Robert Boute is Professor Operations Management at Vlerick Business School. He teaches operations and supply chain management in the degree programs at Vlerick (both full time and executive MBA). Furthermore he teaches in executive education and customised programmes. He is the Academic Director of the Full Time MBA programme at Vlerick.

Robert received his PhD from KULeuven, Belgium and was visiting professor at Kellogg School of Management in Chicago (Northwestern University). He is active as Board Member of PICS Belgium (the Production Inventory and Control Society).

Robert’s research focuses on supply chain dynamics (the bullwhip effect), inventory management and production smoothing models. In 2008 he received the best paper award in production planning & control for his paper on a win-win solution for the bullwhip problem. In 2016 he was recognized by Poets & Quants as one of the "Best 40 Under 40 Professors."

• BA, Commercial Engineering, KU Leuven
• MSc, Commercial Engineering, KU Leuven
• PhD, Applied Economics, KU Leuven

• Visiting Research Fellow, Logistics System Dynamics Group, Cardiff Business School, 6/30/2005
• Associate Professor, Faculty of Business Economics, Research Center for Operations Mgt, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 8/1/2010
• Associate Professor, Operations & Technology Management Center, Vlerick Business School
• Assistant Professor, Operations & Technology Management Center, Vlerick Business School, 8/1/2011
• Professor, Operations Management, Vlerick Business School

Operations Management (Turbo) (OPNS-438-5)
This course was formerly known as OPNS 438-A/OPNS 438-B
This accelerated course serves as an introduction to Operations Management. The course approaches the discipline from the perspective of the general manager, rather than from that of the operations specialist. The coverage is very selective: Students concentrate on a small list of powerful themes that have emerged recently as the central building blocks of world-class operations. The course also presents a sample of operations management tools and techniques that have proved extremely useful through the years. The topics discussed are equally relevant in the manufacturing and service sectors.