21th International Symposium on Inventories

The professional objective of organizing this Symposium is to provide a forum for an international exchange of ideas on various aspects of inventories. Papers on macro- and microeconomics, econometrics, economic policy, business, management, operations management and operations research aspects of inventory problems and related fields (production, logistics, etc.) are also invited.


The main tracks of the program follow the renewed sections of ISIR and cover
the below broad topics:

• Economics of Inventory and Production
• Analytics and Forecasting for Inventory Control
• Interfaces of Inventory with Transportation, Production, Finance and Marketing
• Inventory coordination in supply chains (includes multi-echelon)
• Spare Parts Management and Maintenance Optimization
• Sustainable Inventory Management (includes perishables)

This year, besides the above paper presentations we plan to have another special session:

• Machine learning for inventory management