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Bartholdi Presents Keynote at ORSSA

Atlanta (October 5, 2009) — Professor John J. Bartholdi, III, Manhattan Associates Chair in Supply Chain Management at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), was invited to present the opening and closing keynote addresses at Operations Research Society of South Africa (ORSSA) Conference in September. During both presentations, Bartholdi discussed the applications of operations research within the warehouse to increase efficiency.

The 38th Annual ORSSA Conference was held on the main campus of University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. ORSSA exists primarily to further the interests of those engaged in, or interested in, operations research activities. For more information on the conference visit: http://www.orssa.org.za

Professor Bartholdi teaches supply chain issues, primarily warehousing, at the graduate level at ISyE. He also directs the Warehousing and Distribution Center at Georgia Tech's Supply Chain & Logistics Institute. His research, which centers on problems in warehousing and distribution, has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Defense Logistics Agency, the Office of Naval Research, and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, among others.

The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the nation's premier research universities. Ranked seventh among U.S. News & World Report's top public universities, Georgia Tech's more than 19,000 students are enrolled in its Colleges of Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Management and Sciences. Tech is among the nation's top producers of women and African-American engineers. The Institute offers research opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate students and is home to more than 100 interdisciplinary units plus the Georgia Tech Research Institute.