עברית

Head of Research

Prof. Tal Avinadav

Telephone
+972-3-5318143
Email
tal.avinadav@biu.ac.il
Office
Building 502-11 Room 12
Reception Hours
Monday 12:00-13:00 (upon advanced coordination)
Personal Website
http://management.biu.ac.il/en/tal.avinadav
CV

I am an industrial engineer and my research focuses on two domains of operations management: inventory theory and supply chain management. My works are mainly theoretical and they aim to reveal how to make optimal decisions in various environments. I investigate both deterministic and stochastic models, and use game theoretic approach to model the interaction across and among supply chains. In particular, I seek for optimal/equilibrium strategies for pricing, quality investment, sales effort and advertising. My recent studies focus on supply chains of virtual products (apps, subscriptions, online games, e-music, etc.) and how different contract types affect equilibrium and the reward of the supply chain members. Since 2014, I serve as the Head of Research in the Department of Management in Bar-Ilan University.

Education

1995: B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering (Magna Cum Laude), Tel-Aviv University.
 
2000: M.B.A. (Suma Cum Laude), Tel-Aviv University.
          Thesis subject: “Optimal policy of imperfect inspections in serial systems”.

2006: Ph.D. in Management, Tel-Aviv University.
          Dissertation subject: “Analysis of low-probability high-impact risk-events”.

Academic Appointments

1/10/1996: Teacher assistant, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University.
 
1/10/2000: Teacher, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University.
 
1/10/2003: Instructor, Faculty of Management, Tel-Aviv University.
 
1/10/2006: Instructor, Department of Logistics, Bar-Ilan University.
 
1/10/2007: Doctor-Instructor, Department of Logistics, Bar-Ilan University.
 
1/04/2010: Lecturer, Department of Management, Bar-Ilan University.
 
1/04/2015: Senior Lecturer with tenure, Department of Management, Bar-Ilan University.
 
1/10/2018: Associate Professor, Department of Management, Bar-Ilan University.

Academic Roles

2010-2011: Academic administrator of the B.A. program in Logistics Management, Bar-Ilan University.
 
2014-Present: Head of Research, Department of Management, Bar-Ilan University.
 
2014-Present: Member in committees of the Council for Higher Education (CHE) to evaluate the capability of academic institutes to give academic degree in Logistics Management.

Visiting

2014 (summer semester): Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA.

Teaching Experience

Faculty of Management and Department of Industrial Engineering in Tel-Aviv University:
  • Project Management
  • Quality Management
  • Production and Operations Management
  • Data Analysis 
 
Department of Management in Bar-Ilan University
  • Project Management
  • Inventory Management
  • Production and Operations Management
  • Operations Research (Stochastic Models)
  • Seminar for B.A. students in Supply Chain Management
  • Seminar for M.A. students in Operations Management
  • Thesis Workshop
Publications

