Global Supply Chain and Logistics

Global Supply Chain and Logistics
Plenary and Panel

Submission Site: https://www.xcdsystem.com/IEOM/abstract/index.cfm?ID=Ae4coLH
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IEOM Global Supply Chain and Logistics focuses on the recent developments and future trends in the wider areas of supply chain and logistics.

Topics for the Supply Chain Management include (but not limited to):

  • Cross-functional drivers in a supply chain
  • Demand planning and forecasting in supply chain
  • Designing distribution networks
  • Inventory positioning in SC
  • Optimization in supply chain
  • Strategic, tactical and operational supply chain
  • Managing uncertainty in a supply chain
  • Global Supply Chain
  • Logistics
  • Risk in supply chain
  • Resilience in supply chain
  • Green or Sustainable Supply Chain
  • Supply chain coordination and collaboration
  • Supply chain performance
  • Value distortion of information: Bullwhip effect
  • Warehousing and Distribution Systems
  • or similar topics

Each speaker needs to submit a title of the talk, photo and a short bio as well as power point presentation. All will be included in the 4th IEOM India Conference proceedings. If you are interested to be distinguished feature speaker, please contact info@ieomsociety.org for details.

Global Supply Chain and Logistics – Plenary and Panel

4:00 – 5:40 pm, Wednesday, November 9, 2024 – Room 1 (Onsite at JNTUH)
Session Chair: Prof. Shekar Babu, AMRITA University, Bangalore, India

Panel Chair

Prof. Shekar Babu, Ph.D., IEOM Fellow
Associate Dean & Professor
AMRITA University, Mysuru Campus
Karnataka, India
Adjunct Faculty, SUNY, Buffalo, USA

Prof. Shekar has 15 years of experience in academia and 15 years in Industry. Prof. Shekar Babu is an Associate Dean & Professor at AMRITA University, Mysuru Campus, Karnataka, India. He was the founding head of AMRITA School of Business, Bangalore. He started AMRITA School of Business, Bangalore in 2007 in collaboration with State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo, USA. He was also an Adjunct Faculty at School of Management, University at Buffalo, NY, USA. He worked for 10 years as a Director of Hewlett-Packard’s Software Division, California, USA. He was responsible for managing the $1Billion revenues. He worked 5 years as a Management Consultant at Price Waterhouse (PWC), Los Angeles, California, USA. Prof. Shekar has been actively working on Sustainability, SDG and CSR projects since 2007. He led the “Education through Rural Transformation” project by implementing “Village Resource Centers (VRC)” across 5 remote locations in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The VRC project was in collaboration with ISRO and with the help of corporate funding from HP, Microsoft, CTS and CISCO.

Prof. Shekar has been working with international researchers and consultants from USA, Australia and Europe on mandated CSR and Sustainability projects with focus on Indian government and private companies. He has published close to 50+ high-impact journal international conference papers. Prof. Shekar is also a guest editor is some prestigious research journals like “Sustainability Accountability Public Governance”, Industrial Marketing Management” and “Journal of Finance and Accounting”. Prof. Shekar is the Head of “AMRITA Center for Responsible Innovations and Sustainable Enterprises – ARISE” Lab. He has already secured funding of more than 2 Crores from HP, Microsoft, Cognizant, Cisco and SAN Engineering and Locomotives. The main areas of research include Technology for Social Good, Sustainability, SDGs, CSR and Ethics.

Prof. Shekar received B.E. (Electronics and Communications) degree from Bangalore University, India, M.S. (Computer Engineering) degree from California State University, Los Angeles, USA and PhD from AMRITA University, India.

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