About

I'm working with a fantastic team within the Centre for Supply Chain Improvement at Derby Business School. Derby Business School has a long-standing record as a Centre of Excellence in the area of supply chain and logistics. As a research centre, we focus on advanced research in various areas of supply chain, logistics and manufacturing.

My research interests are in the areas of Supply Chain Sustainability, Supply Chain Resilience, Food Supply Chain, Lean and Agile manufacturing, Theory of Constraints (ToC), Systems Thinking, Systematic Innovation (TRIZ), Business Process Management, Applications of Industry 4.0 Technologies in Supply Chain such as Internet of Things (IoT), Blockchain, Big Data etc.

Teaching responsibilities

I currently lecture on the following modules:

• Global Supply Chain Management and Logistics (MBA)
• Improving Operations Performance (Second Year)
• Innovation and Technology in Logistics (First Year)

Previous modules:

• Improving Business Performance (Third Year)
• Introduction to Operations Management & IT (First Year)
• Introduction to Operations Management (First Year)

Research interests

Advanced Research - Applications of ICT, Artificial Intelligence & Multi-Agent Systems

• Modelling and simulation of manufacturing systems, supply chains and logistics networks
• Supply chain for circular economy
• Reducing food waste in food supply chain
• Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data in supply chain and logistics
• Industry 4.0
• Lean, Agility, and Sustainability in supply chain
• Supply chain resilience

Completed Doctoral Research Supervisions

• Integrating lean, agile & green principles in product life cycle
• Using business process management approach to overcome the challenges to implement sustainability projects

Current Doctoral Research Supervisions (PhD & DProf)

• Lean road transportation
• IoT applications for supply chain resilience
• Investigating the organisational learning culture of ambulance services across England so as to understand the impact this has on patient safety and service improvements
• Supply chain resilience measurement
• Business readiness for circular economy
• An ethnographic account of organisational response to cost reduction in a corporate environment
• Blockchain applications in supply chain
• Big data applications in supply chain

Qualifications

• PhD in Modelling and Simulation of Dynamically Integrated Manufacturing Systems (University of Exeter, UK)
• BEng in Mechanical and Production Engineering (Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria)

Recent conferences

• Adebola Adeseun, M., Anosike, A.I.,Garza-Reyes, J.A., Al-Talib, M. (2018), “Supply chain risk perception: understanding the gap between theory and practice”, Proceedings of the 16th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing (INCOM), Bergamo, Italy, 11-30 June.
• Gallotta, B., Garza-Reyes, J.A., Anosike, A. (2018), "Using the Delphi method to very a framework to implement sustainability initiatives", Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM), Bandung, Indonesia, 6-8 March. Awarded the "Best Track Paper Award under the Sustainable Manufacturing category.
• Nadeem, S.P., Garza-Reyes, J.A., Leung, S.C., Cherrafi, A., Anosike, A., Lim, M.K. (2017), “Lean manufacturing and environmental performance – exploring the impact and relationship”, IFIP International Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems (APMS 2017): Advances in Production Management Systems. The Path to Intelligent, Collaborative and Sustainable Manufacturing, Hamburg, Germany, September 3-7, pp. 331-340, Springer.
  
• Nadeem, S.P., Garza-Reyes, J.A., Anosike, A., Kumar, V. (2017), “Spectrum of Circular Economy and its prospects in Logistics”, Proceedings of the 2017 Symposium on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM), Bristol, UK, July 24-25, pp. 440-451. Awarded the “Best Track Paper Award” under the Circular Economy and Computing category
• Gallotta, B., Kolelas, V., Garza-Reyes, J.A., Anosike, T., Kumar, V. (2017), “Using BPM to improve sustainability in biomass generation”, Proceedings of the 2017 Symposium on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM), Bristol, UK, July 24-25, pp. 203-214.
• Gallotta, B., Garza-Reyes,J., Anosike, A., Lim, M.K., Roberts, I. (2016) A conceptual framework for the implementation of sustainable business processes. To be presented at the 27^th Annual Conference, Production and Operations Management Society (POMS2016 May 6 – 9, 2016).
• Udokporo, C. K., Anosike, A.I & Lim, M.K (2014) A Comparative Analysis of Agility and Sustainability. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Manufacturing Research (ICMR2014).

Experience in industry

I have been involved in a number of collaborative projects with businesses, particularly Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs).

• Encore Environment Ltd - optimisation of construction waste collection, transportation and disposal
• Owen Barry Ltd - manufacturing process improvement
• Arc Energy Resources - process improvement to develop and implement modular, flexible and reconfigurable machinery and workstations for welding/cladding
• Trio Skips and Hooks - manufacturing process improvement

Recent publications

2013-Date

Garza-Reyes, J; Salomé Valls, A; Nadeem, S; Anosike, A; Kumar, V., (2019)"A Circularity Measurement Toolkit for Manufacturing SMEs”. ACCEPTED for publication in the International Journal of Production Research.

Cherrafi, A., Elfezazi, S., Hurley, B., Garza-Reyes, J., Kumard, V., Anosike, A., Batista, L. (2018*) Green and Lean: A Gemba–Kaizen Model for Sustainability Enhancement'. ACCEPTED for publication in the International Journal of Production Planning and Control, Special Issue on 'Interventions for Delivering the Triple-Bottom-Line'.

Anosike, A.I & Lim, M.K (2014) A synergistic Approach to Process Innovation. Accepted for publication in Intl’ Journal on Knowledge Innovation and Enterprise.

