Symposium on Supply Chain Management in Process Industries, Minneapolis, MN, Fall 2003

这笔赠款是为了组织一个关于流程工业供应链管理的研讨会。研讨会将于2003年秋季在明尼阿波利斯的明尼苏达大学校园举行，为期两天。研讨会由明尼苏达大学供应链研究中心和霍尼韦尔公司联合主办。研讨会将汇集具有工业工程、化学工程、运营管理和运营研究背景的学者。它还将涉及流程行业的领先公司和领先的供应链解决方案提供商。研讨会的目的是让研究人员了解流程工业特有的问题，调查研究和实践中的最新技术，确定相关的研究问题，并制定可能的研究议程。研讨会的第二个目标是鼓励不同背景的学者之间以及学术界和产业界之间加强合作。第三个目标是允许不同流程行业之间的知识共享，如化工、食品加工和制药行业。研讨会将有混合形式的全体演讲者、受邀演讲和来稿演讲，以及小组讨论。一份基于演讲和小组讨论的报告将提交给国家科学基金会，并发布在研讨会网站上。从研讨会上选出的论文有望成为一本关于流程工业供应链的编辑书籍的基础。

This grant is to organize a Symposium on Supply Chain Management in the Process Industry. The symposium will be held over two days in Fall 2003 on the campus of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. The symposium is being co-sponsored by the University Minnesota Center for Supply Chain Research and Honeywell Corporation. The symposium will bring together academics with backgrounds in Industrial Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Operations Management, and Operations Research. It will also involve leading companies in the process industry and leading supply chain solution providers. The objective of the workshop is to expose researchers to problems specific to the process industry, survey state of the art in research and practice, identify relevant research problems, and formulate a possible research agenda. A second objective of the symposium is to encourage greater collaboration among academics from different backgrounds and between academics and industry. A third objective is to allow knowledge sharing between various process industries, such as the chemical, food processing, and pharmaceutical industries. The symposium will have a mixed format of plenary speakers, invited and contributed talks, and panel discussions.A report based on presentations and panel discussions will be submitted to NSF and posted on the symposium web site. Selected papers from the symposium to are expected to form the basis of an edited book on supply chain in the process industry.