Post the Ottawa conference on “Relationship building in humanitarian logistics” and a doctoral course on “Supply chain management in disaster relief“, here’s a first call for chapters for a book on relief supply chain management, with an intended audience comprised of academics, students, and interested practitioners. Deadline for chapter proposals extended to Dec 5, 2009, follow this link for further details.
Gyöngyi
Today, a group of students are working on a take-home assignment in the context of BMW and one of their seat suppliers. The scene is one of their plants in Regensburg, Germany, and the supplier (called ABC in the case) is expected to delivery just-in-time into the assembly line.
Árni
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This is taking open source papers such as in the Public Library of Science (PLoS) and discussions (in OM more known from JOM’s discussion forum) somewhat further: user-based “academic” content to discuss online; the launch of AcaWiki. Considering Wikipedia’s success (or failure) it will be interesting to see how they’ll deal with quality assurance beyond discussion entries.
Gyöngyi
Posted in Popular science, Socks and sandals
