题目：Supply Chain Management Innovations
报告人：Dr. Yao Zhao
Department of Supply Chain Management and Marketing Science
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
时间：7月14日（周一）下午2:30
地点：力学楼314会议室

报告内容摘要：
Supply Chain Management is the practice of a group of firms working collaboratively in a network of interconnected processes structured to best satisfy end-customer needs while rewarding all members of the chain appropriately. In this talk, I will provide an introduction to some recent academic development in the area of supply chain management and their applications in industries. The talk consists of three parts: first, I will introduce some basic facts about supply chain management. Second, I will discuss how to optimize the supply chain within one firm by presenting a few theoretically challenging and practically important problems, such as, Assemble-to-Order systems, strategic inventory positioning and product-driven supply chains. Thirdly, I will discuss how to integrate the supply chain among multiple firms by addressing the issues of bullwhip effect, strategic alliances and pharmaceutical supply chain alignment. Given the time limit, my focus is on defining the problems rather than solving them.

报告人简介：
Dr. Yao Zhao is an associate professor of Supply Chain Management and Market Sciences at Rutgers Business School, Rutgers – the State University of New Jersey. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences from Northwestern University. He was a visiting professor at Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, and a visiting scholar at MIT Operations Research Center.
Dr. Zhao’s current research interests lie in supply chain management with a focus on control, design and integration of stochastic production-inventory systems. He has published papers in leading journals like Operations Research, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, IEEE Transactions of Automatic Control and Naval Research Logistics. He is the recipient of Honorable Mention of the 2001 student paper competition in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. In 2008, he receives an National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award on a project that integrates supply chain management and project management.
Dr. Zhao teaches core operations management and supply chain management courses for undergraduate, MBA, executive certificate and PhD programs at Rutgers Business School. Prior to joining Rutgers, he taught at Northwestern University School of Engineering.
Dr. Zhao has collaborated with Estee Launder Companies Inc. and Merck Manufacturing Division in the areas of forecasting and inventory control for new product introduction. Dr. Zhao also collaborated with General Motors on spare part operations.

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