{"47642":{"#nid":"47642","#data":{"type":"news","title":"SCL to Open Logistics Center in Costa Rica on Aug. 20","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDonald Ratliff, UPS and Regents\u0027 Professor in ISyE and executive director of the Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics (SCL) Institute at Georgia Tech, was recently interviewed by \u003Cem\u003EGlobalAtlanta\u003C\/em\u003E to discuss the opening of a new logistics center in Costa Rica.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWritten by David Beasley, the article announces that Georgia Tech on August 20 will open a center in Costa Rica aimed at improving foreign trade by helping companies there get products to market faster and more efficiently. Located in the capital city of San Jose, the Trade-Chain Innovation and Productivity (TIP) Center is designed to teach graduate students and company executives how to improve supply chains and logistics. It will also serve as an important research center in those fields. \u0022Supply chains and logistics are fundamental to trade,\u0022 said Ratliff. \u0022It would be impossible for anyone to be good at trade that doesn\u0027t have good supply chain and logistics capabilities.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information and to view a ten-minute interview with Dr. Ratliff, please visit:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.globalatlanta.com\/article\/17407\/\u0027\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.globalatlanta.com\/article\/17407\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Donald Ratliff, UPS and Regents\u0027 Professor in ISyE and executive director of the Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics (SCL) Institute at Georgia Tech, was recently interviewed by GlobalAtlanta to discuss the opening of a new logistics center in Costa Rica.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"SCL to Open Logistics Center in Costa Rica on Aug. 20"}],"uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2009-06-22 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:53","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-06-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-06-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"47643":{"id":"47643","type":"image","title":"Donald Ratliff, executive director of Georgia Tech\u0027s Supply Chain \u0026 Logistics Institute","body":null,"created":"1449175354","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:42:34","changed":"1475894447","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:47","alt":"Donald Ratliff, executive director of Georgia Tech\u0027s Supply Chain \u0026 Logistics Institute","file":{"fid":"190126","name":"don-ratliff_web.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/don-ratliff_web_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/don-ratliff_web_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":43220,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/don-ratliff_web_0.jpg?itok=GD3SDGrq"}}},"media_ids":["47643"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"131","name":"Economic Development and Policy"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"235","name":"Center"},{"id":"234","name":"Costa Rica"},{"id":"233","name":"Logistics"},{"id":"237","name":"Productivity"},{"id":"167074","name":"Supply Chain"},{"id":"236","name":"Trade Chain Innovation"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}