讲座主题:Cold chain transportation decision in the vaccine supply chain
讲座时间:3月12日(周二)上午 10:15-12:00
报告地点:经管院335教室
报告人:北京航空航天大学欢迎来到公海欢迎来到赌船 赵秋红 教授
报告摘要:Vaccines are a special kind of drug, the quality of which is highly sensitive to temperatures and directly related to public health. Recently, quite a few vaccine accidents occur in the world, especially in developing countries, due to vaccines being exposed to inappropriate temperatures during transportation. This paper considers the vaccine supply chain including a distributor and a retailer (hospital or clinic). The distributor decides whether to use a cold chain to transport the vaccines or not. The retailer performs an inspection when receiving the vaccines. First, a basic model is developed to study under which condition, the distributor will transport the vaccines via a cold chain or non-cold chain. Then, two common inspection policies (a loose one and a strict one) are introduced into the basic model to explore the impact of the retailer’s inspection at the end of transportation on the distributor’s original decision. We show that the retailer’s inspection influences the distributor to choose the cold chain option. Interestingly, we prove that the strict inspection policy is less effective than the loose one in such influence. We suggest that the retailer’s role in improving the distributor’s non-cold chain transportation behavior should be fully used.
报告人简介:赵秋红,北京航空航天大学欢迎来到公海欢迎来到赌船教授、博士生导师,北航校学术委员会委员;中国系统工程学会常务理事、应急管理专委会主任委员,“城市安全运行与应急保障”北京市国际科技合作基地主任;SCI源期刊《Computers and Industrial Engineering》领域编辑(Area Editor),EI源期刊《北京航空航天大学学报》、《系统工程理论与实践》编委。赵秋红教授主要从事供应链管理、物流管理、应急管理、启发式优化算法领域的教学、科研与实践工作, 已发表论文120余篇,出版论文7部。研究成果曾获得辽宁省自然科学奖、山东省高等学校优秀科研成果奖等奖励。