The city of Waterloo is located in the southern part of the Ontario province in Canada. It is adjacent to the city of Kitchener and both these

cities are often jointly referred to as “Kitchener-Waterloo” or “K-W” or “Twin Cities”. It is the smallest of the three cities in the Regional Municipalities of Waterloo. This city has a humid continental climate which is characterized by very warm to hot and humid summers and cold to very cold winters. Some of the important attractions in this area include The Museum, St.Jacobs Farmers Market and Flea Market, Laurel Creek Conservation Area and Woodside National Historic Site.

Wilfrid Laurier University, commonly referred to as WLU or simply Laurier is a public university in the Ontario province of Canada. It is named in honour of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, who was Canada’s seventh Prime Minister. This university offers under-graduate, graduate and doctortal programs. It has a student strength of 15000 in the undergraduate courses, 1000 in the graduate courses, almost 4000 in the part-time courses and almost 1000 in the doctoral courses. In addition to in-class learning, students are given options such as co-op work terms and community service which enable them relate their learning in the classroom to what they experience outside of it. Purposeful teaching, learning, research, and community experiences enable the students, alumni, staff and faculty to make a meaningful difference in their communities and the wider world. The university offers classes from its five campuses located at Waterloo, Brantford, Milton, Kitchener and Toronto.

The PhD course in Supply Chain, Operations and Technology offered by the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics of this university at its Waterloo campus try to find answers to fundamental questions about the design, production, and delivery of goods and services.

A few features you can expect in this program are personalized approach with small student to faculty ratio, cutting edge research training by active leading researchers, talks by world class presenters in the field from across the globe and the school’s Center for Supply Chain Management which creates close ties between industry and academia.

The faculties for this course are leading researchers in fields like closed-loop supply chain management, logistics and transportation, operations management and management of innovation and technology. They have also received grants worth more than $1 million from various funding agencies in the country and also from the industry. Some of the subjects taught in this program include

Research Methodology, Foundations of Supply Chain Management, Foundations of Operations Management, Stochastic Analysis and Simulation and Seminars in Supply Chain Management.

The classes for this program will be conducted at the below venue
Wilfrid Laurier University
75 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5

Students interested in pursuing this program and who are looking for more information like admission procedures, course fee, full list of subjects taught etc., can look up the link https://www.wlu.ca/programs/business-and-economics/graduate/management-phd/supply-chain-operations-technology-management/index.html.

Students who successfully complete this course have opportunities for bright careers in academia and research. Some of the research topics that are available in this field include

Customer acquisition, retention, and service quality for a call center: Optimal promotions, priorities, and staffing, The effect of demand-supply mismatches on firm risk, Socially optimal location of facilities with fixed servers, stochastic demand and congestion and Exploring hopes and fears from supply chain innovations: An analysis of antecedents and consequences of supply chain knowledge exchanges.