Pietro Romano

Contact

Department of Electrical, Managerial and Mechanical Engineering

University of Udine

Via Delle Scienze, 208

33100 Udine,

Tel +39 0432 558246 – Fax +39 0432 558298 – Mob +39 3204366020

E-mail: [email protected]

Web: www.diegm.uniud.it/romano

Current position

2002- , Udine, Italy: Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management, Product Development and Business Marketing (SSD Ingegneria Economico-Gestionale – 09/B3)

Education

2000-2002 University of Padova Post doctorate with grant

1996-1999 University of Padova Ph.D. Supply Chain and Operations Management

1990-1995 University of Padova Master in Management Engineering

Coordinator of reseach projects

Scientific coordinator of the project "Optimization of the innovation management process for piping material in shipbuilding" funded by Consorzio for the Advanced Naval Research (RINAVE), Friuli Venezia Giulia region 2006

Scientific coordinator of the project "Changes in the quality management process from the perspective of supply chain integration", funded by Italian National Research Council (CNR) 2000 (code CNRG005984)

Scientific coordinator of the EQUAL Project 2002 "New competences for internationalization and e-business" (code IT- G-SAR-002), funded by EU, the Italian Ministry of Labour and the Sardinia region.

Editorial activities

Guest editor of the special issue "Supply Chain Management" for Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, vol. 10, n. 3, 2004, ISSN 1478-4092 (with R. Cagliano, M. Kalchschmidt e F. Salvador).

Guest editor of the special issue published on the Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management and containing a selection of studies from the First EurOMA-POMS Joint International Conference. Vol. 16, n. 4, 2005, ISSN 1741-038X (with R. Cagliano, M. Kalchschmidt e F. Salvador).

Co-Editor of the book One World? One View of OM?, which contains in 3 volumes the contributions presented at the first joint International Conference of the European Operations Management Association (EurOMA) and Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), Cernobbio (CO), July 2003 (with Spina G; Vinelli A; Cagliano R; Kalchschmidt M; Salvador F ) "The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management", Vol. X Operations Management, Nigel Slack and Mike Lewis (eds.), Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Oxford, 2005 (ISBN 0-631-23317-2). Responsible of the following definitions: Supply Chain Coordination, Supply Chain Integration, Supply Chain Alignment, Strategic Alliance, Coordination Mechanisms, Continuous Replenishment Programs, Vendor Managed Inventory, Interorganisational Information Systems, Risk Pooling, Cross-Docking, Bow-Tie and Diamond Perspectives, Forrester

Member of the Editorial Board of Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal (ISSN 1625-8312)

Reviewer International Journal of Operations and Production Management (from 3/2002)

Reviewer International Journal of Production (from 4/2011)

Reviewer Supply Chain Management: An International Journal (from 5/2012)

Reviewer Long Range Planning (from 8/2006)

Reviewer Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management (from 3/2003)

Reviewer International Journal of Production Research (from 5/2005)

Reviewer International Journal of Manufacturing and Technology Management (from 11/2005)

Reviewer Journal of Public Procurement (from 6/2004)

Reviewer Service Industries Journal (from 9/2009)

Reviewer Production Planning & Control (from 9/2010)

Reviewer International Small Business Journal (from 7/2009)

Reviewer Journal of Cleaner Production (from 1/2013)

Visiting researcher periods

Visiting Scholar: Warwick Business School, Operations Management Group (supervisor: prof. Nigel Slack), University of Warwick (UK): 10-12/1998

Visiting Professor: Warwick Business School, Operations Management Group (supervisor Nigel Slack), University of Warwick (UK): 6-7/2004

Visiting Professor: Supply Chain Management Institute (supervisor :prof. Simon Croom), University of San Diego (CA, USA): 3-4/2006

Board memberships

Member of the board of the PhD School in management-engineering & real estate appraisal (University of Padova): from 11/2012.

Founder and director of the first edition of the Master in Lean Management at the Fondazione Cuoa Business School: from 12/2006 to 10/2008

Responsible of the Operations and Supply Chain Management Module in the MBA full time at the Fondazione Cuoa Business School: from 11/2011

Director of the executive program in Supply Chain Management in collaboration with Advance-Apics (The Association for Operations Management) at the Fondazione Cuoa Business School: from 1/2012 Member of the Faculty of the International European Cosmetics and Frangrance Master in Business and Management (University of Padova, University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, International Superior Institute of Perfume, Cosmetics and Flavour): 11/2004

Member of the Faculty of the Master in Management of Integrated Systems at the University of San Marino: from 11/2002 to 4/2004

Director of the sixth and seventh editions of the Master in Lean Management at the Fondazione Cuoa Business School: from 1/2013

Member of the board of the Cuoa Lean Enterprise Center at the at the Fondazione Cuoa Business School: from 1/2013

Member of the organizing committee of the XI Doctoral Summer School of the Italian Association of Management Engineering (AiIG) “Strategy and Management of operations in supply networks”: from 10/2002 to 09/2003

