10th IEOM Global Supply Chain and Logistics
IEOM Society International addresses the issues of Global Supply Chain and Logistics .There are various levels of readiness of engineering graduates from various parts of the world. One of the main themes is how to reduce the readiness gap of business management graduates around the world. The special focus is given to operations management, management science, supply chain management, business analytics, and logistics management. Are the graduates ready to take on the challenges of the current global economy? IEOM Orlando Conference will have a dedicated session for the Global Business Management Education where distinguished speakers will discuss the readiness of business management graduates for workforce around the world. Featured speakers will be from various part of the world to address business management education challenges and opportunities.
Global Supply Chain and Logistics Topics can be related on:
- operations management
- supply chain management
- logistics management
- MIS
- IT
- cybersecurity
- finance
- project management
- business intelligence and analytics
- risk management
- ERP/CRM/SAP
- quality management
- inventory management
- lean management
- management science
- productivity management
- Innovation and entrepreneurship
Each speaker needs to submit a title of the talk, photo and a short bio. All will be included in the IEOM 2022 Orlando Conference proceedings. There will be mostly virtual presentation using zoom. If you are interested to be distinguished feature speaker, please contact info@ieomsociety.org for details.
All speakers need to register for the 7th NA IEOM Detroit Conference. Please pay your registration fee ONLINE: https://www.xcdsystem.com/IEOM/attendee/index.cfm?ID=Ih58mlv
DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS
Global Supply Chain and Logistics I
June 12, Sunday, 8:00 – 9:45 am – Room 2
Session Chair:
8:00 – 8:30 am (Tuesday, June 14)
Dr. Ahad Ali
Associate Professor
Director of Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering
Director, Master of Science in Industrial Engineering
Director, Graduate Certificate in Lean Six Sigma
Director of Smart Manufacturing and Lean Systems Research Group
A. Leon Linton Department of Mechanical, Robotics and Industrial Engineering
Lawrence Technological University
Southfield, Michigan, USA
Dr. Ahad Ali is an Associate Professor and Director of Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering and Master of Science in Industrial Engineering in the A. Leon Linton Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Lawrence Technological University, Michigan. Dr. Ali is the Director of Smart Manufacturing and Lean Systems Research Group. He earned B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh, Masters in Systems and Engineering Management from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Dr. Ali is the Executive Director of IEOM Society and Conference Chair of the Sixth International Conference on Industrial Engineering and operations Management, Kuala Lumpur 2016. He advised six doctorate students in Doctor of Engineering in Manufacturing Systems. Dr. Ali has published journal and conference papers. He was past President of IIE Lean Division. Dr Ali has done research projects with Chrysler, Ford, DTE Energy, Delphi Automotive System, GE Medical Systems, Harley-Davidson Motor Company, International Truck and Engine Corporation (ITEC), National/Panasonic Electronics, and Rockwell Automation. His research interests include quality, reliability, six sigma, manufacturing, simulation, optimization, scheduling, maintenance, e-manufacturing, lean, CAE and GD&T and. He is a member of ASEE, IEEE, IEOM, INFORMS, and SME.
8:30 – 9:00 am Tuesday, June 14)
9:00 – 9:30 am (Tuesday, June 14)
Global Supply Chain and Logistics II – Panel
June 14, Tuesday, 2:00 – 3:45 am – Room 1
Panel Chair
Alper Senol
Professor- Supply Chain Management- Miami Dade College
Process Engineering Manager
Ph.D. candidate – Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
University of Central Florida
Orlando, Florida, USA
Alper Senol is an experienced process engineering manager with more than 12 years of strong working knowledge and experience in the transportation, supply chain & logistics, and manufacturing industries. Skilled in Project Management, Lean manufacturing / DMAIC, Operations Management, Quality Management, and Continuous Improvement.
He is working towards a Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering and Management Systems at the University of Central Florida with the research subject of “Impact of Industry 4.0 on Global Supply Chain Management”. He received his Master of Science in Engineering Management and Systems Engineering from the Old Dominion University and his Bachelor of Science in Information Management System from Strayer University. Also, he is Lean Supply Chain Management and Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certified. When Alper was in university, he was the Student President of the Industrial Engineering department and received “The student of the month” award.
Alper started his career as an Industrial Engineer at M&G Electronics in 2010. He was responsible for lean initiatives of the company along with estimating production times, staffing requirements, developing weekly labor and production forecasting for production planning, designing workstation, workflows, and assembly lines, preparing manufacturing documentation (SOP) based on ISO standards and providing necessary training for production employees and operators.
