<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="6"><b>Supply Chain Innovation and Management Track</b></font><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><br>
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><font size="4"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><font size="4">Track
Description:</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:24pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><font size="4">Information
technology (IT) has been recognized as an important enabler for supply chain
innovations. The legendary story of how Walmart and Proctor & Gamble
Company (P&G) use IT to enable continuous planning, forecasting, and
replenishment (CPFR), helping propel Walmart to retail dominance is well
understood. More recently, we have witnessed emerging ITs create new ways to
manage supply chain operations as well as to collaborate with supply chain
partners. Cloud technology, for example, enables companies to build a
“plug-and-play” connectivity of trading partners. Such cloud-based community of
trading partners can provide the foundation to drive business intelligence in
terms of visibility and event management, and thus significantly transform
supply chain performance (CIO Magazine, June 2013). The Internet of Things
(IoT) is another emerging IT that has great potential for improving supply
chain management. IoT-based solutions enables data automatically collected from
ubiquitous sensors, minimizing the efforts to manage supply chains such as
monitoring suppliers’ and customers’ transactions, tracking the progress of
shipment, and alerting the demand and inventory levels. In addition,
service-oriented architecture (SOA), a business- driven IT architectural
approach, is designed to speed up new application development by providing
repeatable component business services. This approach gives supply chain managers
new capabilities in terms of flexibility and responsiveness. It also enhances
electronic integration and coordination of supply chain partners, improving
visibility throughout the entire supply chain.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:24pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent:24pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><font size="4"><br>
</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:24pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent:24pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><font size="4">Given
the conference theme “IT ubiquitous and collaborative innovation,” we believe
IT advances in cloud computing, ubiquitous computing, service computing, to
name a few, are the meta-forces for supply chain innovation. Furthermore, the
continuous IT growth shifts the dominant thinking of supply chain management
toward the concepts of service, value co-creation, value networks, service
propositions, market orientation, service ecosystem, and learning. </font></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent:24pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><font size="4">This
track seeks high-quality research that attempts to advance theory and
application of IT in supply chain innovation using any research approach
(action research, experimental, grounded theory, design science, case studies,
survey research, theory development, prototyping, methodology development,
etc.). Below can be seen a list of the examples, but not limit to, of possible
topics:</font></span></p>
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<p style="margin-left:18pt;text-align:justify"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:windowtext">-<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Theories used in IT-enabled supply chain
innovation</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:windowtext"></span></font></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">B2B business models and analysis</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:windowtext"></span></font></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:windowtext">Multi-channel
integration</span></font></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:windowtext">Service-oriented supply
chain management</span></font></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Ubiquitous supply chain management</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:windowtext"></span></font></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Big Data, social media, and mobile
computing applications to B2B and supply-chain innovation</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:windowtext"></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:18pt;text-align:justify"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:windowtext">-<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">The impact of new technologies such as
RFID, the Internet of things and 3-D printing to supply chains</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:windowtext"></span></font></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:windowtext">IT-enabled supply chain
agility, visibility, responsiveness</span></font></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:windowtext">Demand-driven supply
chain management</span></font></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:windowtext">Cloud-based supply
chain collaboration</span></font></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:windowtext">Value co-creation in
supply chain innovation</span></font></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:windowtext">IT capability profile
for supply chain innovation </span></font></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:windowtext">Governance in
IT-enabled supply chain innovation </span></font></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:windowtext">Success and failure of
IT-enabled supply chain innovation</span></font></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Best practices in IT-enabled supply
chain innovation</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:windowtext"></span></font></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Industries specific issues in computer,
smart-phone, healthcare, and eGrocery supply chains</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:windowtext"></span></font></p>
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</span></span></font><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:windowtext"><font size="4">Methodologies used in
IT-enabled supply chain innovation</font><font size="3"></font></span></p><p style="margin-left:18pt;text-align:justify"><font color="#0000ff" size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b><br>
</b></span></font></p><p style="margin-left:18pt;text-align:justify"><font color="#0000ff" size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>Submission guideline can be found in </b></span><a href="http://pacis2014.org/initial.php">http://pacis2014.org/initial.php</a></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:18pt;text-align:justify"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><b><font color="#0000ff">Submission Website: </font></b></span><font color="#0000ff" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pacis2014" style="outline:none;line-height:17px">h</a><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pacis2014" style="outline:none;line-height:17px">ttps://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pacis2014</a></font></font><br>
</p><p style="margin-left:18pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b><font color="#0000ff" size="4">Important Dates:</font></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:18pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:windowtext;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b><u>Submission Deadline: March 3, 2014</u></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:18pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:windowtext;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b><u>Acceptance Notification: April 20, 2014</u></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:18pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:windowtext;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b><u>Final Version Due: May 1, 2014</u></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><font size="4">Track Co-Chairs</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><font size="4"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Dr. Hsin-Lu Chang (</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:hlchang@nccu.edu.tw"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">hlchang@nccu.edu.tw</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><font size="4">Associate Professor of
Management Information Systems, National Chengchi
University,
Taipei,
Taiwan</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><font size="4">Dr. Michael J. Shaw
(<a href="mailto:mjshaw@illinois.edu">mjshaw@illinois.edu</a>)</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><font size="4">Professor of Business
Administration and Leonard C. and Mary Lou Hoeft Chair of Information Systems, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign,
U.S.A.</font></span></p></div>