John R. Birge
Hobart W. Williams Distinguished Service Professor of Operations Management and Faculty Director of the GEP Center for Supply Chain Innovation and Applied Technologies
John R. Birge
GEP Center for Supply Chain Innovation and Applied Technologies
The GEP Center for Supply Chain Innovation and Applied Technologies at Chicago Booth serves as a a dynamic hub for research, education, and industry collaboration focused on the future of supply chains and emerging technologies.
The GEP Center brings together leading scholarship in supply chain management and leverages the transformative influence of agentic AI and data to improve global value chains.
Through pioneering research, innovative curricula, and meaningful engagement with industry leaders, the center seeks to connect faculty, students, and practitioners in order to accelerate advancements, address real-world supply chain challenges, and shape the evolution of operations management in a rapidly changing technological landscape.
Faculty Director
The GEP Center is housed within Booth’s Operations Management academic area. The group’s world-renowned faculty study how disruptions and financial shocks propagate through global supply chain networks, how firms can build resilience through rerouting and flexible network design, and how optimization can improve real-time demand fulfillment, inventory management, and the matching of supply and demand.
The GEP Center for Supply Chain Innovation and Applied Technologies is generously supported by GEP.