7th annual SC&LM workshop

Emerging Issues and Drivers for Supply Chain & Logistics Sustainability

December 6, 2022

The flagship event of the Rowe School of Business, sponsored by CRSSCA (Centre for Research in Sustainable Supply Chain Analytics), and organized by Dr. M. Ali Ülkü, this series of annual SC&LM workshops not only brings in distinguished academics and industry leaders to share their knowledge on the latest trends and cutting-edge research and best practices in SC&LM but also provides an excellent opportunity to cross-pollinate ideas and network with academics, practitioners and students in a highly collegial environment.

Download the 2022 SC&LM Workshop Detailed Program

This year’s keynote speaker was Dr. Christopher S. Tang, UCLA Distinguished Professor and Edward W. Carter Chair in Business Administration, Anderson School of Management, UCLA. In his excellent keynote entitled “Doing Good in the ESG Era: Challenges and Opportunities,” Dr. Tang has shared numerous examples of how developing appropriate sustainability-related performance metrics and disclosing them to the public is becoming critical in business viability.  

Dr. Tang’s keynote can be accessed by clicking on the picture below:

2022 CRSSCA – SC&LM Best Student Research Winners

Congratulations to the top three awardees (out of 13 entrants) of the 2022 SC&LM Best Student Research Competition (open only to graduate students). The prize committee (Dr. Bahareh Mansouri (chair), Dr. Michael Haughton, Dr. Iman Nosoohi) were impressed with the finalists and used the following criteria in their strictly double-blind evaluation: 1-Quality (contribution to the discipline, appropriateness of the methodologies used, analytical soundness, communication of managerial insights, write-up excellence) of the research paper; 2-Overall quality of the presentation–slides, articulation and response to questions; and 3-The impact of the research on sustainability issues in SC&LM.   

First Place: Ibrahim O. Oguntola

Department of Industrial Engineering,
Dalhousie University

“On Optimal Design of a Multimodal Logistics Network: Shipment Consolidation and Machine Learning Models”  (with M. Ali Ülkü, Ahmed Saif and Alexander Engau)

Second Place: Shobeir Amirnequiee

Ivey Business School,
Western University

“Outsourcing Decision in the Presence of Supplier Copycatting” (with Hubert Pun and Joe Naoum-Sawaya)

Third Place: Esma Akgün

Department of Management Sciences,
University of Waterloo

“Determining Optimal COVID-19 Testing Center Locations and Capacities” (with  Sibel A. Alumur, and F. Safa Erenay)

2022 CRSSCA – Best SC&LM Project Competition Winners

An inaugural event, this competition is open only to Bachelor of Commerce, SC&LM major students at Dalhousie University. The students in their capstone project course (COMM4520–Supply Chain Planning & Execution), under the academic supervision of Dr. Ülkü and practitioner supervision of the host company, complete real-life projects related to the host company. This year’s host company was Halifax Port Authority (HPA), which also kindly sponsored the prizes for this competition. The prize committee comprised Patrick Bohan (chair), Kaitlyn Veitch and Conor Savage. Thanks to HPA for the collaboration and the prize committee for their time.

1st Place: Adoption of Advanced Technologies for Port Logistics: Barriers and Enablers
Braden A. Liberty, Zack Nattress, Linda Sener, Yi Zhou

2nd Place: Analysis of Seaport Operations and Productivity: A Supply Chain Process Flow Approach
Su Baysal, Oliver Hands, Callum E. Legge, Lukie Tong

3rd Place: Port Sustainability: Definitions, Best Practices, and Failures in the World
Zheng Cong, Mitchell Emerson, Anh D. Tran, Xijie Zhao

Finalist: Integrating Seaport Logistics into Green Energy Supply Chains
Kevin Jiang, Hurui Liu, Mitchell N. Patterson, Jack Yuan, Jianing Zhang

Finalist: Seaport Cities and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: A Supply Chain Perspective
Yubo Gao, Chenhao Li, Jiaming Liu, Zhenghao Su, Weiliang Suo