{"id":6692,"date":"2025-10-19T11:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T11:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.alfaisal.edu\/?p=6692"},"modified":"2025-10-19T11:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T11:30:09","slug":"college-of-business-executive-lecture-series-supply-chain-management-in-the-world-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.alfaisal.edu\/en\/college-of-business-executive-lecture-series-supply-chain-management-in-the-world-of-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"College of Business Executive Lecture Series \u201cSupply Chain Management in the World of AI\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>October 15, 2025:<\/strong> College of Business invited Dr. Adegoke Oke, Chair of the Supply Chain Management Department at Arizona State University and Dr. Brett Duarte, Clinical Associate Professor, to be part of CoB\u2019s Executive Lecture Series.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture titled \u201cSupply Chain Management in the World of AI<strong>\u201d<\/strong> was presented to the audience and College of Business students. It took place on Wednesday, 15\/10\/2025, in the Lecture Theatre (M) from 12:00 to 12:50 PM.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Brett commenced the lecture by emphasizing the critical role of supply chains in balancing customer expectations for affordability, quality, and variety with organizational needs for efficiency and reliability. He highlighted the increasing importance of agility and resilience in navigating global disruptions and technological shifts. Dr. Brett further discussed how analytics and AI are transforming supply chain operations, enabling better decision making and automation. He illustrated this with examples such as AI driven contract management and stressed the importance of integrating these technologies into academic programs through experiential learning with industry partners like Microsoft and Intel.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Oke expanded on Arizona State University\u2019s broader vision and collaborations, particularly with Saudi institutions. He highlighted ASU\u2019s scale, innovative ecosystem, and its strong commitment to inclusion, excellence, and community impact. He also outlined the Supply Chain Department\u2019s ambition to become the world\u2019s leading supply chain university, driven by its global faculty, industry partnerships, and cutting-edge research initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>The session concluded with an engaging discussion on preparing future leaders for an AI enabled supply chain world.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6694 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/news.alfaisal.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5001051.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"601\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 15, 2025: College of Business invited Dr. Adegoke Oke, Chair of the Supply Chain Management Department at Arizona State&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,19],"tags":[],"college-department":[{"term_id":12,"name":"College of Business","slug":"college-of-business","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":12,"taxonomy":"college-department","description":"","parent":0,"count":196,"filter":"raw"}],"class_list":["post-6692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lectures","category-students","college-department-college-of-business"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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