My main research interest is in the domain of operations management. More specifically, I am very interested in planning of supply chain operations in two different sectors of service and production. In my research, I view supply chains, regardless of sector, as networks of business units characterized by separate but interdependent planning decision areas. The main issue in managing these networks is the coordination of the operations of supply chain members. However, difficulties arise when the decision domains are considered to be independent units. Thus, the problem arises when there is the question of the exchange of information between independent units. In practice, supply chain operations are generally coordinated and planned hierarchically, through central and aggregated control of a planning unit, which requires a high level of information exchange, or through the relatively inefficient upstream planning approach, in which operations are planned and the derived order is sent to suppliers. The high degree of information exchange causes difficulties when independent members do not wish to share information, such as cost, profit margin, stock level or capacity utilization. In order to resolve these difficulties, decentralized approaches for coordinating operational planning decisions based on minimal information sharing have been proposed in many academic disciplines. My research focuses on these approaches, studying different aspects of supply chains.

SCIENTIFIC DOSSIER : PUBLICATION OF BOOKS

• Atour Taghipour, Comprehensive Reference for TA and COP of Vehicles, RSSA, 2006. This book is the result of ten years of professional experiences in the automobile industries.
• Atour Taghipour, Supply Chain Management: Coordination of Operations Planning, Lambert Academic Publishing, 2012.
• Atour Taghipour, Contemporary Approaches and Strategies for Applied Logistics: A contemporary approach to plan independent logistics actors (Chapter), IGI Global, 2017.
• Atour Taghipour (Editor), Advances in Logistics, Operations, and Management Science, Hierarchical Planning and Information Sharing Techniques in Supply Chain Management, IGI Global, 2018, DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7299-2.
• Youssef Tliche, Atour Taghipour, Beatrice Canel, Anticipation of Demand in Supply Chains in Hierarchical Planning and Information Sharing Techniques in Supply Chain Management (Chapter), IGI Global, 2018.
• Hamdi Radhoui, Atour Taghipour, Beatrice Canel, The distribution and pickup of goods- a literature review and survey in Hierarchical Planning and Information Sharing Techniques in Supply Chain Management (Chapter), IGI Global, 2018.
• Atour Taghipour, Demand Forecasting and Order Planning in Supply Chains and Humanitarian Logistics, IGI Global, 2020, under editing.

SCIENTIFIC DOSSIER : PUBLICATION IN SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS

• Atour Taghipour, Évaluation de la Collaboration dans une Chaîne d’Approvisionnements, Revue Française de Gestion Industrielle, vol. 28, n° 1, Mars 2009, p. 25-42. (Rank 3 Hceres, Rank 4 CNRS)
• Atour Taghipour & Jean-Marc Frayret, Mutual Adjustment Search with Incentive for Supply Chain Planning Coordination, International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, vol. 25, n° 10, October 2012, pp. 946-962. (Impact Factor: 1.949)
• Atour Taghipour & Jean-Marc Frayret, Coordination of Operations Planning in Supply Chains: A Review, International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain Modeling, vol. 05, n° 03, 2013, pp. 272-307.
• Atour Taghipour & Jean-Marc Frayret, Dynamic Mutual Adjustment Search for Supply Chain Operations Planning Coordination, International Journal of Production Research, vol. 51, n° 09, May 2013, pp. 2715-2739. (Rank 1 Hceres, Rank 2 Fnege and CNRS).
• Atour Taghipour, A New Heuristic Search with Local Optimization To Manage A Supply Chain, Lecture Notes on Information Theory, vol. 02, n° 01, March 2014, pp. 78-84.
• Atour Taghipour, Improving the plan of a manufacturing network with non-integrated business units, International Journal of Applied Logistics, vol. 05, n° 02, April-June 2014, pp. 1-12.
• Nesrine Zoghlami, Atour Taghipour, Christophe Merlo and Mourad Abed, Management of divergent production network using decentralized multi-level capacitated lot-sizing models, International Journal of Information Systems in Transport Logistics, vol. 08, n° 05, 2016. (Impact Factor: 0.6)
• Atour Taghipour, Production Network Planning Based on Constraint Relaxation and Discount Approach, Lecture Notes on Information Theory, vol. 02, n° 03, September 2014, pp. 279-282.
