本次研討會邀請了國內外供應鏈管理領域的六位教授就目前供應鏈管理研究的前沿問題展開討論。具體內容及時間安排如下：
講座（1）
題 目：Information Sharing in Competing Supply Chains with Cost Reduction
報告人：Prof. Albert Ha， School of Business，Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
時 間：6月20日（周五）8:50-9:40
地 點：行政樓128會議室
報告摘要：
In this talk, we discuss the issue of information sharing in supply chain management and present several mathematical models that have been developed to investigate the incentive for a retailer to share private demand information with a manufacturer. We consider several drivers such as contract form, types of competition, competition intensity, information accuracy and production cost that influence the incentive for information sharing.
報告人簡介：
Albert Y. Ha is Wei Lun Foundation Professor of Business and Chair Professor at the Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management (ISOM) at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Prior to joining HKUST, Professor Ha has served on the faculty of the School of Management of Yale University for ten years. At HKUST, he teaches Operations and Supply Chain Management for the MBA and EMBA programs.
Professor Ha’s research interests are in the areas of Supply Chain Management and Economics of Queuing Systems. He has published in major academic journals such as Management Science, Operations Research and Naval Research Logistics. He currently serves as a Department Editor of Production and Operations Management as well as an Associate Editor of Management Science, Operations Research and Manufacturing and Service Operations Management.
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講座（2）
題 目：Optimal Price Trajectory and Inventory Allocation for Inventory Dependent Demands
報告人：Prof. Naren Agrawal, Santa Clara University
時 間：6月20日（周五）10:00-10:50
地 點：行政樓128會議室
報告摘要：
Optimal pricing and markdown optimization continue to be significant challenges for retail chains. Past research and empirical studies have established that if designed carefully, these strategies can lead to considerable improvement in profit margins. In our work, we find that when combined with optimal inventory allocation policies, the results can be even more compelling. This is particularly true for short life-cycle, fashion goods. Allocating inventory to more stores helps capture a greater proportion of possible customer demand. However, demand for such products is often inventory dependent because larger inventories can create more attractive displays while low inventory levels can create broken assortments. Thus, there may be benefits resulting from inventory consolidation in a smaller number of stores. Moreover, there are also fixed costs associated with including an item in the assortment carried at a store. Our research jointly optimizes the shape of the optimal price trajectory and the optimal allocation of inventory across a set of non-identical stores with inventory dependent demand.
報告人簡介：
Professor Naren Agrawal is the Benjamin and Mae Swig Professor in the Department of Operations Management & Information Systems, and has served on the faculty since 1992.? He currently serves as the Associate Dean of Faculty.
His expertise is in the areas of supply chain management, service supply chain management, and manufacturing competitiveness.? He has published his research in journals such as Harvard Business Review, Interfaces, Operations Research, Naval Research Logistics, IIE Transactions, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Journal of Retailing, and Production and Operations Management.? He is a co-editor of a book titled Retail Supply Chain Management, and has contributed chapters in a number of books. He serves on the editorial review board of Production and Operations Management, and is an Associate Editor for MSOM.?
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講座（3）
題 目：The Supply Chain Finance Role of 3PL's Procurement Service
報告人：Dr. Xiangfeng Chen, Associate Professor, Fudan University
時 間：6月20日（周五）10:50-11:40
地 點：行政樓128會議室
報告摘要：
In this paper, we consider a manufacturer, a retailer, and a 3PL firm under a newsvendor framework. Our analysis indicates that there exists a Pareto zone where all firms benefit from the procurement service compared with the traditional pure logistics service. It is more likely for the procurement service to occur if the opportunity cost of capital is higher for the retailer than for the manufacturer. Furthermore, the Pareto zone enlarges as the number of retailers grows. Thus, the integrated procurement and logistics service is in effect a supply chain finance instrument for small and medium sized retailers, which is especially important in emerging economies where access to bank loans by these firms is extremely limited.
報告人簡介：
Dr. Xiangfeng Chen is an Associate Professor in Department of Management Science at School of Management at Fudan University. He has worked on more than twenty research projects, especially on the Interface between operations and finance management, and supply chain contracting. His research has been financially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China, Research Foundations of Sate Education Ministry of China, and Research Foundations of Shanghai. Professor Chen has published in Production and Operations Management, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Productions, Asia Pacific Journal of Operational Research, among others. He is the recipient of National Business Science & Technology Progress Award by the National Business League in 2004, Shanghai Science & Technology Progress Award by Science & Technology Awarding Committee Of Shanghai Municipality in 2001, and New Century Excellent Talent Program from Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China in 2010.
講座（4）
題 目：Posted Pricing versus Bargaining in Sequential Selling Process
報告人：Dr. Qi Annabelle Feng, Associate Professor, Purdue University
時 間：6月20日（周五）13:30-14:20
地 點：行政樓128會議室
報告摘要：
We study the role of bargaining in a firm's revenue management. The seller firm under consideration sequentially sells a fixed amount of stock to a random arrival stream of potential buyers over a finite selling season. The buyers are heterogeneous in their valuation of the product. Based on the stock level and the time to the end of the selling season, the seller may dynamically choose either to post a take-it-or-leave-it price or to engage in bargaining with an arriving buyer. A unique feature of our model is the linkage between the seller's disagreement point from a trade and her future value of the product, which differentiates our study from previous ones on revenue management with bargaining, as well as imposing analytical challenges.? We also discuss several variations of our model by including transaction-based bargaining cost, commission-based bargaining cost and a mixed buyer population with bargainers and non-bargainers. In contrast to what is uncovered in previous studies, our findings suggest that the seller choice of the selling mechanism is highly sensitive to the distributional properties of the buyer's valuation, highlighting the importance of appropriately modeling the seller's disagreement point in a sequential trading process.
