Center for Supply Chain Management Symposium

The Signature Supply Chain Event

2024 PITT OHIO Supply Chain Management Symposium

You are invited to the 2024 PITT OHIO Supply Chain Management Symposium, scheduled as a HYBRID event, on Friday, March 22. We are grateful to PITT OHIO for being a naming sponsor for the 8th Annual Symposium organized by the Center for Supply Chain Management.

Our signature event is open to industry, peer institutions, faculty, students, and staff. The annual Supply Chain Management Symposium is an international event in which leading SCM professionals provide cutting-edge insights on significant issues in the field. This year we will have a hybrid Symposium where some talks will be in-person and some virtual. Attendees can also participate in-person or virtually. The event on Friday, March 22, 2024, will include special guest speakers and moderators. An inter-college student poster event will follow the guest speaker sessions.

Registration will closed on Wednesday, March 20.

Note: If you have a special circumstance and would like to have your fee waived, please contact us at scmcenter@katz.pitt.edu.

Supply Chain Management for Societal Good

Our theme this year is Supply Chain Management for Societal Good, a theme that bridges suppliers, employees, and customers; products and processes; supply chain innovation and AI and; sustainability, accountability and transparency. Through discussion and dialog, our 2024 Symposium will give attendees a comprehensive understanding of how the complexity of these interactions affects supply chain decisions in different industries and businesses.

Our confirmed speakers are:

  • Vikram Agarwal | Chief Operations Officer | Danone
  • Devon (Adler) Bowling | Former Vice President, Worldwide Manufacturing Supply Chaing & Finance | Texas Instruments
  • Deepa D. | Vice President Global Supply Chain Executive | BlueScope
  • Robert Sockin | Senior Global Economist | Citibank
  • Kyle Young | Vice President | Global Procurement, Electrical and Electronics | Eaton

Event Presiders:

Paul will be the moderator for the event.

HYBRID SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM

FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 2024

Morning Agenda*

7:15 – 7:55 a.m.
ZOOM Open and In-Person Check-in and Networking

7:55 – 8:05 a.m.
Introduction/Welcome

8:05 – 9:30 a.m.
Speaker Sessions

9:30 – 9:50 a.m.
Coffee break and Networking

9:50 – 11:20 a.m.
Speaker Sessions

Noon – 1 p.m.
Lunch and Networking

Afternoon Agenda*

1 – 2 p.m.
Poster Presentations + Results/Graduate and Undergraduate Divisions

2 – 3 p.m.
Early Happy Hour with hors d’oeuvres/Networking

* Subject to slight change

Location:

University of Pittsburgh
Alumni Hall, 5th Floor
4227 5th Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

About the Poster Competition

In conjunction with the 2024 PITT OHIO Supply Chain Management Symposium, the Center for Supply Chain Management will be organizing a poster competition in the early afternoon of the event day. The competition will include networking, and happy hour.

The competition will have two rounds:

  • Round 1 will be judged by a panel of faculty members from the participating universities. The judges will review your poster and abstract and select up to five graduate and up to five undergraduate finalists for the final round. Winners from Round 1 will be announced on Monday, March 18, 2024, by email.
  • Round 2 will be judged by a panel of senior industry supply chain executives. As part of the judging in Round 2, finalists will make a two-minute presentation to the judges.  This will be followed by three minutes of Q&A with the judging panel. Winners from Round 2 will be announced after the competition on Friday, March 22, 2024.

The decisions of the judging panels will be final.

Winners will receive a cash prize.

Graduate Division Undergraduate Division
First Place $750 $600
Second Place $400 $300
Third Place $250 $200

Note: Winning prize total will be split equally between the number of members on the team.

Download the Spring 2024 Poster Competition PDF for Important Eligibility Rules and Deadlines.

Please email jmt141@pitt.edu with additional questions. 

Registration will close on Wednesday, March 20.

Note: If you have a special circumstance and would like to have your fee waived, please contact us at scmcenter@katz.pitt.edu.

Naming Sponsor

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Sponsoring Organizations

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT

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CBA '18

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