• Rodrigue Cauchois and Atour Taghipour, Advanced solutions for a supply chain with stochastic information, Journal of Advanced Management Science, vol. 05, n° 01, January 2017, pp. 09-15.
• Dae-seok Kang , Jae-cheol Kim , Atour Taghipour, The Role of Justice Judgments and Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) Quality in Explaining Pre-training Motivation: Evidence from Korean Health Care Organizations, Journal of Human Resource and Sustainability Studies, 2016.
• Solen Lebosse, Atour Taghipour, and Beatrice Canel-Depitre, Quick Response to Fluctuations in Supply Chains: A Review, Journal of Advanced Management Science, Vol. 5, No. 5, pp. 394-400, 2017.
• Nadia El Nemr, Atour Taghipour, Beatrice Canel-Depitre, Dynamic Pricing Strategies for Hotel rooms: An Overview, Journal of Marketing Trend, submitted, 2018.
• Hamdi Radhoui, Atour Taghipour, Beatrice Canel, A hybrid approach for vehicle scheduling problem with simultaneous pickups and deliveries and limited flow, International journal of transport economics, submitted, 2018. (Rang 3 Hceres, Rang 4 CNRS & Fnege)
• Hamdi Radhoui, Atour Taghipour, Beatrice Canel, Vehicle routing problem with delivery and pickup of goods in general transport system: A literature review and survey, Transport Reviews, submitted, 2018. (Rank 3 CNRS et Rang 2 Hceres)
• Youssef Tliche, Atour Taghipour, Beatrice Canel, Downstream Demand Inference in Decentralized Supply chains, European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 274, n° 1, pp. 65-77, 2019. (Rank 1 in Fnege, CNRS & Hceres), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2018.09.034. (Rank 1 Fnege, CNRS & Hceres)
• Youssef Tliche, Atour Taghipour, Beatrice Canel, An Improved Forecasting Approach to Reduce Inventory-Levels in Decentralized Supply Chains, European Journal of Operational Research, accepted paper, 2020. (Rank 1 Fnege, CNRS & Hceres)
• Mohammad Ali Vosooghi Dizaji, Atour Taghipour, Beatrice Canel-Depitre, Supply chain coordination under information asymmetry A review, International Journal of Production Research, pp. 1-30, 2019. (Rank 1 Hceres, Rank 2 Fnege et CNRS), https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2019.1685702.
• Yanni Gao, Zhangmi Li, Atour Taghipour, Beatrice Canel and Dae Seok Kang, Supply Chain Coordination: A Review, Journal of Advanced Management Science, Vol. 6, No.4, pp. 213-217, December 2018. doi: 10.18178/joams.6.4.213-217.
• Mohammad Ali Vosooghi Dizaji, Atour Taghipour, Beatrice Canel-Depitre, Information Asymmetry in Supply Chain Coordination: State of the Art, Journal of Industrial and Intelligent Information, accepted paper, 2019.
• Atour Taghipour, Phuong Hoang and Xue Cao, Just in Time/Lean Purchasing Approach: An investigation for research and applications, Journal of Economics, Business and Management, Accepted paper, 2019.
• William Loivet and Atour Taghipour, Dae Seok Kang, The Rise of Green Supply Chain Management: Between Complexity and Necessity, Journal of Economics, Business and Management, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 1-7, 2020.
• Nadia El Nemr, Beatrice Canel, Atour Taghipour, Luxury Hotels’ Eco-Friendly Activities & Customers’ Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Green Hotels, Journal of Advanced Management Science, Accepted paper 2019.
• Nadia El Nemr, Beatrice Canel, Atour Taghipour, The Determinants of Hotel Room Rates in Beirut: A Hedonic Pricing Model, Journal of Economics, Business and Management, Accepted paper, 2019.
• Jomana Mahfod, Beatrice Canel, Atour Taghipour, Quality Function Deployment in Supplier Evaluation, Journal of Advanced Management Science, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 131- 135, December 2019. doi: 10.18178/joams.7.4.131-135.

