2003 International Workshop on IT-Enabled Supply Chain Management and Logistics; December 14-16, 2003; Bangalore, India

鉴于信息技术在推动领先企业和供应链方面的重要性日益增加，以及在信息技术领域不断创新的推动下，私营部门和公共部门组织的结构迅速演变，在信息技术支持的物流和供应链管理的各个方面进行开创性研究具有巨大的空间和价值。为了聚集这一领域的一些最优秀的研究人员来展示他们的观点，有人提议今年晚些时候在印度的IT首都班加罗尔举办一次国际研讨会。来自世界各地的思想领袖和有成就的研究人员将齐聚一堂，分享他们的发现，发现解决共同问题的开创性方法，并在供应链管理、IT支持的物流、电子商务和制造自动化等密切相关的领域发现共同的研究兴趣。这一集体学习过程肯定会带来重大的新发现，这将进一步有助于在行业中开发和部署新的IT解决方案。研讨会将为期2天，共8节，将致力于探索IT支持的物流和供应链网络的前沿。将为感兴趣的讲习班参与者组织一次讲习班前的教程，介绍利用信息技术实现的物流和供应链管理的基础知识。共有40位著名演讲者将被邀请展示他们的成果并分享他们的观点。包括演讲者在内的参与者总数约为150人(40名演讲者，40名来自印度大学的教职员工，30名行业参与者和约40名研究人员)。预计将参加此次研讨会的公司包括i2 Technologies、SAPLabs、三星、摩托罗拉、印孚瑟斯、Satyam、MindTree、IBM印度研究实验室和通用汽车印度科学实验室。为了实现此次研讨会的雄心勃勃的目标，国际专家的参与是绝对必要的，特别是来自美国的专家。在这方面，美国国家科学基金会提供资金，为主持这次活动的美国研究人员的旅行和住宿提供部分支持，这将大大有助于使活动取得圆满成功。据估计，需要支持才能促进大约10名美国学者的参与。拟议中的研讨会的学术价值在于，它将领先的研究人员和行业思想家聚集在一起，进行技术演讲、集思广益的讨论、工业访问和研讨会出版。演讲者将分享他们的一些最新研究成果，以解决IT和建模问题，这将对汽车、航空航天、服装、石化等传统行业以及电子商务公司产生广泛影响。研讨会的成果将通过研讨会会议记录和个人接触向学术界、制造业和服务业以及支持IT行业的科学家和工程师广泛传播。参观印度领先的软件公司和研究机构，并在与会者之间进行技术讨论，将有助于美国研究人员更好地了解印度IT行业，建立国际研究网络将对两国之间的国际合作产生深远而广泛的影响。

Given the increasing importance of Information Technology in enabling leadingbusinesses and supply chains and the rapidly evolving structure of private sector andpublic sector organizations driven by constant innovations in the field of IT, there aretremendous scope and value for ground-breaking research in various aspects of IT-enabled logistics and supply chain management. To bring together some of the finestresearchers in this area to present their perspectives, an international workshop is beingproposed in the IT capital of India, Bangalore, later this year. Thought leaders andaccomplished researchers from across the world will congregate to share their findings,unearth path-breaking approaches to shared problems and discover common researchinterests in the closely inter-related areas of supply chain management, IT enabledlogistics, E-business and manufacturing automation. This collective learning process willdefinitely lead to significant new findings that shall further aid the development anddeployment of new IT solutions in Industry.The workshop will be organized over a period of 2 days with a total of 8 sessions thatshall be dedicated to exploring the frontiers of IT-enabled logistics and supply chainnetworks. A pre-workshop tutorial on the basics of IT-enabled logistics and supply chainmanagement will be organized for the benefit of interested workshop participants. Atotal of 40 prominent speakers will be invited to present their results and share theirperspectives. The total number of participants including speakers will be around 150 (40speakers, 40 faculty members from Indian Universities, 30 Industry participants andabout 40 research students). Some of the companies that are expected to participate inthis event are i2 Technologies, SAPLabs, Samsung, Motorola, Infosys, Satyam,MindTree, IBM India Research Labs, and GM India Science Labs.In order to achieve the ambitious goals of this workshop, the participation of internationalexperts particularly from the US is absolutely essential. In this regard, NSF funding toprovide partial support for the travel and accommodation of US-based researchersattending the event will go a long way in making the event a grand success. It isestimated that support will be required to facilitate the participation of around 10 US-based academicians.The intellectual merit of the proposed workshop is that it brings together leadingresearchers and industrial thinkers for technical presentation, brainstorming discussions,industrial visit, and workshop publication. The speakers will share some of their mostrecent research findings to addresses both the IT and the modeling issues, and this willhave broad impact on both traditional industries such as automotive, aerospace, apparel,petrochemicals, etc. and also e-business companies. The outcomes of the Workshop willbe widely disseminated to scientists and engineers in academia, manufacturing andservice industries, and the supporting IT industries through Workshop Proceedings andpersonal contact. Visits to leading Indian software houses and research institutes andtechnical discussions among participants would facilitate a better understanding of IndiaIT industry by US researchers, and the establishing an international research network willthen have a far and broad impact on international collaboration between the twocountries.