Stanford faculty and students may also hold or participate in roundtables that conduct studies on benchmarking and best practice identification. The Forum also brings faculty and students from different schools, departments and disciplines together to work on research projects. These projects focus on problems representative of those found by participating companies. They consist of theoretical and model based research, empirical research, and detailed field-based studies of supply chain problems. Collaboration with industrial researchers is encouraged in order to insure that projects realistically represent the phenomena faced by companies in designing and managing their supply chains.
Special attention is paid to issues associated with global supply chains.
Finally, the Forum is the focal point in which teaching materials, cases, videos, games, and teaching notes are developed for use in university teaching programs for undergraduates, graduates and executives. They can also be a resource for industrial participants of the Forum in their in-house training programs. The Forum also serves as a platform to support joint development of teaching materials and courses with academic institutions outside Stanford, especially those outside of the U.S. so as to develop programs on the global aspects of supply chain management. Right to attend Annual Symposium on New Innovations and Industry Practices. Research reports and papers.