Journal papers

39 Avinadav T., Shamir N. Partial vertical ownership, capacity investment and information exchange in a supply chain. Accepted for publication in Management Science. [PDF]  [Seminar] 
38 Avinadav T., Levy P. (2022) Value of information in a mobile app supply chain under hidden or known information superiority. International Journal of Production Economics, 248, 108467.
37 Kogan K., Tsadikovich D., Avinadav T. (2022) Water scarcity and welfare: Regulated public-private supply chain versus spot-market competition. IISE Transactions, 54(8), 757-769. [Featured article]
36 Avinadav T., Chernonog T., Meilijson I.E., Perlman Y. (2022) A consignment contract with revenue-sharing between an app developer and a distribution platform. International Journal of Production Economics, 243, 108322. 
35 Avinadav T., Bunker A.E. (2021) The effect of risk aversion and financing source on a supply chain of in-app products. International Transactions in Operational Research, 29(4),2145-2171.
34 Avinadav T., Shamir N. (2021) The effect of information asymmetry on ordering and capacity decisions in supply chains. European Journal of Operational Research, 292, 562-578.
33 Avinadav T., Chernonog T., Khmelnitsky E. (2021) Revenue-sharing between developers of virtual products and platform distributors. European Journal of Operational Research, 290, 927-945.
32 Bart N., Chernonog T., Avinadav T. (2021) Revenue-sharing contracts in supply chains: a comprehensive ‎literature review‎. International Journal of Production Research, 59(21), 6633-6658.
31 Hanukov G., Avinadav T., Chernonog T., Yechiali U. (2021) A Multi-Server System with Inventory of Preliminary Services and Stock-Dependent Demand. International Journal of Production Research, 59, 4384-4402. 
30 Hanukov G., Avinadav T., Chernonog T., Yechiali U. (2020) A service system with perishable products where customers are either fastidious or strategic. International Journal of Production Economics, 228, 107696. 
29 Avinadav T. (2020) The effect of decision rights allocation on a supply chain of perishable products under a revenue-sharing contract. International Journal of Production Economics, 225, 107587.
28 Avinadav T., Chernonog T., Fruchter G.E., Prasad A. (2020) Contract Design when Quality is Co-Created in a Supply Chain. European Journal of Operational Research, 286, 908-918.
27 Avinadav T., Chernonog T., Ben-Zvi T. (2019) The effect of information superiority on a supply chain of virtual products. International Journal of Production Economics, 216, 384-397.
26 Hanukov G., Avinadav T., Chernonog T., Yechiali U. (2019) Performance improvement of a service system via stocking perishable preliminary services. European Journal of Operational Research, 274(3), 1000-1011.
25 Chernonog T., Avinadav T. (2019) Pricing and advertising in a supply chain of perishable products under asymmetric information. International Journal of Production Economics, 209, 249-264.
24 Chernonog T., Avinadav T., Ben-Zvi T. (2019) How to set price and sales effort in a supply chain of virtual products under bi-criteria and risk consideration. International Journal of Production Economics, 209, 156-163. 
23 Kogan K., Chernonog T., Avinadav T. (2018) Delivery deviations: The effect on the choice of a supplier and on the supply chain equilibrium. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 62, 368-382.
22 Hanukov G., Avinadav T., Chernonog T., Spiegel U., Yechiali U. (2018) Improving efficiency in service systems by performing and storing “preliminary services”. International Journal of Production Economics, 197, 174-185.
21 Hanukov G., Avinadav T., Chernonog T., Spiegel U., Yechiali U. (2017) A queueing system with decomposed service and inventoried preliminary services. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 47, 276-293.
20 Avinadav T., Chernonog T., Perlman Y. (2017) Mergers and acquisitions between risk-averse parties. European Journal of Operational Research, 259(3), 926-934. 
19 Avinadav T., Chernonog T., Lahav Y., Spiegel U. (2017) Dynamic pricing and promotion expenditures in an EOQ model of perishable items. Annals of Operations Research, 248(1-2), 75-91.
18 Ben-Zvi T., Chernonog T., Avinadav T. (2016) A two-state partially observed Markov decision process with three actions. European Journal of Operational Research, 254(3), 957-967.
17 Avinadav T. (2016) Stochastic periodic-review models with duration- and quantity-dependent inventory costs: Properties and approximations. Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, 33(4).         
16 Avinadav T., Perlman Y., Cheng T.C.E. (2016) Economic design of X-bar control charts for monitoring batch manufacturing processes. International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 29(2), 212-221.
15 Avinadav T., Henig M. (2015) Exact accounting of inventory costs in stochastic periodic-review models. International Journal of Production Economics, 169, 89-98.
14 Avinadav T., Chernonog T., Perlman Y. (2015) Consignment contract for mobile apps between a single retailer and competitive developers with different risk attitudes. European Journal of Operational Research, 246(3), 949-957.
13 Chernonog T., Avinadav T., Ben-Zvi T. (2015) Pricing and sales-effort investment under bi-criteria in a supply chain of virtual products involving risk. European Journal of Operational Research, 246(2), 471-475. 
12 Avinadav T., Chernonog T., Perlman Y. (2015) The effect of risk sensitivity on a supply chain of mobile applications under a consignment contract with revenue sharing and quality investment. International Journal of Production Economics, 168, 31-40.
11 Avinadav T. (2015) Continuous accounting of inventory costs with Brownian-Motion and Poisson demand processes. Annals of Operations Research, 229(1), 85-102. 
10 Avinadav T., Chernonog T., Perlman Y. (2014) Analysis of protection and pricing strategies for digital products under uncertain demand. International Journal of Production Economics, 158, 54-64.
9 Avinadav T. (2014) On real-time accounting of inventory costs in the newsvendor model and its effect on the service level. Journal of Service Science and Management, 7(02), 77-91.
8 Avinadav T., Herbon A., Spiegel U. (2014) Optimal ordering and pricing policy for demand functions that are separable into price and inventory age. International Journal of Production Economics, 155, 406-417.
7 Chernonog T., Avinadav T. (2014) Profit criteria involving risk in price setting of virtual products. European Journal of Operational Research, 236(1), 351-360.
6 Avinadav T., Perlman Y. (2013) Economic design of offline inspections for a batch production process. International Journal of Production Research, 51(11), 3372-3384.
5 Avinadav T., Herbon A., Spiegel U. (2013) Optimal inventory policy for a perishable item with demand function sensitive to price and time. International Journal of Production Economics, 144, 497-506.
4 Avinadav T., Sarne D. (2012) Sequencing counts: a combined approach for sequencing and selecting costly unreliable off-line inspections. Computers & Operations Research, 39(11), 2488-2499.
3 Avinadav T., Arponen T. (2009) An EOQ model for items with a fixed shelf-life and a declining demand rate based on time-to-expiry. Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, 26(6), 759-767.
2 Avinadav T., Raz T. (2008) A new inverted U-shape hazard function. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 57(1), 32-40.
1 Avinadav T., Raz T. (2003) Economic optimization in a fixed sequence of unreliable inspections. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 54(6), 605-613.

