Destination: Panama City, Panama; Lima, Peru; Sao Paulo, Campinas, and Santos, Brazil Focus: Concentrate on distribution facility design and operations, and understand trade agreements and strategies for navigating complex tax regimes.
Destination: Mumbai, India; Bangkok, Thailand; Hong Kong; and Shanghai, China Focus: Explore the region’s aggressive growth strategy to build the world-class rail, highway, port and air cargo facilities necessary to support domestic growth, while meeting with top sourcing executives at Global 500 companies.
Destination: Louisville, Kentucky; Atlanta, Georgia; Montreal, Canada Focus: Learn about manufacturing, NAFTA trade, risk management and supply chain leadership. Present the findings and recommendations from the Global Supply Chain Project.
The program culminates with the final presentations of the Global Supply Chain Projects the teams worked on throughout the eighteen-month program. Selected from the proposals students brought from their companies, these projects represent an opportunity for students to apply newly acquired capabilities collaboratively to grow revenues, reduce costs, trim inventories, and improve lead time in a global context. For more information, visit www.emil-scs.gatech.edu.
The Alumni Magazine for the Stewart School of ISyE, Fall 2012
23