Alper joined Perry Ellis International in 2013 as an industrial engineer. In this role, he has involved various sides of the supply chain management and warehouse management systems. He has executed two major WMS projects during his employment and received an outstanding achievement award representing the engineering department for executing an overseas WMS project successfully in 2014. His expertise includes implementing strategic initiatives and projects; overseeing WMS and WLM processes; and leading diverse staff to maximize productivity, efficiency, and overall business performance. Through his experience, he has become adept at ensuring alignment with organizational goals and requirements while facilitating streamlined transportation, logistics, and supply chain operations and building strategic relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Alper worked as a process engineering manager at the Bel USA in Miami. He oversees and manages production, quality, supply chain, and logistics operations including need assessment, system upgrade, new process flow, and layout design, inventory management, performance metrics (KPIs), staff training, and project execution. He also supports logistics and supply chain operations while identifying and pursuing strategic opportunities to improve operational performance in terms of cost, time, quality for internal and external processes. He secured close to 1 million dollars in annual savings by implementing a freight & packaging optimization project and a quality improvement project that resulted in reducing the redo rate that was caused by production defects and breakage.
He is currently a full-time professor in Supply Chain Management department at Miami Dade College (MDC) where he teaches all subject related and engineering courses since 2020. Alper is working to build a Supply Chain Management laboratory in Miami Dade College West Campus`s makerspace with his students to provide hand-on classroom experience. Laboratory will provide end-to-end supply chain solutions within the concentration of Warehouse Management Systems that includes robotics, automation and AI. He is an advisory committee member of the Supply Chain Management board at MDC. He also helped to build Data Analytics, Procurement and Project Management concentrations for the Supply Chain Management program and concluded with the state approval.
Panel Speaker I
Dennis Tribby – Director of Portfolio Solutions
Siemens Digital Industries Software
Florida, USA
Dennis Tribby is the Director of Portfolio Solutions for Siemens Digital Industries Software as well as a PhD Candidate at the University of Central Florida under the guidance of Dr. Ahmad Elshennawy in the department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems. His research is related to how Cost Engineering practices impact project success in Six Sigma related projects.
He holds a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA as well as a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Cincinnati. Dennis is also a certified Six Sigma Black Belt and a Certified Quality Engineer.
He has more than 30 years of Engineering Services and Program Management experience with 25 of those years in the Aerospace and Defense industry in the areas of Product Lifecycle Manager, Cost Engineering, Supplier Parts Management. Over the span of his career he has managed software deployment at Lockheed Martin for the JSF program as well as managing Siemens Industrial Machinery and Energy Services group.
Panel Speaker II
Mohammad Anwar Rahman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Manufacturing and Construction Management
Central Connecticut State University
New Britain, CT, USA
Dr. Mohammad Anwar Rahman is a faculty at the Central Connecticut State University in Manufacturing and Construction Management. He has published papers in referred journals and presented results in conferences. His research focuses on logistics, supply chain management, stochastic process and designing quality procedure. Dr. Rahman conducted several research projects with Mississippi Dept. of Education (MDE) and US Dept. of Transportation (USDOT). He has various certifications including Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (Purdue University), Lean Principles (Purdue University), Demonstrated Master Logistician (The International Society of Logistics), Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award Examiner (Louisiana Quality Foundation), and Certified Transportation & Logistics (American Society of Transport & Logistics). Dr. Rahman is affiliated with ISERC, DSI, AST&L and IEOM.
Panel Speaker III
Professor Don Reimer
Director of Membership and Chapter Development – IEOM Society
President, The Small Business Strategy Group, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Adjunct Faculty – A. Leon Linton Department of Mechanical Engineering
Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, Michigan, USA
Donald M. Reimer is an adjunct faculty at the A. Leon Linton Department of Mechanical Engineering in College of Engineering at Lawrence Tech in Southfield, Michigan. He coordinates the Certificate of Entrepreneurial Engineering Skills. Mr. Reimer holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Management from Lawrence Technological University and a Master of Arts degree in Political Science from University of Detroit/Mercy. He is a Certified Management Consultant with over 35 years of experience in working with closely-held businesses. He has taught courses in entrepreneurship, strategic management, corporate entrepreneurship and innovation for engineers. Mr. Reimer is a member of the Lawrence Tech Kern Campus Committee, Coordinator of the Lawrence Tech Innovation Encounter. He is faculty Advisor of the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization. Mr. Reimer serves as a Kern Fellow of The Kern Family Foundation, Co-Direct of the Coleman Fellows Program, member of the National Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization Faculty Advisory Council and is a member of the American Society of Engineering Education. He has operated his own consulting company – The Small Business Strategy Group for 23 years. He published numerous articles on small business, entrepreneurship and strategic thinking. He has received several awards and recognition by local, state and federal agencies for his work in entrepreneurship and minority business development. Mr. Reimer served as member of the Minority Economic Development Committee of New Detroit. Mr. Reimer is member of the Small Business Advisory Council of the Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Reimer is a member of Advisory Board of the Milwaukee Junction Small Business Assistance Center. He is also a member of the Applied Innovation Alliance. Mr. Reimer serves as a KEEN Fellow for The Kern Family Foundation and is a member of United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
Panel Speaker IV
Global Supply Chain and Logistics III
June 14, Tuesday, 4:00 – 5:45 pm – Room 2
Session Chair:
4:00 – 4:20 pm, Tuesday, June 14
Alper Senol
Professor- Supply Chain Management
Miami Dade College
Miami, FL, USA
Process Engineering Manager
Alper Senol is an experienced process engineering manager with more than 12 years of strong working knowledge and experience in the transportation, supply chain & logistics, and manufacturing industries. Skilled in Project Management, Lean manufacturing / DMAIC, Operations Management, Quality Management, and Continuous Improvement.