Anosike, A.I & Lim, M.K (2013) Integrating Lean, Theory of Constraints and TRIZ for Process Innovation. In Ogulnlegy, J., Heger, D & Richter, U.H. (eds), Short Research Papers on Knowledge, Innovation and Enterprise.

Anosike, A.I, Zhang, D.Z. & Lim, M.K (2013) Agent-Based Iterative and Recursive Bidding within an Integrated Decision Platform for Manufacturing Control. In Lim, M.K (ed), Bidding: Types, Strategies and the Impact of Irrationality.

2002-2012

Zhang D. Z., Anosike A.I., (2012), “Modelling and Simulation of Dynamically Integrated Manufacturing Systems", Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, December 2012, Volume 23, Issue 6, pp 2367-2382.

Zhang D. Z., Anosike A.I., (2010), “Modelling and Simulation of Dynamically Integrated Manufacturing Systems", Proceedings of the 6th CIRP-Sponsored International Conference on Digital Enterprise Technology, Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, Volume 66, 2010, pp 865-876.

Anosike, A. I & Zhang, D. Z., (2009), “An Agent-Based Approach for Integrating Manufacturing Operations”, Intl Journal of Production Economics, 121(2), pp 333-352.

Anosike AI, Zhang DZ., (2009), "Agent-based Modelling and Simulation of Dynamically Integrated Manufacturing Systems", 20th International Conference on Production Research, Shanghai, China, 2nd - 7th Aug 2009, Proc. of 20th International Conference on Production Research, pages 2.75.1-2.75.6.

Zhang, Z., Anosike, A. & Lim, M. K., (2007), “Dynamically Integrated Manufacturing Systems (DIMS) - A Multi-Agent Approach”, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A – Systems and Humans, 37(5), pp 824-850.

Zhang, D. Z., Anosike A. I., Lim, M. K. & Akanle, O. M., (2006), “An Agent-Based Approach for e-Manufacturing and Supply Chain Integration”, Computers and Industrial Engineering, an International Journal, 51(2), pp 343-360.

Anosike, A. I. & Zhang, D. Z., (2006), "Dynamic Reconfiguration and Simulation of Manufacturing Systems using Agent Technology", Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management (formerly Integrated Manufacturing Systems), 17 (4), pp 435-447.

Anosike, A. I. & Zhang, D. Z., (2006), "An agent-based approach for integrating manufacturing operations", Proc. 14th International Working Seminar on Production Economics, 20-24 February 2006, Innsbruck, Austria, 1, pp 21-30.

Anosike, A. I. & Zhang, D. Z., (2006), "Hierarchical multi-agent architecture for dynamically integrated manufacturing systems (DIMS)", Proceedings of the International Conference of the Production & Operations Management Society, Shanghai, China, June 2006, pp (CD005-0076).

Anosike, A. I., Zhang, D. Z. & Lim, M. K., (2005), “Dynamically Integrated Manufacturing Systems – Concepts and Supporting Methodology”, In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Changeable, Agile, Reconfigurable and Virtual Production (CARV 2005), 22-23 September 2005, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany.

Anosike, A. & Zhang, Z., (2004), “Dynamic Reconfiguration and Simulation of Manufacturing Systems using Agent Technology”, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Manufacturing Research (ICMR 2004) 7-9 September 2004, Sheffield Hallam University, UK pp. 440-445.

Anosike, A. & Zhang, Z., (2004), “Dynamic Integration of Manufacturing Systems’ Operations using Intelligent Agents”, Proceedings of the 10th IASTED (International Association of Science and Technology for Development) Conference on Robotics and Applications, August 23-25, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, pp 107-112.

Anosike, A. I. & Zhang, D. Z., (2004), “Dynamic Configuration and Simulation of Manufacturing Systems for Agile Manufacturing”, Proceedings of 33rd International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, March 25-27, 2004, Jeju, Korea.

Anosike, A. I. & Zhang, D. Z., (2003), “Agent-based Reconfiguration, Simulation and Programming of Manufacturing Systems”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Agile Manufacturing (ICAM 2003), 4-6 December 2003, Beijing, China.

Anosike, A. I. & Zhang, D. Z., (2003), “Agent-based Reconfiguration and Control of Manufacturing Systems”, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Manufacturing Research (ICMR 2003) 9-11 September 2003, University of Strathclyde, UK.

Anosike, A. I. & Zhang, D. Z., (2003), “Dynamic Reconfiguration, Simulation and Control Codes Generation for Manufacturing Systems”, Proceedings of the CIRP 2nd International Conference of Reconfigurable Manufacturing, August 20-21, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Anosike, A. I. & Zhang, D. Z., (2003), “DIMS–Dynamically Integrated Manufacturing Systems”, Proceedings of 32nd International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, August 11-13, 2003, Limerick, Ireland pp. 104-109.

Anosike, A. I. & Zhang, D. Z., (2002), “Modelling of Manufacturing Systems using Multi-Agents”, Proceedings of the 10th International Manufacturing Conference (IMCC 2002), October 2002, Xiamen, China.

Anosike, A. I. & Zhang, D. Z., (2002), “An Agent-Oriented Modelling Approach for Agile Manufacturing”, The 3rd International Symposium on Multi-Agent Systems, Large Complex Systems and E-Businesses (MALCEB 2002) 8-10 October 2002, Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany.