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29-02 Oct 2021, La cité Nantes Congres Center

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Digitalization of Supply Chains and Projects

Information and communication technologies have seen both a rapid and a constraining evolution in recent years. Rapid due to the growing number of technological innovations coming onto the market, and constraining because it obliges companies and individuals to confront several technological and human challenges. The digital transformation has intensified with technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence and blockchain. Because of these innovations and their applications, digitalization affects many company functions, notably the supply chain. Digitalizing the supply chain is more and more necessary as an unavoidable approach for any company striving to be sustainable and remain competitive. Digitalization, as a technological, economic and social project, interests not only practitioners. It also interests researchers in logistics and supply chain management. The latter, in exploring the recent supply chain phenomenon, want to help managers better understand it in order to fully benefit from its advantages. To do this, many questions arise: How is digitalization transforming the logistics process? What are the main stages of a successful supply chain digitalization process? How can digitalization create value for stakeholders? Under what conditions can digitalization be a source of performance and competitiveness? What is the role of digitalization in sustainable supply chains? What is the impact of digitalization on supply chain jobs?

Guests Speackers

GAMMELGAARD Britta

Professor, Supply Chain Management, Copenhagen Business School, DK

Britta Gammelgaard´s overall research interest is Supply Chain Management & Logistics. More spe-cifically, topics such as supply chain innovation and strategy, knowledge creation in the SCM disci-pline, the development of the procurement function as well as last mile/citylogistics are prioritised research areas. Her work has been published in Danish and international, scientific journals, such as International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management (IJPDLM), Journal of Business Logistics (JBL) and International Journal of Operations and Production Management (IJOPM). She has received several awards for her research and research management activities including the Danish Transport Research Award, Hedorfs Fonds Transportforskningspris. Professor Gammelgaard is Editor-in-Chief for International Journal of Logistics Management (IJLM) since 2017 and has served for several years as European Editor of JBL, Associate Editor of Journal of Supply Chain Management (JSCM) and as member of the Editorial Advisory Board of IJPDLM. She has guest-edited numerous special issues in logistics and supply chain scientific journals. In 2006 she initiated the CSCMP European Research Seminar/ERS to which she is still connected through IJLM. Further, she has been a member of the NOFOMA (Nordic Logistics Research Net-work) Scientific Committee and was the initiator of the NOFOMA doctoral consortium, Nordlog in 1996. She is widely used in Scandinavia for Doctoral assessment committees and has successfully supervised several doctoral candidates.

WONG Chee Yew

Professor, University of Leeds, UK

Dr. Chee Yew Wong is a professor of supply chain management and the director of Centre for Operations and Supply Chain Research (COSCR) at Leeds University Business School (LUBS), University of Leeds, UK. He has more than nine years of industrial working and consultancy experience in operations, purchasing, production, inventory and distribution management and supply chain design with SMEs and multinational companies specialised in beverage, retail, consumer goods, toys, engineering, metal production, and polymer distribution. He has taught logistics, supply chain and operations management for undergraduate, MSc, MBA, PhD, and executive education programmes. He has completed supervised seven PhD students and acted as external examiners for nine PhD defences. Prof. Wong is the editor-in-chief of International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management (IJPDLM). His research interests include supply chain integration, digital supply chain, supply chain analytics and green supply chain. He has published more than 70 academic and practitioner articles, including high quality journals such as Journal of Operations Management (JOM), International Journal of Operations and Production Management (IJOPM), Journal of Supply Chain Management (JSCM), International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management (IJPDLM), International Journal of Production Economics (IJPE), Supply Chain Management: an International Journal (SCMIJ), Production Planning and Control (PPC) and many others. He is a co-author for a book called “Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management” (Kogan Page). Prof. Wong is a Bualuang ASEAN Chair Professor (2019-21) at Thammasat Business School, Thammasat University, Thailand. His co-authored JOM paper was awarded the Finalist of the Jack Meredith Best Paper Award (2016). He is also the winners for Emerald Best Paper Award for SCMIJ (2006) and Prof. Xiande Zhao Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Operations and Supply Chain Management (ICOSCM), Kaifeng, China (2017).

