POMS College of SCM 2026 Best Student Paper Competition Finalists Announcement

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the finalists for the SCM College 2026 Best Student Paper Competition (in alphabetical order):

• Hamidreza Moshrefi (Desautels; McGill)  Out-of-Stock, Out-of-Store? Estimating Cross-Store Fulfillment via Inferring Customer Journeys 
• Mohammad Razzaghi (Bauer; Houston) Do Not Look Far: Performance of Myopic Policies for Inventory Management at Retail Stores
• Chuanshuai Ru (Shanghai Jiao Tong) Costless Multi-Party Signaling with Buyback Contracts in Supply Chain Finance 
• Abolfazl Taghavi (Anderson; UCLA) Preventing Catastrophic Wildfires: Annual Grid Inspection and Maintenance Plan

You are warmly invited to attend the finalists' session at POMS conference on Saturday, May 9 (3:30 PM - 5:00 PM in Carson 3). The session will be immediately followed by the SCM business meeting where the winner will be announced.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Rob Basten at R.J.I.Basten@tue.nl

 

POMS College of Supply Chain Management Board

President: Stanley Lim, Michigan State University

VP Communications: Yue Zhang, Duke University

VP Meetings: Karthik Natarajan, University of Minnesota

VP Special Events: Rob Basten, Eindhoven University of Technology

Secretary: Ali Fattahi, John Hopkins University

Treasurer: Neda Mirzaeian, University of Texas at Dallas