{"655490":{"#nid":"655490","#data":{"type":"news","title":"SCL Welcomes Yentai Wan of UPS to its Industry Advisory Board","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EYentai Wan currently serves as Lead Director of the Network Planning \u0026amp; Optimization (NPT) Program in the UPS Corporate Industrial Engineering group. As a critical part of the UPS Smart Logistics Network Strategy, the NPT Program provides visibility across its transportation network by utilizing predictive analytics, simulation, and operations research algorithms. These capabilities help provide the needed insight to make better, faster decisions as well as provide cost effective results at a high quality of service.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Wan has demonstrated intrapreneurship by building a profitable start-up department and mobilizing top-tier talent to create high performing cultures that consistently achieve business goals in a dynamic and volatile business environment. His primary responsibilities are to (a) improve network planning processes, (b) generate network efficiencies, and (c) support strategic initiatives across the enterprise through institution of an elastic and self-healing network optimization platform. Yentai joined UPS in 2007 as an Enterprise Network Planning Manager in Corporate Transportation and also served as Director of Transportation Operations Research \u0026amp; Analytics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYentai was born and raised in Taipei City, Taiwan. He came to the United States in 2000 to advance his education and later earn a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering (ISyE) from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to joining UPS, he served as investigator of research projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation and as an R\u0026amp;D Scientist in an industry-leading supply chain software company. Dr. Wan lives in Alpharetta, Georgia and when not working, enjoys traveling across North America and Northeast Asia.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Supply Chain and Logistics Institute is honored to have part of the Georgia Tech and ISyE family rejoin us to help shape our future.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Wan\u0026nbsp;brings extensive transportation planning and optimization experience as well as intrapreneurship leadership skills to the board.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"We are very happy to have part of the Georgia Tech and ISyE family rejoin us to help determine SCL\u0027s future direction."}],"uid":"27233","created_gmt":"2022-02-15 14:59:43","changed_gmt":"2022-02-16 13:55:18","author":"Andy Haleblian","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-02-16T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2022-02-16T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"655489":{"id":"655489","type":"image","title":"Yentai Wan, Lead Director\u2013Network Planning \u0026 Optimization Program, UPS Corporate Industrial Engineering Group","body":null,"created":"1644936844","gmt_created":"2022-02-15 14:54:04","changed":"1645018963","gmt_changed":"2022-02-16 13:42:43","alt":"Yentai \u0022Vincent\u0022 Wan","file":{"fid":"248504","name":"Vincent-Wan.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Vincent-Wan.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Vincent-Wan.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":23367,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Vincent-Wan.jpg?itok=3G-bGCuH"}}},"media_ids":["655489"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/people\/industry-advisory-board","title":"SCL Industry Advisory Board members"}],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"},{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"178600","name":"Industry Advisory Board"},{"id":"143871","name":"Physical Internet Center"},{"id":"581","name":"advisory board"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39461","name":"Manufacturing, Trade, and Logistics"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["info@scl.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}