PhD Seminar - Supply Chain Design and Strategy 2025

Module description: The focus of this course is the strategic design of supply chain networks. Supply chain design decisions have extraordinary impact on the cost and service value attributes of a product or service over its lifetime. Strategic supply chain management concerns the effective design and longterm planning of a network of interconnected businesses involved. Supply Chain Design and Strategy looks at the supply network as a strategic asset, as increasingly supply chains compete, and not individual companies. This course covers theories, concepts and tools related to strategic supply chain alignment to achieve a fit of customers and markets with operations including information, network relationships, management and leadership. In addition, modern challenges and risks in designing and operating the supply chains in today’s dynamic business environments are addressed.

About the lecturer: Dr. Denny J Cho is an experienced professor with over 15 years of teaching systems engineering, business management, decision making, operations, and global LSCM by connecting principles and theories with real world issues and challenges. Currently, he is lecturing at the Kyrgyz State Technical University in Central Asia and supervising several PhD students from Africa. Dr. Cho also taught at the University of Pennsylvania in USA. 

Dr. Cho is also a proven business leader with over 30 years of broad management and technical experience in developing advanced aviation and IT technologies. He has excellent business and technical acumen in many aspects of the global enterprise value chain, from strategic planning and business development to testing and integration to supplier management. Dr. Cho has established Global Technology Solutions, LLC in Kyrgyzstan since 2012 to provide business and technology consulting, and IT software program development services in the Central Asia market. From 1992 to 2011, Dr. Cho worked at The Boeing Company (USA) as a program manager/associate technical fellow to lead several programs and technical activities. He also served as an Administrative FAA DER to manage Type Certification for FAA.

Eligibility:
PhD candidates with a scholarship from LEARN Logistics from partner universities of LEARN Logistics as well as invited PhD candidates are eligible to apply. Registration does not entitle you to participate. Only those PhD candidates who have received a corresponding confirmation from LEARN Logistics after registration can participate.