Member of the board of the Sea Economy Teaching and Research pole: from 01/2010

Member of the organizing committee of the first joint International Conference of the European Operations Management Association (EurOMA) and Production and Operations Management Society (POMS): from 06/2002 to 06/2003

Member of the organizing committee of the XX Scientific Conference of the Italian Association of Management Engineering (AiIG): from 01/2009 to 10/2009

Membership of academic associations

Italian Association of Management Engineering (AiIG): from 01/1997

European Operations Management Association (EurOMA: from 01/1998

Production and Operations Management Society (POMS): from 01/2003

IEEE: from 08/2012

Secretary of the Italian Association of Management Engineering (AiIG): from 11/2009 to 10/2011

Member of the scientific committee of the 15th International Annual EurOMA Conference: from 1/2008 6/2008

Member of the scientific committee of the 1st joint International Conference of the European Operations Management (EurOMA) and Production and Operations Management Society (POMS): from 6/2002 to 6/2003

Member of the scientific committee of the 15th International IPSERA Conference, San Diego (USA): from 3/2006 to 4/2006

Research awards

- 2012: The Jose A.D. Machuca P & OM World Conference Best Paper Award for the paper "Cumulative capabilities and Lean: A test of the sandcone model "(in collaboration with T. Bortolotti, Danese P., Flynn B.), presented at the 4th World euroma, POMS, JOMSA International Conference, 1-5 June 2012, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and published in Serving the World, Proceedings of the 4th World euroma, POMS, JOMSA International Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Such recognition, which is awarded only every 4 years by the three most important associations of Production & Operations Management World, respectively the American POMS - Production and Operations Management Society, the European EURoma European Operations Management Association, and the Japanese JOMSA, Japanese Operations Management and Strategy Association - at the Joint Conference, awarded the paper among the more than 500 papers presented at the Conference. - 2009: Award for best paper at the conference publication "Lean first, then automate: an integrated model for process improvement in pure service-providing companies "(in collaboration with T. Bortolotti and B. Nicoletti), presented at the 2009 APMS - Advances in Production Management Systems Conference, 19-23 September 2009, Bordeaux, France and published in Advances in Production Management Systems. New Challenges, New Approaches, (edited by) B. Vallespir and T. Alix, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology Series, Springer, vol. 338, Springer, Berlin, 2010, pp.. 579-586, ISSN: 1868-4238, ISBN: 978-3-642-16357-9.

- 2008: Award for best paper at the conference publication "Configuring Supply Networks for Quick Response "(in collaboration with P. Danese), presented at the 17th International Conference IPSERA, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, 9-12 March, 2008 and published in "Building Practice and Research Collaboration "(Ed. G. Callender), Curtin University of Technology, Perth, 2008, ISBN 1 74067 576 2, p. 233-244.

- 2004: Honourable Mention Chris Voss Best Paper Award for the paper "Operations and Supply Chain Management as Change Agents in a Mature Industry: Lessons from the Footwear Sector "(in collaboration with A. Camuffo, A. Furlan and A. Vinelli), presented at the 12th International Conference of the European Operations Management Association, Fontainebleau Cedex, France, June 27-29, 2004 and published in Operations Management as a Change Agent, (edited by) L. Van Wassenhove, A. De Meyer, E. Yucesan, E. D. Gunes, and L. Muyldermans, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France, 2004, ISBN 2-9522210-0-6, pp. 103-112.

- 2004: Award for best paper published in 2004 in the Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management Article "An Integrated Reference Model for Production Planning and Control in SMEs", Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, Vol. 15, n. 7, 2004, pp.. 626-640, ISSN 1741-038X (in collaboration with A. Persona and A. Regattieri), DOI 10.1108/17410380410555871; scopus Code: 2-S2.0-9444251028.

Further activities

Teaching assistant and collaborator in research and teaching at the Department of Technic and Management of industrial systems, Faculty of Engineering, University of Padova (11/1995-10/2002)

Ability to attract funding

Scientific Coordinator of the project "Improving procurement planning and the interface with suppliers in Electrolux Professional", this project has received funding from the company; from March 2009 to October 2010

Scientific Coordinator of the project "Improvement of production processes in Cielle" this project has received funding from the company; from March 2008 to December 2008

Scientific Coordinator of the project "Improvement of production and interface with suppliers using techniques of lean management in Cortem". This project has received funding from the of the company; from November 2011 to September 2013

Scientific Coordinator of the project "Improving supply chain, planning supply and interface with suppliers Electrolux Professional"; this project has received financing by the company; from October 2011 to July 2013

Scientific Coordinator of the project "Design of industrial marketing strategy in Stylgame"; This project has received funding by the company; from December 2011 to July 2012

Scientific Coordinator of the project "Design and implementation of a system of auditing processes for internal logistics in Vistra "This project has received funding by the company; November 2011 to December 2011

Coordination of research team with national and international collaborations

Since 2002 he coordinates the research team on supply chain management, lean management and value engineering at the Laboratory of Engineering at the University of Udine. The team members are: ing. Marco Formentini (PhD University of Padova and researcher at City University Cass Business School, London), Eng. Thomas Bortolotti (PhD University of and a research fellow at the ), Eng. Stefania Boscari (PhD candidate University of Padova), prof. Pamela Danish (ING-IND/35 researcher, University of Padova). At international level, the research team cooperates with the following insitutions: Supply Chain Management Institute (Univerity of San Diego, U.S., prof. Simon Croom), Warwick Business School (University of Warwick, UK, prof. Nigel Slack and prof. Mihalis Giannakis), Kelley School of Business (Indiana University, U.S., prof. Barbara Flynn), School of Management (Royal Holloway University of London, UK, prof. Alan Pilkington and dr. Luciano Ciravegna).