SCIENTIFIC DOSSIER : PUBLICATION AT CONFERENCES

• Atour Taghipour & Jean-Marc Frayret, Negotiation based Coordination in Supply Chain: Model and Discussion, IEEE, Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Turkey, October 2010.
• Atour Taghipour & jean-Marc Frayret, Supply Chain Management through Decentralized Coordination of Operations Planning, IEEE, Logistics Operations Management, France, October 2012.
• Atour Taghipour, Supply Chain Management: A Coordination Strategy, Industrial Engineering and System Management, Morocco, 2013.
• Atour Taghipour, An Algorithm to Improve Operations Planning in Decentralized Supply Chains, Advanced Logistics and Transport, Tunisia, May 2013.
• Atour Taghipour, Decentralized supply chain planning: a state-of-the-art, Operation Research, Italy, July
• 2013.
• Atour Taghipour, A new heuristic search with local optimization to manage a supply chain, Information Communication and Management, France, October 2013. (Best scientific paper).
• Atour Taghipour, A general framework to coordinate decentralized supply network, International conference on application of information and communication technology and statistics in economy, Bulgaria, December 2013.
• Atour Taghipour, Besma Glaa and Nesrine Zoghlami, Network coordination with minimum risk of information sharing, Advanced Logistics and Transport, Tunisia, May 2014.
• Besma Glaa, Nesrine Zoghlami and Atour Taghipour, Outsourcing and off-shoring healthcare services: A way to cut the costs and improve quality, Advanced Logistics and Transport, Tunisia, May 2014.
• Atour Taghipour, Globally improvement of upstream planning in manufacturing networks, IEEE, Logistics Operations Management, Morocco, Jun 2014.
• Atour Taghipour, Operations planning in dynamic production networks, Operation Research, Spain, 2014.
• Atour Taghipour, Production Network Planning based on Constraint Relaxation and Discount Approach, Information Communication and Management, Switzerland, 2014.
• Atour Taghipour, Re-engineering of Supply Chain Process: A Literature Review, International conference on application of information and communication technology and statistics in economy, Bulgaria, December 2014.
• Atour Taghipour, Mourad Abed and Nesrine Zoghlami, Design for remanufacturing respecting reverse logistics processes: a review, Advanced Logistics and Transport, Tunisia, May 2015.
• Atour Taghipour, Management of interdependence in production and manufacturing networks, International Conference on Supply Chain and Operations Resilience, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2015.
• Atour Taghipour, Non-collaborative production networks, Information Communication and Management, France, October 2015.
• Rodrigue Cauchois and Atour Taghipour, Advanced solutions for a supply chain with stochastic information, International Conference on Information Communication and Management, France, 2015.
• Ziyang Ren, Atour Taghipour and Béatrice Canel-Depitre, Information sharing in supply chain under uncertainty, International Conference on Information Communication and Management, England, 2016.
• Béatrice Canel-Depitre and Atour Taghipour, Analyse du discours d’un récit publicitaire, International Marketing Trends Conference, Spain, 2017.
• Sandra Yang, Atour Taghipour and Beatrice Canel-Depitre, Cost Optimization of Reverse Logistics: A Review, International Conference on Information Communication and Management, Russia, 2017.
• Solen Lebosse, Atour Taghipour and Beatrice Canel-Depitre, Quick response to fluctuations in supply chains: A review, International Conference on Sustainable Management, Spain, 2017.
• Agathe Doustin, Atour Taghipour and Beatrice Canel-Depitre, Greening the coordination of operations in supply chains: Methods classification, Sustainable Asia Conference, China, 2017.
• Nadia El-Nemr, Beatrice Canel-Depitre and Atour Taghipour, Determinants of hotel room rates, International marketing Trends Conference, England, 2017.
• Mohammad Ali Vosooghi Dizaji, Atour Taghipour, Beatrice Canel-Depitre, Asymmetric information in supply chain coordination; a review, International Conference on Logistics Operations Management, IEEE, France, 2018.
