Cost Management and Data Analytics

We research sustainable profitability of value chains and business ecosystems with methods of cost management and data analytics.

Research areas

• PtX Value Chains
• Profitability and Sustainability
• Working Capital Management and Localization
• Business Ecosystem Analytics with AI
   

Mainstreams of our Doctoral Research

Working capital management

• Operational working capital management models   Lind (2018)
• Measures of financial working capital   Talonpoika (2016)
• Working capital management in value chains  Pirttilä (2014)
• Impact of working capital on profitability   Monto (2013)

Industrial asset management

• Forecasting model of packaging costs within value chains  Ryynänen (2022)
• Tools for business ecosystem management and research  Rissanen (2021)
• Value of fleet data in the ecosystems of asset management   Kinnunen (2020)
• Management of maintenance business networks   Ylä-Kujala (2018)
• Maintenance information management  Metso (2018)
• Management of life-cycle costs of maintenance  Sinkkonen (2015)
• Value of industrial maintenance services  Ali-Marttila (2017)
• Flexible asset management  Marttonen (2013)

Universities

• Politecnico di Milano
• University of Stavanger
• University of Sunderland
• Yokohama National University
• Chalmers University of Technology
• Luleå University of Technology