Title: Real-Time Control of Global Supply Chains
Time: 10:30AM, 27/10, Friday
Venue: North 501, Weilun Building, School of Economics and Mangement, Tsinghua University
Abstract: The purpose of the presentation is to identify research challenges associated with turning real-time data into real-time decisions that improve supply chain performance. We specifically focus on strategies to improve productivity and mitigate the multiple risks associated with moving freight globally. The objective of constructing a research agenda focused on the value of information is to provide the basis for making good strategic technology investments in order to ultimately take global supply chain control to the next level of supply chain performance.
Speaker Information:
Chelsea C. White III
H. Milton & Carolyn J. Stewart School Chair
Schneider National Chair of Transportation & Logistics
H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Chelsea C. White received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan (UM) in 1974 in Computer, Information, and Control Engineering. He has served on the faculties of the University of Virginia (1976- 1990) and UM (1990-2001). He currently is the H.Milton and Carolyn J. Stewart School Chair of the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering and holds the Schneider National Chair of Transportation and Logistics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he is the Director of the Trucking Industry Program (TIP) and the former Executive Director of The Logistics Institute. He has previously served as department chair of Systems Engineering at the University of Virginia, department chair of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the UM, and Senior Associate Dean at the UM.
He serves on the boards of directors for Con-way, Inc. (a Fortune 500 company, traded on the NYSE), the ITS World Congress, TLI-Asia Pacific, and the Bobby Dodd Institute. He is a former past President and member of the ITS Michigan Board of Directors, a former member of the board of ITS America, and has served as a member of the advisory boards of Kinetic Computer Corporation, Billerica, MA, and of CenterComm Corporation, San Diego, CA. He is a member of the International Academic Advisory Committee of the Laboratory of Complex Systems and Intelligence Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
His involvement with the IEEE includes serving as President of the Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society from 1992 through 1993. He received the Norbert Wiener Award in 1999 and the Joseph G.Wohl Outstanding Career Award in 2005, both from the IEEE SMC Society, and an IEEE Third Millennium Medal. The Norbert Wiener Award is the SMC’s highest award recognizing lifetime contributions in research. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of INFORMS, a former member of the Executive Board of CIEADH (Council of Industrial Engineering Academic Department Heads), and the founding chair of the IEEE TAB Committee on ITS.
Professor White is the former Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Parts A and C, and was the founding Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). He has served as the ITS Series book editor for Artech House Publishing Company.
He is co-author (with A.P. Sage) of the second edition of Optimum Systems Control (Prentice-Hall, 1977), co-editor (with D.E. Brown) of Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence: Integration of Problem Solving Strategies (Kluwer, 1990), and co-editor (with D.L. Belman) of Trucking in the Information Age (Ashgate, 2005). He has published primarily in the areas of the control of finite stochastic systems and knowledge-based decision support systems. His most recent research interests include analyzing the role of real-time information and enabling information technology for improved logistics and, more generally, supply chain productivity and risk mitigation, with special focus on the U.S. trucking industry.
He has been a plenary or keynote speaker at a variety of international conferences and gatherings, including the IEEE ITS Conference (Shanghai, 2003), the U.S.-China Modern Logistics Conference (Beijing, 2004), Logistics 20/20 (Singapore, 2004), T-Log 2005: First International Conference on Transportation Logistics (Singapore, 2005), ITS05 – 8th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (Vienna, 2005), and the Sino-U.S. Logistics Forum (Shanghai, 2005).
His recent activities include presentations at the Council on Competitiveness and the Brookings Institution, both of which were concerned with the impact of information technology on international freight distribution, security, and productivity. He has represented ITS America by providing testimony during a roundtable discussion entitled “Reauthorization of the Federal Surface Transportation Research Program”, held by the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, and he has testified before the California Senate Committee on Transportation & Housing Public Hearing on ITS.
