Vesa
Kilpi
Operations & Supply Chain Management
Operations & Supply Chain Management
Areas of expertise
Purchasing and supply management
Service operations
Supply Chain Management
Biography
Vesa Kilpi has PhD from Univeritys of Turku and MSc from the Lappeenranta Technical University. Currently he is working as senior researcher in Turku School of Economics. His research interests are focusing on service supply chain and on knowledge management. Prior to the doctoral studies he worked for several years for Nokia Networks in international telecommunication infrastructure service supply management. In that work he gained practical experience on managing the service parts logistics and also on the managing service operations of professional services in multiple countries.
Research
Knowledge-Based Purchasing and Supply Management How PSM In evolving supply network a Small and Medium Size Enterprise (SME) needs new set of purchasing capabilities to ac-cess and develop external knowledge. Interesting question is, what is the role of knowledge in Purchasing and Supply Management?
Publications
Status of service purchasing capability in networked supply chains, a literature review (2014)
International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management
(Vertaisarvioitu katsausartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A2))