The UTCC Logistics Research Center(LRC) exists to provide consultation and research services to both the government and private organizations in order to ensure and enhance their competitiveness at the international level.

International free trade agreements (FTAs) have intensified business competition. In response, procurers, producers, carriers, suppliers, wholesalers, and retailers have networked and worked together to increase their operational effectiveness. The concept of the mentioned collaboration is known as supply chain. Each unit in the supply chain is connected by a logistics operation. As a result, the effectiveness of each link in the supply chain depends on how well the logistics system is managed. For that reason, a well-organized logistics system will reduce the company's total cost and consequently increase its profit. In addition to the highly competitive trading situation at the moment, the future FTAs will even take the competition to a more intensive level, hence the need to uphold and upgrade corporate logistics system. To demonstrate the significance of logistics management, some have claimed that the country's economic development relies on it. And that does not sound exaggerating at all.

Industrial management involves various aspects such as planning, organizing, production, human resource, teamwork, human relation, safety in the workplace, and industrial laws. Besides conducting researches on the supply chain management, the LRC also aims to assist industrial businesses in raising their effectiveness of the industry-related aspects mentioned above. This will, consequently, increase the productivity, and simultaneously decrease the loss of time, labor, and capital.

LRC is equipped with high profile teams and high-tech tools. Teams of faculty, researchers, scientists, engineers, and experts from both the government and private sectors collaborate to provide consultation to our valuable clients.

LRC possesses various kinds of state-of-the-art hardware and software related to logistics and industrial management. Examples of the mentioned hardware are:

1. Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS)
2. Computer Numerical Control (CNC)
3. Rapid Prototyping (RP)
4. Electro Deposition Machine (EDM)

And some of our highlighted software are:

1. Arena, Awesim/Slam
2. Cube Voyager, Cube Cargo
3. Axapta(Enterprise Resourge Planning)
4. Packaging Design
5. Forecast Pro(Business Forecasting)
6. Statistica(Statistics and Analytics)

Our teams and tools stand ready for tasks such as the intensive and the comprehensive training courses, research service, consultation, and product design (CAD/CAM)