32nd IEOM Global Supply Chain Management

Global supply chains and logistics systems are at the core of today’s interconnected economy, influencing competitiveness, sustainability, and resilience across industries and regions. Rapid technological advancement, geopolitical uncertainty, climate concerns, and evolving customer expectations have significantly increased the complexity of designing, managing, and optimizing supply chain and logistics networks. As a result, organizations require innovative, data-driven, and collaborative approaches to ensure efficiency, responsiveness, and long-term value creation.

The IEOM Global Supply Chain and Logistics Special Sessions provide a dedicated forum for researchers, industry practitioners, policymakers, and educators to exchange ideas, share best practices, and present cutting-edge research addressing contemporary and emerging challenges in global supply chains. These sessions emphasize the integration of strategic, tactical, and operational decision-making, supported by analytics, optimization, digital technologies, and sustainability principles.

By covering topics ranging from demand planning and distribution network design to risk management, resilience, sustainability, and information distortion, the special sessions aim to bridge theory and practice while fostering industry-ready solutions. The discussions will highlight how cross-functional coordination, performance measurement, and innovative logistics and warehousing systems can enhance supply chain agility, robustness, and global competitiveness.

Through these special sessions, IEOM seeks to advance knowledge, inspire collaboration, and contribute to the development of resilient, sustainable, and high-performing global supply chain and logistics systems that can effectively respond to both current disruptions and future uncertainties.

IEOM Global Supply Chain Management focuses on the following areas, 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

Past IEOM Global Supply Chain Management Events

1. IEOM Global Supply Chain and Logistics in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti – June 2021
2. IEOM Global Supply Chain and Logistics in Harbin, China – July 2021
3. IEOM Global Supply Chain and Logistics in Rome, Italy – August 2021
4. IEOM Global Supply Chain and Logistics in Bangalore, India – August 2021
5. IEOM Global Supply Chain and Logistics in Surakarta, Indonesia – September 2021
6. IEOM Global Supply Chain and Logistics in Monterrey, Mexico – November 2021
   
7. IEOM Global Supply Chain and Logistics in Istanbul, Turkey – March 2022
   
8. 2022 Nigeria – Africa
9. 2022 Orlando – NA
10. 2022 Paraguay – SA
11. 2022 Rome – EU
12. 2022 India – NITW
13. 2022 Malaysia – Ap
14. 2022 Sydney
15. 2022 Dhaka
16. 2023 Manila – Annual
17. 2023 Zambia – African
18. 2023 Lima, Peru – SA
19. 2023 Houston, USA – NA
20. 2023 Lisbon, Portugal – EU
21. 2023 Vietnam – AP
22. 2023 Detroit
23. 2023 India – New Delhi
24. 2023 Melbourne – Australian
25. 2023 Dhaka – IMEOM
26. 2024 Dubai
27. 2024 Bogota
28. 2024 South Africa
29. 2024 Washington DC
30. 2024 Munich, Germany
31. 2024 Tokyo
32. 2026 Milwaukee – Global Supply Chain Management (Starting a dedicated three-day program for SCM)

Board of Directors

• Dr. Mohammed Anwar Rahman, Central Connecticut University, USA – Chair
• Dr. Jose Garza-Reyes, University of Derby, UK
• Dr. Md. Mamun Habib, Brac University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Prof. Dr. Hui-Ming Wee, Dept. of Industrial & Systems Engg., Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan
• Prof. Dr. R.P Mohanty, Vice-Chancellor, Siksha O Anusandhan University, India
• Dr. Erick C. Jones, Dept. of Industrial & Manufacturing Systems Engineering, University of Texas, Arlington, USA
• Dr. Nachiappan Subramanian, Business School, University of Nottingham, China
• Dr. Lu Qing, Izmir University of Economics, Turkey
• Prof. Prem Kumar, EX V.C, AIMST University, Malaysia
• Dr. Ravi Kant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, S.V.N.I.T, Surat, India
• Dr. Nitty Hirawaty Binti Kamarulzaman, Department of Agribusiness and Information Systems, University Putra Malaysia (UPM)