Register now for reduced
rates!
Home Page
Who Should Attend?
Program
Speakers
Program-at-a-Glance
Networking
Exhibits
Sponsors
Advisory Council
Hotel
Montreal
|
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS |PLENARIES | TRACK 1 | TRACK 2 | TRACK 3 | TRACK 4 | TRACK 5 |
CLICK HERE FOR PLENARIES - TUESDAY SCHEDULE
MONDAY, MAY 20
8:00am-9:00am
The Impact of Global Terrorism, Natural Disasters and Other Disruptions on Supply Chain Management
Yosef Sheffi, PhD
Professor of Engineering Systems; Director, Center for Transportation Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
On
September 11, the United States and the Western world entered into a new
era in which large-scale terrorist attacks are to be expected. Like
hurricanes, earthquakes, massive chemical spills and other disasters, acts
of terrorism disrupt the supply chain for companies around the world.
Managers are challenged to readjust relations with suppliers and
customers, contend with transportation shortages and revamp inventory
management strategies. Yossi Sheffi, an expert in logistics, supply chain
management and e-commerce, will explore how companies and managers can
organize for supply chain disruptions. Professor and Director of the
Center for Transportation Studies at MIT, Sheffi has also founded five
companies, including Syncra, a developer of B-to-B collaboration software,
and Logistics.com, an ASP decision support provider for transportation and
logistics.
TUESDAY,
MAY 21
9:00am-9:45am
Solving Linear and Integer Programs: A Decade of Progress
Robert E. Bixby, PhD
President, ILOG Technical Advisory Board, ILOG, Inc.
Research Professor of Administrative Sciences; Noah Harding Professor
Emeritus of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University
Airlines
don’t schedule without it. Refineries don’t produce gasoline without
it. Wall Street is investing in it. “It” is optimization. The
evolution of powerful operations research algorithms–key among them
algorithms for linear and integer programming–together with ever more
powerful computers has brought the application of optimization to the
desktop. Industry after industry is exploring ways to take advantage of
this family of techniques to reduce cost and increase profitability. Bixby
will examine the computational state-of-the-art in linear and integer
programming and the ideas that, over the past decade, have led to a
tremendous increase in solving power. The result of this increased power
is that many problems once considered unsolvable are now solvable–often
in a matter of minutes.