ABOUT ME - KAZIM SARI

I am Vice Rector and Professor of Industrial Engineering at Istanbul Beykent University, Türkiye. In addition, I am an active researcher and teaching professor on green supply chain management, supply chain optimization, multi-criteria decision making, and simulation modeling. My work has been published in Q1 ranked journals such as International Journal of Production Economics, European Journal of Operational Research, and Annals of Operations Research.  

I received my B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering (English) from Marmara University in 2000. Upon completion of my B.S. degree, I joined to Istanbul Beykent University as a Research Assistant and received my M.B.A. degree in Management Information Systems in 2002. My master thesis was about the forecasting methods and their relationship with the bullwhip effect in supply chains. Later, I earned my Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering from Istanbul Technical University (ITU) in 2006. My Ph.D. dissertation was about the collaborative works (e.g. VMI, CPFR) among supply chain members and their impact on the supply chain performance. After six years of earning my Ph.D. degree, I am promoted to Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering in 2012. By the start of 2018, I am promoted to Full Professor of Industrial Engineering. 

Before joining to Industrial Engineering Department at Istanbul Beykent University, I have worked as an Assistant Professor (between 2006-2013) and Associate Professor (between 2013-2014) in the Department of International Logistics and Transportation of the same university. In addition, I have also served as Chair of International Logistics and Transportation Department (2011-2014) and Vice Dean for the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences (1/2013-4/2014).