Roberto Cigolini

Core Faculty | Full Professor

Short Profile outline

Professor of Operations Supply Chain Management with main focus on Global Supply Chain Planning. Director of the Global Executive Master in Operations and Supply Chain Management (GEMOS) at GSOM and member of the MBA Academic Advisory Board of TIAS School for Business and Society (The Netherlands). Guest professor at the University of Illinois (Chicago, IL, US) and former guest professor at Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN, US) and Eada Business School Barcelona (Spain). Founding member of the Technical Committee on Semiconductor Factory Automation (IEEE Robotics and Automation Society). Member of the editorial board of Production Planning and Control Journal

Education

Master of Science: Management Engineering, Politecnico di Milano.

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Email: roberto.cigolini@polimi.it

Office phone: 02.2399.2735

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Roberto Cigolini

Roberto Cigolini

Roberto Cigolini

Academic courses held at SOM Research Relevant Publications Grants, Awards and Honours Service to the Community

Academic course held at SOM

Gestione dei Sistemi Logistici e Produttivi

Gestione dei Sistemi Logistici e Produttivi

Gestione Dei Sistemi Logistici E Produttivi

Gestione Dei Sistemi Logistici E Produttivi

Gestione dei sistemi logistici e produttivi

Gestione dei sistemi logistici e produttivi

Gestione dei sistemi logistici e produttivi

Gestione dei sistemi logistici e produttivi

Gestione dei sistemi logistici e produttivi

Global Supply Chain Planning

Global Supply Chain Planning

Global Supply Chain Planning

Construction Supply Chain Management

Production Management

Construction supply chain management

Production management

Construction supply chain management

Production management

Construction supply chain management

Production management

Construction supply chain management

Production management

Construction supply chain management

Production management

Logistics and operations management

Quality facility management

Teaching Areas: SUPPLY CHAIN & PURCHASING MANAGEMENT (SCPM)

MBA/EMBA

Specializing Masters

Executive Education

MBA

EMBA

Specializing masters

Research

Roberto’s main research interests are primarily related to supply chain planning, collaborative planning, forecasting & replenishment, supply chain finance and production planning and control.

Relevant Publications

Rossi T.| Pozzi R.| Pirovano G.| Cigolini R.| Pero M. (2021), "A new logistics model for increasing economic sustainability of perishable food supply chains through intermodal transportation", International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, 24, 346-363

Pero M.| Rossi M.| Xu J.| Cigolini R. (2021), "Designing supplier networks in global product development", International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management, 13, 115-139

Cannas V.G.| Ciccullo F.| Pero M.| Cigolini R. (2020), "Sustainable innovation in the dairy supply chain: enabling factors for intermodal transportation", International Journal of Production Research

Cigolini R.| Gosling J.| Iyer A.| Senicheva O. (2020), "Supply chain management in construction and engineer-to-order industries", Production Planning and Control

Baroncelli C.| Cigolini R.| Sianesi A. (2020), "Applying operational excellence beyond plants: Some insights to reshape the pharmaceutical supply chain", Proceedings of the Summer School Francesco Turco, 1-7

Cigolini R.| Sianesi A. (2020), "Comparing facility management practices in the european healthcare industry", Proceedings of the Summer School Francesco Turco, 1-7

Pozzi R.; Pero Margherita; Cigolini Roberto; Zaglio F.; Rossi T., "Using simulation to reshape the maintenance systems of caster segments", International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 33, 75-96

Cannas V.G; Ciccullo Federico; Cigolini R.oberto Pero Margherita; Ruci M., "Factors influencing the implementation of new sustainable logistic models within dairy supply chains: Insights from a multiple stages case study research", Proceedings of the Summer School Francesco Turco, 2018, 214-220

Rossi Tommaso;Pozzi Rossella;Pero Margherita;Cigolini Roberto, "Improving production planning through finite-capacity MRP", INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH, 55, 377-391

Gosling Jonathan;Pero Margherita;Schoenwitz M.;Towill Denis;Cigolini Roberto, "Defining and Categorizing Modules in Building Projects: An International Perspective", JOURNAL OF CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT, 142, 1-11

Cigolini Roberto;Pero Margherita;Sianesi Andrea, "Reinforcing supply chain security through organizational and cultural tools within the intermodal rail and road industry", THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT, 27, 816-836

Cigolini Roberto;Pero Margherita;Rossi Tommaso;Sianesi Andrea, "Using simulation to manage project supply chain in the off-shore oil and gas industry", PRODUCTION PLANNING & CONTROL, 26, 167-177

Pero Margherita;Stößlein Martin;Cigolini Roberto, "Linking product modularity to supply chain integration in the construction and shipbuilding industries", INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS, 170, 602-615

Cigolini Roberto;Pero Margherita;Rossi Tommaso;Sianesi Andrea, "Linking supply chain configuration to supply chain performance: A discrete event simulation model", SIMULATION MODELING PRACTICE AND THEORY, 40, 1-11

Cigolini Roberto;Pero Margherita;Sianesi Andrea, "When ETO companies design the supply chain during new product development process", INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 6, 30-41

Cigolini Roberto;Pero Margherita;Rossi Tommaso, "Sizing off-shore transshipment systems: a case study in maritime dry-bulk transportation", PRODUCTION PLANNING & CONTROL, 24, 15-27

Cigolini Roberto;Pero Margherita;Rossi Tommaso;Sianesi Andrea, "Using simulation to optimize transhipment systems: Applications in field", MARITIME ECONOMICS & LOGISTICS, 15, 332-348

Grants, Awards and Honours

  • Best Paper Award for the paper “A new framework for supply chain strategies: conceptual models and empirical test”, International Journal of Operations and Production Management

Service to the community

  • Director - Global Executive Master in Operations and Supply Chain Management - GEMOS
  • Member of the PhD Board - PhD Program in Management Engineering
  • Member of the editorial Team/Board - Production Planning and Control
  • Reviewer for International Journal of Production Research (IJPR)
  • Reviewer for International Journal of Operations and Production Management (IJOPM)
  • Editor of a Special Issue on Supply Chain Management in Construction and ETO industries (PP&C)

Accreditations, Rankings & Memberships

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