A Multi-Campus I/UCRC for Supply Chain Research

这项提议是为了计划一个新的合作伙伴加入现有的多大学I/UCRC，该I/UCRC旨在促进行业和大学都感兴趣的供应链管理研究计划。这个现有的多所大学中心将能够通过增加这个合作伙伴和另外两个也被建议获得规划拨款的合作伙伴来增强其现有资源，从而对该行业产生更广泛的影响。三个合作伙伴，其中一个是佛罗里达大学、利哈伊大学和明尼苏达大学。拟建中心的目标是专注于解决物流和分销方面的复杂挑战和相互依存关系，通过确定新电路和新电路设计技术以及系统设计和信息技术的新方法来简化和改进通信系统。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以实践为基础的研究和教育模式。该提案涉及一个非常需要的领域，通过将这三个额外的机构整合成一个已经很强大的团队，它们增加的广度和深度增加了成功的前景。该中心现有的机构，加上三个新的机构，将成为关于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.