Integrated Logistics and Supply Chain Management

John Bartholdi is a Professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he is Research Director of The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute and holds the Manhattan Associates Chair of Supply Chain Management. He teaches courses in supply chain issues at undergraduate and graduate levels as well as in Georgia Tech's programme of industry short courses. Bartholdi's research centers on problems of warehousing and distribution. His work has been supported by, among others, the Defense Logistics Agency, the Office of Naval Research, IBM, Pratt & Whitney, Ford Motor Company, The Home Depot and Manhattan Associates.

RECENT NEWS. John teaches at the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech, and the school at Georgia Tech was recently rated #1 in the USA for the 18th year in a row. The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute is part of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) at Georgia Tech, which has just been ranked in 2008 as the number one graduate program for industrial/manufacturing engineering in the USA (for the 18th consecutive time) by the US News and World Report.

Lew Roberts is president and founder of L. Roberts & Associates Inc., a USA based firm providing professional consulting and management development services. His consulting and management development career over the past 19 years has included working with Ryder, UPS, Caliber Logistics, Coca-Cola, De Beers, Mercedes Benz and Nissan. Lew lectures in Supply Chain Strategy Development at the National University of Singapore as well as the Executive Masters in International Logistics (EMIL) Programme run by the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Simon Dunstall leads the Adaptive Supply Networks (ASN) team within CSIRO. The ASN team partners with industry to create smart collaborative tools for superior coordination and decision harmony within supply networks. He is the chief researcher in ASN partnerships with Orlando Wines and BlueScope Steel, and he guides the development of the optimisation and IS innovations in these projects. He is active in CSIRO’s distributed energy research and his academic research focuses on scheduling and supply chain operation management.

RECENT NEWS. Simon recently presented to the 18th Meeting of the Prime Minister's Science Innovation and Engineering Council (PMSEIC), on supply chains, optimisation and the service economy.

Professor Aditya Ghose heads the Decision Systems Lab at the University of Wollongong. His research is funded by the Australian Research Council, the Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, the Japanese Institute for Advanced IT, various Australian government agencies as well as companies such as BlueScope Steel and CSC. His current research involves supply chain management and optimization, constraint programming, business process management and intelligent agent technology. He is a senior technical advisor to several start-up companies in the areas of supply chain management and business process management, both in Australia and North America.