Valérie BOTTA-GENOULAZ

CV

• Currenly: Full professor at INSA Lyon, in the Industrial Engineering Department
• 2005: Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches in Sciences, INSA-Lyon, Principes et méthodes pour l’intégration et l’optimisation du pilotage des systèmes de production et des chaînes logistiques
• 2000: Certificate « Application Consultant ‘Production Planning’ for SAP R/3 », SAP Partner Academy
• 1997-2006: Assistant professor at INSA Lyon
• 1996: Doctorate in Production Management with European label, Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1, Planning & Scheduling flow shop organizations with constraints – towards a decision engineering system for production planning & production activity control
• 1988-1993: Project leader in Industrial management and organisation, DMC (international textile company)
• 1988: Master degree in Production Engineering, Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1

Research topics

Operation planning, operation scheduling, supply chain management, information sharing, ERP systems, EIS alignment, collaborative practices, and their impacts on enterprise performance, with a focus on sustainability.

Supervision of PhD

• Clément DUPUY, Doctorate INSA-Lyon (2001-04) "Analysis and design of tools for traceability of food products in order to optimize batches dispersion", in collaboration with the company SEC SNC Groupe AOSTE.
• France-Anne GRUAT-LA-FORME,  Doctorate INSA-Lyon (2004-07) "A model evaluating the performance of a supply chain" in collaboration with the company ROSET.
• Anthony VALLA, Doctorate INSA-Lyon (2004-08) "A methodology for supply chain performance diagnostic", in collaboration with the company VALRHONA.
• Pierre-Alain MILLET, Doctorate INSA-Lyon (2004-08) "An analysis of Integration for the measurement of complexity in ERP projects".
• Emilie CHARDINE-BAUMANN, Doctorate INSA-Lyon (2007-11) "Models for assessing economic, environmental and social performances in supply chains".
• Omar SAKKA, Doctorate INSA-Lyon (2008-12) "Semantic alignment between Enterprise Repositories - Application to manufacturing execution systems (MES)" in collaboration with 7 software providers and LISTIC lab, Annecy FEDER project).
• Sarra MAMOGHLI, Doctorate Universite de Strasbourg (2009-13) "Software package based information systems alignment, toward a risk identification model diven engineering" in collaboration with the company FORTAL, and LGeCo lab, INSA Strasbourg.
• Selma Afakh KHADER, Doctorate INSA-Lyon (2010-13) "Inventory models subject to inaccuracies under the e-retailing context".
• Farzad NIAKAN, Doctorate INSA-Lyon (2012-15) "Configuration and assessment of a sustainable production system".
• Mourad MAKACI, Doctorate Université Grenoble-Alpes (2013-18) "Pooled Warehouse Management and their impacts on supply chains", collaboration with CERAG lab
• Corentin LE HESRAN, Doctorate Université de Lyon operated by INSA Lyon (2016-19) "Reducing industrial waste: an approach through operations scheduling", collaboration with EVS lab, Ecole des Mines de StEtienne
• Minh Phuoc DOAN, Doctorate Université de Lyon operated by INSA Lyon (2016-20) "Work team building and planning problem: models and experiments in the service-to-business context", collaboration with Sao Paulo University (Brazil)
• Yenny Alexandra PAREDES ASTUDILLO, Doctorate Université de Lyon operated by INSA Lyon (2020-2024) "Flowshop scheduling problem including learning and fatigue effects: theoretical contributions and case study", cotutelle with Universidad de La Sabana (Colombia)
• Célestine COMMENGE, Doctorate INSA-Lyon (2023-...) "Assessing the sustainability of short supply chains in the food industry".
• Nour El Houda MEZNI, Doctorate INSA-Lyon (2025-...) "Methodology to redesign battery supply chains based on Live Cycle Analysis"

Main responsabilities

• Vice-president of CNU Permanent Commission (CP-CNU) since 2024
• Assessor Professor of National Universities Council (CNU) 61e section (computer engineering, control and signal processing), since 2023 (previously elected member 2007-11, 2011-15, Vice-President 2019-23)
• Membre of Collège du Haut Conseil de l'Evaluation de la Recherche et de l'Enseignement Supérieur (HCERES) 2020-24, and since 2025
• Board member of Club EEA, since 2015 and presidente of "section automatique" since 2021
• Vice-Presidente of the Scientific Council of INSA Lyon, since 2023 (previously member 2018-22)
• Member of the project selection panel for CIMES competitive cluster, since 2014
• Member of Comité de la Recherche of IMT Mines Albi, 2018-22
• Founder and Director of DISP lab, 2011-20
• Member of the council of Doctoral school Infomaths (512), 2011-20
• Deputy Director of pôle AIP Priméca Rhône-Alpes Ouest, 2005-13
• Executive committee member of GdR 717 CNRS MACS: coordinator of "axe organisation" (2003-09), animator of "young researcher actions" (2010-13), organisation of 3 editions of JD MACS school
• Vice President of the Board of the Economic Cluster "Logistics Rhone-Alpes", 2009-17
• Member of the French steering committee SAP University Alliance Program, 2005-11

Research activities and networks

• Member of LabEx IMU, since 2019
• Member of TC 5.2 IFAC, since 2020
• Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Steering Committee of the International Conference ILS (Information systems, Logistics and Supply Chain): Lyon - France 2006, Casablanca - Morocco 2010, Madison - WI U.S. 2008, Quebec - Canada 2012, Breda - Netherlands 2014,  Bordeaux - France 2016, Lyon - France 2018, Austin - TX U.S. 2020
• Co-Founder of ERP working group (1999), recognised by the GDR CNRS MACS (2003), subsequently merged with other working groups (currently INE, CT of SAGIP)
• Member of the editorial board of international journals (International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Enterprise Information Systems, Frontiers of Engineering Management, Supply Chain Forum) and a national journal (J3ea, Journal sur l'enseignement des sciences et technologies de l'information et des systèmes)
• Program Committee Chair/Co-chair of conferences (ILS’06, ILS’10, JDMACS’11, and JDMACS’13, ILS'18), scientific committee member of numerous international conferences
• Expertise for project evaluations (CRSNG Canada, NSERC Canada, Community of Experts  of the ESF-Science Connect, ANR, ANRT, French regional councils), for laboratory evaluation (AERES, HCERES), member of numerous recruiting committees, doctoral thesis /HDR committees
• Leader or participant in several industrial contracts and collaborative research projects (FEDER, ADEME, FUI, regional…)

Teaching activities

At INSA Lyon, Industrial Engineering department (master level)

• Courses and tutorials : production planning and management, supply chain management, scheduling techniques, enterprise information systems (ERP)
• Project CAPM-ERP  (SAP ERP, S/4 HANA)
• Student support (industrial internship, final year project)

Responsible of student final year projects, in charge of the partnership with IAE de Lyon (master MAE/GMP), and of "introduction to research" courses and projects (M1 and M2 levels).