CSCR To Host Logistics Leaders Forum On Resiliency
The Center for Supply Chain Research at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business will host its 13th Logistics Leaders Forum on September 2-4, 2003, at the University Park campus. Entitled “Building Resilient Supply Chains," the event is designed to bring together leading supply chain and logistics professionals and academics in the field, providing a forum to discuss key issues of the future.
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA -- The Center for Supply Chain Research at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business will host its 13th Logistics Leaders Forum on September 2-4, 2003, at the University Park campus. Entitled “Building Resilient Supply Chains," the event is designed to bring together leading supply chain and logistics professionals and academics in the field, providing a forum to discuss key issues of the future.
Roger W. Kallock, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Logistics and Chairman of Chagrin Consulting Associates, will serve as Program Director, and the event will feature a keynote address from Fariborz Ghadar, Director of Smeal’s Center for Global Business Studies.
Additionally, Phillip Anderson, Vice President of Government Solutions and Homeland Security at Lucent Technologies, will discuss threat vulnerability integration; Robert E. Mansfield, retired from the U.S. Air Force and a Supply Chain Engineering Practice Leader at the Altarum Institute, will discuss risk in military supply chains; and James B. Rice, Jr., Director of the Integrated Supply Chain Management Center for Transportation and Logistics at MIT, will discuss responding to the unexpected.
Other activities at the Logistics Leaders Forum include a panel discussion on potential areas of vulnerability moderated by John Coyle, Professor Emeritus of Supply Chain and Information Systems, as well as breakout discussions on areas of disruptions and action planning.
For more information, contact the Center for Supply Chain Research at cscr@smeal.psu.edu .
About the Center for Supply Chain Research
Established in 1989 and one of the nation’s leading institutions dedicated to supply chain management
research and education, the Center for Supply Chain Research draws upon faculty members from
several academic areas and from other universities for its expertise. Faculty Affiliates are involved in
several disciplines including business logistics, management science, operations management, business
law, geography, agricultural economics, and industrial engineering.
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