The Department of Operations and Supply Chain Management, Faculty of Business Administration organized a virtual seminar on “Global supply chain management and managing supplier involvement in NPD: how to take supplier collaboration to the next level ” on 11 March, 2020 at AIUB permanent campus, for the Executive MBA students and regular MBA students of courses Service Operations Management and Distribution Management. The resource speaker was Andrea S. Patrucco, Assistant Professor, Program coordinator, Project and Supply Chain Management, PENN STATE UNIVERSITY, PA, USA. The main objectives of this seminar were to provide our students to be virtually connected with an eminent resource speaker of a foreign country with the aid of our strong logistics support. The speaker very eloquently explained the engaging suppliers in collaborative innovation, the role of the purchasing department and management of triadic department. Prof. Andrea is very much enjoyed the question answer session where students and teachers spontaneously participated.

Dr. Nisar Ahmed, Professor and Director of MBA Programs, Faculty of Business Administration inaugurated the seminar with a welcome speech. Dr. Saad Hasan, Dr. Mohammad Rashedul Hoque, Dr. Partha Prasad Chowdhury, Mr. Mohammad Ali were present at the event.

The seminar was coordinated by Mr. Mohammad Ali, Assistant Professor. The Department of Operations and Supply Chain Management gratefully appreciates the support extended by the AIUB management.