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Example Timeline
Conferences
  • Fall Operations Conference: Manufacturing in Transition
    Research updates, internship poster competition, and industry panel discussions on transition in manufacturing.
Projects
  • TVS Motor Company: Consumer Insights for Working Women: A market research project studying the needs and preferences of working women.
  • TVS Motor Company: Outbound Logistics Optimization: A logistics project focused on improving the distribution of finished products.
  • TVS Motor Company: Logistics Network Projects: A group of projects focused on inbound logistics, outbound logistics, and network efficiency.
Conferences
  • Spring Conference & Student Case Competition: Unleashing the Global Supply Chain
    Global opportunities, emerging markets, supply chain barriers, and case competition.
  • Fall Operations Conference: Manufacturing: Thriving Through the Storm
    Economic downturn response, Indiana manufacturing resilience, internships, and survey results.
Papers
  • The 2009 Gear and Fulcrum: Performance and Practice of Indiana's Manufacturers.
Conferences
  • Fall Operations Conference: Manufacturing: New Opportunities Ahead
    New opportunities in aerospace, electronics, Indiana development, power generation, construction, and agriculture.
Projects
  • GKEDA Project: A regional economic development project mapping company capabilities in Kokomo to connect manufacturers with buyers.
  • Wabash Center E-Waste Recycling Project: A project focused on recycling electronic waste and improving related operations.
  • TVS Service and Quality Data Projects: A set of projects analyzing dealership service data, customer complaints, quality trends, and corrective actions.
Papers
  • Shaping Consumer Demand With the Supply Chain.
  • Supplier Diversity.
Projects
  • Supplier Diversity in Higher Education Procurement: A study focused on supplier diversity in university purchasing.
  • Rare Earth Metals Availability Study: A research project examining rare earth material availability and strategic responses by companies and countries.
  • Supplier Diversity: A research project studying how organizations can improve supplier diversity.
  • Global Healthcare Supply Chains: A project focused on improving healthcare supply chain coordination.
  • Global Health Coordination Issues: A project studying coordination challenges in global healthcare supply chains.
  • Multi-Modal Opportunities for Economic Growth: A project analyzing how different transportation modes could support economic development.
  • Nonprofit Healthcare Allocation: A project studying how nonprofit healthcare resources could be allocated more effectively.
FOSTERING THE CENTER’S DEVELOPMENT
1987-1991 HELPING REVITALIZE U.S. MANUFACTURING
1991-2005 A TRIP TO INDIA & OTHER LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
2005-2012 STUDENT FOCUSED.
FACULTY DIRECTED.
2012-2015 A CENTER THAT CELEBRATES MANUFACTURING
2015-2017
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