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Workshop: Best Practices of Teaching Supply Chain Analytics to Meet Job Market Requirements.

  • 1.  Workshop: Best Practices of Teaching Supply Chain Analytics to Meet Job Market Requirements.

    Posted 07-15-2025 08:05

    Dear Colleagues,

    You are invited to this teaching workshop to be held on August 5th and 6th, 10am-12pm (New York Time), 2025. The workshop is free and intended for instructors developing new courses or improving existing ones on supply chain analytics.

    Recent job market research shows strong demand for analytical and data skills in the supply chain and operations fields. But many such skills are not adequately covered in our curricula. How to design rigorous supply chain analytics courses that meet the job market requirements and also give students an interactive fun-filled learning experience?

    This online workshop shares the best practices of teaching supply chain management by data analytics and experiential games, including complete and modulated teaching packages with up-to-date materials and well-defined learning objectives that fit into various course schedules.

    For details and registration, please see https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/z6Zg77PaQw6FrAAry8s1DA

    Speaker bio: Bio: Yao is a professor of Supply Chain Management at Rutgers University. He won the 1st prize of INFORM Case Writing Competition 2014, the Dean's Meritorious Teaching Award 2016, and the DSJIE Best Teaching Brief award in 2021. Modules of his book, "Supply Chain Analytics: Cases, Games and Solutions" (https://yzhao12345.github.io/#book), have been adopted by numerous instructors around the world. 



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    Yao Zhao
    Professor
    Rutgers University
    Newark NJ
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