Papers published in refereed proceedings / book chapters

3 Miness A., Avinadav T. The newsvendor problem with a non-stationary demand process and exact accounting of holding costs. Accepted for publication in IFAC-PapersOnLine
2 Bart N., Chernonog T., Avinadav T. (2019) Revenue sharing contracts in a supply chain: a literature review. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 52(13), 1578-1583.
1 Hanukov G., Avinadav T., Chernonog T., Yechiali U. (2019) A multi-server queueing-inventory system with stock-dependent demand. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 52(13), 671-676.

Papers presented at scientific conferences 

47 Avinadav T., Levy P. Improving efficiency in supply chains using partial funding. Accepted for The 21th International Symposium on Inventories, Budapest, Hungary, August 22-26, 2022.
46 Miness A., Avinadav T. The newsvendor problem with a non-stationary demand process and exact accounting of holding costs. Accepted for The 10th IFAC Conference MIM 2022 on Manufacturing Modeling, Management, and Control, Nantes, France, June 22-24, 2022.
45 Levy P., Avinadav T. (session chair) Supply chain of subscription-based apps. ORSIS National Meeting, Jerusalem, Israel, May 30-31, 2022.
44 Avinadav T. (session chair), Chernonog T., Shamir N. Information exchange between platform and sellers. ORSIS National Meeting, Jerusalem, Israel, May 30-31, 2022.
43 Avinadav T., Shamir N. Partial vertical ownership and information exchange in a supply chain. The 22nd Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies, Seoul, Korea, August 23-27, 2021.
42  Levy P., Avinadav T. Information superiority in a supply chain of apps. ORSIS National Meeting, Haifa, Israel, August 2-3, 2021.
41 Avinadav T. (session chair), Shamir N. Partial vertical ownership & information exchange. ORSIS National Meeting, Haifa, Israel, August 2-3, 2021.
40 Shamir N., Avinadav T. Partial vertical ownership and information exchange in a supply chain. The 31st European Conference on Operational Research, Athens, Greece, July 11-14,2021.
39 Avinadav T. (session chair), Bunker A.E. The effect of risk aversion on a supply chain of in-app products when freemium business model is applied. The 31st European Conference on Operational Research, Athens, Greece, July 11-14,2021.
38 Shamir N., Avinadav T. Partial vertical ownership and information exchange in a supply chain. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (MSOM), Bloomington, Indiana, USA, June 5-10, 2021.
37 Bart N., Chernonog T., Avinadav T. Revenue sharing contracts in a supply chain: a literature review. The 9th IFAC Conference MIM 2019 on Manufacturing Modeling, Management, and Control, Berlin, Germany, August 28-30, 2019.
36 Hanukov G., Avinadav T., Chernonog T., Yechiali U. A multi-server queueing-inventory system with stock-dependent demand. The 9th IFAC Conference MIM 2019 on Manufacturing Modeling, Management, and Control, Berlin, Germany, August 28-30, 2019.
35 Bart N., Chernonog T., Avinadav T. (session chair) Revenue sharing contracts in a supply chain: a literature review. ORSIS National Meeting, Shefayim, Israel, May 13-14, 2019.
34 Avinadav T. (session chair) The effect of decision rights allocation on a supply chain of perishable products under a revenue-sharing contract. ORSIS National Meeting, Shefayim, Israel, May 13-14, 2019.
33 Hanukov G., Avinadav T. (track organizer), Chernonog T., Yechiali U. A Service System with Inventory of Perishable Products and Customers who are Fastidious or Impatient. The 20th International Symposium on Inventories, Budapest, Hungary, August 20-24, 2018.
32 Chernonog T., Avinadav T. (track organizer) Inventory and marketing policy in a supply chain of a perishable product under a wholesale price contract. The 20th International Symposium on Inventories, Budapest, Hungary, August 20-24, 2018.
31 Avinadav T. (track organizer), Chernonog T. An EOQ model in a supply chain of a perishable product under a revenue sharing contract. The 20th International Symposium on Inventories, Budapest, Hungary, August 20-24, 2018.
30 Hanukov G., Avinadav T., Chernonog T., Yechiali U. A Queueing System with Pre-Prepared Services and with Fastidious and Impatient Customers. European Conference on Queueing Theory, Jerusalem, Israel, July 2-4, 2018.
29 Avinadav T., Chernonog T. Inventory and marketing policy in a supply chain of a perishable product under revenue sharing contract. International Conference of Industrial Logistics, Be′er-Sheva, Israel, May 15-18, 2018.
28 Hanukov G., Avinadav T., Chernonog T., Yechiali U. A queueing system with pre-prepared services and with tolerant and impatient customers. ORSIS National Meeting, Be′er-Sheva, Israel, May 13-14, 2018.
27 Avinadav T., Chernonog T., Perlman Y., Meilijson I. Value of information-sharing and information accuracy in a supply chain under a revenue-sharing contract. ORSIS National Meeting, Be′er-Sheva, Israel, May 13-14, 2018.
26 Ben-Zvi T., Chernonog T., Avinadav T. Two-state partially observable Markov decision processes with imperfect information. INFORMS Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, USA, October 22-25, 2017.
