[agents] CfP: Hamburg International Conference on Logistics (HICL 2009)

[Thorsten Blecker]

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                     Call for Papers 

       
      Hamburg International Conference of Logistics 2009
                         (HICL2009)


                "Supply Chain Performance"


                  10 - 11 September 2009


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Conference Website  http://www.hicl.org/

Full paper submission	                     31 January 2009
Notification of Acceptance                   31 April 2009
Authors and Early Bird registration deadline 31 May 2009
Conference                                   10 - 11 September 2009

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We are pleased to announce and invite you to participate in the HICL 2009
Hamburg International Conference of Logistics, which will be held at Hamburg
University of Technology (TUHH), Germany from 10 - 11 September 2009. 
The conference is co-organized by the Hamburg University of Technology
(TUHH) and the Kühne School of Logistics and Management.


********Theme and Objectives********

Today’s business environment is changing significantly due to a steady
progress towards more efficient organizational paradigms as well as product
and process innovations.

Logistics is a key enabler of supply chain collaboration. Improving
performance in this field allows supply chains to increase their efficiency
significantly and help to create innovations in different areas. In this
context, an important task is to find structures and approaches which enable
all types of performance management in logistics and supply chains for a
better fulfillment of customer needs. Another challenge is to handle the
growing organizational complexity and the associated supply chain risks.

While controlling mechanisms for financial issues are an inherent part of
today’s management, the research on controlling methods for supply chains
using performance indicators is still less advanced. Therefore this
conference focuses on the measurement and management of supply chain
performance that closes the gap between operational and strategic
management.  

As a strategic management tool, supply chain performance management
contributes to the controlling of interorganizational supply chains. Closely
related to the tasks of measuring and managing the supply chain performance,
a holistic approach is used to analyze the scope of the supply chain from a
single actor sophisticated networks. Business relations between customers,
suppliers and logistic service providers are monitored using adequate
performance indicators. The goal of optimizing the supply chain performance
requires a multi-dimensional strategy to enhance the efficiency of
considering customer needs.  

Supply Chain Performance - The HICL will provide a multidisciplinary network
and forum for scientists and practitioners involved in logistics and supply
chain management to interact with each other and exchange ideas and
information on the latest issues in this field. 

We welcome scientific and practical contributions from different disciplines
such as Business Administration & Economics, Engineering, Computer Science,
Science & Mathematics and Law.



*********Topics**********

Papers addressing any relevant topics within the broad area of Supply Chain
Performance Management like the following are welcome:

* Systems of supply chain performance measurement
* Controlling methods for supply chains
* Innovative IT systems as performance drivers (SOA etc.)
* Benefi t allocation of IT-based performance drivers among supply chain
partners
* Agent-based simulation/other simulation approaches
* Quantitative and qualitative performance measures
* Effi ciency of profi t and risk sharing in supply chain networks
* Performance of suppliers and service providers
* Performance aspects of logistics node design
* Interrelationships between management methods and supply chain performance
* Measurement of soft factors in supply chains
* Radio frequency identifi cation (RFID) as supply chain performance driver
* Performance-focused analysis of interorganizational business relations
* Performance effects of infrastructure management
* Sustainability and supply chain performance
* Innovative concepts for modelling, simulation and optimization of
transportation networks
* Managing logistics service quality
* Development of key performance indicators (KPI) for supply chains
* Risk Management and SC Performance
* Financial and non-fi nancial performance measurement
* Implications of bottlenecks for supply chain performance
* Effects of complexity on supply chain performance



*******Submission of Papers*********

Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished research results/best
practices for consideration in HICL 2009. All papers will be double-blind
refereed.

Papers should have a length of 10-15 pages and should be in MS Word format.
An abstract and all authors’ contact information must be included. The
official conference language for papers and presentation is English. Please
submit the papers to: hicl at hicl.org

Conference Chairs
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kersten 
(Institute of Business Logistics and General Management)

Prof. Dr. Thorsten Blecker 
(Institute of Business Logistics and General Management)

Prof. Dr. Matthias Meyer   
(Institute for Management Control and Accounting)

Kühne School of Logistics and Management at Hamburg University of Technology
(TUHH)


************Contact*********

Hamburg International Conference of Logistics 2009
Kühne School of Logistics and Management at 
Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH)
D- 21073 Hamburg, Germany

Website: www.hicl.org
Email:   hicl at hicl.org