This inaugural lecture will argue that the UK
economy is heavily reliant on managing supply chain and operations towards
excellence for better resilience, efficiency and sustainability.
The new era of
advanced technology and social and human factors play a significant role to make
this happen in a better way in the future.
Professor Alireza Shokri will outline how businesses, alongside academic
institutions, are obliged to facilitate this integration through research
and development opportunities.
About the Speaker
Alireza Shokri is the Professor of
digital operations and supply chain excellence and the head of the subject
group of "Operations, Supply Chain and Logistics Management" in the
Department of Operations, Marketing and Systems. He is also Director of the
"Centre for Digital Supply Chain Excellence" at Northumbria
University. He is also the member of the Academic Advisory Board for the UK
National Digitlal Supply Chain Programme.
Prior to the current position,
Professor Shokri was programme leader for the BA (Hon) International Business
Management Programme. Before joining Newcastle Business School in 2011, he had
different practitioner roles including supply chain manager, quality manager,
and ISO9001 internal consultant in food sector. He got his first degree in
Agriculture Engineering in University of Zanjan, Iran followed by MSc in Food
Technology in 2001 in Teesside University in the UK. He completed his PhD in
Lean Six Sigma application within food distribution SMEs in 2011 in Teesside
University in the UK.
A passionate teacher and researcher,
Professor Shokri is very active in action research and research/enterprise
development activities.
He is co-lead of the "Decision
making: Analytics, Operations and Marketing" Research Group and is
currently working with leading organisations such as UK National Health
Services (NHS) and many other local and national SMEs and large organisations
in the service and manufacturing sector.
