{"281891":{"#nid":"281891","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The Evolution of Supply Chain and Logistics Thinking","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDon Ratliff, executive director of ISyE\u0027s Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute wrote an article on the evolution of supply chain and logistics thinking for the February issue of the Atlanta Business Chronicle. \u0022There has been a dramatic evolution of supply chain and logistics thinking over the 35 years that I have been at Georgia Tech and it has been exciting for the Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute to be a central player,\u0022 said Ratliff. \u0022The recognition that logistics was sufficiently complex to require the attention of analytically trained experts emerged from the massive land, sea and air requirements for the U.S. to supply armies fighting in Europe and Asia in World War II. However, this recognition was almost totally confined to military logistics. For the private sector, the general attitude that logistics was a \u0022bubba\u0022 field, requiring strong backs but not much thinking, persisted through the 1970s. There was very limited reliance on data for either operations or planning because data was simply not available.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/atlanta\/print-edition\/2014\/02\/28\/there-has-been-a-dramatic-evolution-of.html\u0022\u003EView the article\u003C\/a\u003E(subscription required)\u0026nbsp;within the Atlanta Business Chronicle website.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDon Ratliff, executive director of ISyE\u2019s Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute wrote an article on the evolution of supply chain and logistics thinking for the February issue of the Atlanta Business Chronicle.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Don Ratliff featured in the Atlanta Business Chronicle"}],"uid":"27233","created_gmt":"2014-03-10 10:37:03","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:15:58","author":"Andy Haleblian","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-02-28T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-02-28T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"281911":{"id":"281911","type":"image","title":"Don Ratliff","body":null,"created":"1449244199","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:49:59","changed":"1475894976","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:36","alt":"Don Ratliff","file":{"fid":"198947","name":"don_ratliff_georgia_tech-600.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/don_ratliff_georgia_tech-600_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/don_ratliff_georgia_tech-600_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":18467,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/don_ratliff_georgia_tech-600_0.jpg?itok=JJaIhDO-"}},"281921":{"id":"281921","type":"image","title":"Atlanta Business Chronicle","body":null,"created":"1449244199","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:49:59","changed":"1475894976","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:36","alt":"Atlanta Business Chronicle","file":{"fid":"198948","name":"abc.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/abc_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/abc_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":11163,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/abc_0.jpg?itok=uBys-5nt"}}},"media_ids":["281911","281921"],"groups":[{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"9967","name":"Atlanta Business Chronicle"},{"id":"7977","name":"Don Ratliff"},{"id":"233","name":"Logistics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:info@scl.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Einfo@scl.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["info@scl.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}