Logistics Initiatives
The Center for Logistics and Digital Strategy manages research projects and partnership initiatives designed to advance knowledge in this critical area of competitiveness, help organizations develop effective logistics and transportation strategies and maintain a strong global network of thought leaders and practitioners in the field.
Key initiatives of the Center include:
The Center for Logistics and Global Strategies works to build innovative, global logistical infrastructures to support global commerce, working in partnership with the state of North Carolina, the North Carolina Global TransPark Authority, UNC-Chapel Hill's Foundation for Transportation Trade and Commerce and governments around the world.
The Center is a co-founder of the Global Logistics Research Initiative (GLORI), an academic-industry partnership doing collaborative research in logistics and supply-chain management. Founded in 1997, GLORI has grown to include more than a dozen universities and institutes worldwide. Learn more.
Web-enabled information environments allow virtual integration of the extended enterprise in a way not feasible before the advent of the technologies that support them. The Intelligent Enterprise Initiative identifies key applications that benefit from an open and intelligent information environment.
This initiative links logistics laboratories of partner institutions worldwide to conduct virtual logistics experiments. The Center simulates complex logistical systems, develops new e-chain strategies and prototype intelligent software applications and models new infrastructure networks in this Web-enabled, open information laboratory.
The Center is the founding member of the North Carolina Consortium of Logistics Education (NCCLE), an organization of educational institutions in North Carolina dedicated to developing new educational and curriculum materials in logistics. Funded by the National Science Foundation, it helped develop the Global Logistics Technology Program at Lenoir Community College in Kinston, N.C., which offers the only A.A.S. logistics degree in the United States that can be earned completely online. Learn more.
A simulation environment designed to help students learn how to manage global supply chains in real time, this project enables students from participating universities around the world to role-play in joint exercises with project partners. The project is funded by the National Science Foundation and by the Center for International Business Education and Research. Learn more.
This initiative explores the many factors involved in successful supply-chain management, from transportation to product development to cost accounting. Each project uses quantitative modeling techniques to determine how companies can improve their competitive position. These "virtual" supply chains can help companies shift assets strategically around the world in real time as supply or demand changes, taking advantage of market opportunities regardless of their location around the world.
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LOGISTICS and STRATEGY