He is working towards a Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering and Management Systems at the University of Central Florida with the research subject of “Impact of Industry 4.0 on Global Supply Chain Management”. He received his Master of Science in Engineering Management and Systems Engineering from the Old Dominion University and his Bachelor of Science in Information Management System from Strayer University. Also, he is Lean Supply Chain Management and Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certified. When Alper was in university, he was the Student President of the Industrial Engineering department and received “The student of the month” award.
Alper started his career as an Industrial Engineer at M&G Electronics in 2010. He was responsible for lean initiatives of the company along with estimating production times, staffing requirements, developing weekly labor and production forecasting for production planning, designing workstation, workflows, and assembly lines, preparing manufacturing documentation (SOP) based on ISO standards and providing necessary training for production employees and operators.
Alper joined Perry Ellis International in 2013 as an industrial engineer. In this role, he has involved various sides of the supply chain management and warehouse management systems. He has executed two major WMS projects during his employment and received an outstanding achievement award representing the engineering department for executing an overseas WMS project successfully in 2014. His expertise includes implementing strategic initiatives and projects; overseeing WMS and WLM processes; and leading diverse staff to maximize productivity, efficiency, and overall business performance. Through his experience, he has become adept at ensuring alignment with organizational goals and requirements while facilitating streamlined transportation, logistics, and supply chain operations and building strategic relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Alper worked as a process engineering manager at the Bel USA in Miami. He oversees and manages production, quality, supply chain, and logistics operations including need assessment, system upgrade, new process flow, and layout design, inventory management, performance metrics (KPIs), staff training, and project execution. He also supports logistics and supply chain operations while identifying and pursuing strategic opportunities to improve operational performance in terms of cost, time, quality for internal and external processes. He secured close to 1 million dollars in annual savings by implementing a freight & packaging optimization project and a quality improvement project that resulted in reducing the redo rate that was caused by production defects and breakage.
He is currently a full-time professor in Supply Chain Management department at Miami Dade College (MDC) where he teaches all subject related and engineering courses since 2020. Alper is working to build a Supply Chain Management laboratory in Miami Dade College West Campus`s makerspace with his students to provide hand-on classroom experience. Laboratory will provide end-to-end supply chain solutions within the concentration of Warehouse Management Systems that includes robotics, automation and AI. He is an advisory committee member of the Supply Chain Management board at MDC. He also helped to build Data Analytics, Procurement and Project Management concentrations for the Supply Chain Management program and concluded with the state approval.
4:20 – 4:40 pm, Tuesday, June 14
Thomas Jones
Ph.D. candidate at UCF
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL, USA
Thomas Jones is a PhD candidate at UCF in the department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and he holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering from Wichita State University. His research focus is on Quality 4.0 in manufacturing environments with an interest in how company culture and quality systems influence digital transformations.
4:40 – 5:00 pm, Tuesday, June 14
Cintia Zuccon Buffon
Industrial Engineer
Cintia Zuccon Buffon, MBA, MSIE, is an industrial engineer with 10 years of experience in the industry. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Industrial Engineering at University of Central Florida while working full-time as a Quality Engineer at Ocean Insight. Her research focuses on analyzing the voice of the customer (VOC) using artificial intelligence techniques in the Quality 4.0 era. Prior to her current position, she worked for large companies including GE Aviation, Dentsply Sirona, ZEISS and BASF. Besides industry work, she also has experience conducting research in the artificial intelligence field focused on using Natural Language Processing techniques and artificial neural networks to analyze and develop tools to estimate the volatility of financial assets in the stock market.
5:00 – 5:20 pm, Tuesday, June 14
5:20 – 5:40 pm, Tuesday, June 14