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Liz Farquhar
Podcasts from the Department of Supply Chain Management at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University
In his position as head of the procurement supply chain at BP, Dave Connor is responsible for managing a worldwide supply chain that operates in an environment of high risk. Recently, Connor was on campus for graduation, where the latest class of BP managers would receive the W. P. Carey MBA with a special emphasis on supply chain management. KnowWPCarey sat in on a conversation between Connor and Professor Dan Brooks as the two discussed the development of the supply chain discipline, managing risk in a supplier network, and how best to prepare for a career in this challenging field.
Eugene Schneller has been at the lead of research initiatives concerning the emergence of supply chain management in healthcare organizations. Recently Schneller talked with KnowWPCarey about the ways supply chain management can positively impact the revenue cycle and how healthcare reform is driving change. The Health Sector Supply Chain Research Consortium (HSRC-ASU) is a research group within the department of supply chain management at the W. P. Carey School of Business.
Supplies of oil are located a great distance from the population centers that use it, and for efficiency, oil is shipped in huge quantities. This combination of great distance and bulk cargo creates challenges, such as weather and piracy, for the petrochemical industry. Supply chain management professor Dan Brooks is director of the W. P. Carey MBA Custom Corporate program. His research and consulting is decision making in uncertainty and environmental issues. He works closely with the oil companies on models that use the collective intelligence of the marine professionals who manage these long supply chains to calculate the risks associated with various routes -- or, as the companies express it, to make high quality decisions about shipping.