Supply Chain Frontiers issue #40
On December 14, 2010, Universidad Andrés Bello (UNAB) in Chile, through its Department of Engineering Sciences, and Bogotá, Colombia-based LOGyCA, signed an agreement to create CLI Chile, a new center for logistics education and research. CLI Chile follows CLI Mexico – which was created in 2010 – as the second member of a network of centers that the Center for Latin-American Logistics Innovation (CLI) is developing in Latin America.
The objective of CLI Chile is to become the national leader in research, executive education, and technology transfer in logistics and transport, through collaboration among the private sector, government, and academia.
To achieve this goal, the Center will focus on developing research lines in four key areas: retail, health management, sustainability, and logistics and transportation. Within each of these areas, there are priority issues that CLI Chile will address in the short term. “To continue to advance and develop, all national industries should focus on strengthening their supply chains so that they can enhance the production, storage, and sustainable distribution of goods and services. This purpose requires that the public and private sectors have highly trained professionals in the operations, logistics, and distribution areas,” says Roland Kelly, Principal of Universidad Andrés Bello.
The challenge in Chile – as is the case in Colombia and Latin America – will be to achieve the joint participation of academia and the public and private sectors. “Our vision is to create a best-in-class research center network in Latin America. We already launched Mexico, now Chile – and we are committed to the generation of knowledge in logistics and supply chain through education and applied research projects across the region,” says Isabel Agudelo, Executive Director of CLI.
The official CLI Chile launch event took place on March 10, 2011, in Santiago de Chile, Chile.
For more information on CLI Chile, contact Ana María Prieto, CLI Public Relations, at email: aprieto@logyca.org, or telephone: +57 1 4270999, Ext. 191.