Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA), as a Jesuit Institution, passionately endeavours to train professionally competent managers imbued with a sense of justice, Integrity, honesty and ethical values. The aim is the creation of a cadre of socially responsible business leaders committed to the upliftment of the poor and marginalized. The Jesuit charisma impels the students passing through the portals of LIBA, to build bridges between business and society, competence and compassion, and profit making and ethical conduct. One of our attempts at encouraging and promoting this ideal among the business world was the institution of the Mother Teresa Award for Corporate Citizen. Yet another milestone was the establishment of the Centre for Business Ethics and Corporate Governance instituted to mark the silver jubilee year of LIBA. In continuum, LIBA has established the Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management.

The modern business is challenging as the customer expectations have gone up phenomenally and also choice of units of demand has grown exponentially. Also no longer customers are willing to wait and want the companies to be highly responsive. Fortunately, the advancement in technology and adoption of best practices in engineering, design, manufacture and movement of goods have made supply chain domain vibrant and challenging. Ability to synchronize the players across the supply network to satisfy the ultimate customer and in the process optimizing resources and profitability of the focal organization ahs increasingly become top attentive issue of corporate. Be it automotive, or pharmaceutical, consumer goods or even services synchronization supply chain network has become the core issue. Increasingly one would come across management challenges how to optimize resources and profits among players in stead of looking each one in a silo.