CHIAPPETTA JABBOUR Charbel José

Professor University of Lincoln, UK

Charbel Jose Chiappetta Jabbour is a Global Chair Professor at Lincoln International Business School, University of Lincoln (UK), which was awarded UK Modern University of The Year in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2021. Previously, he was a Full Professor of Management at the ‘triple crown’ accredited Montpellier Business School (MBS) in France. He has been visiting professor at a number of universities, with a strong collaboration with business schools from emerging markets, such as Unip and FIA in Brazil. He has published several articles in first-tier journals recognized by a wide range of academic rankings, such as the prestigious FINANCIAL TIMES FT50, CNRS (France), FNEGE (France), CABS (UK), and ABDC-list (Australia). He has been an Associate Editor of Journal of Cleaner Production (Elsevier). He had worked for USP-University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) - a Top 100 Times Higher Education University for Research Reputation, UNESP-Sao Paulo State University (Brazil), and the University of Stirling (Scotland-UK). He was a visiting researcher at the University of London (UK) and the United Nations University (Japan). With almost 10,000 citations according to Google Scholar, his research impact is ranked as Top 2.5% globally, according to Research Gate. According to Scopus (August 2020), he is among the Top 5 most prolific authors in Green Supply Chain Management worldwide.

DALCHER Darren

Professor, Lancaster University Management School, UK

Darren Dalcher is Professor in Strategic Project Management at Lancaster University Management School and Director of the National Centre for Project Management. He has written over 250 refereed papers and book chapters and published over 30 books. He is Editor-in-Chief of Wiley’s Journal of Software: Evolution and Process and Editor of two established book series focused on managing projects and change initiatives, published by Routledge. Professor Dalcher is an Honorary Fellow of the Association for Project Management and a Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society. He sits on numerous senior boards, including the PMI Academic Insight Group and the APM Group Ethics and Standards Board. He is the Academic Advisor and co-editor of the recently released 7th edition of the APM Body of Knowledge.

BACHKAR Khalid

Professor California State University Maritime Academy, USA

Since joining California State University Maritime Academy in August 2010, Dr. Bachkar has taught graduate and undergraduate students in Logistics and Supply Chain Management. He earned a M.S in Management Information Systems from Shippensburg University and a Ph.D. in Transportation and Logistics from North Dakota State University, Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI). Dr. Bachkar focuses on research in Transportation Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Container Supply Chain Logistics, Ethanol Supply Chain, Supply Chain Security, Supply Chain Risk Management, with special interest in Container Supply Chain Security. Dr. Bachkar has published numerous papers in prestigious journals such as Journal of Transportation Research Forum, Journal of Management and Sustainability, International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management, and Journal of Research in Transportation Business Management. Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Management and Engineering Integration, 2020-Now ; Co-Chair of the International Academy of African Business and Development Conference, El Jadida, Morocco, May 15-19, 2012 ; Conference Marketing and Outreach Director, International Annual Conference on Industry, Engineering, and Management Systems (IEMS), 2017-Now ; Track Chair, Logistics and Transportation Management, International Annual Conference on Industry, Engineering, and Management Systems (IEMS), 2013-Now ; Served as a member of the Decision makers Conference Planning Committee, Bay Planning Coalition, San Francisco, CA, 2013

Organization Comittee

Standing organization committee

BENZIDIA Smaïl

Université de Lorraine, FR

Smaïl Benzidia is Full Professor of Supply Chain Management at the University of Lorraine/IAE Metz, France, and a member of the European Center for Research in Financial Economics and Business Management (CEREFIGE). He is a head for the Master Quality Management at IAE Metz and a co-founder of the International Conference PROLOG: « Project Logistic », www.prolog-conference.com. His research focuses on Interorganizational Information Systems, development of E-business especially the business model of Electronic Marketplaces, Collaborative Supply Chain Management. He has published several papers in academic journals and conference proceedings. Email: smail.benzidia@univ-lorraine.fr>

