International Conference on Information Systems, Logistics and Supply Chain (ILS)
May 27-30, 2008
Conference location The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street, Madison, WI , U.S.A.
Main Topics
- Supply Chain Manangement
- Business intelligence, information systems, and decision support
- Supply Chain Innovation
- Supply Chain Design
- Global operations and logistics management
- Facility Logistics
- Supply Chain modeling and tools
- Supply Chain Project Manangement
- Supply Chain and Logistics Technologies
- Organizational and Economical Supply Chain Issues
- Sustainable Supply Chain and Reverse Logistics
- Supply Chain Security
- E-Supply Chain
- Agile, Lean and Resilient Supply Chain
- Application Domains
Focused Topics
Supply Chain Management
- Metrics and performance measurements
- Demand management best practices
- Collaborative planning and forecasting replenishment
- Strategic sourcing
- Supply chain ERP materials planning and control
- Distribution resource planning
- Leveraging lean manufacturing
Business intelligence, information systems, and decision support
- Business process re-engineering and business process management
- Data mining for supply chain
- System design and integration
- Enterprise interoperability
- Infrastructure integration
- Information technology for supply chain management: ERP, CRM, SRM, APS,
- E-commerce and internet-enabled supply chain practices
- Knowledge and information management
- Business intelligence
- Decision support systems
Supply Chain Innovation
- Supply chain innovation processes
- Enabling supply chain creativity
- Supply chain innovation drivers, metrics, and management
- Sharing benefits from supply chain innovation
- Adapting innovation methodologies such as TRIZ to supply chains
Supply Chain Design
- Choice and partnership structuring with customers and suppliers
- Partnership formation, strategic alliances, entrepreneurship
- Outsourcing and subcontracting
- Reverse logistics
- Networked manufacturing
- Network enterprise design and control
- Virtual enterprise
- Virtual manufacturing services
Global operations and logistics management
- Global sourcing and inventory strategies
- Inventory and customer service delivery optimization
- Transportation and warehouse management
- Globalization and international issues
- Traceability and tracking
Facility Logistics
- Facilities design, planning and analysis
- Materials handling system design and analysis
- Warehouse management
- Order picking
- Storage policies
- Transportation systems
- Distribution systems
Supply chain modeling and tools
- Modeling and optimization methodologies
- Performance analysis
- Supply chain performance analysis and management
- Best practices and benchmarking
- Agent based modeling
- Supply chain optimization
- Supply chain simulation
Supply Chain Project Management
- Management of supply chain transformations
- Change management
- Project feasibility analysis
- Multi-partner project design
- Project collaboration technologies
Supply Chain and Logistics Technologies
- Traceability and tracking
- Connective technology enabled supply chains (GPS, RFID)
- Embarked systems
- Multimodal systems
Organizational and Economical Supply Chain Issues
- Cultural, organizational, and human resources issues in supply chain
- Globalization and international issues
- Supply chain issues for SME
- Business process re-engineering and business process management
- Enterprise integration and management
- Cultural, organizational and human resources issues in supply chain
- Integration of financial and physical flows
- Financial issues in supply chain management
- Knowledge and information management (SCEM)
Sustainable Supply Chain and Reverse Logistics
- Green supply chain
- Supply chain and the environment
- Reverse logistics and returns management
- Waste management, avoidance, and reduction
- Sustainable supply chain network
Supply Chain Security
- Global supply chain vulnerability analysis
- Supply chain security measures and strategy
- Supply chain integrity insurance
e-Supply Chain
- Web-enabled supply chain practices
- Business-to-Business and Business-to-Customer relationships
- Wireless solutions
- e-marketplace
- e-commerce
- e-collaboration
- e-logistics
- e-sourcing/e-procurement
Agile, Lean and Resilient Supply Chain
- Supply chain agility, leanness and resiliency enabling methodologies
- Value stream mapping of supply chain
- Application case studies
Application Domains
- Discrete parts manufacturers
- Healthcare Supply Chain Management
- Automotive Industry Logistics
- Chemical Industry
- Forest and Paper Industry
- Pharmaceutical Industry
- Distribution and Transportation applications
