Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the finalists for the SCM College 2026 Best Student Paper Competition (in alphabetical order):
- Hamidreza Moshrefi (Desautels; McGill) Out-of-Stock, Out-of-Store? Estimating Cross-Store Fulfillment via Inferring Customer Journeys
- Mohammad Razzaghi (Bauer; Houston) Do Not Look Far: Performance of Myopic Policies for Inventory Management at Retail Stores
- Chuanshuai Ru (Shanghai Jiao Tong) Costless Multi-Party Signaling with Buyback Contracts in Supply Chain Finance
- Abolfazl Taghavi (Anderson; UCLA) Preventing Catastrophic Wildfires: Annual Grid Inspection and Maintenance Plan
You are warmly invited to attend the finalists' session at POMS conference on Saturday, May 9 (3:30 PM - 5:00 PM in Carson 3). The session will be immediately followed by the SCM business meeting where the winner will be announced.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Rob Basten at R.J.I.Basten@tue.nl
POMS College of Supply Chain Management Board
President: Stanley Lim, Michigan State University
VP Communications: Yue Zhang, Duke University
VP Meetings: Karthik Natarajan, University of Minnesota
VP Special Events: Rob Basten, Eindhoven University of Technology
Secretary: Ali Fattahi, John Hopkins University
Treasurer: Neda Mirzaeian, University of Texas at Dallas
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Yue Zhang
Visiting Research Scholar
Duke University
University Park PA
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