Witold Bahr

Biography

Dr. Witold Bahr is a Lecturer in Operations Management at Keele Business School, having previously served as a Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management at Coventry University. Prior to his career in academia, he gained experience working in all parts of the supply chain. He has also held a full-time academic post at Aston University, where he completed his PhD on technology deployment in supply chains. Dr. Bahr is an active committee member for CILT’s Warehouse Technology and Materials Handling Forum, as well as CILT's Staffordshire Group, and serves on a committee for the Logistics Research Network Forum. His current research focuses on exploring new and disruptive technologies for supply chains, sustainability, and addressing the gap between theory and practice.

Research and scholarship

Research interests:

• Supply Chain Management and Logistics
• Divergence between theory and practice in SCM
• Environmentally sustainable Third Party Logistics
• Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
• Blockchain
• Technology trends
• Warehousing

Teaching

Modules taught at Keele Business School (from 2024):

• International Supply Chain Management (MAN-20083) [UG]
• Operations and Quality Management (MAN-20053) [UG]

Modules taught at Coventry University (2020-2024):

• 238SAM Contemporary Supply Chain Management [UG]
• 240SAM Supply Chain and Operations Management [UG]
• 347SAM Purchasing and Procurement [UG]
• 5031SSL Operations and Supply Chain Management [UG]
• 7019SSL Global Supply Chain and Logistics [PG]
• 7044SSL Global Operations [PG]
• 7053SSL Postgraduate Business Project (Research Methods) [PG]

Modules taught at Aston University (2014-2020):

• LT1SCM Introduction to Supply Chain Management [UG]
• LT1301 Introduction to Logistics (Module Leader [UG]
• SE0SLF Systems and Logistics Foundations [FD]
• LT3321 Technology in Supply Chains [UG]
• SE1IBL Introduction to Business Logistics [UG]
• EM4057 Supply Chain Management [PG]