4th Annual Supply Chain & Logistics Management Workshop

Centre for Research in Sustainable Supply Chain Analytics

Supply Chains in the 21st Century

September 27, 2019 Room 3089 at Rowe Building, , Halifax, NS Program 8:30-9:10 Registration, Coffee & Donuts 9:10-9:20 Opening Speech by Dr. Vivian Howard, Assoc. Prof. of SIM & I-Dean, FoM, Dal. Univ. 9:20-9:30 Introduction to Workshop by Dr. M. Ali Ülkü, Professor of SCDS & Director of CRSSCA 9:30-10:00 Dr. Jenny Chen, Professor & W.A. Black Chair in Commerce, Rowe School, Dal. Univ. Sourcing Strategy of an Original Equipment Manufacturer with Quality Competition 10:-10:30 Dr. Bahareh Mansouri, Asst. Professor, Sobey School, Saint Mary’s University Application of Flexible Pricing in Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-11:30 Dr. Mike Smit, Associate Professor & Associate Dean (Academic), SIM, Dal. Univ. Does Big Data Mean Better Decisions? 11:30-12:30 Dr. Michael Haughton, Professor, CN Fellow in SCM, Lazaridis School, WLU Keynote In Pursuit of Supply Chain Excellence – The Critical Matter of Clarity 12:30-2:00 Group picture, Lunch Break & Student Poster Presentations 2:00-2:30 Dr. Ahmed Saif, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Dalhousie University Towards Circular Economy: Plugging Renewable Energy into Sustainable SC Logistics 2:30-3:00 Dr. Pedram Sadeghian, Asst. Prof. & CRC Sust. Infrastructure, Dept. of CRE, Dal. Univ. A Civil Engineering Perspective on Sustainable Infrastructure and Supply Chains 3:00-3:30 Dr. Peggy Cunningham, Professor of Marketing and R.A. Jodrey Chair, FoM, Dal. Univ. Supply Chain Ethics and Corporate Responsibility: An Imperative? 3:30-3:40 Closing remarks by Dr. M. Ali Ülkü & Delivery of certificates 3:40-4:30 Networking, Wine & Cheese

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About CRSSCA ( www.dal.ca/crssca ) The Centre for Research in Sustainable Supply Chain Analytics (CRSSCA), housed in the Rowe School of Business, Dalhousie University, is the supply chain research hub in Eastern Canada. CRSSCA fosters interdisciplinary research that sheds light on complex issues in supply chain management. Focusing on economic, environmental, and social sustainability, CRSSCA aims to create new knowledge in prescribing solution models for data-driven industrial problems, devise analytical tools for better decision-making, and develop insights into the intricate relationships between supply chain operations, green logistics (global trade, inventory, process and product design, procurement, manufacturing, transportation), and sustainable consumption. The inception of the Centre, under its first name “The Centre for International Business Studies” dates to 1975. Established by the federal government, it had a mission to foster international business teaching and research and enhance Canada’s global competitiveness through innovative programs and outreach services. After the federal government altered it support of this programming at all Canadian Universities in the early 2000s, the “Centre for International Trade and Transportation” refocused its efforts on the enhancement of the Atlantic Gateway and partnered with Michigan State University's Canadian Studies Program to work towards increasing global trade between the U.S. and Canada (the world's largest trading partners). It also worked to enrich the student experience at Dalhousie University by facilitating exchanges and internships, arranging classes with an international component, offering scholarships and organizing conferences and symposiums. In line with evolving business models and operations, under Dr. M. Ali Ülkü’s directorship and vision, the Centre has been renamed in 2018 as CRSSCA, with a strong research focus on supply chain management through the lenses of sustainability and analytics, supporting faculty-student-industry research collaborations.

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Michael Haughton is Professor of Operations and Decision Sciences and CN Research Fellow in Supply Chain Management in Wilfrid Laurier University’s Lazaridis School of Business and Economics. Dr. Haughton’s expertise within Supply Chain Management is in freight transportation. He has a prolific record of published research papers, presentations to audiences in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean, as well as scholarly awards. His more prominent awards include a Visiting Fulbright Research Chair appointment at Arizona State University’s Center for Transborder Studies and a Visiting Scholar appointment at China’s Chongqing Technology and Business University. Three major themes that Dr. Haughton is addressing in his current research projects are: (i) the implications of accurate and timely information for decisions by both 3PLs and their clients; (ii) economic and ecological issues in freight transportation spot markets; and (iii) environmental goal misalignment between shippers and carriers.

Keynote Abstract How can supply chain practitioners correctly articulate business challenges and potential solutions without clearly understanding topical trends concerning matters such as ecological sustainability and technology? Similarly, without such clarity, how can researchers precisely identify knowledge gaps and appropriate research strategies to close those gaps? This keynote will focus on those questions by presenting (a) insights on means of achieving the required clarity and (b) validating evidence for the presented insights. A central motivation for this keynote address is that imprecision in current discourse about topical trends could be an obstacle to successful pursuit of supply chain excellence.