Experience as a supervisor of doctoral thesis research

Marco Formentini (University of Padova), 1/2009-3/2012

Thomas Bortolotti (), 1/2009-5/2012

Stefania Boscari (University of Padova); 1/2012-in course

External Reviewer for the doctoral thesis of Dr. Silva Vahe Chemedikian, Doctoral School of Economics and Management, University of Padua, 11/2011

Teaching University of Udine

Professor of Marketing and Product Development at the MSc program in Engineering and Management, University of Udine (2012-2013)

Professor of Management of logistics systems at the undergraduate degree in engineering management and the Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, University of Udine (2010-2011 academic year, 2011-2012; 2012-2013)

Professor of Product Development at the Master of Science in engineering management, University of Udine (a.a. 2010-2011, 2011-2012)

Professor of Organization of logistics systems at the degree courses in engineering industrial and management engineering information management, University of Udine (AY 2002-2003; 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006- 2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010)

Professor of Organization of logistics systems at the postgraduate courses in Mechanical Engineering, University of Udine (aa 2003-2004; 2004-2005 2005-2006 2006-2007 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010, 2010-2011)

Professor of Industrial Marketing at the graduate program in engineering Management, University of Udine (aa 2004- 2005 2005-2006 2006-2007 2007-2008 2008-2009 2009-2010)

Professor of Applied Economics at the engineering degree course in engineering electronics, University of Udine (aa 2002-2003 2003-2004)

Supervisor of more than 110 dissertations and master's degree in Engineering Management from the University of Udine

Teaching in other institutions

Lecturer in the Master's degree in Logistics (logimaster) of the Faculty of Economics, University of . From 6/2010

Lecturer in the Master's degree in Supply Chain Management, Faculty of Economics, University of Padua, 3/2003

Lecturer in the International Master's degree in Coffee Economics and Science, University of Udine, and Illy Foundation, from 4/2011

Lecturer in the Master in Energy Management from the consortium MIP Politecnico di Milano, 9/2011 Lecturer in the Master of the chair at the consortium MIP Politecnico di Milano; 2-3/2007

Supervisor of more than 20 thesis (VOD) in Management Engineering at the University of Padua

Invited keynote speaker

Invited keynote speaker in the Workshop "The scenarios of logistics practices and trends in consumer contextselectronics and technology ", ; 7/2007

Invited keynote speaker in the Workshop "Leadership in Times of Crisis", Association of Graduates Industrial Engineering and Management, University of Udine, 5/2009

Invited keynote speaker in the Workshop "International marketing: the experience of companies in " Confindustria Vicenza, 4/2008

Invited keynote speaker in the Workshop "lean management", Industrial Association of Udine, 1/2008

Invited keynote speaker in the Workshop "new role of logistics in the supply and distribution networks," Confindustria Vicenza, 10/2006 Invited keynote speaker in the Workshop "Supply Chain 2007," The European House Ambrosetti, 4/2007

Invited keynote speaker in the Workshop "Logistics Day", Technical Institute Technology "E. Barsanti", 3/2012

Invited keynote speaker at the 1st International Seminar "The Future of Logistics: Value, Risk and Sustainability ", University of Bergamo, 5/2011

Member commission contests

Member of the Board of Examiners for admission to the PhD in "ENGINEERING and PRODUCTION"- AA 2010/2011 - Administrative Office: Palermo (DRN 3448 of 21/10/2010): 11/2010

Member of the Selection Committee for the position of assistant professor (ING-IND/35) at the University of Bergamo; 6/2009-11/2009

Member of the Board of Examiners end of the PhD program in Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering (XXIII cycle) at the Polytechnic of Milan, 3/2011

Member of the Board of Examiners end of the PhD program in Logistics and Supply Chain Management (XXIII cycle) at the University of Bergamo, 5/2011

Member of the Selection Committee for the position of assistant professor (ING-IND/35) at the University of Naples Federico II. 3/2007-5/2007

Member of the Board of Examiners for admission to the PhD in "ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT "- AA 2006/2007 - Administrative Office: Padua. 11/2006

Institutional roles

Educational and scientific coordinator for student mobility programs Socrates between the University of Udine and the University of Waasa (FL). From 12/2004

Member of the student mobility Committee of the degree courses in Industrial and Management Engineering of Information and Master of Science in Management Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering University of Udine. 10/2002-10/2010 Member of the Commission of Udine of State exams to practice the profession of Engineer. 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009.