The Georgia Tech Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL) provides global leadership for research and education in supply chain engineering. SCL’s mission is to enable supply chain professionals, businesses and international governments to transform complex supply chains, improve logistics performance and increase competitiveness by applying education, innovation and solutions (emerging practices). SCL is a unit of the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. The Stewart School is the largest Industrial Engineering program in the United States (more than sixty faculty members, 1000 undergraduate students and 400 graduate students). For seventeen consecutive years, U.S. News and World Report has ranked the Stewart School as the best undergraduate and graduate industrial engineering program in the United States.