CAREER: Project-Driven Supply Chains (PDSCs) -- Integrating Supply Chain Planning With Project Management

这个教师早期职业发展（Career）项目奖的研究目标是在项目驱动的供应链（PDSCs）中创建新的模型来共同做出材料供应决策和项目管理决策。大多数现实世界的项目在不同阶段都需要材料供应。因此，PDSC是项目活动和材料供应链的组合，后者的需求是由前者的材料需求驱动的。供应链决策（如物料计划、库存控制）和项目管理决策（如资源计划、项目调度）在pdsc中相互交织。该研究将整合供应链管理和项目管理的最新进展，以创建模型和解决方案算法，帮助企业在不确定的PDSCs中协调这些决策。研究方法从简单的PDSCs发展到现实约束下的一般PDSCs，从确定性逼近发展到随机建模，从集中优化问题发展到分散机制设计问题。如果成功，该研究将把供应链计划和项目管理纳入一个综合解决方案，通过项目活动计划简化材料供应，从而降低系统范围内的成本和缩短项目持续时间。它通过提供模型、结构结果、规划工具和管理见解来指导企业在不确定情况下协调项目决策和材料供应链决策的行动。研究结果将通过罗格斯供应链管理中心和罗格斯勒纳药物管理研究中心传播给制药、制造和医疗保健机构。该研究的成果将通过引入新的模块，将项目管理与耗材供应链管理结合起来，并应用于制造业、建筑业和产品开发，从而革新当前的运营管理标准课程。研究生和本科生也将通过参与案例研究和研究而受益。

The research objective of this Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award is the creation of new models to make material supply decisions and project management decisions jointly in project-driven supply chains (PDSCs). Most real world projects require material supplies at various stages. Thus, a PDSC is a combination of project activities and material supply chains where the demand for the latter is driven by the material requirement of the former. Supply chain decisions (e.g., material planning, inventory control) and project management decisions (e.g., resource planning, project scheduling) are intertwined in PDSCs. The research will integrate recent advances in supply chain management and project management to create models and solution algorithms that can help firms coordinate these decisions in PDSCs under uncertainty. The research approach progresses from simple PDSCs to general PDSCs under real-world constraints, from deterministic approximations to stochastic modeling, and from centralized optimization issues to decentralized mechanism design issues. If successful, the research will bring supply chain planning and project management into an integrated solution that streamlines material supplies with project activity planning, and thus leads to both reduced system-wide cost and reduced project durations. It does so by providing models, structural results, planning tools and managerial insights that can guide firms' actions in coordinating project decisions and material supply chain decisions under uncertainty. The results will be disseminated through Rutgers Center for Supply Chain Management and Rutgers Lerner Center for Pharmaceutical Management Studies to pharmaceutical, manufacturing and healthcare organizations. The outcomes of the research will renovate current standard curricula in operations management by introducing new modules that integrate project management with supply chain management for consumable materials, with applications in manufacturing, construction and product development. Graduate and undergraduate students will also benefit through involvement in case studies and research.