Trends and research directions in supply chain & logistics engineering

Author

White, Chelsea Chip C, III

Author_Institution

H. Milton Stewart Sch. of Ind. & Syst. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA

Volume

2

fYear

2008

fDate

12-15 Oct. 2008

Abstract

We look at current forces affecting supply chain design and global logistics, including fuel and labor costs; mode shifts; improvements in efficiency within each mode; currency dynamics; risk; labor shortages, laws, and wages in China; international freight transport network congestion; capacity reduction; product & package design to reduce weight and cube; and information technology applications. We then focus on interesting research directions linked to the next level of supply chain control productivity - controlling supply chains in real-time, based on real-time data - and discuss the value of information and how to extract this value effectively.

Keywords

production control; supply chains; capacity reduction; currency dynamics; fuel costs; global logistics; international freight transport network congestion; labor costs; labor shortages; logistics engineering; mode shifts; package design; product design; risk; supply chain; supply chain control productivity; wages;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, 2008. IEEE/SOLI 2008. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2012-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2013-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SOLI.2008.4682750

Filename

4682750