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Atlanta, GA | Posted: July 26, 2011
Barbara Christopher
Industrial and Systems Engineering
404.385.3102
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Health Lean Logistics (HLL), USA has joined the Georgia Tech Supply Chain & Logistics Institute’s (SCL) Leaders in Logistics program.
standing L to R: Jose Ignacio Gonzalez (Exec. Chairman, CIFAL Atlanta) Michael Komanski (Project Director US Operations, HLL) Jaymie Forrest (SCL), Don Ratliff (SCL) seated L to R: Albert Tarrats (CEO, HLL) Amar Ramudhin (SCL)Health
Lean Logistics (HLL), USA, has joined the Georgia Tech Supply Chain &
Logistics Institute’s (SCL) Leaders in Logistics program.
“We couldn’t be more pleased with our ongoing working relationship with
Georgia Tech and the Supply Chain & Logistics Institute which enables us to
leverage our mutual expertise, strengthening our respective leadership
positions,” said Dr. Albert Tarrats, Founder and CEO of HLL, USA. “We
look forward to our continued collaboration on joint projects within the
Atlanta metro area and the global marketplace, as we expand our international
footprint.”
Leaders in Logistics is a unique opportunity for business and governmental
organizations engaged in supply chain and logistics practice to partner and
interact with SCL’s faculty and graduate students. The core component of
Leaders in Logistics partnership is in-context research, generating new knowledge,
new tools, and new insights related to a topic of interest and importance to
the industry partner.
HLL, USA will be working with Dr. Amar Ramudhin, director of Supply Chain
Management Technology at SCL, on a year-long project to review HLL’s diagnosis
methodology for adaption to U.S. hospitals and practices.
“We are delighted to count HLL as the newest member of our Leaders in Logistics
program,” Dr. Ramudhin commented. “We see healthcare logistics as a key
area for the Institute, one that will grow significantly over the next few
years.”
HLL, a pioneer in the design, implementation and management of solutions for
logistics and procurement in the health sector, has developed a system to
manage the consumption and supply of materials in healthcare facilities. The
HLL system features innovative solutions for healthcare logistics that
ultimately creates cost savings for its healthcare facility clients.
Through its new Atlanta headquarters, HLL, USA has access to one of the
nation’s key logistics hubs and is positioned in a region growing in prominence
for its leadership in the bioscience and healthcare sectors. HLL also has
extensive sector expertise, having provided solutions to more than 80 hospitals
in Portugal, Brazil, Chile, Panama and Spain, managing a global volume of over
300 million euros.
SCL, a unit of the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems
Engineering at Georgia Tech, provides global leadership for research and
education in supply chain engineering. While SCL has resources and programs
in supply chain management, its primary focus is on development of new tools
for analysis, design and management of logistics processes, and new concepts
and strategies for the practice of supply chain engineering.
