Ton de Kok

Graduated at the Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, The Netherlands in Mathematics and Economics in 1981. After 4 years under the supervision of prof. Henk C. Tijms he attained the doctorate (Ph.D. degree) in 1985 from the Free University of Amsterdam. Thereafter he joined the Centre for Quantitative Methods (CQM) of Philips Electronics in Eindhoven, The Netherlands as consultant in Operations Research. During 5 years he participated in over 20 client projects in the field of logistics and production management. In 1990 he became Certified Fellow in Production and Inventory Management (CFPIM) of the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS). From 1990-1992 he was a teaching professor at Boston University Brussels. In 1990 he was appointed Manager Logistics Innovation of Philips Consumer Electronics. In 1991 he was appointed part-time professor in Industrial Mathematics at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. Since 1992 he is a full time professor Operations Management at the same university. He has published over 80 articles in international scientific journals. He is the Director of the European Supply Chain Forum (eSCF). He was a member of the board of vLm (Logistics Management Association) from 1997-2000. From January 1, 2003 till July 1, 2008 he was Scientific Director of the research school Beta. In 2004 he was Edelman Award Finalist as member of the Philips Semiconductors team. In 2006 he received the ISIR Service Award. In September 2008 Ton de Kok became Fellow of the research school Beta. He is Academic Director of the TIAS Executive Master on Operational Excellence and member of the TIAS Academic Council. He has been invited for guest lectures at a multitude of US top schools. His main research areas are Supply Chain Management and Concurrent Engineering with emphasis on quantitative analysis. Ton de Kok is head of the capacity group Operations Planning, Accounting, and Control (OPAC) in the department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences since April 1, 2008. In 2006 he established the supply chain optimization software company ChainScope and is currently its CTO.

Publications

• Jaksic, M., Fransoo, J.C., Tan, T., Kok, A.G. de, & Rusjan, B. (2011). Inventory management with advance capacity information. Naval Research Logistics,58(4), 355-369.
• Dogru, M.K., Kok, A.G. de, & Houtum, G.J.J.A.N. van (2010). A numerical study on the effect of the balance assumption in one-warehouse multi-retailer inventory systems. Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal, 21(3-4), 114-147.
• Winands, E.M.M., Kok, A.G. de, Timpe, C. (2009). Case study of a batch-production and inventory system. Interfaces, 39(6), 552-554.
• Selcuk B., Adan I.J.B.F., de Kok A.G. (2009) An explicit analysis of the lead time syndrome: stability condition and performance evaluation, International Journal of Production Research, 47(9), 2507-2529.
• Jabali O., Van Woensel T., De Kok A.G., C. Lecluyse and H. Peremans (2009), Time-dependent vehicle routing subject to time delay perturbations, IIE Transactions, 41(12), 1049-1066.