报告人简介：
Dr. Chunming Shi (施春明) is an Associate Professor (with tenure) and Ph.D. dissertation supervisor at the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada. He also served as the director of the Center for Supply Chain Management. He received double bachelor degrees in electrical engineering and business administration from the University of Science and Technology of China, an M.Eng. in electrical engineering from the National University of Singapore, and a Ph.D. in operations management from the Washington State University. His research and teaching interests include Supply Chain Management, Sustainability, and Operations/Accounting Interface. His research work have been published or accepted by journals such as European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of the Operational Research Society, International Journal of Production Economics, Omega, and IEEE Transactions on System, Man and Cybernetics. His research has been supported by National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada and Chartered Accountants of Canada.
报告摘要：
There are a variety of classic reasons to hold inventory, including economies of scale, delivery or production delays, and supply and/or demand uncertainties. A 2008 paper first showed the existence of a new inventory type: strategic inventory. In the absence of these classic reasons, strategic inventory can arise in a multi-period dynamic vertical supply chain because a firm can hold it in the current period to force its supplier to lower the wholesale price in future periods. In this presentation, we will talk about the potential impacts of strategic inventory in supply chain management. We will talk about several papers in this research direction, including one paper coauthored by the presenter. In this paper, the focus is on how strategic inventory at a retailer impacts its supplier’s decision between centralized and centralized encroachment.