{"id":1139,"date":"2018-10-15T22:39:39","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T22:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/asor-dors2018\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2018-10-15T22:42:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T22:42:55","slug":"dr-hugh-donald-ratliff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/asor-dors2018\/speakers\/dr-hugh-donald-ratliff\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Hugh Ratliff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dr. Hugh Donald Ratliff<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Executive Director \u2013 Georgia Tech Panama Logistics Innovation and Research Center<br \/>\nPartner \u2013 Supply Chain Ventures, LLC<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ratliff is a supply chain and logistics expert with more than 40 years of experience as an educator, researcher, consultant, and technology business executive.\u00a0 As Founding Executive Director of the Georgia Tech Supply Chain &amp; Logistics Institute and UPS Professor, he provided leadership for the largest research program in the world devoted to the study of supply chains and logistics.\u00a0 This includes research and innovation centers in Panama and Singapore.\u00a0 As founder and President of the software company CAPS Logistics, Dr. Ratliff helped to pioneer the development of software tools to improve performance of supply chain networks and optimize logistics processes.\u00a0 He is also co-founder of Scientific Logistics, Inc. a pioneer in the development of cloud-based optimization methodology to plan delivery routes.\u00a0 He has worked with a wide range of companies and government organizations to recognize and evaluate opportunities for supply chain design and logistics optimization, to develop strategies for exploiting these opportunities, and to develop the processes and technologies necessary to execute on these strategies.\u00a0 Dr. Ratliff\u2019s research into new logistics concepts and optimization algorithms has resulted in the publication of more than one hundred refereed journal articles and articles in popular trade magazines.\u00a0 He has given more than two hundred invited presentations at national and international meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ratliff is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the Johns Hopkins University.\u00a0 He has held a number of editorial positions including being Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Operations Research.\u00a0 He served as Chair of the World Economic Forum Council on the Future of Supply Chains and Logistics. He was awarded the \u201cOutstanding Research Award\u201d of the Institute of Industrial Engineers for his work in logistics and is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers and a Fellow of INFORMS.\u00a0 Dr. Ratliff was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his work in developing network optimization methodology for use in the design and operation of logistics systems.\u00a0 More than 200 companies and government agencies including Coca Cola and the United States Post Office have implemented concepts developed by him. His current research is primarily focused is on two areas (1) Latin American supply chains and (2) technology and management processes for improving performance of last mile delivery systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Hugh Donald Ratliff Executive Director \u2013 Georgia Tech Panama Logistics Innovation and Research Center Partner \u2013 Supply Chain Ventures, LLC Dr. Ratliff is a supply chain and logistics expert with more than 40 years of experience as an educator, researcher, consultant, and technology business executive.\u00a0 As Founding Executive Director of the Georgia Tech Supply&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/asor-dors2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/asor-dors2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/asor-dors2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/asor-dors2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/asor-dors2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/asor-dors2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1145,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/asor-dors2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions\/1145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/asor-dors2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/asor-dors2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/asor-dors2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/asor-dors2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}