nice (France), 2008. 16. Babai, M.Z. and Syntetos, A. An Empirical Comparison of Parametric and Nonparametric Forecasting methods for Intermittent Demand Items, The 49 th Annual Conference of the UK Operational Research Society, Edinburgh (UK), 2007. 17. Babai, M.Z. and Syntetos, A. An empirical comparison of periodic stock control heuristics for intermittent demand items, The 6 th International Conference on Modelling in Industrial Maintenance and Reliability, Manchester (UK), 2007.

8 Mohamed Zied BABAI 18. Babai, M.Z. and Syntetos, A. An Order-Up-To-Level Policy for Intermittent Demand SKUs with Short Lead-times, The 22 nd EURO Conference, Prague (Czech Republic), 2007. 19. Nikolopoulos, K., Syntetos, A. and Babai, M.Z. A New Intermittent Demand Approach Via Combining Croston's Method and the Theta Model, The 22nd EURO Conference, Prague (Czech Republic), 2007. 20. Babai, M.Z. and Syntetos, A. Forecasting and Periodic Inventory Control for Slow Intermittent Demand Items, International Symposium on Forecasting, New York (USA), 2007. 21. Babai, M.Z. and Syntetos, A. Military Logistics: Forecasting and Stock Control For Spare Parts Requirements, Set-For-Britain Initiative, House of Commons, London (UK), 2007. 22. Babai, M.Z. and Dallery, Y. A Study of Flow Management Policies with Advance Demand Information, Proceedings of the 7 th ISIR Summer School on Supply Chain Inventory Management, Mannheim (Germany), 2005. 23. Babai M.Z. and Dallery Y., A study of forecast based flow management policies, Biennial Beta conference, Eindhoven (the Netherlands), 2004. OTHER PERSONAL INFORMATION Languages spoken, written and read English, French, Arabic Hobbies Chess game