【主题】Improving Supply Chain Performance: Real-Time Demand Information and Responsive Deliveries
【时间】2007-11-1515:00
【地点】清华经管学院 伟伦楼335
【语言】英文
【内容摘要】
We investigate how to improve the performance of a supply chain, in which
each location has only local information and replenishes its inventory in
fixed time intervals. To model such a supply chain, we consider a serial
inventory system with local (s,T) policies. Two strategies are considered:
1) expanding the information flow by acquiring real-time demand information;
and 2) accelerating the material flow via responsive deliveries. We show
that comparing costs in these scenarios is equivalent to comparing costs
between the local (s,T) policy and two other well-studied inventory
policies, namely, the echelon (s,T) and the continuous-review local (r,Q)
policies.
【主讲人简介】
Sean Zhou received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Zhejiang
University, China in 2001 and his Master and Ph.D. in Operations Research
from North Carolina State University in 2002 and 2006, respectively. He
joined the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management at
the Chinese University of Hong Kong as an assistant professor in July 2006.
His main research area is supply chain management, more specifically,
inventory theory, production planning, game theoretic applications. | 
