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Atlanta, GA | Posted: July 8, 2011
Barbara Christopher
Industrial and Systems Engineering
404.385.3102
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Amar Ramudhin, director of Supply Chain Management and Technology at the Georgia Tech Supply Chain & Logistics Institute (SCL), was invited to give a keynote address to commemorate 20 years of industrial engineering education at Monterrey Tech in Mexico City, Mexico on July 5, 2011.
Amar Ramudhin, director of Supply Chain Management and Technology at the Georgia Tech Supply Chain & Logistics InstituteAmar Ramudhin, director of Supply Chain Management and Technology at
the Georgia Tech Supply Chain & Logistics Institute (SCL), was
invited to give a keynote address to commemorate 20 years of
industrial engineering education at Monterrey Tech in Mexico City,
Mexico on July 5, 2011. Dr. Ramudhin spoke on the global
challenges of industrial engineering, the importance of industrial
engineering, the relevance of higher education related to this
career, as well as its importance for companies and for the
development of countries like Mexico.
After the keynote address, Jaymie Forrest, managing director of SCL,
introduced an alliance between Georgia Tech’s SCL and Monterrey Tech
by announcing the recent launch of the Trade and Logistics
Innovation Center located at the Santa Fe campus. The primary
objective of the Center is to increase competitive advantage through
improved logistics performance, develop industry through innovation
and use of technology, and develop human capital through logistics
education.
The opening of this center follows on the hills of two other Latin
American initiatives established by SCL in the past couple of years,
the Trade Innovation and Productivity Center in San Jose, Costa Rica
and the Georgia Tech Panama Logistics Innovation and Research Center
in Panama City, Panama. SCL’s goal in establishing this network of
centers is to leverage innovation and technology to promote and
improve trade and, ultimately to increase productivity and economic
growth. It will also help Georgia Tech researchers understand issues
involving international trade and create innovative solutions to
logistics and supply chain problems.
Amar Ramudhin has over 25 years of experience in the design and
management of supply chains for both the manufacturing and service
industries. His interest in helping organizations better organize,
align and manage their processes led to the development of UMN®, a
new business process modeling paradigm that allows the composite and
collaborative modeling of an enterprise's business processes and
support for process improvement, resource optimization, process
integration and process management. In the past, Dr. Ramudhin has
held senior positions with companies such as CAPS Logistics and Baan
and has served on the faculty of Laval University and École de
Technologie Supérieure. He received his Ph.D from the Georgia
Institute of Technology and is also the president of BlueSail
Solutions.
Jaymie Forrest has over 20 years experience in supply chain
management as a consultant, technology executive, and as an
educator. Prior to joining SCL as executive vice president and
consultant with Neogistics, a supply chain engineering firm
specializing in supply chain management and decision technologies,
she has been engaged in a variety of supply chain projects with over
100 clients worldwide and offices in US, Mexico, and Argentina. Her
expertise includes strategic network design, supply chain management
technologies, and distribution execution strategies as well as
system design for a variety of unique custom logistics system and
integration projects. She holds a BS in Industrial Management (1989)
from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA specialized in
Decision Science/Operations Management (1995) from Georgia State
University, as well as earned Certification in International
Marketing at the American University in Paris, France (1987).