25 Avinadav T., Chernonog T., Perlman Y. Value of Information-Sharing in a Supply Chain under a Revenue-Sharing Contract. INFORMS Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, USA, October 22-25, 2017.
24 Kogan K., Avinadav T, Chernonog T. Supply chain equilibrium under two types of uncertainty: customers demand and suppliers lead time. ECCOMAS Conference of Computational Modelling of Multi-Uncertainty and Multi-Scale Problems, Porto, Portugal, September 12-14, 2017.
23 Avinadav T. (track organizer), Chernonog T. Pricing and advertising in a supply chain of perishable products under asymmetric information. The POMS International Conference in Israel, Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 27-29, 2017.
22 Hanukov G., Avinadav T., Chernonog T., Spiegel U., Yechiali U. Queues with inventoried service. The POMS International Conference in Israel, Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 27-29, 2017.
21 Hanukov G., Avinadav T., Chernonog T., Spiegel U., Yechiali U. A queueing system with decomposed service and inventoried preliminary services. ORSIS National Meeting, Ramat-Gan, Israel, May 21-22, 2017.
20 Chernonog T., Avinadav T., Ben-Zvi T. How to set price and sales effort in a supply chain of virtual products under bi-criteria and risk consideration. The 19th International Symposium on Inventories, Budapest, Hungary, August 22-26, 2016.
19 Avinadav T., Chernonog T. Pricing and advertising in a supply chain of perishable products under asymmetric information. The 19th International Symposium on Inventories, Budapest, Hungary, August 22-26, 2016.
18 Perlman Y., Chernonog T., Avinadav T. Mergers and acquisitions between risk averse parties. The 28th European Conference on Operational Research, Poznan, Poland, July 3-6, 2016.
17 Chernonog T., Avinadav T., Ben-Zvi T. Supply chain of virtual products: making marketing decisions under bi-criteria. The 28th European Conference on Operational Research, Poznan, Poland, July 3-6, 2016.
16 Perlman Y., Avinadav T., Chernonog T. The effect of risk aversion on mergers and acquisitions. ORSIS National Meeting, Jerusalem, Israel, May 29-30, 2016.
15 Hanukov G., Avinadav T., Chernonog T., Spiegel U., Yechiali U. Queueing Systems with Preliminary Services. ORSIS National Meeting, Jerusalem, Israel, May 29-30, 2016.
14 Avinadav T. (invited speaker), Chernonog T., Ben-Zvi T. Profit criteria involving risk in a supply chain of virtual products. International Symposium on Stochastic Models in Reliability Engineering, Life Sciences and Operations Management, Be′er-Sheva, Israel, February 15-18, 2016.
13 Chernonog T., Perlman Y., Avinadav T.  Coordination of a Supply Chain of Mobile Applications under Risk Consideration. The International Conference on Operations Research, Vienna, Austria, September 1-4, 2015.
12 Chernonog T., Perlman Y., Avinadav T. Consignment contract in a supply chain of mobile applications under risk consideration. The 27th European Conference on Operational Research, Glasgow, UK, July 12-15, 2015.
11 Perlman Y., Chernonog T., Avinadav T. Consignment contract for a supply chain of a single retailer and competitive manufacturers with different risk attitudes. The 27th European Conference on Operational Research, Glasgow, UK, July 12-15, 2015.
10 Avinadav T. (invited speaker), Chernonog T., Ben-Zvi T. Stochastic discrete time-cost problem (SDTCP) under the Target criterion. IIE Annual, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, May 30 - June 2, 2015.
9 Avinadav T., Chernonog T., Lahav Y., Spiegel U. Dynamic pricing & promotion in an EOQ model of perishable items. ORSIS National Meeting, Haifa, Israel, May 10-11, 2015.
8 Hanukov G., Avinadav T., Chernonog T., Spiegel U., Yechiali U. Utilization of server’s idle time for greater efficiency in queueing systems. ORSIS National Meeting, Haifa, Israel, May 10-11, 2015.
7 Chernonog T., Avinadav T., Perlman Y. The effect of risk sensitivity on a supply chain of mobile applications under a consignment contract with revenue sharing and quality investment. ORSIS National Meeting, Haifa, Israel, May 10-11, 2015.
6 Perlman Y., Avinadav T., Chernonog T. Consignment contract for mobile apps between a single retailer and competitive developers with different risk attitudes. ORSIS National Meeting, Haifa, Israel, May 10-11, 2015.
5 Avinadav T., Herbon A., Spiegel U. Optimal ordering and pricing policy for demand functions that are separable into price and inventory age. ORSIS National Meeting, Tel-Aviv, Israel, April 22-34, 2014.
4 Perlman Y., Avinadav T., Chernonog T. Software piracy: an analysis of pricing and protection strategies under uncertain demand. ORSIS National Meeting, Tel-Aviv, Israel, April 22-23, 2014.
3 Henig M., Chernonog T., Avinadav T. Profit criteria involving risk in price setting of virtual products. Proceedings of International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, Malaga, Spain, June 17-21, 2013.
2 Chernonog T., Avinadav T., Henig M. Price setting in a single selling period with various risk criteria. ORSIS National Meeting, Jerusalem, Israel, June 3-4, 2012.
1 Avinadav T., Sarne D. Sequencing costly unreliable off-line quality inspections. ORSIS National Meeting, Herzeliya, Israel, May 10-11, 2009.

