Conference 2023 – The Collaborative Management of Supply Chain Fasing Aggregated Challenges in Sustainability, Geopolitics and Economic Development
| First day – Thursday 12 October 2023 | |
| 09:00 – 09:15 | Recording presentations/ Connection |
| 09:15 – 9:30 (Bucharest Time Zone – Eastern European Summer Time (EEST), UTC +3) Inauguration Hybrid Session – Welcome Speech OXFORD Hall Valahia University of Târgoviște Time: Oct 12, 2023, 09:15 AM Bucharest (GMT+3) Chairmans:Professor Virgil POPA and Ruediger HAGEDORN 9:15 – 9:20 Welcome address by the Conference Host & Organizer – Chairman Virgil POPA 9:20 – 9:25 Welcome address by the Conference – Business Co-Chairman Ruediger HAGEDORN 9:25 – 9:30 Welcome address by the Conference – Academic Co-Chairman Theodor PURCĂREA 9:30 – 9:35 Welcome address, Vice Rector Valahia University of Târgoviște Vice-Rector Mircea DUICĂ | |
| 1st Hybrid Session 9:35 – 14:30 Conference Presenter – Alina TĂBÎRCĂ Ph.D. Time: Oct 13, 2022, 9:30 AM Bucharest (GMT+3) Session chairman: Professor Theodor PURCAREA |
| 9:35 – 9.55 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 Management of Supply Chain Resilience in (In) Security and Global Risks Medium. The Collaborative Management of Supply Chains in a volatile time through big disruption by wars and networks from energy, transport and inflation 9:55 – 10:00 Discussion & Change connection |
| 10:00 – 10:25 Keynote Speaker: Ruediger HAGEDORN (Online) Director End-to-End Value Chain & Standards Pillar The Consumer Goods Forum The BIG SFIFT 10:25 –10:30 Discussion & Change connection |
| 10.30 –10:55 Keynote Speaker: dr. Gerd WOLFRAM (Online) CEO and Owner IoT Innovation & Consult I Partner Digital Connection I Author I Cologne Area, GermanyManagement Consulting to Consumer Goods Forum – Paris The BIG SFIFT 10:55 – 11.00 Discussion & Change connection |
| 11:00 – 11:25 Speakers: Col. Prof. Tomasz Jałowiec Ph.D. Hab. and Dariusz Grala Ph.D. (On site) War Studies University, Poland Innovations in military supply chains management 11:25 – 11:30 Discussion & change connection |
| 11:30 – 11.55 Speaker: Professor Borna ABRAMOVIC Ph.D. (Online) University of Zagreb, Croatia Chair of Railway Transport Management Railway freight liberalisation in Croatia – first 10 years 11:55 – 12:00 Discussion & change connection |
| 12:00 – 13:00Coffee break. Sandwiches and snacks |
| 13:00 –13:25 Speakers: Professor Costel NEGRICEA PhD Hab Rector of Romanian American Universityand Matei PURCĂREA (Romanian American University) (On site) Key Supply Chain Management challenges, considerations and solutions in higher education deeper digital transformation 13:25 – 13:30 Discussion & change connection |
| 13:30 – 13:55 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 Supply chain cross-functional visibility and long-term sustainability, enabling customers 13:55 – 14:00 Discussion & change connection |
| 14:00 – 14.25 Speaker: Assistant Professor Monika Vyas1 (*) and Assoc. Professor Gunjan Yadav2 (Online) Swarrnim Startup and Innovation University Gandhinagar, Gujarat India Circular Supply Chain Management Challenges: Five WHY Technique 14:25 – 14:30 Discussion & change connection |
| 14:30 – 14:55 Speaker: Matei PURCĂREA (On site) Romanian American University Addressing Sustainability Challenges in Supply Chain Management through Artificial Intelligence and other disruptive technologies 14:55 – 15:00 Discussion & change connection |
| 15:30 – 17:00 Visit to the Royal Court of Targoviste |
| Second day – Friday 13 October 2023 |
| 2nd Hybrid Session 10:00 – 15:30 (Bucharest Time Zone – Eastern European Summer Time (EEST), GMT +3 Conference Presenter – Alina TĂBÎRCĂ Ph.D. Session chairman: Professor Michael BOURLAKIS |
| 10:00 – 10:05 Welcome word of the collaboration between Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland and Valahia University of Targoviste, Romania Marta STAROSTKA-PATYK |
| 10:05 – 10:40 Speakers: Assoc. Prof. Marta STAROSTKA-PATYK Ph.D. Hab. and Dr. Ilona PAWEŁOSZEK (Online) Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland Generative AI transforming today`s logistics 10:40 – 10:45 Discussion & change connection |
| 10:45 – 11:10 Keynote Speaker: Professor Michael BOURLAKIS Ph.D. (Online) Director of Research for Cranfield School of Management Group Head (Logistics, Procurement and Supply Chain Management) andDirector 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 11:10 – 11:15 Discussion & change connection |
| 11:15 – 11:40 Speaker: Assistant Professor Gökhan KIRBAÇ (On site) Head of the Air Logistics DepartmentIstanbul Kültür University, Turkey Resilience and Sustainability of Global Supply Chains: An Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) Application 11:40 – 11:45 Discussion & change connection |
| 11:45 – 13:00 Coffee break. Sandwiches and snacks |
| Individual invitation to the Webinar organized by Michael Bourlakis,Cranfield University |
| 13:00 –13:25 Speaker: Associate Prof. Mihaela ȘTEȚ Ph.D. eng and Ph.D. ec (On-site) Technical University of Cluj-NapocaRomania Electrification in Supply Chain: Benefits, Challenges and Perspectives. 13:25 – 13:30 Discussion & change connection |
| 13:30 – 13:55 Speaker:Assoc. Prof. Paula Bajdor Ph.D. Hab. (Online) Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland Sustainable entrepreneurship – present situation and future challenges. 13:55 – 14:00 Discussion & change connection |
| 14:00 – 14:25 Speaker: Dr Irvine LANGTON; Post-Doctoral Fellow (Online) Faculty of Management Sciences, Logistics and SCM Department,Vaal University of Technology, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa Reverse Logistics Practices in Manufacturing Firms in South Africa 14:25 – 15:00 Discussion & change connection |
| 15:00 – 15:25 Speaker: Jonas Shafondino Kamakela (Online) Ph.D. Student (Suply Chain Management) from University of Mauritius Supply chain risks and tripods : Geopolitics, Pandemics, and Technological progress and their effect on supply chain restructuring: Comparative case study design 15:25 – 15:30 Discussion & change connection |
| 15:30 – 15:45 Conclusions and Conference Closing Speech |
| 16:00 – 18:00 Visit to ERDEMIR Company |
MOMENTS FROM THE SPEAKERS’ PRESENTATIONS AND INTERVENTIONS