Biography
Rommert Dekker is a professor of operations research, quantitative logistics, and IT at the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE). Professor Dekker currently leads an industry-sponsored research program on service logistics. He has received numerous accolades for his research including ERIM's impact award which honours ERIM researchers who have successfully impacted management practice and the OR Society's Goodeeve medal for best applied paper. Professor Dekker began his career working at Shell Research. During his seven years at the company he published over 100 papers on topics including reverse logistics, service logistics, inventory control, maintenance optimisation, container logistics and transport optimisation. He was also co-founder of the well-known network for reverse logistics REVLOG.
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Work
- Pim Willem Antoon van Leeuwen & Rommert Dekker (2025) - Assessing the value of vessel information sharing - Maritime Transport Research, 9 - doi: 10.1016/j.martra.2025.100140 - [link]
- Fotios Petropoulos, Henk Akkermans, O. Zeynep Aksin, Imran Ali, Mohamed Zied Babai, Ana Barbosa-Povoa, Olga Battaïa, Maria Besiou, Nils Boysen, Stephen Brammer, Alistair Brandon-Jones, Dirk Briskorn, Tyson R. Browning, Paul Buijs, Piera Centobelli, Andrea Chiarini, Paul Cousins, Elizabeth A. Cudney, Andrew Davies, Steven J. Day, René de Koster, Rommert Dekker, Juliano Denicol, Mélanie Despeisse, Stephen M. Disney, Alexandre Dolgui, Linh Duong, Malek El-Qallali, Behnam Fahimnia, Fatemeh Fakhredin, Stanley B. Gershwin, Salar Ghamat, Vaggelis Giannikas, Christoph H. Glock, Janet Godsell, Kannan Govindan, Claire Hannibal, Anders Haug, Tomislav Hernaus, Juliana Hsuan, Dmitry Ivanov, Marianne Jahre, Björn Johansson, Madan Shankar Kalidoss, Argyris Kanellopoulos, Devika Kannan, Elif Karul, Konstantinos V. Katsikopoulos, Ayse Begüm Kilic-Ararat, Rainer Kolisch, Maximilian Koppenberg, Maneesh Kumar, Yong Hong Kuo, Andrew Kusiak, Michael A. Lewis, Stanley Frederick W.T. Lim, Veronique Limère, Jiyin Liu, Omid Maghazei, Matija Marić, Joern Meissner, Miranda Meuwissen, Pietro Micheli, Samudaya Nanayakkara, Bengü Nur Özdemir, Thanos Papadopoulos, Stephen Pavelin, Srinath Perera, Wendy Phillips, Dennis Prak, Hubert Pun, Sharfah Ahmad Qazi, Usha Ramanathan, Gerald Reiner, Ewout Reitsma, Jens K. Roehrich, Nada R. Sanders, Joseph Sarkis, Nico André Schmid, Christoph G. Schmidt, Andreas Schroeder, Kostas Selviaridis, Stefan Seuring, Chuan Shi, Byung Gak Son, Martin Spring, Brian Squire, Wendy van der Valk, Dirk Pieter van Donk, Geert Jan van Houtum, Miriam Wilhelm, Finn Wynstra & Ting Zheng (2025) - Operations & supply chain management: principles and practice - International Journal of Production Research - doi: 10.1080/00207543.2025.2555531 - [link]
- Abdo Abouelrous, Rommert Dekker, Laurens Bliek & Y Zhang (2025) - Real-time policy for yard allocation of transshipment containers in a terminal - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 192, 103138 - doi: 10.1016/j.trb.2024.103138 - [link]
- Fotios Petropoulos, Henk A. Akkermans, O.Z. Aksin, I. Ali, Nils Boysen, Rene de Koster, Rommert Dekker & Finn Wynstra (2025) - Operations & Supply Chain Management: Principles and Practice - International Journal of Production Research - doi: 10.1080/00207543.2025.2555531 - [link]
- Ayse Sena Eruguz, Oktay Karabağ, Eline Tetteroo, Carl van Heijst, Wilco van den Heuvel & Rommert Dekker (2024) - Customer-to-customer returns logistics: Can it mitigate the negative impact of online returns? - Omega (United Kingdom), 128 - doi: 10.1016/j.omega.2024.103127 - [link]
- Weina Ma, Mustafa Hekimoğlu & Rommert Dekker (2023) - Admission control for a capacitated supply system with real-time replenishment information - International Journal of Production Economics, 266 - doi: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2023.109000 - [link]
- C. C.H.M. Maas, D. M. Kent, M. C. Hughes, R. Dekker, H. F. Lingsma & D. van Klaveren (2023) - Performance metrics for models designed to predict treatment effect - BMC Medical Research Methodology, 23 (1) - doi: 10.1186/s12874-023-01974-w - [link]
- M. Hakan Akyüz, Rommert Dekker & Shadi Sharif Azadeh (2023) - Partial and complete replanning of an intermodal logistic system under disruptions - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 169 - doi: 10.1016/j.tre.2022.102968 - [link]
