Conference 2024 – How Generative AI Supports the Optimization of Sustainable & Innovative Value Network Processes

BUSINESS & ACADEMIC PARTNERSHIP
Supply Chain Management for Efficient Consumer Response
Hybrid Conference Program
17-18 October 2024
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15th Supply Chain Management for Efficient Consumer Response
Conference
How Generative AI Supports the Optimization of Sustainable & Innovative Value Network Processes
First day  Thursday
17 October 2024
09:00  09:30
Recording presentations/Connection
09:30  10:00
(Bucharest Time Zone – Eastern European Summer Time (EEST), UTC +3)
Inauguration Hybrid Session – Welcome Speech
OXFORD Hall
Valahia University of Târgoviște
Time: Oct 17, 2024, 09:30 AM Bucharest (GMT+3)
Chairmans Host & Organizers: Virgil POPA and Ruediger HAGEDORN
9:30 – 9:40
Welcome address by the Conference Host & Organizer
Virgil POPA
9:40 – 9:45
Welcome address by the Conference, Host & Organizer Ruediger HAGEDORN
9:45 – 9:50
Welcome address by the Conference, Academic Chairman
Theodor PURCĂREA
9:50 – 9:55
Welcome address by the Vice Rector Valahia University of Târgoviște
Professor Daniel Emil Constantin DUNEA, PhD. ing. hab.

1st Hybrid Session
9:30 – 16:15
Conference Presenter – Alina TĂBÎRCĂ, Assist. Prof., Ph.D.
Time: Oct 17, 2024, 9:30 AM Bucharest (GMT+3)
Session Chairman: Professor Theodor PURCAREA
10.00 – 10:45
Speaker: Professor Virgil POPA Ph.D.
(On-site)
Founder & Coordinator of Supply Chain Management for Efficient Consumer
Response Conferences
Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Supply Chain Management Journal
Valahia University of Târgoviște
Generative AI – Integrator of new Technologies for the Reliability and Sustainability of Supply Chains
10:45 – 11:00
Discussion & Change connection
11:00- 11:20
Keynote Speaker: Professor Michael BOURLAKIS Ph.D.
(Online)
Director of Research for Cranfield School of Management
Group Head (Logistics, Procurement and Supply Chain Management) and
Director of Centre for Logistics & Supply chain Management – Cranfield University
How food supply chain members collaborate to support disadvantaged consumers in light of the current economic challenges that consumers face going to food banks
11:20 –11:30 Discussion & Change connection
11:30 – 12:30
Coffee break
12:30 – 13:15
Speaker: Assistant Professor Gökhan KIRBAÇ and Mehmet Zikrullah BODUR
(Online)
Head of the Air Logistics Department
Istanbul Kültür University, Turkey
The Impact of Blockchain Technology on Reliability and Sustainability of Global Food Supply and Demand Chains
13:15 – 13:30
Discussion & change connection
13:30 –14:15
Speakers: Professor Costel NEGRICEA Ph.D. Hab and Dr. Matei PURCĂREA (Romanian American University)
(On-site)
A Pressing Issue in Higher Education: Developing AI Literacy, Getting Students Ready for the Gen AI-Driven Workforce, Considering Supply Chains’ Social, Economic, and Environmental Impact at Each Stage of E2E Process in SCM
14:15 – 14:30 Discussion & change connection
(Online from China)
Director End-to-End Value Chain & Standards Pillar
The Consumer Goods Forum
AI-Powered Supply Chains: Predicting the Unpredictable
And Dr. Gerd WOLFRAM
(Online from Germany)
CEO and Owner IoT Innovation & Consult I Partner Digital Connection I Author I Cologne Area, Germany
Management Consulting to Consumer Goods Forum – Paris
15:00 – 15:15 Discussion & change connection
15:15 – 15:40
Speaker: Associate Professor – Ed LINDOO
(Online from Denver – Colorado, USA)
Regis University Denver – Colorado, USA
1st. Effectively teaching supply chain logistics by way of the anyLogisticx and
2nd. Generative AI and its Impact on the CS Classroom and Programmers
15:40 – 15:45 Discussion & change connection
15:45 – 16.10
Speakers: Assoc. Prof. Marta STAROSTKA-PATYK Ph.D. Hab., Helena KOŚCIELNIAK and
Paulina Grunt
(Online)
Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland
From Industry 4.0 to Supply Chain 4.0 – How Digital Transformation Shapes SCM Processes with Modern ICT Solutions
16:10 – 16:15
Discussion & change connection

Second day – Friday
18 October 2024

2nd Hybrid Session
10:00 – 13:45
(Bucharest Time Zone – Eastern European Summer Time (EEST), GMT +3)
Conference Presenter – Alina TĂBÎRCĂ, Assist. Prof., Ph.D.
Session Chairman: Professor Theodor PURCAREA
10:00 – 10:25
Speakers: Col. Prof. Tomasz JAŁOWIEC, Ph.D. Hab. and Katarzyna PIETRZYK- WISZOWATY Ph.D.
(Online)
War Studies University, Poland
Innovations in Military Supply Chains Management
10:25 – 10:30
Discussion & change connection
10:30 – 11:15
Keynote Speaker: Professor Theodor PURCĂREA
(On-site)
Professor at the Romanian American University
Member of the Advisory Board of the Romanian Competition Council
President of the Romanian Distribution Committee
Advancing Value Chain Analysis and Data-Driven Decisions Regarding Sustainable Value Chains, Improving Supply Chains’ Performance by Valorizing LLMs and Intensifying Compliance
11:15 – 11:20 Discussion & change connection
11:20 – 11:55
Speaker: Associate Prof. Mihaela ȘTEȚ, Ph.D. ing.
(Online)
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Greening the Supply Chains using Generative AI Capabilities to Optimize Transportation Networks
11:55 – 12:00 Discussion & change connection
12:00 – 12.25
Speaker: Professor Borna ABRAMOVIC Ph.D. (Online)
Head of Chair of Railway Transport Management University of Zagreb, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences Department of Railway Transport
How the AI can help us in Supply Chain Management?
12:25 – 12:30
Discussion & change connection
12:30 – 13:00
Coffee break
13:00 – 13:25
Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Paula BAJDOR, Ph.D. Hab. (Online)
Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland
Evaluating Current and Future Impacts of Cloud Computing on Enterprise Operations: A Comparative Analysis
12:25 – 13:30
Discussion & change connection
13:30  13:45
Conclusions and Conference Closing Speech

Conference 2024 – MOMENTS FROM THE SPEAKERS’ PRESENTATIONS AND INTERVENTIONS