Harri Lorentz
D.Sc.
harri.lorentz@utu.fi +358 29 450 2482 +358 50 502 7087 Rehtorinpellonkatu 3 Turku |
Procurement; Supply Chain Management;
Mr. Harri
Lorentz received his doctoral degree in international business in 2009 from
University of Turku, Finland, and currently serves as an associate professor of
purchasing and supply management in the Operations & Supply Chain
Management programme of Turku School of Economics at the University of Turku,
Finland. His research interests are currently concentrated on digitalization of
procurement, procurement capabilities, as well as on supply market
intelligence. In the past Dr. Lorentz has been affiliated with the University
of Cambridge (Senior Research Associate), and Manchester Business School
(visiting researcher) in the UK. He also has practical experience from food
export operations as well as World Bank led trade and transport facilitation
projects in the CIS countries. Dr. Lorentz has published in several leading
international journals, such as Journal of Supply Chain Management, Supply
Chain Management: An International Journal, International Journal of Physical
Distribution & Logistics Management, International Journal of Production
Economics, Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management and Industrial Marketing
Management.
- Large Language Models for Risk Detection in E-commerce: Reliability, Semantic Alignment, and Managerial Insights (2026)
- SN Computer Science
- An Agile Approach to Sourcing Solutions : Embracing Uncertainty for Strategic Relevance (2025)
- Journal of Supply Chain Management
- Risk Detection in E-commerce with LLMs: Annotation Challenges and Lessons from Real-World Business News (2025)
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- Strategic value contribution through speed in procurement - A capability microfoundation perspective (2025)
- Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management
- The dual role of supply base knowledge in organizational integration and competitive performance (2025)
- Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management
- Tulevaisuuden uudistavat toimitusketjut (2025)
- Futura
- Explorations within Digital Supply Chain Transformation Programs – Towards a Theory of Double Loop Learning
(Presentation at the 34th Annual POMS Conference 2024) (2024) Srai, Jag; Joglekar, Nitin; Lorentz, Harri - Exploring implementation uncertainties in digital supply chain transformation programmes
(Presentation at the 28th Cambridge International Manufacturing Symposium 2024) (2024) Srai, Jag; Lorentz, Harri - Impact pathways: unhooking supply chains from conflict zones-reconfiguration and fragmentation lessons from the Ukraine-Russia war (2023)
- International Journal of Operations and Production Management
- Procurement's role in resolving demand – supply imbalances: an information processing theory perspective (2023)
- International Journal of Operations and Production Management