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Invited Speakers

Dr. Jing (Jenny) Chen is a Professor of Supply Chain and Decision Sciences (SCDS) and William A. Black Chair in Commerce at the Rowe School of Business, Dalhousie University. She received her Ph.D. in Management Science from the Richard Ivey School of Business, the University of Western Ontario in 2008. She holds both NSERC Discovery Grant and SSHRC Insight Development Grant. Her research interests focus on competitive channel and supply chain management, interface between operations management and marketing, and revenue management. She has published more than 40 articles in Journal of Retailing, European Journal of Operational Research, Decision Sciences, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Omega, International Journal of Production Economics, and other journals. She has been serving as an associate editor for International Transaction in Operational Research since 2013, and as a guest editor for International Transaction in Operational Research, Annals of Operations Research, and International Journal of Production Research.

Dr. Bahareh Mansouri has joined Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary’s University in July 2017 from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario where she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Operations Research at DeGroote School of Business. She has received her Ph.D. in Computational Science and Engineering from McMaster University. Her main research area is in supply chain management optimization, in particular developing models and solution algorithms for mathematical programming problems with an NP-hard nature. Her doctoral dissertation concentrates on the study of Reverse Iterative Combinatorial Auctions where she analytically studies various problem formulations and provides experimental analysis on different solution approaches. She is the recipient of competitive scholarships such as the Alexander Graham Bell Doctoral (NSERC CGS D), Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS), and Richard Fuller Memorial. Her research works have appeared in A* journals such as the European Journal of Operational Research.

Dr. Mike Smit is an Associate Professor in the School of Information Management (SIM), and the Associate Dean (Academic) at the Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University, where he studies the intersection of people, information, and technology. He draws on his background in computer science to leverage cloud computing, Big Data, and emerging technology (like artificial intelligence) to meet a wide variety of user-centric needs, including data management, teaching data literacy, and data analytics. A broad set of collaborations allow him to explore these interests in varied domains such as ocean research, healthcare, and major infrastructure projects.

Dr. Ahmed Saif, P.Eng., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Dalhousie University. He received his Ph.D. in Management Sciences from the , M.Sc. in Engineering Systems and Management from Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, MBA from New York Institute of Technology and B.Sc. in Production Engineering from Alexandria University. Prior to joining Dalhousie University, he spent a year as a Postdoctoral Fellow in HEC Montréal. He also has several years of experience in engineering and consulting companies in Canada and abroad. Dr. Saif's research focuses on large-scale optimization, decision making under uncertainty and data analytics methods and their applications in hybrid renewable energy systems and sustainable supply chain problems. His research has been funded by various agencies including NSERC, MITACS and Groupe d'études et de recherche en analyse des décisions (GERAD). His research has been published in several journals, including Computer & Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics and Electric Power Systems Research. 3/4

Dr. Pedram Sadeghian is an Assistant Professor and in Sustainable Infrastructure in the Department of Civil and Resource Engineering at Dalhousie University. Before joining Dalhousie in 2015, he was an Assistant Professor at Penn State Harrisburg University. He also researched and taught as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Queen’s University. He is member of several professional societies and organizations, including ACI, ASCE, CSCE, and IIFC. He is associate member of ACI committee 440 (Fiber Reinforced Polymer Reinforcement) and voting member of ACI sub-committees 440-F (FRP Repair and Strengthening), 440-J (FRP Stay-in-Place Forms), and 440-M (FRP Repair of Masonry Structures). Dr. Sadeghian is also one of the associate editors of ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction.

Dr. Peggy Cunningham is a Professor of Marketing and the R.A. Jodrey Chair within the Faculty of Management’s Rowe School of Business. Former Dean of the Faculty, her teaching and research fall within the areas of ethical leadership, corporate responsibility, stakeholder engagement, fast growth firms, and marketing strategy. Her research is published in a number of leading journals including the Journal of Business Ethics, the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, the California Management Review, and the Journal of International Marketing. She has also written over 50 case studies, and multiple editions of three marketing textbooks. She has an extensive experience serving on boards including being a member of Board of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.

Workshop Organizer and Chair

Dr. M. Ali Ülkü is a Professor of Supply Chain and Decision Sciences (SCDS) and the Director of the Centre for Research in Sustainable Supply Chain Analytics (CRSSCA), in the Rowe School of Business at Dalhousie University, Canada. He is also cross-appointed with Industrial Engineering, and School for Resource and Environmental Studies. He received his Ph.D. in Management Sciences from the University of Waterloo, M.Sc. in Operations Research from Çukurova University, and B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University. He was an Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Capital University, Columbus-OH, USA, before his tenure at Dalhousie. Prior to his academic career, he worked as a productivity consultant at Anadolu Efes, the largest multinational brewery company in Turkey. Dr. Ülkü’s writings include the theoretical modeling of sustainable supply chain and logistics systems, operations-marketing interface, and mathematical modeling of consumer behavior and societal problems. He published in such journals as Annals of Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Cleaner Production, and Service Science. He served as the Program Chair for the 2018 Conference of the Canadian Operational Research Society. Dr. Ülkü taught at various universities in Turkey, Canada, and the USA. A recipient of the 2007 Exceptional Teaching Award at the University of Waterloo, Dr. Ülkü is an avid supporter of “the science and the teaching of better” at the confluence of theory and practice.

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