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Gatton College Announces Supply Chain Innovation Challenge

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 22, 2015) — The University of Kentucky's Gatton College of Business and Economics is promoting a new initiative designed to capture the best and brightest ideas in supply chain. The inaugural Commonwealth Supply Chain Innovation Award will recognize individuals and/or organizations that have demonstrated operational excellence in supply chain management as evidenced in a recently completed supply chain improvement project.

Submissions are invited from both companies and individuals that are creating technologies and solutions, as well as those using technologies in innovative ways to solve significant strategic business problems. The deadline for entries is Feb. 15.

The Commonwealth Supply Chain Innovation Award will be administered by the advisory board of the Gatton College’s Annual Supply Chain Forum. Nominations will be judged by a board-appointed committee consisting of practitioners, academics and consultants in the supply chain industry. The winner will be announced at the Fifth Annual Supply Chain Forum, which will be held from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friday, March 27, at The Grand Reserve in downtown Lexington.

Gatton’s Supply Chain Forum is a conference where approximately 200 corporate leaders, professors and students meet to share ideas about the latest supply chain issues. This year’s theme is "Digitization of Supply Chain."

“It’s an exciting time to be in the supply chain industry,” said David W. Blackwell, dean of the Gatton College. “Companies are working on amazing innovations like having drones make deliveries and predicting order locations to enable same-day delivery. This forum is the perfect place to elicit what’s going on right here in the Bluegrass and recognize it, as well as share with UK business students and sponsors all these innovative initiatives.”

The Commonwealth Supply Chain Innovation Award recipient will receive a trophy and will qualify for future supply chain improvement project support from graduate students enrolled in the Gatton College’s one-year accelerated MBA program.

For more information on the award or the Forum visit: http://gatton.uky.edu/EEC/Content.asp?PageName=EECSupplyChainForum15 or contact: Lucy Tepper at lucy.tepper@uky.edu or 859.257.8746.

 

 

MEDIA CONTACTS: Carl Nathe, 859-257-3200/carl.nathe@uky.edu; Ann Mary Quarandillo, 859-257-0750/annmary.q@uky.edu.