報告人簡介：
Dr. Qi Annabelle Feng is an associate professor in Operations Management and the associate director of Dauch Center for Manufacturing Management Enterprises and Global Supply Chain Management Initiatives at Krannert School of Management, Purdue University.
Her main research interest lies in studying firms’ sourcing decisions in the broad context of supply chain management. Her work focuses on individual firm’s procurement planning in uncertain environment and multiple firms’ interactions in sourcing relationships. She also works in the areas of product development and proliferation management, resource planning, economic growth models, and management of information systems.
She is currently a Department Editor for Production and Operations Management. She received the first prize in the INFORMS Junior Faculty Paper Competition in 2009, Franz Edelman Award in 2009 and the Wickham Skinner Early-Career Research Accomplishment Award in 2012.
講座（5）
題 目：Resale Price Maintenance: Customer Service and Channel Breadth
報告人：Prof. Charles Arthur Ingene, University of Mississippi
時 間：6月20日（周五）14:20-15:10
地 點：行政樓128會議室
報告摘要：
Resale price maintenance (RPM) enables a manufacturer to constrain the prices that its retailers charge. To address the impact of RPM’s recent legalization, we derive a manufacturer’s globally-optimal RPM strategy when it distributes through competing, heterogeneous retailers who provide service that enhances product demand. Our analysis yields several insights into a manufacturer’s use of RPM. First, an optimal RPM strategy can entail a ceiling that lowers the price unconstrained retailers would charge, or a floor that raises retail prices. The choice of ceiling or floor depends on service effectiveness, retail heterogeneity, and retailer competition. Second, in some cases the manufacturer will impose a price floor that constrains the pricing flexibility of the smaller retailer, but does not directly impact the larger retailer. Third, there are scenarios in which a manufacturer chooses to not constrain prices even though it can legally do so. Fourth, the optimal application of RPM may cause the manufacturer to restrict channel breadth. Fifth, the optimal use of RPM often benefits the manufacturer while lowering total channel profit. Sixth, RPM always disadvantages the smaller retailer, but it sometimes benefits the larger retailer.
報告人簡介：
Professor Ingene has been a chaired professor at the University of Washington, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research includes employing game theory to assess pricing contracts in distribution channels; utilizing mathematical modeling to gauge pricing and location issues in retailing; and using uncertainty theory to investigate the economics of externalities, migration, and international trade. He has also used large-scale databases to explore retail productivity, competitive strategy, and determinants of medical expenditures.
Professor Ingene has published extensively in top academic journals, including Marketing Science, Management Science, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Retailing (JR), Marketing Letters, American Economic Review, and Harvard Business Review.
Professor Ingene was editor of the Journal of Retailing (1992 – 1996), and is currently an Associate Editor of JR.
講座（6）
題 目：Choosing the Right Exchange-Old-for-New Programs
報告人：Dr. Yongbo Xiao， Associate Professor， Tsinghua University
時 間：6月20日（周五）15:30-16:20
地 點：行政樓128會議室
報告摘要：
By offering to trade-in one unit of old product at a discounted price while selling new products, "exchange-old-for-new''(EON) programs have been considered efficient ways of expanding market for durable goods. Starting from the choice behavior of customers, this paper studies optimal pricing and remanufacturing decisions for firms that adopt the EON program. Specifically, considering a supply chain that consists of one manufacturer and one retailer, we investigate two business models: (i) In the manufacturer-initiated scenario, the manufacturer launches an EON program and owns all the old items that are returned; he remanufactures all (or a portion) of the old items and sells them to a secondary market. (ii) In the retailer-initiated scenario, any old items that are returned belong to the retailer; she remanufactures the old items and sells them to the secondary market.? An in-depth comparison between the optimal decisions in the two models is conducted in this paper. Based on a centralized supply chain as a benchmark, we devise an exchange-discount-sharing mechanism, which can be adopted in both scenarios, to coordinate the supply chain. Numerical experiments are conducted to show the profit impact for the supply chain members, which uncover interesting managerial insights for the proper adoption of the most efficient EON programs.
報告人簡介：
Dr. Yongbo Xiao is an Associate Professor at School of Economics and Management (SEM), Tsinghua University. Dr. Xiao’s research interests include revenue and pricing management, service management, and supply chain management. Dr. Xiao has published over 30 papers in International and Chinese refereed journals, such as Production and Operations Management, Decision Sciences, Naval Research Logistics, IIE Transactions, Computers and Operations Research.
Dr. Xiao has also served as Director Assistant of Research Center for Contemporary Management (RCCM), Tsinghua University (2008.8-2014.2), Deputy Secretary General of Professional Committee in Economics & Management Systems of China Automation Association (2013 - present), and Member of Young Scholar Committee of “Chinese Society of Optimization, Overall Planning, and Economical Mathematics” (2011.10-2015.10). Dr. Xiao is the winner of a Third-class Award for Progress in Science and Technology of Beijing (2005) and Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholar under NSFC (2012).
