CAREER: Designing Integrated Supply Chain Systems and Practical Market Mechanisms

该学院的早期职业发展(CALEAR)建议为工具、算法和系统的开发提供资金，以解决综合供应链设计和管理问题以及有效市场设计问题。这一发展包括三个主要组成部分。第一个重点是战略供应链设计模型，其中库存理论的结果和见解将被纳入选址模型。一旦建立了供应链配置，第二个组成部分强调更好地管理供应链库存。这一阶段的目标是最小化总发货和库存持有成本，这可以通过协调库存补充策略和利用数量折扣效应的发货计划来实现。最后，为了实现全系统的效率，将建立市场机制，使买卖双方都有足够的动力参与市场，实现有效的资源配置。这项研究将通过研究生和本科生的参与，与教育计划完全结合起来。其中一个主要目标是通过让本科生参与拟议的研究努力来激发他们对高级研究生学习的兴趣。如果成功，本研究成果可以帮助企业设计可靠高效的供应链，更好地管理库存，以最低成本实现非常高的客户满意度，并通过提供公平高效的市场环境进一步增加利润。它还将有助于我们理解真实供应链环境下的市场机制设计，这是朝着开发关于供应链管理和市场设计之间的重要接口的知识库迈出的重要一步。

This Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER)proposes to fund the development of tools, algorithms, and systems that address the integrated supply chain design and management problem and the efficient market design problem. There are three major components in this development. The first one focuses on the strategic supply chain design models, in which results and insights from inventory theory will be incorporated into the location models. Once the supply chain configuration is established, the second component emphasizes the better management of supply chain inventory. The objective at this stage is to minimize the total shipment and inventory holding costs, which can be achieved by coordinating the inventory replenishment strategy with the shipment plan that exploits the quantity discount effect. Finally, in order to reach system-wide efficiency, market mechanisms will be developed that can provide both buyers and sellers with enough incentives to participate in the market and to achieve efficient resource allocation. This research will be fully integrated with the educational program through the participation of both graduate and undergraduate students. One primary goal is to stimulate undergraduate students' interest in advanced graduate study by involving them in the proposed research efforts. If successful, the results of this research can help companies design reliable and efficient supply chains, better manage their inventories to achieve very high customer satisfaction at minimum costs, and further increase their profits by providing a fair and efficient market environment. It will also contribute to our understanding of market mechanism design under real supply chain settings, which constitutes a major step towards the development of the knowledgebase on the important interfaces between supply chain management and market design.