Seminar in presence

Building BL26/B – Room 0.19 (ground floor)
Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering
Via R. Lambruschini, 4/B

Jelle de Vries
Rotterdam School of Management

Abstract:

Despite increased automation and robotization, humans play an essential role in modern warehousing. However, this influence of human behavior is underestimated in both academia and practice. For instance, many of the models that we use in Operations Research implicitly assume that humans behave in a perfectly predictable and deterministic way. A glance at any warehouse (or company) will reveal that this is far from realistic.
In this seminar, Dr. Jelle de Vries presents his research that aims to address this issue by investigating the impact of human behavior on warehouse processes, and the implications of these processes on the work of employees. Jelle will provide an overview of his recent, ongoing, and future empirical research in this domain, involving real-effort experiments, virtual reality experiments, and secondary data analysis in the operational contexts of order picking, human-robot collaboration, and warehouse vehicle driving. These studies jointly contribute to obtaining a better understanding of how the design of operational processes can be improved if people are not ignored.

Jelle de Vries is Associate Professor of Operations Management at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. In his research, Jelle focuses on the influence of behavioral characteristics and outcomes in operational settings. On this topic he has published in well-respected academic outlets such as the Journal of Operations Management (JOM), Production and Operations Management (POM), and Transportation Research: Part E. With his PhD dissertation he won the Jo Van Nunen Prijs, the award for the best PhD dissertation on a logistics-related topic in the Netherlands. In 2018 he received a prestigious VENI research grant (€250k) to further develop his research in Behavioral Operations. Before joining RSM, Jelle worked as Assistant Professor at VU University Amsterdam. He obtained his PhD (cum laude) and MPhil at RSM.