Think tank of Contemporary Logistics and Supply Chain is a provincial key laboratory prepared by the Department of Science and Technology of Anhui Province in 2019. This laboratory is one of the most important bases for the research and talent training of modern logistics and supply chain in China. Laboratory research areas including: new technology-driven unmanned intelligent warehousing, intelligent distribution system management and platform-based supply chain operation management research. It mainly covers three research directions:
(1) Intelligent warehouse management research, including: research on the allocation strategy of intelligent warehouse system based on association mining, research on dynamic ABC storage strategy based on machine learning method, collaborative scheduling and optimization research of intelligent warehouse multi-intelligent system;
(2) Research on intelligent distribution system management, including: data-driven logistics distribution center location problem, logistics distribution model design and optimization research, data-driven logistics distribution path optimization problem, and pricing decision research for coordinating the balance of supply and demand of logistics distribution services;
(3) Platform-based supply chain management research, including: platform-based supply chain system design and operation collaboration research, platform-based supply chain information system and behavior mechanism research, platform-based supply chain risk analysis and governance research, platform-based supply Research on chain data mining and decision optimization.
In the past 5 years, various scientific research projects and academic research of the laboratory have cultivated 152 doctors, 257 masters, 3 outstanding young talents, 2 top-notch young talents for the National High-Level Personnel Special Support Program, 1 for Youth Innovation Talents Plan, and 1 for Scientific and Technological Innovation Leading Talents of the National High-Level Personnel Special Support Program. The laboratory maintains regular scientific research cooperation with high-level oversea research teams in Europe, the United States, Canada, Singapore, and Hong Kong. At the same time, it attracts a large number of outstanding overseas young scholars to join the laboratory, and nearly 10 outstanding overseas doctors joined into the School of Management of the University of Science and Technology of China every year. Many of them are gradually integrated into the team and jointly cultivate master and doctoral students with professors in the team.
The laboratory has published more than 560 papers in SCI area one and area two, of which more than 50 papers have been published the top journals, such as Operations Research (OR), Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (MSOM), Transportation Science (TS) and Production and Operations Management (POM), etc. 15 representative scientific research projects have been approved. The laboratory research results have won provincial awards such as the First Prize of the Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education, and international academic awards such as the IISE Best Applied Paper Nomination Award (2019).