Speaker:

Professor Hau L. LEE Thoma Professor of Operations, Information and Technology Graduate School of Business Stanford University

Date: Time: Venue:

17 August 2007 (Friday) 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Seminar Room 5.2, Level 5 School of Economics & School of Social Sciences Singapore Management University Location Map This talk is specially organised for the Academic Community. Seats are limited. Register online now!

Synopsis

As a major field within operations management, supply chain management has seen a tremendous growth in industrial practice and academic research. Its evolution has been propelled by an interesting web of academic-industry interactions. I will give a personal perspective of how this evolution process has taken place. It started with key industry innovations, followed by academic teaching cases which then led to major research initiatives. The resulting research outputs have motivated a new series of industry practice and enterpreneurial activities, and the cycle continues. Such evolution is a healthy one, enabling both academic and industrial advances to take place with much greater productivity and impact.

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About the Speaker

Hau L. Lee is the Thoma Professor of Operations, Information and Technology at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He is the founding and current Director of the Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum, an industry-academic consortium to advance the theory and practice of global supply chain management. He is a leading expert in supply chain management, and has published widely in journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, and Supply Chain Management Review.

Professor Lee  has received many honors for his professional achievements.  He received the Harold Lardner Prize for International Distinction in Operations Research, Canadian Operations Research Society, 2003.  He was elected a Fellow of Manufacturing and Service Operations Management; a Fellow of the Institute of Operations Research and Management Science; and a Fellow of the Production and Operations Management Society. He was the editor-in-chief of Management Science, and has served as the President of the Production and Operations Management Society.

Professor Lee has consulted extensively for companies such as  Cisco, KLA-Tencor, Hewlett-Packard Company, Bay Networks, Savi Technology, Nortel Networks, SUN Microsystems, Apple Computer, IBM, Lucent Technologies, General Motors, Xilinx Corp., Accenture, Eli Lilly and Company, Booz-Allen and Hamilton, Raychem Corp., McKesson, and Motorola. He is a co-founder of  four supply chain and price optimization software companies. In addition, he is on the board and advisory board of several logistics and supply chain software companies. He has also given executive training workshops on supply chain management and global logistics in Asia, Europe and America.

Professor Lee obtained his B.Soc.Sc. degree in Economics and Statistics from the University of Hong Kong in 1974, his M.Sc. degree in Operational Research from the London School of Economics in 1975, and his M.S and Ph.D. degrees in Operations Research from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1983.

Introduction Speech

The co-organiser of this seminar, IDS Group, is a Hong Kong listed entity and a leading provider of Integrated-Distribution and Logistics services with operations covering Greater China, ASEAN countries and the US. In his introduction speech, Mr. Ben Chang will illustrate the journey IDS Group has taken in the development of the Value-Chain Logistics concept and how business innovation and supply-chain thought leadership has transformed IDS to the success it is today.

Mr. Ben CHANG Group Managing Director IDS Group & Member of Advisory Board SMU School of Information Systems

Mr. Ben Chang is the Group Managing Director of the IDS Group, a leading Hong Kong-listed company providing Integrated-Distribution service specialising in Logistics and a menu of service along the value chain. He joined Dr. Victor K. Fung in the start-up of the Company in 1999, and championed the re-creation of the Company, culminating in the successful listing of the IDS Group in December 2004. He is a graduate of the University of Surrey, United Kingdom, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Marine Engineering. From 1984 to 1996, Mr. Chang held various senior executive positions with the HAVI Group LP. He was Group Managing Director of the HAVI Group LP's Asia Pacific operations, providing logistics, supply chain management, manufacturing and purchasing services to McDonald's in Asia Pacific. He was also Senior Vice-President and Partner of the HAVI Group LP and sat on the Executive Team of the HAVI Group LP. Mr. Chang spent his early career as Ship Repair Manager with Keppel Corporation Limited. From 1980 to 1984, Mr. Chang was the Project Director of the Allied Food Group and then the Director of Manufacturing at Allied Cocoa Industries, a subsidiary of the Cocoa Division of W.R. Grace.

In 1997, Mr. Chang founded Domino's Pizza in Malaysia and is currently a Director of Dommal Food Services Sdn. Bhd., the company with the country development rights to operate and franchise Domino's in Malaysia and Singapore. Mr. Chang is the Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Li & Fung Institute of Supply Chain Management and Logistics of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University.