BENTAHAR Omar

Université de Lorraine, FR

Omar Bentahar is Full Professor of Project Management and Supply Chain Management at the University of Lorraine, IAE Metz, France, and a member of the European Center for Research in Financial Economics and Business Management (CEREFIGE). He is the director of the MBA Program and a co-founder of the International Conference PROLOG: « Project Logistic » www.prolog-conference.com. His research focuses on Management of Innovative and complex Projects, Supply Chain Management and Mixed Methods Research. E-mail: omar.bentahar@univ-lorraine.fr>

Organization committee

ABBAD Hicham

Université de Nantes, FR

Hicham ABBAD is Associate Professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management at the Nantes University and a member of the Laboratoire d’Economie et de Management de Nantes Atlantique (LEMNA). He has published refereed papers in academic journals. His major interests are supply chain management, retail operations management, and inter-organizational information systems.

BIDAN Marc

Université de Nantes, FR

Marc BIDAN is Professor in management of information systems (MIS) at the University of Nantes. Marc Bidan is a member of the Lemna laboratory and supervised 17 theses and supervised 5 hdr. He is also past president and member of the AIM association (french chapter of AIS association) and of the RFG journal editorial board.

LAIRET Gwenaëlle

ESSCA School of Management, FR

Gwenaëlle LAIRET has been Associate Professor at ESSCA School of Management since 2016 and Head of the Operations Management and Decision Science Teaching and Research Unit since 2018. She began her professional career as a Logistics Project Manager in the automotive industry. She has a doctorate in Management Sciences from the University of Nantes and the Institut Mines-Telecom Atlantique. Today she teaches Information Systems Management and Operations Management. She focuses her research on the evaluation of the use of information systems and on the consequences of inter-organizational information systems.

LYONNET Barbara

Université de Nantes, FR

Barbara LYONNET is Associate Professor of Management Sciences at the University of Nantes, IAE (Nantes, France) and a member of the Laboratory of Economics and Management Nantes-Atlantique (LEMNA). Her research interest includes performance, information system, collaboration, quality management and supply chain management. Barbara Lyonnet is the author of numerous publications in International journals and conference proceedings. She also wrote several books, including "Supply chain management" (Dunod Editions).

MAHJOUB Sonia

ONIRIS Nantes, FR

Sonia MAHJOUB is Associate Professor of Logistics and Industrial Engineering at the ONIRIS Nantes and a member of the Laboratoire d’Economie et de Management de Nantes Atlantique (LEMNA) at Nantes University. Her research focuses on application of game theory in Supply Chain. Her work appeared in academic journals, including International Journal of Production Economics (IJPE), International Journal of Production Research (IJPR) and Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal.

ORUEZABALA Gwenaëlle

Université de Nantes, FR

Gwenaëlle ORUEZABALA is senior lecturer in International Management. Her teaching and current areas of research at the University of Nantes and at the LEMNA (Laboratory of Economics and Management of Nantes Atlantique) focus on buyer-supplier relationships within global logistics chains and innovative ecosystems. She is a member of several professional and academic networks (Atlas-Afmi, Euram, IMP, Ipsera) and sits on the editorial boards of many highly ranked international journals.

BENZIDIA Smaïl

Univeristé de Lorraine, FR

Smaïl Benzidia is Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management at the University of Lorraine/IAE Metz, France, and a member of the European Center for Research in Financial Economics and Business Management (CEREFIGE). He is a head for the Master Quality Management at IAE Metz and a co-founder of the International Conference PROLOG: « Project Logistic », www.prolog-conference.com. His research focuses on Interorganizational Information Systems, development of E-business especially the business model of Electronic Marketplaces, Collaborative Supply Chain Management. He has published several papers in academic journals and conference proceedings. E-mail: smail.benzidia@univ-lorraine.fr

BENTAHAR Omar

Univeristé de Lorraine, FR

Omar Bentahar is Associate Professor of Project Management and Supply Chain Management at the University of Lorraine, IAE Metz, France, and a member of the European Center for Research in Financial Economics and Business Management (CEREFIGE). He is the director of the MBA Program and a co-founder of the International Conference PROLOG: « Project Logistic » www.prolog-conference.com. His research focuses on Management of Innovative and complex Projects, Supply Chain Management and Mixed Methods Research. E-mail: omar.bentahar@univ-lorraine.fr

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