Kim is a Supply Chain Director at TRIUMF, leading the procurement and logistics divisions for Canada’s national particle accelerator centre. She has 15 years of experience specializing in procurement, vendor management, and supply chain management. Kim has led cross-functional teams, built supplier relationships across cultures and continents, and managed multimillion dollar contracts in different industries. She is also a part-time faculty member teaching project management and supply chain management at a number of post-secondary institutions.

Kim’s doctoral research will investigate the effect of skilled labour shortages on supply chains. The labour shortages will not only continue but increase in severity in the coming decade due to lack of replacement for the retiring workforce, and the widening differential between the skills the market demands, and the skills workers possess. Kim will seek to determine how companies can overcome this problem to protect their supply chains which are inherently labour-intensive. Relying on recruitment and higher compensation may not be enough. Will automation and robotics be needed to reduce reliance on human labour? Will firms move production from traditionally more cost-effective offshore facilities to domestic facilities to minimize logistics complexity? Her research will seek to answer these questions.

Kim holds a Bachelor of Mathematics (BMath) and a Master of Applied Science (MASc) from the University of Waterloo.  She is also a Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) and a Project Management Professional (PMP). Kim is the author of the Supply Chain Management II textbook and the online learning system including lecture videos and lesson slides for the International University of Applied Sciences (IU) in Germany.

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