Suzanne de Treville
Contact
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Full Professor
Department of Operations Contact Suzanne.DeTreville@unil.ch Anthropole, room 3073 Tel 021.692.34.48 Postal address Université de Lausanne Quartier UNIL-Chamberonne Bâtiment Anthropole 1015 Lausanne |
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Teaching
bachelor Gestion des opérations I Related programmes Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Management Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Economics Bachelor (BSc) in Economic Sciences |
master Supply-Chain Analytics Related programmes Master of Science (MSc) in Management, Orientation Strategy, Organization and Leadership Maîtrise universitaire ès Sciences en management, Orientation Behaviour, Economics and Evolution Master of Science (MSc) in Management, Orientation Marketing Master of Science (MSc) in Management, Orientation Business Analytics |
Research
Research areas
Competitive manufacturing in a high-cost environmentThe Cost-Differential Frontier calculator is available at
http://cdf.oplab.unil.ch.
Supply chain management
Evaluation of the role of lead time reduction in supply chain improvement efforts
Reducing lead times
The process of reducing lead times in an organization. What motivates companies to reduce lead times? What challenges do they face? What are the organizational and strategic implications?
Lean production
The system dynamics of JIT and lean production
The relationship between inventory reduction and learning
The impact of lean production systems on workers
Process consistency improvement
The role of process documentation in improving process consistency
Implementation issues in process documentation
The impact of requiring that workers perform operations as specified in the process documents on motivation
Health care operations
The application of operations management tools and concepts in the health care management context
Queuing theory-based mathematical modeling of operations
Collaborations
Assistants
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Lory Iunius
lory.iunius@unil.ch Room: ANT 3091 |
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Jacqueline Jussel
jacqueline.jussel@unil.ch |
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Robin Parmelin
robin.parmelin@unil.ch |
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Thanusya Thambirajah
thanusya.thambirajah@unil.ch |
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léonore Therry
leonore.therry@unil.ch |
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Jordi Weiss
jordi.weiss@unil.ch Room: ANT 3090 full description |
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Publications
41 last publications
: Peer Reviewed
2019
SAARINEN Lauri, de Treville Suzanne (Dir.) (2019). THREE ESSAYS ON THE VALUE OF RESPONSIVENESS FOR A MANUFACTURER. Université de Lausanne, Faculté des hautes études commerciales. | |
2017
de Treville S., Cattani K. ; Saarinen L. (2017). Technical note: Option-based costing and the volatility portfolio. Journal of Operations Management, 49–51, 77–81. ![]() | |
de Treville S., Ketokivi M. ; Singhal V. (2017). Competitive Manufacturing in a High-Cost Environment: Introduction to the Special Issue. Journal of Operations Management, 49-51, 1-5. ![]() | |
2014
Bicer I., De Treville S. (Dir.) (2014). Modeling and mitigation of supply-demand mismatches. Université de Lausanne, Faculté des hautes études commerciales. | |
de Treville S., Petty J. S. ; Wager S. (2014). Economies of Extremes: Lessons from Venture-Capital Decision Making. Journal of Operations Management, 32, 387-398. ![]() | |
de Treville S., Schuerhoff N., Trigeorgis L. ; Avanzi B. (2014). Optimal Sourcing and Lead-Time Reduction under Evolutionary Demand Risk. Production and Operations Management, 23, 2103-2117. ![]() | |
de Treville S., Bicer I., Chavez-Demoulin V., Hagspiel V., Schuerhoff N., Tasserit C. ; Wager S. (2014). Valuing lead time. Journal of Operations Management, 32, 337-346. ![]() | |
2013
Wager S. , de Treville S. (2013). Constant Salvage Value Models: A Source of Systematic Bias in Predicting the Value of Lead-Time Reduction. SSRN - Social Science Research Network. | |
2010
de Treville S. , Trigeorgis L. (2010). It May Be Cheaper to Manufacture at Home. Harvard Business Review, 88, 84-87. ![]() | |
2009
