Supply Chain Management Research Group

The Supply Chain Managment (SCM) and Business to Business (B2B) research group at Deakin University studies and examines various aspects of SCM and B2B eCommerce technologies and approaches. The group consists of Deakin's academic staff members and post-graduate students undertaking research in the area of SCM and B2B eCommerce.

Group Members

Caroline Chan (Convenor)
Darryl Coulthard
Bardo Fraunholz
Susan Keller
Chia Yao Lee
Craig Parker
Dilal Saundage

Industry partner

The SCM Research Group has been associated with GS1 Australia for over 10 years and has involved collaboration on a number of consultancy and research projects.

GS1 Australia is a non-profit organisation that locally administers the global multi-industry system of identification and communication for products, services, assets and locations - the EAN.UCC system.

Created to help Australian business enterprises to become more efficient, our fundamental role is to allocate EAN.UCC numbers and bar codes,and maintaining internationally accepted trading standards in electronic commerce. This in turn, allows Australian organisations to adopt worlds' best practice supply chain management techniques.

EAN.UCC numbers and bar codes permit organisations of any size to order, track, trace, deliver and pay for goods across the supply chain, anywhere in the world. Coupled with standards in e-messaging, the EAN.UCC system allows all these organisations to participate in Business-to-Business e-commerce.