【报告题目】Leveraging Consumer Technology to Learn Demand Information in Lieu of Supply Chain Collaboration【报告人】岳晓航 教授【邀请人】王建军 教授【时间及地点】2019年1月2日(周三) 上午9:00-11:00 管经学部B312【报告摘要】Supply chain collaborations have traditionally been enabled by inter-organizational systems such as electronic data interchanges (EDI) and business-to-business (B2B) platforms. Demand information sharing has been one of the cornerstones of these efforts. However, such collaborations are not always realized due to implementation impediments (e.g., cost, training, etc.) or lack of trust between involved firms. In this paper, we examine a recent innovative program that exploits a ubiquitous mobile phone technology to acquire demand information directly from consumers. However, the information acquired from consumers is a censored version of the information that could be acquired through supply chain collaboration. We present a simple procedure to “recover”the true demand information over time from that acquired from consumers. We show that the proposed procedure is indeed an effective substitute for supply chain collaboration in a highly variable but low demand situation where the fill rate is high. Using real-life data from a manufacturer in China that has implemented a mobile app (WeChat) program for learning consumer demand information, we demonstrate the value of such a mobile app program can be substantial.【报告人简介】岳晓航博士是美国威斯康星大学米尔沃基分校(The University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee)商学院教授，美国供应链管理协会、管理科学及运筹学协会和运营管理协会会员；主要从事供应链与物流管理、生产与市场管理和工业制造系统管理的研究工作, 已在国际Top期刊Operations Research和 Production and Operations Management上发表多篇论文。目前担任国际TOP期刊Production and Operations Management的高级编辑，European Management Journal杂志编委。

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