CAREER: Designing Integrated Supply Chain Systems and Practical Market Mechanisms

该学院早期职业发展（Career）计划资助工具、算法和系统的开发，以解决集成供应链设计和管理问题以及有效市场设计问题。这一发展有三个主要组成部分。第一部分侧重于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位置模型。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。这一阶段的目标是使总运输和库存持有成本最小化，这可以通过协调库存补充策略和利用数量折扣效应的运输计划来实现。最后，为了达到全系统的效率，将发展市场机制，使买卖双方都有足够的动机参与市场，并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充分结合。一个主要目标是激发本科生对高级研究生学习的兴趣，让他们参与拟议的研究工作。如果成功，本研究的结果可以帮助公司设计可靠和高效的供应链，更好地管理他们的库存，以最低的成本实现非常高的客户满意度，并通过提供公平和高效的市场环境进一步增加他们的利润。这也将有助于我们理解真实供应链环境下的市场机制设计，这是建立供应链管理和市场设计之间重要接口知识库的重要一步。

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.