Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/SOLI.2008.4682750
