A Multi-Campus I/UCRC for Supply Chain Research

该提案旨在计划一个新的合作伙伴加入现有的多所大学I/UCRC，旨在促进工业和大学对供应链管理感兴趣的研究项目。这个现有的多所大学中心将能够对行业产生更广泛的影响，通过增加这个合作伙伴和另外两个也被推荐获得规划拨款的合作伙伴来增强其现有资源。三个合作伙伴，这是其中之一是佛罗里达大学，里海大学和明尼苏达大学。该中心的目标是通过识别新的电路和新的电路设计技术以及系统设计和信息技术的新方法，专注于解决复杂的挑战和物流和分销的相互依赖性，简化和推进通信系统。新合作伙伴将为现有中心带来以下重点：-展示运筹学在商业运营中的价值-使行业合作伙伴能够利用现有技术，以及-为工程课程创建新的基于实践的研究和教育模式。该建议涉及一个非常需要的领域，通过将这三个额外的机构组合成一个已经强大的团队，它们的广度和深度增加了成功的前景。该中心的现有机构和三个新机构将成为这一主题的国家资源。

This proposal is to plan for a new partner to join an existing mutli-university I/UCRC that aims to promote a research program of interest to both industry and universities on supply chain management. This existing multi-university center will be able to have an even broader impact on the industry through having its existing resources enhanced by the addition of this partner and the other two partners that are also being recommended to receive a planning grant. Three partners, of which this is one are the University of Florida, Lehigh University and the University of Minnesota.The proposed Center's goal is to focus on tackling the sophisticated challenges and interdependencies of logistic and distribution, simplifying and advancing communications systems by identifying new circuits and new circuit-design techniques as well as new methods in systems design and information technology.The new partners will bring to the existing center, a focus on:- Demonstrating the value of operations research in business operations- Enabling industry partners to harness available technologies, and - Creating new practice-based research and education models for engineering curricula. The proposal deals with an area of significant need and by assembling these three additional institutions into an already strong team, their added breadth and depth enhances the prospects for success. The existing institutions in this Center, together with the three new ones will be a national resource on this topic.