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Conference 2024

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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’

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