• Jomana Mahfoud, Atour Taghipour, Beatrice Canel-Depitre, Managing the quality in the outsourcing of services: a classification, International Conference on Logistics Operations Management, IEEE, France, 2018.
• Hamdi Radhoui, Atour Taghipour, Beatrice Canel-Depitre, A literature review in vehicle scheduling problems, International Conference on Logistics Operations Management, IEEE, France, 2018.
• Jomana Mahfoud, Atour Taghipour, Beatrice Canel-Depitre, Managing quality in supplier selection in outsourcing, International Marketing Trends Conference, France, 2018.
• Jane Mbiatem, Atour Taghipour, Beatrice Canel-Depitre, Supplier selection approaches for decision makers, International Conference on Information Communication and Management, Scotland, 2018.
• Yanni Gao, Zhangmi Li, Atour Taghipour, Beatrice Canel-Depitre, Dae Seok Kang, Supply chain coordination: A review, International Conference on Sustainable Management, Netherlands, 2018.
• Nadia El Nemr, Beatrice Canel Depitre, Atour Taghipour, Lebanese Hotels’ Engagement in Environmental Practices, International Scientific Conference In search of excellence in tourism, travel & hospitality management, Greek, 2018.
• Nadia El-Nemr, Beatrice Canel-Depitre and Atour Taghipour, Effective Revenue Management Strategies for Hotels, International marketing Trends Conference, Italy, 2019.
• Tliche Y., Taghipour A. & Canel-Depitre B., Decentralized supply chain performance when demand information is not share, International Conference on Management, Economics and Finance, Berlin, Germany, 15-17 mars, 2019. http://www.icmef.org/.
• Mafhod J., Taghipour A. & Canel-Depitre B., MCDM Itegrated for supplier selection in outsourcing of transport, International Conference on Management, Economics and Finance, Berlin, Germany, 15-17 mars, 2019. http://www.icmef.org/.
• Radhoui H., Taghipour A. & Canel-Depitre B., The Distribution and Pickup of Goods: A literature Review and Survey, International Conference on Management, Economics and Finance, Berlin, Germany, 15-17 mars, 2019. http://www.icmef.org/.
• El-Nemr N., Taghipour A. & Canel-Depitre B., Eco Friendly Practices in Luxury Hotels: The Lebanese Case, 18ème Congrès Tendances du Marketing, Venise, 17-19 janvier, 2019.
• El-Nemr N., Taghipour A. & Canel-Depitre B., Lebanese Hotels’ Engagement in Environmental Practices, 2nd international scientific conference in search of excellence in tourism, travel & hospitality management, Greece, October, 2018.
• Mohammad Ali Vosooghi Dizaji, Atour Taghipour, Beatrice Canel-Depitre, Information Asymmetry in Supply Chain Coordination: State of the Art, International conference of Information Communication and Management, Prague, 2019.
• Atour Taghipour, Phuong Hoang and Xue Cao, Just in Time/Lean Purchasing Approach: An investigation for research and applications, International conference of Information Communication and Management, Prague, 2019.
• William Loivet and Atour Taghipour, Dae Seok Kang, The Rise of Green Supply Chain Management: Between Complexity and Necessity, International conference of Sustainable Tourism Management, Budapest, 2019.
• Nadia El Nemr, Beatrice Canel, Atour Taghipour, Luxury Hotels’ Eco-Friendly Activities & Customers’ Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Green Hotels, International conference of Sustainable Tourism Management, Budapest, 2019. (Best scientific paper).
• Nadia El Nemr, Beatrice Canel, Atour Taghipour, The Determinants of Hotel Room Rates in Beirut: A Hedonic Pricing Model, International Conference of Information Communication and Management, Prague, 2019.
• Jomana Mahfod, Beatrice Canel, Atour Taghipour, Quality Function Deployment in Supplier Evaluation, International conference of Sustainable Tourism Management, Budapest, 2019.
• Nadia El Nemr, Beatrice Canel, Atour Taghipour, Identifying the Preferences of a New Target Market in the Lebanese Hotel Industry, Paris 2020.