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Title : Trends in Global Supply Chains and Logistics: Research Opportunities
Date : Nov 19, 2007
Speaker : Chelsea C. White III, H. Milton & Carolyn J. Stewart School Chair
Affiliation : Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Abstract
We present trends that are affecting the design and management of global supply chains, including supply chain design for resilience and productivity and the growth of the systems integrator and service expansion. We focus on one of these trends - the role of real-time information for real-time supply chain control - which we feel represents the next level of supply chain control and outline the associated interesting research challenges.
Biosketch
Chelsea C. White received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan (UM) in 1974 in Computer, Information, and Control Engineering. He has served on the faculties of the University of Virginia (1976- 1990) and UM (1990-2001). He currently is the H.Milton and Carolyn J. Stewart School Chair of the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering and holds the Schneider National Chair of Transportation and Logistics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he is the Director of the Trucking Industry Program (TIP) and the former Executive Director of The Logistics Institute. He has previously served as department chair of Systems Engineering at the University of Virginia, department chair of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the UM, and Senior Associate Dean at the UM. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of INFORMS, a former member of the Executive Board of CIEADH (Council of Industrial Engineering Academic Department Heads), and the founding chair of the IEEE TAB Committee on ITS (now an IEEE Society). Professor White is the former Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Parts A and C, and was the founding Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). He has published primarily in the areas of the control of finite stochastic systems and knowledge-based decision support systems. His most recent research interests include analyzing the role of real-time information and enabling information technology for improved logistics and, more generally, supply chain productivity and risk mitigation, with special focus on the U.S. trucking industry.
