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October 2017 Newsletter
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Logistics & Supply Chain Division
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President's Message
Dear LSC Division Members,
The LSC division is one of the largest IISE divisions and it has more student members than any other division. Our goal as board members is to continue growing the division and serving the LSC community with more professional support including networking opportunity, recognition, and educational programs to stay competitive in the global market. The October webinar by IBM was on Supply Chain Risk Insights Powered by Watson, while another one scheduled in November would be on the role of ISE in Evolving Supply Chains. Our ISERC track is also one of the largest tracks; each year we receive more than 100 abstracts. We have student case competitions, teaching and research awards, and outstanding industry practitioner awards.
Your input and participation as LSC members is crucial to further grow your LSC division. We invite you to join our social media websites (LinkedIn and Facebook), attend the webinars, and participate in the board meetings, annual Town Hall meeting, and other divisional activities to provide the best value to the membership. If you want to be a volunteer, have good suggestion, or be more engaged with our division, please do not hesitate to contact us. We will also have elections for new board members in January, if you are interested to join the board please go ahead and apply.
We look forward to seeing many of you in Orlando in May!
Faisal Aqlan
President, LSC Division
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Division's Mission
The mission of the Logistics & Supply Chain (LSC) Division is to provide its membership with the body of knowledge, networking opportunity, recognition, and educational programs to stay competitive in the global market.
Want to be part of our division? Please reach out to any of the board members or Diana Berry (
dianapz@hotmail.com
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Division Sponsored Tracks at IISE Annual Conference and Expo 2018
Our LSC Division is sponsoring two tracks, the LSC
and the Facilities Design and Planning, at the 2018 IISE Annual Conference and Expo. We would like to encourage you to contribute to the conference by submitting an abstract in one of these two tracks. Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to present their work in a session, choosing either a standard 20-minute presentation or a new 40-minute presentation for a lengthier discussion. Each session will be 80 minutes.
Logistics and Supply Chain Track
The LSC track will
showcase latest research and proven solutions applying industrial and systems engineering principles within logistics and supply chain. The focus will be on network optimization, inventory control, transportation systems, green and sustainable supply chain, logistics for energy production, offshoring, humanitarian supply chain, reverse logistics, and other relevant topics.
Track Co-Chairs
Murat Erkoc, University of Miami (merkoc@miami.edu)
Hector A. Vergara, Oregon State University (hector.vergara@oregonstate.edu)
Md Noor E Alam, Northeastern University (md.alam@northeastern.edu)
Doug Mettenburg, J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc. (Douglas.Mettenburg@jbhunt.com)
Facilities Design and Planning Track
the FDP track will focus on facility design and layout, warehouse automation, operations, and management systems, materials handling, storage, and order fulfillment systems, distribution management, container operations, cross-docking, and transportation, inventory tracking and control, facility logistics and ergonomics, and facilities design and planning education.
Track Co-Chairs
Dincer Konur, Missouri University of Science and Technology (konurd@mst.edu)
Dale Masel, Ohio University (masel@ou.edu)
Joan Wagner, Spirit Aerosystems (joan.m.wagner@spiritaero.com)
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Teaching Philosophy of the LSC Division's 2017-18 Awardee
Professor Emeritus A. "Ravi" Ravindran
was awarded the Excellence in Teaching of Logistics and Supply Chain in 2017-18.
He retired in Spring 2017 after serving the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering as a professor for 20 years. He was recently named a Provost's Emeritus Faculty Teaching Scholar at Penn State.
Below is
his
teaching philosophy:
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I have been teaching Operations Research (OR) courses for more than 45 years to both undergraduate and graduate students. I have observed that most students in OR courses are more interested in applying the models and methods to solve read world problems. Hence, my teaching philosophy has always been that "to be an effective teacher in OR, you need to know what the emerging issues in industry are, so that you and your students can make real contributions to the theory and practice of OR".
I followed the same philosophy when I developed the Supply Chain Engineering (SCE) course for IE graduate students, in response to alumni and student interest in the topic. Before offering the course, I audited the graduate course in Supply Chain Management (SCM) at the Smeal College of Business. I also spent a semester, on sabbatical leave, at the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan, working with their global SCM group, in order to gain knowledge about the practical problems faced by industry.
