Union Minister for Commerce & Industry, Shri Piyush Goyal on September 23, 2021 inaugurated the ‘Centre of Excellence in Logistics and Supply Chain Management’ at the National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai.
- The Centre will act as a driving force to train and launch top quality programs to disseminate advanced knowledge and promote Digitisation, Analytics, and IoT Application and Decision Support Systems through Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning applications and Digital Twin and Control towers, to strengthen the monitoring and analysis of complex logistics operations.
- The Centre will carry out research projects to find innovative solutions in collaboration with industry and national and international bodies.
- The focus will be on Logistics and Supply Chain Management along with sustainability and green supply chains.