CBS Faculty
Dr Stephen Disney
Reader
Office: D45
Cardiff Business School
Aberconway Building
Colum Drive
Cardiff CF10 3EU
Wales UK
Tel +44 (0)29 2087 6310
Fax +44 (0)29 2087 4301
Email: DisneySM@cardiff.ac.uk
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Current research interests involve the application of control theory and statistical techniques to supply chains and e-business scenarios in order to investigate their dynamic and economic performance. Stephen has a particular interest in the innovative use of information in business environments.
Stephen has advised several of the world's largest corporations on the bullwhip effect and his research has influenced the material flow of at least 1 in every 7 pound of UK retail sales. He has worked with many companies in the UK, US and Europe. A short film of Stephen talking about his research is available from UKfutureTV.
Stephen has also been involved in the development and application (to over 30 different supply chains) of the Quick Scan diagnostic tool. The Quick Scan is a supply chain oriented business diagnostic.
TEACHING PROFILE
Lectures in Operations Management to MBA and MSc students.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Gaalman, G. and Disney, S.M., (2009), “On bullwhip in a family of order-up-to policies with ARMA(2,2) demand and arbitrary lead-times”, International Journal of Production Economics, Vol. 121, No. 2, pp 454-463.
Disney, S.M., (2008), “Supply chain aperiodicity, bullwhip and stability analysis with Jury’s Inners”, IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp101-116.
(2008) “The value of coordination in a two echelon supply chain: Sharing information, policies and parameters”, IIE Transactions. Volume 40, Issue 3, pages 341-355.
Warburton, R.D.H. and Disney, S.M., (2007), “Order and inventory variance amplifications: The equivalence of discrete and continuous time analysis”, International Journal of Production Economics, Vol. 110, pp128-137.
Disney, S.M., Farasyn, I., Lambrecht, M.R., Towill, D.R. and van de Velde, W., (2007) “Controlling bullwhip and inventory variability with the golden smoothing rule”, European Journal of Industrial Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp241-265.
Chen, Y.F. and Disney, S.M., (2007) “The myopic order-up-to policy with a feedback controller”, International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp351-368.
Boute, R.N., Disney, S.M., Lambrecht, M. and Van Houdt, B., (2007), “An integrated production and inventory model to dampen upstream demand variability in the supply chain”, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 178, No. 1, pp121-142.
Taming the bullwhip effect whilst watching customer service in a single echelon of a supply chain”, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 173, pp151-172.
Hosoda, T. and Disney, S.M., (2006), “On variance amplification in a three-echelon supply chain with minimum mean squared error forecasting”, OMEGA: The International Journal of Management Science, Vol. 34, pp344-358.
Holweg, H., Disney, S.M., Holmström, J. and Småros, J., (2005), “Supply chain collaboration: Making sense of the strategy continuum”, European Management Journal, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp170-181.
Disney, S.M. and Grubbström, R.W., (2004), “The economic consequences of a production and inventory control policy”, International Journal of Production Research. Vol. 42, No. 17, pp3419 – 3431.
Here is Stephen’s complete publications list.
ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
- Director and Admissions Tutor for the MSc in Logistics and Operations Management.
- Awarded a Young Travellers Scholarship in 2004 by Cardiff University to visit the Chinese University of Hong Kong where he has previously been a Visiting Scholar (November 2002) to continue "Researching a Unified Theory of Business Dynamics".
- Member of the Operations Research Society (ORS) of the UK, the International Society for Inventory Research (ISIR), the European Operations Management Society (EUROMA) and the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS).
- Associate Editor of the European Journal of Industrial Engineering and a member of the Editorial Board for the International Journal of Production Economics, the International Journal of Applied Management Science and The Open Management Journal.
- Guest Editor for the International Journal of Logistics: Research and Applications
- Published over 180 journal and conference articles and was recently awarded a "Citation of Excellence" for one of the Top 50 articles published in 2005 on Management.