LSCM Research Group and SCMIS Consortium

Professor SC Lenny KohDirector and Founder

Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LSCM) Research Group

www.sheffield.ac.uk/lscmlscm@sheffield.ac.uk

Introduction• The LSCM Research Group was established

in 2005, and it comprises of members and partners institutions/centres/universities nationally and internationally.

• The LSCM Research Group is linked with the South East European Research Centre (SEERC) in Greece, 3 consortiums, and 25 international partners and member institutions partners.

International Network

Mission

• To advance the understanding of logistics and supply chain management research and practice nationally and internationally

Vision

• To be a world-class research centre pioneering and contributing to the development of knowledge and practice on logistics and supply chain management

• To enhance, stimulate, facilitate and perform multi-disciplinary research for next generation leaders responding to changing academic and practice landscape and direction

Expertise• Supply chain modelling• Reverse logistics• Supply chain accounting• Uncertainty diagnostics• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

implementation and operation• Operations management• Knowledge management• Sustainable development in supply chains

Funding/Award/Sponsorship (examples)• Economic and Social Science Research Council• Department for Transport• European Union• European Regional Development Fund• Foreign and Commonwealth Office• British Academy• Ministry of Education and Science, Republic of Macedonia • Social Science Devolved Fund• National Science Council (NSC), Taiwan• Rolls-Royce• Rent-it-systems• London Area Procurement Network (LAPN)• CIMA

Industrial Collaboration (examples)• Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC)• Boeing• Rolls-Royce • Raytheon • Tunewell Transformer Limited• Beko, Turkey• Rent-IT-systems• CDC, Taiwan• Halfords• Entertainment UK• UK Supermarkets• National Health Service (NHS)• Stradia• SEAMS

Automotive Assembly Plant

• Completed• Dr. J. Baldwin, Prof. K. Ridgway (AMRC) & Prof. P.

Allen (Cranfield)

• Aims and objectives• Model/simulate evolution of car assembly plant

structure and organisation

• Model innovation processes

• Using evolutionary complex systems computational methodology

Industrial Ecosystems

• 1st phase complete (Dr. J. Baldwin)

• Aims and objectives• Apply evolutionary classification scheme

to industrial networksCladisticsEco-industrial parks, clusters and

networks

Aerospace Supply Chains

• Coming to completion

Dr. J. Baldwin, Prof. K. Ridgway & Prof. P. Allen

• Aims and objectives

• Apply evolutionary classifications to SC

• Model/simulate evolution of SC

Science Parks• Proposed to ESRC (2 year)

• Dr. J. Baldwin, Prof. K. Ridgway & Dr I. McCarthy (SFU)

• Aims and objectives• Develop typology

• Investigate effects of science park diversity (different types) on tenant firm performance

ERP Implementation

• Completed (3 years)• Dr. T.C. Loh & Prof. S.C. Lenny Koh

• Aims and objectives• Develop a reference framework

• Investigate critical success factors, critical people and critical uncertainties for ERP implementation

Uncertainty Diagnostics

• Completed (3 years)• Prof. S.C. Lenny Koh

• Aims and objectives• Develop diagnostics and simulation models

• Model effect and criticality of uncertainty on enterprise and supply chain performance

European Competency Network• Proposed to LEONARDO (EU) – 2 years

• Five partners, four countries

• Prof. S.C. Lenny Koh, Dr. D. Fletcher & Dr. N. Zaharis (SEERC)

• Aims and objectives• Enhance entrepreneurial competency in Europe

• Supply knowledge and innovation into SMEs in the new Europe

Knowledge Supply Chain

• Completed (1 year) – FCO• Prof. S.C. Lenny Koh, Dr. Rob Huggins, Dr.

Panayiotis Ketikidis (SEERC)

• Aims and objectives• Analyse dynamics of knowledge flow (triple helix

model) in Greece, Macedonia, Kosovo and Serbia.

