The objective of the Center for Digital Supply Chain and Operations Management is to create a faculty cluster with critical mass to conduct high-quality, impactful research and education in three primary thematic areas: digital supply chain, digital operations management, and the future-of-work in a digital enterprise. The thematic focus brings together KU experts in supply chain, data analytics, along with networked systems, to address the extended-enterprises as a nexus of integrated supply-chains, digital-operations management, and market-ready human capital. These areas, with five research projects proposed, are relevant to local and regional needs, and emerging technologies such as Industry 4.0 application and data-analytics driven management. The Center is at the heart of Khalifa University’s research-vertical in “Supply-Chain and Logistics.” The Center also aims to engage purposefully with local industrial and governmental partners and international centers of excellence; some of which the team members have already ongoing research collaborations.
