Supply Chain Management Strategies and Methodologies: Experiences from Latin America

Jorge Luis García Alcaraz is a full-time researcher of the Department of Industrial Engineering at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez. He received an MSc in Industrial Engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico de Colima (Mexico), a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Instituto Tecnológico de Ciudad Juárez (Mexico), a Ph.D. in Innovation in Product Engineering and Industrial Process from University of La Rioja (Spain) and a Postdoc in Manufacturing Process from University of La Rioja (Spain). His main research areas are the multicriteria decision-making and techniques applied to lean manufacturing, production processes, and supply chain modeling. He is a founding member of the Mexican Society of Operation Research and an active member of the Mexican Academy of Industrial Engineering. He is a national researcher recognized by the National Council of Science & Technology of Mexico (CONACYT) as Level II.

Diego Fernando Manotas Duque is a full-time professor and directorof the School of Industrial Engineering at Universidad del Valle. Cali - Colombia. He received an M.Sc. in Management Sciences from the Universidad de Chile and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Universidad del Valle. He holds a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from Universidad del Valle, in Cali, Colombia. His main research areas are supply chain finance, energy economics, and financial modeling. He leads the Quantitative Finance Research Group. This research group has been recognized as A1, the highest rating in Colombia. He is currently leading several research projects related to supply chain modeling in the energy sector. He is a member of the International Association of Energy Economics. Currently, he is a Senior National Researcher recognized by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MINCIENCIAS).

Rosa G. González-Ramírez is an associate professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences of the Universidad de Los Andes in Chile. She holds a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from the Technologic Institute of Morelia in Mexico, a master's degree in industrial engineering from Arizona State University in the USA; a master's degree in quality systems and productivity, and a Ph.D. in engineering sciences from Monterrey Tech in Mexico. Her research areas are logistics and transport of cargo, maritime shipping and port operations, port governance, competitiveness and performance/efficiency, port gender equity, and inter-organizational information systems in ports. She also works in production planning, vehicle routing problems, and agricultural supply chains (harvesting and distribution) with a special focus on small producers. She has been working on several applied research projects with several ports in Chile to address different planning problems at container terminals for maritime operations, container handling at the yard, and truck coordination at the gate. She has also analyzed different aspects such as port competitiveness, port efficiency, and gender equity, as well as the identification of port disturbances during the COVID-19 pandemic. She teaches the courses of Operations Management and Logistics for undergraduate students.

Mario Gustavo Chong Chong is the professor and member of the Research Center (CUIP), at Universidad del Pacífico. He holds a Ph.D. in Business Management from Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, a Master's in Industrial Engineering, and a Master's in Systems Engineering, both from Universidad de Lima. He is an industrial engineer from Universidad de Lima. He has completed a certification in Supply Chain Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has experience in developing research projects related to business strategy, supply chain, operations, global business, agribusiness, and rural associativity. He is the director of the Peruvian Association of Professionals in Logistics (APPROLOG). He is an international member of theSystem Dynamics Society (SD). He has been an associate dean of business engineering, coordinator of special projects, corporate and international program development director, academic director of the master's programs in Business Administration (MBA), Global Business, Agribusiness, and Food and Supply Chain Management at Universidad del Pacífico.

Irineu de Brito Junior is a professor of Risk Management at Sao Paulo State University (Unesp), São José dos Campos, Brazil, invited professor of Humanitarian Logistics at University of São Paulo (USP), and humanitarian logistics instructor at Civil Defense and United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). He received his B.S. in Industrial Engineering; M.Sc. in Logistics Engineering, and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of São Paulo, USP. Currently, he is a POMS Latin America & Caribbean Treasurer. His humanitarian research interests are in facility location, food security, donations management, and social impacts ofCOVID-19.

Jorge Luis García Alcaraz是墨西哥Ciudad Juárez自治大學工業工程系的全職研究員。他在墨西哥的Colima工業技術學院獲得工業工程碩士學位，墨西哥Ciudad Juárez工業技術學院獲得工業工程博士學位，西班牙La Rioja大學獲得產品工程和工業過程創新博士學位，以及西班牙La Rioja大學的製造過程博士後研究。他的主要研究領域是多準則決策和應用於精益生產、生產過程和供應鏈建模的技術。他是墨西哥運營研究學會的創始成員，也是墨西哥工業工程學會的活躍成員。他是墨西哥國家科學與技術委員會(CONACYT)認可的國家級研究員，被評為二級研究員。

Diego Fernando Manotas Duque是哥倫比亞Cali - Universidad del Valle工業工程學院的全職教授和院長。他在智利大學獲得管理科學碩士學位，哥倫比亞Cali的Valle大學獲得電氣工程博士學位。他在哥倫比亞Cali的Valle大學獲得工業工程學士學位。他的主要研究領域是供應鏈金融、能源經濟學和金融建模。他領導著量化金融研究小組，該研究小組在哥倫比亞被評為最高等級A1。他目前領導著幾個與能源行業供應鏈建模相關的研究項目。他是國際能源經濟學協會的成員。目前，他是哥倫比亞科學、技術和創新部(MINCIENCIAS)認可的高級國家研究員。

Rosa G. González-Ramírez是智利Los Andes大學工程與應用科學學院的副教授。她在墨西哥Morelia的Technologic學院獲得工業工程學士學位，美國亞利桑那州立大學獲得工業工程碩士學位，以及墨西哥蒙特雷理工大學的質量系統和生產力碩士學位，以及工程科學博士學位。她的研究領域包括貨物物流和運輸、海運和港口運營、港口治理、競爭力和績效/效率、港口性別平等以及港口間組織信息系統。她還在生產計劃、車輛路線問題和農業供應鏈(收穫和分銷)方面進行研究，特別關注小型生產者。她與智利的幾個港口合作進行了多個應用研究項目，以解決集裝箱碼頭的不同規劃問題，包括海運操作、堆場的集裝箱處理以及門口的卡車協調。她還分析了港口競爭力、港口效率和性別平等等不同方面，以及COVID-19大流行期間港口干擾的識別。她教授本科生的運營管理和物流課程。

Mario Gustavo Chong Chong是秘魯太平洋大學的教授和研究中心(CUIP)的成員。他擁有秘魯國立聖馬爾科斯大學的商業管理博士學位，利馬大學的工業工程碩士學位和系統工程碩士學位。他是利馬大學的工業工程師。他在麻省理工學院(MIT)完成了供應鏈管理的認證。他在商業戰略、供應鏈、運營、全球商業、農業和農村合作等方面開展了研究項目。他是秘魯物流專業協會(APPROLOG)的主席。他是國際系統動力學協會的國際成員。