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<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">2019 Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) Annual Conference will take place in New Orleans, between Nov 23- 25, 2019. I would like to invite you to submit an abstract, paper or panel proposal to the Logistics and Transportation Management track. <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Logistics and Transportation Management track aims to generate novel insights on operational, tactical and strategic decision making in logistics. This track is open to presentations that advance knowledge and theory of practices in transportation, inventory management, warehousing, material handling, packaging, network design and other related areas. Topics of interest also include, but are not limited to, logistics service firms, new technologies, collaboration and integration, organizational issues, performance measurement, risk management, and sustainability in logistics. This track welcomes papers based on all types of methodologies.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please see <a href="https://decisionsciences.org/annual-meetings/national-dsi/submission-instructions/">https://decisionsciences.org/annual-meetings/national-dsi/submission-instructions/</a> for detailed submission information.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Important Dates:<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">05/15/2019 Full Paper Submissions Deadline <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">05/30/2019 Abstract Submissions Deadline<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">05/30/2019 Panel Proposals Deadline<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For questions please contact me at hakan at wayne.edu<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hakan Yildiz<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Associate Professor of Global Supply Chain Management<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Mike Ilitch School of Business<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Wayne State University<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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