Logistics

Harwin de Vries is Associate Professor at the Technology and Operations Management department at RSM. His research focuses on health & humanitarian logistics, with a particular focus on disaster relief logistics and the logistics behind enhancing access to essential medicines and health services in LMICs. Harwin has collaborated closely with more than twenty humanitarian/ health organizations, studying how key decisions in health/ humanitarian supply chains (e.g., location, inventory, routing, planning, allocation, or assignment decisions) affect patients or beneficiaries and how they could be improved. He particularly explores the potential role of data and prescriptive analytics and new business and operating models in the sectors (e.g., service delivery through mobile health units). Harwin's current teaching portfolio includes courses on Health & Humanitarian Logistics (MSc & MBA), Business Analytics (EMBA), and Spreadsheet Modelling (BSc & Pre-MSc). 

Harwin won several prizes with his research, including the 2021 ERIM Award for Outstanding Performance by a Young Researcher and attracted several research grants, including the 2022 NWO VENI grant. Harwin published academic papers in leading scientific journals, including Production and Operations Management, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Omega, PLoS Computational Biology, and European Journal of Operational Research. Several of his research projects have been transformed in teaching cases. Harwin also serves on the board of the POMS College of Humanitarian Operations & Crisis Management (HOCM). 

Before joining RSM, Harwin worked at INSEAD (France) as postdoctoral researcher and manager of the INSEAD Humanitarian Research Group. Harwin holds a PhD degree in Operations Research from the Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Finn Wynstra is a Professor of Purchasing and Supply Management at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (Netherlands) and a fellow of the Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM). From 2004 until 2019, he has held an Endowed Chair sponsored by the Dutch Association for Purchasing Management (NEVI).

His research focuses on purchasing and supply management, in particular the interplay of supply and innovation processes, and buyer-supplier relations in business service contexts. His work has appeared in various journals spanning different disciplines, including Journal of Operations Management; International Journal of Research in Marketing; Journal of Product Innovation Management; and Accounting, Organizations & Society. He also co-authored two textbooks: ‘Buying Business Services’ and ‘Developing Sourcing Capabilities’ (both at Wiley).

Finn is involved in developing and teaching courses for bachelor, masters, PhD, MBA and executive programmes in the Netherlands and abroad. He acts as Associate Editor for the Journal of Operations Management, serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management and the Journal Supply Chain Management, and is a past Editor of the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management. In 2013, he received the Hans Ovelgönne Award from the International Federation of Purchasing and Supply Management (IFPSM), for his scientific contribution to the development of the field, among others as chair of the International Purchasing and Supply Education and Research Association (IPSERA). Administrative positions have included those of Director of Doctoral Education and Associate Director at the Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), and chair of the Erasmus University taskforce on scientific integrity. Finn Wynstra received a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Management Science from Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands) and a Licentiate degree from Uppsala University (Sweden). 

Prior to joining RSM Erasmus University, he worked at Eindhoven University of Technology and Jönköping International Business School (Sweden).

He has held visiting appointments at universities in Germany (EBS Business School), Sweden (Chalmers University of Technology, Linköping University), the UK (University of Bath) and the US (Kellogg School of Management).