CAREER: Coordination of Transportation and Inventory Decision - Premises, Models, and Justification

该学院早期职业发展（CAREER）赠款为综合物流管理的最新工业趋势的调查提供资金。主要集中在最近的供应链举措，使运输和库存决策的整合。 感兴趣的具体计划包括供应商管理库存（VMI），第三方仓储/配送（3 PW/D）和时间确定交付（TDD）应用程序。在这些举措下，通过仔细将装运战略与库存补充决策结合起来，可以实现大量节省。 当运输策略要求整合计划时，这种影响尤其明显，在整合计划中，将几个较小的交付作为一个组合负载发送，实现运输固有的规模经济。本研究课题是基于对该领域的分析研究的需要，对VMI、3 PW/D、TDD等协议下的发货合并和库存控制决策进行协调的综合政策进行分析，研究目的是建立模型框架，并从理论上理解这些供应链举措背景下的综合问题。我们的目标是要解决的问题，在什么条件下集成工程，并提供深入了解分销政策的设计和运营控制。 该职业计划的研究议程是与工业界合作制定的。因此，如果成功的话，结果将提供一个更好地了解现实生活中的集成问题，在供应链的做法。 在教育方面，为了应对对新一代物流工程师日益增长的需求，该职业计划建立在工业合作的基础上。 与业界合作，将开发统一综合物流实践和理论的新教材和课程，并设计新的学生项目，以满足学生在这一新兴领域追求职业生涯的需求。

This Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant provides funding for an investigation of the latest industrial trends in integrated logistical management. The major concentration is on recent supply chain initiatives enabling the integration of transportation and inventory decisions. The specific initiatives of interest include Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI), Third Party Warehousing/Distribution (3PW/D), and Time Definite Delivery (TDD) applications. Under these initiatives, substantial savings are realizable by carefully incorporating a shipment strategy with inventory replenishment decisions. The impact is particularly tangible when the shipment strategy calls for a consolidation program where several smaller deliveries are dispatched as a combined load realizing the scale economies inherent in transportation. Recognizing a need for analytical research in the field, this project concentrates on analysis of integrated policies where shipment consolidation and inventory control decisions are coordinated under VMI, 3PW/D, and TDD agreements.The research objective is to develop a modeling framework and theoretical understanding of integration issues in the context of these supply chain initiatives. The goal is to address the question of under what conditions integration works and to render insights into distribution policy design and operational control. The research agenda of this career plan has been developed in collaboration with industry. Hence, if successful, the results will provide a better understanding of real-life integration problems in supply chain practices. On the educational side, in response to a growing demand for a new generation of logistics engineers, this career plan builds on industrial collaboration. In partnership with industry, new educational materials and courses that unify the practice and theory of integrated logistics will be developed, and new student projects will be designed to satisfy the needs of students in pursuit of careers in this emerging field.