Conferences 2010 in Numbers
Submitted by Daniel Dumke on Thu, 2010-01-07 17:35
Overall there will be nine major conferences in 2010 with a Call for Papers. So I did a analysis of the topics mentioned there, I did not include general conference slogans.
On average every Call for Papers includes 17,7 topics, ranging from 11 (CSCMP Europe 2010) up to 32 (8th International Heinz Nixdorf Symposium).After aggregation of those 159 topics into 26 themes, it results in the following ranking.
| The top 10 conference themes 2010 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Theme | Percentage | Comment |
| Innovation in Supply Chain Management | 11% | This is a major topic in several conferences e.g. HICL 2010 |
| Strategy and Supply Chain Design | 9% | |
| Green and Sustainable SCs | 8% | |
| Supply Chain Risks | 6% | Six of nine conferences relate to Supply Chain Risk Management (CSCMP EU, EurOMA, ISL do not include this topic) |
| IT and SCM | 6% | |
| Logistics | 5% | Including internal and external, inbound and outbound logistics |
| Global Supply Chains | 5% | Global Supply Chains and the effects of globalisation on SCM |
| SC Performance | 4% | |
| Procurement | 4% | |
| Human Ressources | 4% | …and the impact of human behavior on SCM |
I think it is noteworthy that topics concerning quality issues only account for 1% of the total topics, lean and inventory management approaches account for 2 respectively 1%.
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