Portrait of Dr Oben Ceryan

Dr Oben Ceryan

Senior Lecturer in Operations Management/Supply Chain

Bayes Business School, Faculty of Management

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Room BR6014, Bunhill Row

Postal address

City St George's, University of London
Northampton Square
London
EC1V 0HB
United Kingdom

About

Overview

Dr Oben Ceryan is a Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management at the Bayes Business School, City St. George's, University of London.

His research primarily focuses on dynamic pricing and revenue management, studying optimal replenishment, allocation, pricing, and/or assortment decisions in supply chains.  A key stream of his work investigates operational and marketing strategies to mitigate price fluctuations across multiple products due to supply constraints.

His research has been published in elite journals Manufacturing & Service Operations Management and Production & Operations Management, as well as other top journals including IISE Transactions, European Journal of Operational Research, and Decision Sciences.

His work has received the 2023 IISE Transactions Best Paper Award in Supply Chain and Logistics, and a Ford Motor Company Best Paper Award.  His pricing research is cited in influential texts The Oxford Handbook of Pricing Management and Revenue Management and Pricing Analytics. Two papers were selected as Featured Articles and publicised in practitioner outlets for their practical impact.  He was invited to speak at The Centre for Management Consulting Excellence and contributed to policy reports for the UN Economic Comission for Europe.

His work has raised more than £120,000 in research grants as Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator.

Dr Ceryan teaches modules on pricing and revenue management, quantitative methods and analytics, strategic business analytics, and supply chain analytics across undergraduate, MSc, MBA, and PhD programmes.  He was shortlisted for the 2020 Student Union Awards for Academic Impact.

He is the founding Course Director for Bayes' MSc in Digital Supply Chain Management programme, ranked 6th in the UK and 34th globally (QS World  University Rankings).

He received his Ph.D degree from the University of Michigan.

Qualifications

  • PhD, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, United States
  • MS, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, United States
  • BS, Bogazici University, Turkey

Administrative role

  • Course Director, MSc in Digital Supply Chain Management, Sep 2021 – Aug 2025

Employment

  • Senior Lecturer, City, University of London, Aug 2019 – present
  • Lecturer, City, University of London, Sep 2018 – Jul 2019

Fellowships

  • Fellowship of the HEA, HEA, May 2023 – present

Memberships of professional organisations

  • INFORMS (Institute of Operations Research and Management Sciences)
  • POMS (Production and Operations Management Society)

Awards

  • Omega (Elsevier) (2025) Best Reviewer Award 2024
  • Institute of Industrial and System Engineers (2023) 2023 IISE Transactions Supply Chain & Logistics Best Paper Award

Expertise

Primary topics

  • Management Science
  • Operations Management
  • Operations Research
  • Production & Operations Management

Additional topics

  • Supply Chain Management

Industries

  • manufacturing
  • retailing

Research students

Yuyang Tang

Attendance: Sep 2023 – present

Role: 2nd Supervisor

Saha Malaki

Attendance: Sep 2022

Thesis title: Optimal Recruitment of Temporary and Permanent Healthcare Workers in Highly Uncertain Environments

Role: 2nd Supervisor

Yuyun Zhong

Attendance: Aug 2020

Thesis title: Essays on Information Free-riding

Role: 1st Supervisor

Gbemileke A. Ogunranti

Attendance: Aug 2019

Thesis title: Models Addressing Sustainability and Risk Issues in Global Supply Chains

Role: 2nd Supervisor

Publications

Journal articles (10)

  1. Zhong, Y., Shen, W. and Ceryan, O. (2023). Information provision under showrooming and webrooming. Omega, 114, pp. 102724–102724. doi:10.1016/j.omega.2022.102724.

    [publisher’s website]

  2. Altug, M.S. and Ceryan, O. (2022). Optimal dynamic allocation of rental and sales inventory for fashion apparel products. Iise Transactions, 54(6), pp. 603–617. doi:10.1080/24725854.2021.1982157.
  3. Ogunranti, G.A., Ceryan, O. and Banerjee, A. (2021). Buyer-supplier currency exchange rate flexibility contracts in global supply chains. European Journal of Operational Research, 288(2), pp. 420–435. doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2020.05.053.

    [publisher’s website]

  4. Ceryan, O. (2019). Asymmetric Pricing and Replenishment Controls for Substitutable Products. Decision Sciences, 50(5), pp. 1093–1119. doi:10.1111/deci.12366.

    [publisher’s website]

  5. Dimitrov, S. and Ceryan, O. (2018). Optimal inventory decisions when offering layaway. International Journal of Production Research. doi:10.1080/00207543.2018.1502484.
  6. Ceryan, O., Duenyas, I. and Sahin, O. (2018). Dynamic Pricing and Replenishment with Customer Upgrades. Production and Operations Management, 27(4), pp. 663–679. doi:10.1111/poms.12816.

    [publisher’s website]

  7. Ceryan, O., Sahin, O. and Duenyas, I. (2013). Dynamic pricing of substitutable products in the presence of capacity flexibility. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 15(1), pp. 86–101. doi:10.1287/msom.1120.0404.
  8. Ceryan, O., Duenyas, I. and Koren, Y. (2012). Optimal control of an assembly system with demand for the end-product and intermediate components. IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers), 44(5), pp. 386–403. doi:10.1080/0740817X.2011.609525.
  9. Ceryan, O. and Koren, Y. (2009). Manufacturing capacity planning strategies. CIRP Annals, 58(1), pp. 403–406. doi:10.1016/j.cirp.2009.03.034.

    [publisher’s website]

  10. Michalek, J.J., Ceryan, O., Papalambros, P.Y. and Koren, Y. (2006). Balancing Marketing and Manufacturing Objectives in Product Line Design. Journal of Mechanical Design, 128(6), pp. 1196–1204. doi:10.1115/1.2336252.

    [publisher’s website]

Practitioner article

  1. (2022). Dynamic inventory allocation for fashion apparel rentals and sales. ISE Magazine

Working papers (3)

  1. Malaki, S., Izady, N., Ceryan, O. and de Menezes, L.M. (2025). Optimal Recruitment of Temporary and Permanent Healthcare Workers in Highly Uncertain Environments: A Long-Term Scenario.
  2. Ceryan, O. and Lucker, F. (2024). Disruption Mitigation and Pricing Flexibility.
  3. Zhong, Y., Shen, W. and Ceryan, O. (2024). Optimal Inventory and Restoration under Tiered Refund Policy for Seasonal Products.

Education

Course Director

MSc in Digital Supply Chain Management (2022-present)
MSC in Global Supply Chain Management (2021-2022)

Professional activities

Collaboration (industrial)

  1. Lead partner of Estimating the value of digitalisation in supply chains and how to share it equitably project (Mar 2024 – Mar 2025)
    Sponsored by UK Digital Catapult (UKRI Innovate UK) / Digital Supply Chain Hub

Editorial activity (9)

  1. Decision Sciences, Referee, 2019 – present.
  2. IISE Transactions, Referee, 2018 – present.
  3. International Journal of Production Economics, Referee, 2018 – present.
  4. International Journal of Production Research, Referee, 2017 – present.
  5. Production and Operations Management, Referee, 2015 – present.
  6. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Referee, 2015 – present.
  7. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Referee, 2014 – present.
  8. Omega, Referee, 2013 – present.
  9. Operations Research, Referee, 2010 – present.

Other

  1. Conference Track Co-organiser, POMS Conference 2021.