Dell opens SC institute

DELL    SUPPLY CHAIN  

China - Dell has set up its first Dell Supply Chain Management Institute in Xiamen, China on 20 February to improve the country's supply chain management.

The school will work with Tianjin University and Antai College of Economics & Management of Shanghai Jiaotong University, focusing on theories, concepts and challenges faced in supply chain management.

Charles Cheung, managing director of Dell China and executive director of its global supply chain operation, told China Daily that the new institute will generalise the company's supply chain management cases into theories and provide supply chain management cases for research.

Dell's supply chain school will focus on supply chain management, corporate strategies, application of information system models, partnership on the whole supply chain, change management and risk control.

"The cooperation between Tianjin University and Dell marks a good example of the combination of theory and practice in China's supply chain field, and will actively promote the improvement of supply chain management in China," Zhao Daozhi, director of the Institute of Modern Manufacturing and Logistics at Tianjin University, told China Daily.

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