About the Center
The Center for Supply Chain Management and Logistics seeks to develop cutting-edge solutions to emerging problems associated with global supply chains. Uniquely positioned in the city of Chicago, the third largest freight hub in the world, the center specifically addresses manufacturing, transportation, and logistics management issues in an effort to reduce cost and improve the efficiency of supply chains.
Focused on a variety of cutting-edge issues, the center is dedicated to making our partner members successful. Partners gain the privilege of guiding center research that best addresses their immediate supply-chain and logistics needs.
Sample Research Emphasis:
- Supply-chain modeling, supply-chain dynamics, supply networks as complex adaptive systems
- Understanding supply-chain costs
- Improving supply-chain decisions with agent automation
- External benefit/cost of goods movement
- Public-private partnership to improve supply-chain efficiency
- Environmentally friendly supply-chains
- The use of new technologies, such as RFID tags, to enhance supply-chain effectiveness
- RFID for enhanced business intelligence
- Alleviating bottlenecks in the supply-chain
- International supply-chain management
- On-site services to local companies
- Research on Midwest-specific supply-chain problems
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