Theme 2009: Supply Chain Performance

CALL FOR PAPERS

Hamburg International Conference of Logistics 2009 (HICL2009)

Supply Chain Performance
10 - 11 September 2009

We are pleased to announce and invite you to participate in the Hamburg International Conference of Logistics (HICL 2009), which will be held at Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Germany from 10 - 11 September 2008. This international conference is co-organized by the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) and the Kühne School of Logistics and Management (the former Hamburg School of Logistics).

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 topic within the broad area of networks and nodes in Logistics and Supply Chain Management including, but not limited to the following are welcome:

Systems of supply chain performance measurement
Controlling methods for supply chains
Innovative IT systems as performance drivers (SOA etc.)
Benefit allocation of IT-based performance drivers among supply chain partners
Agent-based simulation/other simulation approaches
Quantitative and qualitative performance measures
Efficiency of profit 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

Call for Papers (PDF Version) available: here

Submission of Abstracts

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@hicl.org

Important Dates

Full paper submission : 31 January 2009

Notification of Acceptance : 30 April 2009

Early Bird registration deadline : 31 May 2009

Author registration deadline : 31 May 2009

Conference : 10 to 11 September 2009

Contact

Conference Chairs

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kersten (Info) Prof. Dr. Thorsten Blecker (Info)	Prof. Dr. Matthias Meyer (Info)
Institute of Business Logistics and General Management	Institute for Management Control and Accounting
Hamburg School of Logistics (HSL) at Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH)

Full paper submission	:	31 January 2009
Notification of Acceptance	:	30 April 2009
Early Bird registration deadline	:	31 May 2009
Author registration deadline	:	31 May 2009
Conference	:	10 to 11 September 2009