Welcome to Center for Excellence in Logistics and Distribution (CELDi) at University of Missouri-Columbia.

CELDi is an applied research and education consortium consisting of:

• Six major research universities;
• More than 30 member organizations from commercial, military and government sectors of the economy;
• The National Science Foundation (NSF)
• CELDi has the mission of enabling member organizations to achieve logistics and distribution excellence by delivering meaningful, innovative and implementable solutions that provide a return on investment.

CELDi partnerships achieve logistics and distribution excellence by:

• Solving real problems that achieve bottom-line impact;
• Graduating students with real-world project experience;
• Producing generalized, cutting-edge research that is published in leading journals;
• Sharing research results among member organizations to leverage intellectual and monetary capital
  Our member organizations specialize in distribution, transportation, manufacturing, information technology and software solutions.