NITIE Mumbai introduces Centre of Excellence in Logistics & Supply Chain Management

The event was graced by the presence of Member of Parliament (Mumbai North) Gopal Shetty, NITIE Director Professor Manoj K Tewari, Board of Governors, Deans, Faculty Representatives nominated by the Director and Registrar.

National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE) introduced the 'Centre of Excellence in Logistics and Supply Chain Management on September 23, 2021. The Centre was inaugurated by the Commerce and Industry minister Piyush Goyal. The event was graced by the presence of Member of Parliament (Mumbai North) Gopal Shetty, NITIE Director Professor Manoj K Tewari, Board of Governors, Deans, Faculty Representatives nominated by the Director and Registrar.

While inaugurating the Centre, the Union Minister said, "The amount of interdependence in the globalized world calls for significant value addition on several fronts such as packaging, research on transportation, warehousing and more."  He further added, "I hope the Centre of Excellence inaugurated today will help the logistics sector become more cost-effective, make the sector more competitive, create new jobs, export more, engage better with the world markets, expand outreach and bring more economic activity to India."

The minister also talked about how the country is yet at a developing stage of industrial engineering training, research and study. "There is huge potential in industrial engineering, you can transform the future of this country by the work you are doing. A lot of industrial engineering goes also into sectors such as restaurant design and operations, e-commerce businesses and delivery of public services as well," he added.

Talking about NITIE’s initiative to introduce the Centre, Goyal said, "When I saw the good work done by NITIE, I realized that some back-end support from Government will help in public, private and academia working together as stakeholders and partners."

“The Centre will act as a driving force to train and launch top-quality programs to disseminate advanced knowledge and promote digitisation, analytics and IoT Application and decision support systems through Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning applications," he added. The minister further said, "For all those millions who are deprived of the fruits of progress and prosperity, we can collectively transform their lives and bring a beacon of hope to them,” the minister said while speaking about the Centre of Excellence in Logistics and Supply Chain Management.

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