Chicago Booth Launches GEP Center for Supply Chain Innovation and Applied Technologies

Published on July 23, 2026

With support from GEP, the school will create a hub for research, education, and industry collaboration focused on the future of supply chains and emerging technologies. 

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business will establish the GEP Center for Supply Chain Innovation and Applied Technologies, which will bring together scholarship in the burgeoning field of supply chain management and leverage the rising impact of agentic AI and data to improve the world’s value chains. This new center has been made possible by a generous commitment from GEP, a leading AI-native procurement and supply chain firm. It is Chicago Booth’s thirteenth research center.

Read the full article at the Chicago Booth website. 

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