管工学术沙龙之三十八：香港科技大学Rachel Zhang（张荃）教授的学术报告
时间：4月6日（周五）下午14:00
地点：体育外围平台APP大楼11楼会议室
主持人：周伟华 副教授
讲座主题：
Should Purchasing Activities be Outsourced along with Production?
When outsourcing its production to a contract manufacturer, a brand name company may also let the manufacturer take over the procurement of raw materials so as to focus on core competencies. However, by outsourcing the purchasing function, the brand name company may lose control over the quality of purchased materials, which may in turn damage its brand name and market share. In this paper, we study ways by which a brand name company can control the input material quality when outsourcing its procurement activities. Specifically, we consider a supply chain consisting of one brand name company, one contract manufacturer and a pool of material suppliers, each associated with a distinct quality level. The prices that the brand name company and the contract manufacturer are able to obtain from the suppliers depend on their bargaining power which may be private information. We show that a well-designed procurement outsourcing contract can motivate the contract manufacturer to select higher quality materials. We also propose a material inspection strategy for fraud prevention and quality assurance in procurement outsourcing. Finally, we discuss the possibility of the brand name company ceding contracting rights to the contract manufacturer.
来宾简介：
Rachel Q. Zhang is Professor in Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She received her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences in 1994 from Northwestern University and was previously a faculty member in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at University of Michigan, and the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. Her research interests lie in the general area of operations management and the interface of operations, finance and marketing. Her research has appeared in such journals as Operations Research, Management Science, Interfaces, IIE Transactions, Naval Research Logistics, and Advances in Applied Probability. She received an honorable mention in the INFORMS Nicholson Paper Competition in 1994 and an early-career award (CAREER) from the US National Science Foundation in 1995.
She co-chaired the MSOM Conference in June 2000, served as an MSOM cluster co-chair for the INFORMS National Meeting in Fall 1998, and the program chair for the 2006 IFORS conference. She also served as a member of the INFORMS Nicholson Competition Award Committee, the MSOM Student Paper Competition, Junior Faculty at INFORMS Paper Competition Committee, POMS SCM Student Paper Competition and a panelist for the National Science Foundation in 2000. She also chaired the IIE Transaction (Scheduling and Logistics) Best Paper Award and is currently the Chair of the IIE Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award. She was the secretary of INFORMS Women in OR/MS during 1999-2000.
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