定于11月28日（下周一）上午10:30—12:00分在行政大楼11楼会议室举办《管工学术沙龙之三十》
讲座题目：A rethink of supply chain coordination
主讲人：Dr. Yanzhi Li（博士，香港城市大学副教授）
主持人：周伟华副教授
来宾简介：
Bio: Dr. Yanzhi Li is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Management Sciences, City University of Hong Kong. He received his PhD from the Department of Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2006 and his Bachelor degree from Computer Science Department, Tsinghua University in 2002. His research is primarily on logistics, operations and supply chain management, with a recent focus on perishable inventory control and sustainable operations management. He received the College Research Award from CityU in 2009 and the INFORMS Junior Faculty Paper Competition Finalist award in 2011.
报告简介：
Abstract: In this talk, we question the conventional notion of supply chain coordination. A contract is said to coordinate the supply chain if the set of supply chain optimal actions is Nash equilibrium. We ask the question that who cares supply chain optimal and why it should care. We show that in realistic situations, a firm may actually benefit from deviating from a coordinating contract. The reality seems to imply that firms are simply maximizing their own interest by adopting the form of the so-called "coordinating contracts". From this perspective, we interpret why in practice the full-credit return policy, rather than the partial-credit policy as suggested by the literature, is so prevalent in practice. The new perspective also provides a possibility to explain why one contractual form is adopted rather than another though they are considered equivalent in coordinating supply chains.