- Thijs Nicolaas Schouten, Rommert Dekker, Mustafa Hekimoğlu & Ayse Sena Eruguz (2022) - Maintenance optimization for a single wind turbine component under time-varying costs - European Journal of Operational Research, 300 (3), 979-991 - doi: 10.1016/j.ejor.2021.09.004 - [link]
- Sha Zhu, Willem van Jaarsveld & Rommert Dekker (2022) - Critical project planning and spare parts inventory management in shutdown maintenance - Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 219 - doi: 10.1016/j.ress.2021.108197 - [link]
- Ayse Sena Eruguz, Oktay Karabag, Eline Tetteroo, Carl van Heijst, Wilco van den Heuvel & Rommert Dekker (2022) - Customer-to-Customer Return Logistics: a New Way to Mitigate the Negative Impact of Online Returns
- I. Mallidis, S. Despoudi, R. Dekker, E. Iakovou & D. Vlachos (2020) - The impact of sulphur limit fuel regulations on maritime supply chain network design - Annals of Operations Research, 294 (1-2), 677-695 - doi: 10.1007/s10479-018-2999-4 - [link]
- Maria Mihaela Trusca, D Wassenberg, Flavius Frasincar & Rommert Dekker (2020) - A Hybrid Approach for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis Using Deep Contextual Word Embeddings and Hierarchical Attention. - doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-50578-3_25 - [link]
- E (Engin) Topan, Sena Eruguz, Weina Ma, MC van der Heijden & Rommert Dekker (2020) - A review of operational spare parts service logistics in service control towers - European Journal of Operational Research, 282, 401-414 - doi: 10.1016/j.ejor.2019.03.026 - [link]
- Bart Riessen, Judith Mulder, RR Negenborn & Rommert Dekker (2020) - Revenue management with two fare classes in synchromodal container transportation - Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal, 193 - doi: 10.1007/s10696-020-09394-4
- Zhu Zhu, Willem van Jaarsveld & Rommert Dekker (2020) - Spare parts inventory control based on maintenance planning - Reliability Engineering and Systems Safety, 193 - doi: 10.1016/j.ress.2019.106600
- Kim Schouten, Flavius Frasincar, Rommert Dekker & M Riezebos (2019) - Heracles: A Framework for Developing and Evaluating Text Mining Algorithms - Expert Systems with Applications, 127, 68-84 - doi: 10.1016/j.eswa.2019.03.005 - [link]
- Shadi Sharif Azadeh, Rommert Dekker & J Vester (2019) - Lading kan zelfstandig zijn weg vinden naar bestemming - [link]
- Rob van Tulder, Maarten Boksem, Ale Smidts, Harwin de Vries, Pursey Heugens, Gerrit van Bruggen, Wolf Wagner, Aurelie Lemmens, Julija Mell, Rommert Dekker & Hang Chan (1 December 2021) - ERIM recognises outstanding researchers with annual awards
- Rommert Dekker & Debjit Roy (1 July 2019) - IE scholar 'for all the wrong reasons' earns institute's top honor
- Rommert Dekker (2017) - Naval Research Logistics (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Editorial work › Academic - Rommert Dekker (2015) - Operations Research (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Editorial work › Academic - Rommert Dekker (2004) - IMA Journal on Mathematics Applied in Business and Industry (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Editorial work › Academic - PJM Meersmans, IFA Vis, Rene Koster & Rommert Dekker (1999) - Report Econometric Institute (Participant)
Activity: Attending an event › Professional
- Rommert Dekker, T. Tan, Engin Topan & G.J. Houtum (2019) - Using Imperfect Advance Demand Information in Lost-sales Inventory Systems with the Option of Returning Inventory
- R (Rommert) Dekker, M (Morteza) Pourakbar & JBG (Hans) Frenk (2013) - Wickham Skinner Best Paper Published in Production and Operations Management During 2012
EQI
- Start date approval
- November 2022
- End date approval
- November 2025
- Place
- ROTTERDAM
- Description
- les geven in DSBA programma
ESAA - Erasmus School of Accounting & Assurance
- Start date approval
- November 2022
- End date approval
- November 2025
- Place
- ROTTERDAM
- Description
- lid wetenschappelijke raad
MELEUR BV
- Start date approval
- November 2022
- End date approval
- November 2025
- Place
- ROTTERDAM
- Description
- Les geven in Maritime Economics & Logistics MSc
Ports in global networks
- Year Level
- master, master, master, master
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- BMME074
Seminar Supply Chain Management and Opti
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- FEM11195
Port Management and Maritime Logistics
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- FEB53107M
Port Management and Maritime Logistics
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- FEB53107
