Configuration and Management of Globally Efficient Supply Chains

Professor Marc Goetschalckx, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering,
Professor Usha Nair-Reichert, School of Economics
Tjendera Santoso, Ph.D. student in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Research funded by the Center for Paper Business and Industry Studies (CPBIS), a Sloan Foundation industry center, and industrial support of companies in the paper industry. Further information on the CPBIS can be found at www.PaperStudies.org.

The objective of the proposed research is to investigate the current state of global supply chains in the pulp and paper industry and to identify a) drivers and objectives for globalization and the critical areas where value is added to the products in the global supply chain, and b) factors such as tariffs and other trade barriers, government policies towards foreign investments etc., that impact the location, efficiency and flexibility of the supply chain, and c) opportunities for improving the efficiency, flexibility, and effectiveness of the global supply chain.

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