Hüttmeir A., de Treville S., van Ackere A., Monnier L. ; Prenninger J. (2009). Trading Off between Heijunka and Just-in-Sequence. International Journal of Production Economics, 118, 501-507. ![]() | |
2008
de Treville S., Edelson N. M., Kharkar A. N. ; Avanzi B. (2008). Constructing useful theory : The case of Six Sigma. Operations Management Research, 1, 15-23. ![]() | |
de Treville S., Trigeorgis L. ; Avanzi B. (2008). Rethinking lead time reduction investment: A real options perspective. UNSW Australian School of Business. | |
Petty J., de Tréville S. (Dir.) (2008). A Study of Venture Capital Decision Making. Université de Lausanne, Faculté de biologie et médecine. | |
2007
2006
de Treville S., Hoffrage U. ; Petty J.S. (2006, Jan). Cognitive illusions in operations management. Proceedings of the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (pp. 17). ![]() | |
de Treville S. , van Ackere A. (2006). Equipping Students to Reduce Lead Times: The Role of Queuing-Theory-Based Modeling. Interfaces, 36, 165-173. ![]() | |
2005
2004
Avanzi B., Boisvert C., de Treville S. ; Oyon D. (2004, Nov). The Impact of Performance Measurement Systems on Lead Time Reduction. CRITOM Conference. ![]() | |
2003
de Treville S., Antonakis J. ; Edelson N. M. (2003, Jun). Reconciling motivation, creativity, and process variability issues in process documentation. EUROMA-POMS Joint International Conference. ![]() | |
De Treville S., Smith I., Rölli A. ; Arnold V. (2003). Reducing lead times: Using operations management tools to reach global targets for tuberculosis control. Journal of Operations Management. ![]() | |
de Treville S. , Vanderhaeghe A. (2003). How to Fail at Flexibility. Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal, 4, 67-73. ![]() | |
Vanderhaeghe A. , de Treville S. (2003). Losing the Fight with Flexibility: the Xygma Plant. Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal, 4, 64-67. ![]() | |
1995
de Treville S., Edelson N. M. ; Watson R. (1995). Getting Six Sigma back to basics. Quality Digest, 15, 42-47. | |
Suri R., Diehl G. W. W., de Treville S. ; Tomsicek M. J. (1995). From CAN-Q to MPX: Evolution of queuing software for manufacturing. Interfaces, 25, 128-150. ![]() | |
1994
de Treville S. (1994). Using Rapid Modeling to make Kaizen work more effectively. APICS, 78-81. | |
de Treville S. (1994). Improving the innovation process. OR/MS Today, 28-31. | |
de Treville S. , Edelson N. M. (1994). Process discipline: Rethinking technology investment. Industrial Engineering, 26, 45-46. | |
1993
de Treville S., Edelson N. M., Kharkar A. N. ; Stutts B. E. (1993, Jan). Are there limits to defect reduction?. Conference proceedings of the EOQ'93 World Quality Congress. | |
1992
de Treville S. (1992). Time is money. OR/MS Today, 19, 30-35. | |
Edelson N. M., Ellis M. L., Kharkar A. N., Stutts B. E. ; de Treville S. (1992, Jan). A sequential 3-phase process improvement strategy. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Quality Congress, ASQC, 46. | |
1991
de Treville S. (1991). Finnish manufacturing systems: Sisu Auto uses MPX to compete based on time. Manufacturing Systems, 9, 14-17. | |
de Treville S. , Suri R. (1991). Full speed ahead: A timely look at rapid modeling in operations management. OR/MS Today, 24-42. | |
1987
de Tréville S., Hayes Robert (Dir.) (1987). Disruption, Learning, and System Improvement in Just-in-Time Manufacturing. Harvard Business School. | |
1986
Suri R. , de Treville S. (1986). Getting from just-in-case to just-in-time: insights from a simple model. Journal of Operations Management, 6, 295-304. ![]() | |
Curriculum
Education
Doctor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, 1987Master of Science in Industrial Administration. Carnegie-Mellon University 1977
Bachelor of Arts (honors) in English and Mathematics. Carnegie-Mellon University 1975
Work experience
Director of OpLabhttp://cdf-oplab.unil.ch
Visiting Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management, spring 2014
Director of Operations Management Department (2009-2011)
Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics (2006-2009)
Visiting professorships (1987-2001): MIT, the Wharton School, the American Graduate School of International Management
Visiting professor: Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration. Vice Dean of the International MBA Program 1987-1988