The Centre for Applied Research and Innovation in Supply Chain – Africa hosts Distinguished Lecture Series and invites scholars and supply chain practitioners to deliver in-depth presentations to faculty and students of KNUST and other stakeholders. The series aims at providing attendees with the opportunity to learn about best practices, new techniques and ideas, and exemplary research activities and case studies.
Thursday, February 09, 2023 @ 10 a.m. MST/ 5 p.m. GMT
Speaker: Frank Ojadi || Seaports and African Trade: the role of ports in Africa’s Economic Growth
Thursday, December 08, 2022 @ 10 a.m. MST/ 5 p.m. GMT
Speaker: Denis M. Wolowiecki || Executive Managing Director of CAPS Research
Event Highlights: Thinking Beyond Procurement
Thursday, October 20, 2022 @ 10 a.m. MST/ 5 p.m. GMT
Speaker: Kevin Dooley|| Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management in the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University
Event Highlight: Working with Industry on Supply Chain Sustainability Issues
Friday, September 2, 2022
Speaker: John Karani || Chairman, Kenya Institute of Supplies Management
Title: The Journey Toward Supply Chain Management Professionalism: Lessons From the Kenya Institute of Supplies Management
Thursday, June 16, 2022
Speaker: Veronica Villena|| Associate Professor, W.P Carey School of Business – Arizona State University.
Title: Do Sustainability and Resilience Go Hand in Hand? The Case of Pennsylvania Dairy Farmers
Thursday, April 21, 2022
Speaker: Dr Samuel Fosso Wamba | Toulouse Business School, France
Title: Exploring AI capabilities in operations management: going from a bibliometic analysis to empirical studies
Friday, February 25, 2022
Speaker: Tobias Schoenherr, PhD | Michigan State University, Broad College of Business
Title: Best Practices for Publishing: Lessons Learned and the International Journal of Operations & Production Management (IJOPM) Perspective
Thursday, December 2, 2021
Mark Pagell, PhD, Chair in Global Leadership| Professor of Sustainable Supply Chain Management, University College Dublin | Co-Editor-in-Chief The Journal of Supply Chain Management
Title: Contemporary Research on Sustainable Supply Chain Management and What Leading Journals like JSCM Look for in a Submission
Friday, October 1, 2021
Francis K. Ando-Baidoo, PhD | Associate Professor of Information Systems, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Title: How to Turn Your Thesis or Dissertation into a Peer-Reviewed Publication
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
Mr Emmanuel Amoah-Adjei | Former Head of Supplies Division, Anglogold Ashanti, Obuasi
Title: Supply Chain Management Strategies – Ways to reduce cost in an organization