Join us in welcoming Ziteng Wang, an associate professor from Northern Illinois University, as he discusses supply chain and logistics topics. Alums and friends of the program are always welcome.
Collaboration and Optimization in Supply Chain and Logistics: From Network Design to Last-mile Delivery
Collaboration could be extremely helpful for leveraging limited resources and improving efficiency in a supply chain. However, collaboration would be impossible if the necessary mechanisms and decision-making methods were unavailable. In this talk, I’ll introduce a series of research problems on modeling and optimization of collaborative planning and operations among multiple enterprises in a supply chain, including a collaborative network design problem and a multi-depot collaborative vehicle routing problem. We developed mixed-integer programming models and large-scale computational algorithms to find the optimal decisions. Managerial insights and implications will also be discussed.
Ziteng Wang is an associate professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Northern Illinois University. He received his doctoral and master’s degrees in industrial engineering from North Carolina State University and his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Tsinghua University. Wang’s research interests lie in optimization, transportation and logistics, data analytics, computational algorithms, and supply chain. His research has been published in journals such as Naval Research Logistics, Transportation Research Part B, European Journal of Operational Research, and Annals of Data Science. Received the 2022 IISE Best Logistics and Supply Chain track paper award. His research has been sponsored by multiple companies and state agencies.
