PhD Candidate - Supply Chain Management and Life Cycle Management of Standardized Logistics Assets - CDD 36 months

POST ENVIRONMENT

School of the ministry in charge of industry, IMT Mines Albi is a school of the Institut Mines-Télécom, 1st group of engineering and management schools of France. At the forefront of industrial and academic issues on the international scene, it acts as a territorial scientific and economic engine by combining its 4 missions - to train engineers by integrating the dynamics of sustainable development, scientific research, contributing to economic development and spreading the culture of science, technology and innovation - in a virtuous and innovative cycle.

Its positioning in terms of training and research places IMT Mines Albi as a reference school on three of the four themes of the Institut Mines-Télécom: responsible future industry, energy, circular economy and society, and engineering, health and well-being.

The doctoral position is hosted by the Industrial Engineering Center of IMT Mines Albi. The center develops research on the modelling, design, control and evaluation of industrial, logistics and socio-technical systems, with a strong emphasis on decision support, performance assessment and industrial transfer.

The Ph

D will be carried out in the context of a collaborative research project with Airbus. It will address the design, management and evaluation of standardized logistics assets in a complex aerospace supply chain linking suppliers, regional warehouses, marketplaces and final assembly lines across a multi-continent network.

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Scientific positioning and research objectives

Airbus logistics currently relies on a wide variety of packaging and logistics assets associated with different suppliers, sites and product families. These assets generate costs, handling constraints, storage needs, return flows, losses and environmental impacts. The thesis will investigate under which conditions standardized and mutuali