 

Work in progress

Papers submitted to refereed journals

Courses

Courses for Semester A, October 23, 2022 - January 27, 2023:

  • Project Management (55-222-01): Monday 12:00-14:00, Building 507, Room 105
  • Project Management (55-032-01): Tuesday 14:00-16:00, Building 507, Room 103
  • Empirical Seminar in Supply Chain Management (55-060-03): Wednesday 20:00-22:00, Zoom

Courses for Semester B, March 14, 2023 - June 30, 2023:

  • Inventory Management (55-026-03): Tuesday 14:00-16:00, Building 505, Room 2
  • Project Management (55-032-03): Friday 8:00-10:00, Building 507, Room 207
  • Empirical Seminar in Supply Chain Management (55-060-03): Wednesday 20:00-22:00, Zoom
Research

Research Areas

  • Supply Chain Management (game theory, contracts, coordination, supply chains of virtual products, platform selling)

  • Inventory Management (deterministic models, stochastic models, perishable products, queueing-inventory systems)

 

Grants

  • ISF 1448/17: A Novel Approach for Efficiency Improvement of Service Systems by Performing and Storing Preliminary Services (with Chernonog T., Yechiali U.). 303,000 NIS for 2017-2020.
  • ISF 1571/20: A Novel Approach to Business Agreement in a Supply Chain of Mobile Apps (with Chernonog T.). 333,000 NIS for 2020-2023.

 

Workshops

  • Queueing Theory in Operations Research (YEQT), EURANDOM, Eindhoven, Netherlands, November 7-9, 2016.

 

Research students supervision

M.A.

  • Yael Milon (graduated)

  • Eliyahu Yeret (graduated)

  • Adi Eyal Bunker (graduated)

  • Ahiad Minnes (graduated)

  • Omer Maly (student)

Ph.D. 

  • Gabi Hanukov (graduated)

  • Nitzan Swead (graduated)

  • Yael Lahav (graduated)

  • Nelly Bart (graduated)

  • Ahiad Minnes (student)

Last Updated Date : 15/02/2023