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 operations management and supply chain 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
Stephen currently lectures Operations Analysis to MBA and Operations Management to 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.
Disney, S.M. and Lambrecht, M.R., (2008), “On replenishment rules, forecasting and the bullwhip effect in supply chains”, Foundations and Trends in Technology, Information and Operations Management, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp1-80.
Disney, S.M., Lambrecht, M., Towill, D.R. and Van de Velde, W., (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.
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.
Disney, S.M., Farasyn, I., Lambrecht, M., Towill, D.R. and Van de Velde,
W., (2006), “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.
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".
- Awarded a Daiwa Foundation grant to undertake research on RFID at Aoyama University, Japan in 2010.
- 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
- Managing Guest Editor of the International Journal of Logistics: Research and Applications special issue of logistics papers from the 17th International Conference on Production Research.
- Managing Guest Editor of the International Journal of Production Economics special issue of papers from the 16th International Working Seminar on Production Economics.
- Published over 190 journals, book chapters and conference articles.
- Research awards: Stephen received the Best Paper of the 2008 from the
journal Production Planning and Control, a "Citation
of Excellence" for one of the Top 50 articles published in 2005
on Management and a “Highly Commended” awarded from the Literati
Club.