• Provide empirical evidence of current state and framework for future research

GloCal Knowledge Logistics• Proposing to ESRC (3 years)

• Prof. S.C. Lenny Koh, Prof. Elias Carayannis (SEERC and GWU), Prof. Kamel Mellahi

• Aims and objectives• Introduce and profile the role of knowledge as the key

albeit intangible asset in glocal logistics designs, systems and architectures as a basis for sustainable competitiveness

• Model knowledge production, flow and interaction in a glocal context, assessing the impact and value of “knowledge ducts”, prioritising key knowledge modals for information sharing between enterprises in supply chains

Reverse Logistics

• Completed (3 years) - DfT• Mike Bernon (Cranfield), Professor John

Cullen, Dr Jonathan Gorst

• Electronic book

Eco-Logistics

• Completed (1 year) – BA• Prof. F. Birkin, Prof. S.C. Lenny Koh & Dr. A.

Cashman

• Aims and objectives• Develop a sustainable business model for China

• Examine the extent to which environmental practices are implemented in logistical operations in China

Green Supply Chain

• Proposed to EPSRC (2 years)• Prof. S.C. Lenny Koh, Prof. K. Ridgway, Prof.

Phil Wright

• Aims and objectives• Energy audit of global supply chain linking

China and Europe

• Clean production technology evaluation and appraisal

Low Carbon Supply Chain – Feasibility Study• Project Part-Financed by the EU, European

Regional Development Fund• LSCM, SEAMS and ECTQM

• Prof. S.C. Lenny Koh, Dr Mark Engelhardt, Prof. John Cullen, Prof. Mohamed Zairi (Bradford), Dr Kay Alan Keoy (Bradford)

• Aims and objectives• Yorkshire and Humberside businesses’ supply chain

mapping• Decision support and simulation tool

Low Carbon Supply Chain• Proposed to Yorkshire Forward (5 years) as a

strand within a larger centre proposal• Prof. S.C. Lenny Koh, Prof. Phil Wright, Prof. K.

Ridgway, Prof. John Cullen, Prof. Frank Birkin, Prof. Chandra Lalwani (Hull), Prof. David Grant (Hull)

• Aims and objectives• Yorkshire and Humberside businesses’ supply

chain mapping• RIS• Energy labelling

Supply Chain Management and Information Systems (SCMIS) Consortium

www.scmis.com

Mission

• A leading, global and international network of academic and industry in the frontier of research and practice on supply chain and logistics in the information age

International Annual SCMIS Conference Series• The 6th International Conference on Supply Chain Management and

Information Systems (SCMIS2008) will be held in Tiruchirappalli, India, 8-10 December 2008.The SCMIS 2008 Website: http://www.scmis2008.org

• The 5th International Conference on Supply Chain Management and Information Systems (SCMIS2007), Melbourne, Australia, 9-12 December 2007.The SCMIS website: http://www.scmis2007.org

• The 4th International Conference on Supply Chain Management and Information Systems (SCMIS2006), 5-7 July 2006, in Taiwan.http://www.nchu.edu.tw/scmis2006

• The 3rd International Workshop on Supply Chain Management and Information Systems (SCMIS2005), 6-8 July 2005, in Thessaloniki, Greece. More than 150 participants from over 25 different countries participated and over 80 papers were presented and published in the proceedings.http://www.seerc.info/scmis2005

• The 2nd International Workshop on Supply Chain Management and Information Systems (SCMOS2004), 7-9 July 2004, in Hong Kong, PROC.http://www.ise.polyu.edu.hk/scmis2004

• The 1st SCMIS2001, Hong Kong.

Future research and KT agenda• LSCM Research Group and SCMIS Consortium

• Regional studies

• International comparison

• Joint research projects and proposals

• Joint publications

• Editorships

• Special Interest Groups

• Joint PhD supervision and examination

• Collaborative research/work and links: university-industry-government

• Training and consultancy

ContactProfessor SC Lenny KohChair in Operations Management Director of Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LSCM) Research

GroupThe University of SheffieldManagement School9 Mappin StreetSheffield S1 4 DTUKTel: +44 (0)114 222 3395Fax: +44 (0)114 222 3348E-mail: S.C.L.Koh@sheffield.ac.ukwww.sheffield.ac.uk/lscmwww.scmis.comwww.sheffield.ac.uk/emba

Thank You.