Thought Leadership

Practitioner Outlets

Managing supply chains in times of uncertainty: The emergence of digital twin technologies. Supply Chain Management Review 19 Mar 2025

Global Food Supply Chains Are Being Overwhelmed. Brink News 18 Oct 2021 (Archived copy)

Brexit impacts UK companies’ supplier risk appetite, Feb 2020, prepared for Dun & Bradstreet

Global Supply Chain Risk Report: Insights and Findings from Q3 2019 prepared for Dun & Bradstreet

Global Supply Chain Risk Report: Insights and Findings from Q3 2019 prepared for Dun & Bradstreet

Global Supply Chain Risk Report: Insights and Findings from Q1 2019 PDF prepared for Dun & Bradstreet

Global Supply Chain Risk Report: Insights and Findings from Q4 2018 PDF prepared for Dun & Bradstreet

Global Supply Chain Risk Report: Insights and Findings from Q3 2018 PDF prepared for Dun & Bradstreet

Global Supply Chain Risk Report: Insights and Findings from Q2 2018 PDF prepared for Dun & Bradstreet

Global Supply Chain Risk Report: Insights and Findings from Q1 2018 PDF prepared for Dun & Bradstreet

Global Supply Chain Risk Report: Insights and Findings from Q4 2017 PDF prepared for Dun & Bradstreet

Webinars

Supply Management Insider Webinar on how technology can improve supply chain resilience: https://www.supplymanagementinsider.com/how-ai-powered-continuous-design-can-keep-organisations-a-step-ahead

Centre for Logistics, Procurement and Supply Chain Management Webinars https://www.cranfield.ac.uk/som/research-centres/centre-for-logistics-procurement-and-supply-chain-management/events

Awards

2025 Best Research Supervisor Award by Cranfield Students Association

2023 Institute for Supply Management Best Paper Award at the Academy of Management Conference

2021 Best Paper Award at the IEEE Conference on Technology Engineering Management and Innovation

2017 Excellence in Research Award at Cranfield University

2016 Research Excellence Award at Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference

Editorial Duties

An Associate Editor of the Journal of the Operational Research Society

A Member of the Board of Editors of the Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

A Co-Editor of Supply Chain Analytics

An Associate Editor with the Decision Analytics Journal

An Associate Editor of the Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal

Section Editor of Discover Analytics

Conferences

2025

Member of Organising Committee at the LMSCM Congress, 16-17 Oct, Istanbul, Turkey

Keynote Speaker at the ATARI Workshop, 9 Sep, Birmingham, UK

Programme Committee Member at the 1st International Conference on Agentic and Generative Techniques in Intelligent Computational Systems 22-24 Oct, Marbella, Spain

Keynote Speaker at the 5th International Symposium on Sustainable Logistics, 15 May, Mersin Turkiye

2023

Keynote Speaker at the COPIOR-HORAF Conference on using Operational Research for Major Disaster Response, 9 Sep, Durham, UK

2019

Keynote Speaker at the 15th Student Conference organised by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, 20 Feb, London, UK

Code

Codes I use for research and teaching can be found at https://github.com/emelaktas

Books

Supply Chain Disruptions and Stock Prices, Springer, 2024

Mobile Robot Automation in Warehouses, Springer, 2023

New Perspectives in Operations Research and Management Science. Springer, 2022

Supply Chain 4.0: Improving Supply Chains with Analytics and Industry 4.0 Technologies. Kogan Page, 2021

Food Supply Chains in Cities: Modern Tools for Circularity. Springer, 2020

Advanced Studies in Multi-Criteria Decision Making, Routledge, 2020

Sustainable Freight Transport: Theory, Models, and Case Studies. Springer, 2018

Translations

I am always interested in language and have done volunteered and professional translations in English – Turkish pair. You can find my contributions to the Science in School Journal:

İklim Değişiminin Sosyal Etkileri https://www.scienceinschool.org/tr/article/2021/social-science-climate-change/

Sınıfta bir uzay yaşam alanı kurmak https://scienceinschool.org/tr/article/2013/habitat-tr/

Ateş Hattında Yaşam https://scienceinschool.org/tr/article/2011/wildes-tr/

Alan Leshner: bilim ve toplumun arayüzünde https://scienceinschool.org/tr/article/2010/alanleshner-tr/

CBS: dünyayı 3 boyutta incelemek https://scienceinschool.org/tr/article/2010/gis-tr/