WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
Supply Chain Management (SCM) has become a driving force for the betterment of the U.S. economy, as well as its having strong implications for effective and efficient management of global industrial interactions. Present day and near-future analytical and information-based technologies are positioned to make the global concept of SCM an actuality. For this to happen in an effective and opportune manner, there is a need to determine what can now be accomplished, want needs to be done, and what research and developments are required to make SCM reach its full potential.

ORGANIZERS
The workshop is sponsored by the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland and the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, the National Science Foundation, in association with the Center for Logistics Research, Pennsylvania State University and the Supply Chain Council.

BACKGROUND
Supply Chain Management (SCM) involves whatever an organization does to plan, source, make and deliver its products. Since their synergistic early origins, the fields of logistics, operations research and data processing have provided analytical and information-based procedures that have contributed greatly to the improvement of specific elements of an organization's supply chain. To show that this the case, we need only mention the transportation problem, production and inventory system analysis, facility location, vehicle routing and scheduling, demand forecasting. As important as these advances have been, they did not enable an organization to study and analyze its supply chain as an integrated system: computing power was limited, data could not be collected and analyzed in a timely fashion; and procedures for integrating the analytics and data were rudimentary. But, times have changed. We now have networked PCs; centralized collection and coordination of information, including point-of-sales data; globalization of transportation, inventory management and purchasing; data warehouse and mining, electronic commerce; decision support systems; improved and fast optimization procedures. With such changes, the concept of total supply change management appears to be doable. To achieve this goal, all concerned -- SCM software developers and consultants, academic and industry researchers and developers, commercial and governmental practitioners and researchers -- need to have a coherent view of the present state-of-the-art and its relationship to future issues. This workshop is directed at sharpening the focus of that view.

OBJECTIVE
The objective of the workshop is to bring together Supply Chain Management (SCM) practitioners, researchers and software vendors in a series of presentations that will (1) review how SCM methodologies and computer-based systems are being applied, (2) describe supply chains requirements that are not being met in terms of an agenda for research and development, and (3) by a conference proceedings, report to the SCM community on the status and future directions of SCM practice and research.

LOCATION
The workshop will be held at the University System of Maryland Center, Shady Grove Center, Building 1, 9640 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, MD. Rockville is located approximately 20 miles northwest of Washington, DC. Convenient airline service can be arranged from Reagan (Washington) National, Dulles International, and Baltimore-Washington International.

DRIVING DIRECTIONS TO CONFERENCE:

• Directions From North (I-270): Take I-270 South to Shady Grove Exit 8. Turn right on Shady Grove Road and go about 11/2 miles; cross the intersection (Darnestown Rd). Make your first right on Gudelsky Way and then a left at the STOP sign on Gudelsky Drive. Continue around to 9640 (Bldg I).
• Directions From North (Route 28): Take Darnestown Rd. to Shady Grove Rd; turn right onto Shady Grove Rd and first right on Gudelsky Way. Go left at STOP sign on Gudelsky Drive and continue around to 9640 (Bldg I).
• Directions From South (I-270): Take I-270 North to Shady Grove Rd. Exit 8. Turn left on Shady Grove Rd. and go about 11/2 miles; cross the intersection at Darnestown Rd. and make your first right on Gudelsky Way and then a left at the STOP sign onto Gudelsky Drive. Continue around to 9640 (Bldg. I).
• Directions From Baltimore: Take I-95 to 495 West to 270 North to Exit 6B (W. Montgomery Ave.). At the 4th light make a left on to Darnestown Road. Go 8 miles, at 2nd light make a left on to Shady Grove Road. Make first right on to Gudelsky Way and left at the STOP sign on to Gudelsky Drive. Continue around to 9640 (Bldg. I).
• Directions From Rockville Metro: Take Ride On Bus #56 to Bus Stop at the corner of Shady Grove Road and Darnestown Rd. Call (240)-777-5871 or (301)-271-7433 for a bus schedule. Visit the Ride On web site: www.dpwt.com.

ACCOMODATIONS
HOTEL INFORMATION:
Workshop registration does not include hotel reservation. A block of rooms has been reserved at the Quality Suites/Sleep Inn Hotel, (301)840-0200, at a rate of $99, including a full breakfast and evening reception each day, and at the Comfort Suites Hotel, (301)330-0023, at a rate of $109, including a full breakfast. These rates are subject to 12% tax. To register for a room, please call the hotel directly, no later than April 3, 2001, and mention that you are attending the "NIST/Supply Chain Management Workshop." After that date, the rooms will be released for general sale at the prevailing rates of the hotel.

Roundtrip transportation will be provided between the hotels and the University System of Maryland each day in the morning and evening. Attendees are encouraged to use this service.

