Skip to main content
Vasco Sanchez Rodrigues   PhD MEng DRes Cert HE

Professor Vasco Sanchez Rodrigues

PhD MEng DRes Cert HE

Head of the Logistics and Operations Management Section
Professor in Sustainable Supply Chain Management

Cardiff Business School

Email
SanchezrodriguesVA1@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 29208 75185
Campuses
Aberconway Building, Room B42, Colum Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
Users
Available for postgraduate supervision

Overview

Vasco is a Professor of Sustainable Supply Chain Management, and acts as Programme Director of the Ocado's Operational Excellence in Supply Chain Management and Logistics Training Course and MSc Sustainable Supply Chain Management, and holds several external leadership roles - Chair of the Logistics Research Network, editorial board member of Resources Conservation & Recycling, External Examiner of Supply Chain Management & Logistics modules of the Universities of Derby and Middlesex.

Vasco contributes actively to leading organisations within the UK retail, food/drinks and European logistics sectors through the wide range of knowledge-transfer and applied-research activities he leads. Vasco also publishes actively in prime international academic journals, leads applied-research projects, generates funding  proposals, and secures funding with strong support from his industry collaborators. The bulk of Vasco's research is relevant to both local and global supply chains, and topical areas such as sustainability, circular economy, decarbonization, the shared economy and risk management & resilience. His research is published widely in principal international journals and contributes to the 2021 UK Research Excellence Framework Cardiff University's submission with two 4* and 17 3* publications.

Currently, Vasco acts as principal investigator or co-investigator of several applied research projects, including Co-Growth, Giro Zero, a range of projects funded by Ocado and is the co-founder og the annual innovation Lean Effectiveness Green Operations (iLEGO) workshop. Since 2018 Vasco has secured a total of £4 million from WEFO, Welsh Government, Innovate UK and the Engineering Physical Science Research Council and the UK Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy and the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Developmet Office, funding used to run these projects.

Vasco collaborates with external academics from British and international Universities, i.e., Universidas del Pacifico (Peru), Universidad del Desarollo (Chile), Universidad del Cuyo (Argentina), Universidade de Campinas, Universidade Federal de Bahia (Brazil), Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), HEC Montreal (Canada), Portland State University, Worcester Politechnic Institute (USA), Newcastle, Cranfield, Aston and Strathclyde (UK), and holds visiting professor roles in several universities across South America.

Publication

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

  • Sanchez Rodrigues, V. A., Cowburn, J., Potter, A. T., Naim, M. M. and Whiteing, A. 2009. Defining ‘extra distance’ as a measure to evaluate road transport performance. Presented at: Global supply chains and inter-firm networks, Istanbul, Turkey, 5 - 8 July 2009 Presented at Pawar, K. S. and Lalwani, C. S. eds.Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Logistics (14th ISL), Istanbul, Turkey, 5-8 July 2009. Nottingham: Centre for Concurrent Enterprise, Nottingham University Business School pp. 680-687.
  • Sanchez Rodrigues, V. A., Potter, A. T., Naim, M. M., Schoeman, C. and Greeff, S. 2009. Diagnosis of ‘extra distance’ in the South Africa FMCG retail sector. Presented at: 20th International Conference on Production Research, Shanghai, China, 2-6 August 2009Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Production Research, Shanghai, China, 2-6 August 2009. International Foundation for Production Research (IFPR)
  • Sanchez Rodrigues, V. A., Cowburn, J., Potter, A. T. and Naim, M. M. 2009. Diagnosis of ‘extra distance’ in the UK FMCG primary transport sector. Presented at: 14th Logistics Research Network, Cardiff, UK, 9-11 Sept 2009Proceedings of the 14th Logistics Research Network, Cardiff, UK, 9-11 September 2009. Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (UK) pp. 856-862.

2008

2007

  • Sanchez Rodrigues, V. A., Stantchev, D., Potter, A. T., Naim, M. M. and Whiteing, A. 2007. Establishing a transport operation focussed uncertainty model for the supply chain. Presented at: 14th Euroma Conference, Ankara, Turkey, 17-20 Jun 2007 Presented at Acur, N., Erkip, N. K. and Günes, E. D. eds.14th Euroma Conference: managing operations in expanding Europe. EurOMA Conference Proceedings Ankara: Bilkent University pp. 424-425.

2006

Articles

Book sections

Conferences

Monographs

Thesis

Research

PhD supervision research interests

  • Environment, Social and Governance
  • Zero carbon logistics
  • Collaborative business models & the shared economy
  • Food waste minimisation and mitigation
  • Supply chain risk management

Teaching

Programme Director of MSc Sustainable Supply Chain Management

Teaching the MSc International Logistics module currently

Biography

Employment history

  • 2021 - Professor of Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Cardiff University
  • 2019 - Reader in Logistics and Operations Management, Cardiff University
  • 2017 - Senior Lecturer in Logistics and Operations Management, Cardiff University
  • 2011 - Lecturer in Logistics and Operations Management, Cardiff University
  • 2009 - Lecturer in International Logistics, University of Plymouth
  • 2005 - Research Associate in Freight Transport, Cardiff University
  • 2003 - Supply Chain Improvement Projects manager > ERP project manufacturing and logistics team leader > Head of Manufacturing > Manufacturing manager, BIMBO Organisation, Latin America

Professional memberships

Logistics Research Network conference committee member

Academic positions

  • 2017 - Senior lecturer in Logistics and Operations Management, Cardiff University
  • 2011 - Lecturer in Logistics and Operations Management, Cardiff University
  • 2009 - Lecturer in International Logistics, University of Plymouth
  • 2005 - Research Associate in Freight Transport, Cardiff University

Committees and reviewing

Programme director of MSc Sustainable Supply Chain Management

Supervisions

I am interested in PhD supervision in the below topical research questions.

1) How can circular economy models enhance the sustainable performance of supply chains?

2) How can shared-economy models enable productivity, environmental performance and resilience of medium, small and micro enterprises?

3) How can food supply chains be better prepared and more responsive to black swam events such as the Ukraine War, COVID-19 and the cost-of-living crisis?

4) How can a food supply chain be designed and run for the purpose of minimising and mitigating the direct economic, environmental and social impacts of food waste?

5) How can carbon footprint be measured and minimised in logistics networks across road, rail and water transport modes?

I am also very keen to supervise PhD students that focus on areas such as sustainability in the context of supply chains and logistics, collaborative business models, circular economy and suppy chain risk management.

Current supervision

Mutala Fuseini

Mutala Fuseini

Research student

Yingkai Wang

Yingkai Wang

Research student

Specialisms

  • Food packaging, preservation and processing
  • Sustainable agricultural development
  • sustainable business models
  • Supply chain collaboration
  • Supply chain risk management