Read more from Professor Ravindran
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NEW
IISE Connect allows IISE members to easily interact and communicate online, empowering you to have better access to your member benefits.
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Member Spotlight
Dr. MD Sarder,
Founding President of the LSC division (2011-2014)
Dr. MD Sarder is currently a Professor and Chair of Engineering Technologies at Bowling Green State University. Prior to joining BGSU, he worked at the U.S. Air Force Academy as a distinguished research fellow and as an associate professor and graduate program director at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Dr. Sarder has extensive teaching and research experiences in various areas of industrial & systems engineering predominantly in logistics transportation and supply chain management. He authored three books, four book chapters and over 85 scholarly articles. He was awarded more than $2.5M funding from various agencies including NSF and U.S. Department of Transportation. Some of his research projects include intermodal facility analysis, warehousing need assessment, reshoring and its impact on U.S. transportation & economy, and transportation modeling. He developed a BS program and an MS program in logistics, a research center on logistics trade & transportation, and numerous undergraduate and graduate level courses. Dr. Sarder's primary research areas include logistics transportation & distribution systems, supply chain modeling, optimization, lean, process improvement, and STEM education.
He is actively involved with many professional societies including Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE), Transportation Research Board (TRB), and American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE). He founded the LSC division within IISE. He served as a program chair and conference chair for several premier conferences in his discipline. He also served on editorial board for a number of journals including the editor in chief for the International Journal of Logistics and Transportation Research.
Aman Sapra, Past Board Member of the LSC Division
Aman Sapra is currently a Director for Inventory and Supply Chain Strategy and
Principal at
St. Onge Company. Aman's responsibilities include strategic inputs to improvements in demand planning processes, inventory optimization using stochastic demand modeling techniques, logistics strategy and network configuration modeling using mixed integer programming techniques, inventory deployment strategies, data-intensive analysis of trade & commodity flow regional trends, and concept design and planning to assist in logistics solution development as well as other issues in end-to-end supply chain assessment & optimization. He has almost fifteen years of experience in the above areas of which over ten years have been with St. Onge Company.
Aman has led, executed and undertaken project efforts multiple industry
domains including CPG, automotive,
across
food & beverage, pharmaceutical and industrial. The
efforts have included geographic considerations for both, mature and emerging economies - with logistics & supply chain efficiency efforts and capital project analyses managed and executed in thirty five different countries including United States, Canada, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, China, India, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Vietnam, Malaysia, Oman, Indonesia, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana,
Ivory Coast,
Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Germany, Poland & France.
Read more about Aman.
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Diana Berry, 2018 IISE Annual Conference Program Chai
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Diana Berry is an Industrial Engineer and currently works as a Trade Management Services Specialist for UPS Supply Chain Solutions. She has 12 years of experience in the supply chain industry. Diana is a certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and holds an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the 2018 IISE Annual Conference Program Chair.
Contact her at dianapz@hotmail.com.
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Keys to Stellar Supply Chain Management by
Diana Berry, UPS
Over the years,
the SCM field has changed significantly; global markets have evolved, and business complexity has increased. In previous years, SCM focused solely on reducing cost. Today, the purpose of SCM also includes creating and maximizing customer value. SCM allows companies to differentiate themselves and create competitive advantages.
The supply chain of the future will need to be managed in an era of constant change and uncertainty. Today, we live in a very dynamic world. In the past, forecasting was easier because demand was more stable. The modern supply chain will need to become more responsive to demand change. Successful SCM requires organizations to: embrace innovation, leverage technology, incorporate the principles of Green SCM, and implement a strong regulatory compliance program.
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Upcoming Webinar
The role of ISE in the Evolving Supply Chain
Presented by Columbus/Eastern Chapter-Region and CISE - OPEN TO ALL
Nov. 14, 12 p.m. Eastern time - Lunch & Learn Series
Presenters:
James A. Tompkins, Ph.D., Tompkins International, Rick Wilkinson, Dollar Tree | Family Dollar, D. Scott Sink, Ph.D., The Ohio State University
The Supply Chain System is extremely dynamic and complex. The role of ISE in this evolution is similarly changing and also varied. This webinar will focus on providing a strategic and high level view of the landscape of change in Supply Chain with a focus on different roles and contributions that ISE's can make and are making.
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