HOTEL DRIVING DIRECTIONS:

• From Ronald Reagan National Airport to I-270: Take the George Washington Parkway North to Maryland. Take I-495 North exit. Continue on I-495 to I-270 North.
• From Dulles International Airport to I-270: Take the Dulles Access Road East toward Washington I-495 North. Continue on I-495 to I-270 North.
• To reach the Quality Suites Sleep Inn Hotel: From I-270 North take Exit 8, Shady Grove Road West (left hand turn). Follow Shady Grove Road to the traffic light at Corporate Blvd. and turn left. The hote will be 100 yards straight ahead.
• To reach the Comfort Suites Hotel: From I-270 North take Exit 8, Shady Grove Road East (right hand turn), proceed to Frederick Road (Rte. 355) and turn right. Hotel is less than half a block on the right.

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Wednesday, April 18, 2001:

8:00 - 9:00	Registration
9:00 - 9:15	"Welcome:" Saul I. Gass, University of Maryland; Albert Jones, NIST; Ronald Rardin, NSF
9:15 - 10:15	"Structuring Supply Chain Management in the Age of the Internet," Arie Lewin, Duke University
10:15 - 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30	"Modeling and IT Issues in Supply Chain Integration," Jeremy F. Shapiro, MIT
11:30 - 12:00	"The State of Supply Chain Measurement," Karl B. Manrodt, Georgia Southern University
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch
1:00 - 1:30	"Managing Supply Chain Inventories," Philip T. Evers, University of Maryland
1:30 - 2:00	"Marketing and Supply Chains," Venkatesh Shankar, University of Maryland
2:00 - 2:30	"E-Business and the Supply Chain," Douglas J. Thomas, Pennsylvania State University
2:30 - 2:45	Coffee Break
2:45 -3:45	"Supply Chain Operations Reference Model Version 5.0: A New Tool to Improve Supply Chain Efficiency and Achieve Best Practice," Scott Stephens, Supply Chain Council
3:45 - 4:15	"Integrating Environmental Issues with Supply Chain Strategies," Robert B. Handfield, North Carolina State; Steven V. Walton, Emory University; Robert Sroufe, Boston College
4:15 - 4:45	"Unresolved Issues in Supply Chain Network Design," Ronald H. Ballou, Case Western Reserve University
4:45 - 5:15	"Benchmarking in High Technology Supply Chain: Lessons from the Semiconductor Industry," Kaan Katircioglu, IBM

Thursday, April 19, 2001

8:00 - 8:30	Registration
8:30 - 9:30	"Twenty-First Century SCM: Building the Technology," David J. Closs and Katrina Savitskie, Michigan State University
9:30 - 10:30	"Trends in Internet-Based Supply Chain Management," David Simchi-Levi, MIT; Edith Simchi-Levi, LogicTools, Inc.
10:30 - 10:45	Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:15	"A Model for Batch Advanced Available-To-Promise," Michael O. Ball, Chien-Yu Chen, and Zhen-Ying Zhao, University of Maryland
11:15 - 11:45	"Global Supply Chain Design," Terry Harrison, Pennsylvania State University
11:45-12:15	"Moving Toward Dynamic Available to Promise," Thomas R. Ervolina and Brenda Dietrich, IBM Research
12:15 -1:15	Lunch
1:15 - 1:45	"Guidelines for Collaborative Supply Chain System Design and Operation," John A. Muckstadt, Cornell University; David Murray, College of William and Mary; James Rappold, University of Wisconsin; Dwight Collins, Aspen Technology
1:45 - 2:15	"Value Creation in a Network: The Role of Pricing and Revenue Optimization and Enterprise Profit Optimization," Sanjeev Kalanidhi, Manugistics, Inc.
2:15 - 2:45	"Aligning the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) Model with Enterprise Applications: Real-Time Value Chain Intelligence," Tamer Cavusoglu and Thomas Gulledge, George Mason University; Thomas Kessler, Promatis, Inc.
2:45 - 3:30	"Panel and Wrap-up," Chair: Michael Magazine, University of Cincinnati Larry Bodin, University of Maryland Dwight Collins, Aspen Technology Joyce Mehring, University of Massachusetts

REGISTRATION
The registration fee is $150 and includes workshop proceedings and materials, coffee breaks, two continental breakfasts, and two lunches. Registration via credit card can be made electronically at https://sales.nist.gov/conf/secure/CONF270/conf_register.htm.

For registration by other means, please print a copy of the registration form from the electronic registration website and send it to the NIST Registration Office, as indicated. A separate form must be forwarded for each attendee. In order for your name to appear on the preliminary participants' list, registration must be recieved by April 4, 2001. Requests for cancellations must be received in writing by April 4, 2001. Registration can also be made on-site during the days of the workshop.